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raise up all those in the graves. (22:6-7) lect. (29:63)
It is He Who gave you life and then will cause He brings forth the living from the dead and
you to die and then will give you life again. Man brings forth the dead from the living and brings
is truly ungrateful. (22:66) the earth to life after it was dead. In the same way
Then on the Day of Rising you will be raised you too will be brought forth. (30:19)
again. (23:16) Among His Signs is that He shows you lightning,
Does he promise you that when you have died a source of fear and eager hope, and sends down
and become dust and bones you will be brought water from the sky, bringing the dead earth back
forth again? (23:35) to life by it. There are certainly Signs in that for
What is there but our life in this world? We die people who use their intellect. (30:24)
and we live and we will not be raised again. Allah is He Who created you, then provides for
(23:37) you, then will cause you to die and then bring
They say, ‘When we are dead and turned to dust you back to life. Can any of your partner-gods do
and bones, shall we then be raised again?’ any of that? Glory be to Him and may He be ex-
(23:82) alted above anything they associate with Him!
When death comes to one of them, he says, ‘My (30:40)
Lord, send me back again so that perhaps I may So look at the effect of the mercy of Allah, how
act rightly regarding the things I failed to do!’ No He brings the dead earth back to life. Truly He is
indeed! It is just words he utters. Before them the One Who brings the dead to life. He has
there is an interspace until the Day they are power over all things. (30:50)
raised up. (23:99-100) Those who have been given knowledge and faith
But they have adopted gods apart from Him will say, ‘You tarried in accordance with Allah’s
which do not create anything but are themselves Decree until the Day of Rising. And this is the
created. They have no power to harm or help Day of Rising, but you did not know it.’ (30:56)
themselves. They have no power over death or Your creation and rising is only like that of a sin-
life or resurrection. (25:3) gle self. Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing. (31:28)
They themselves have come across the city It is Allah Who sends the winds which raise the
which was rained on by an evil rain. Did they not clouds which We then drive to a dead land and
then see it? But they do not expect to rise again. by them bring the earth to life after it was dead.
(25:40) That is how the Resurrection will be. (35:9)
(Ibrahim said, ‘It is) He Who will cause my death, We bring the dead to life and We record what
then give me life.’ (26:81) they send ahead and what they leave behind. We
(Ibrahim said, ‘My Lord,) do not disgrace me on have listed everything in a clear register. (36:12)
the Day they are raised up.’ (26:87) A Sign for them is the dead land which We bring
Say: ‘No one in the heavens and the earth knows to life and from which We bring forth grain of
the Unseen except Allah.’ They are not aware of which they eat. (36:33)
when they will be raised. (27:65) The Trumpet will be blown and at once they will
Those who disbelieve say, ‘When we and our fa- be sliding from their graves towards their Lord.
thers are turned to dust will we then be brought (36:51)
forth again? We have been promised (to be They will say, ‘Alas for us! Who has raised us
brought forth again) before, we and our fathers. from our resting-place? This is what the All-
This is nothing but myths and legends of previous Merciful promised us. The Messengers were
peoples.’ (27:67-68) telling the truth.’ (36:52)
If you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own
the sky, bringing the earth back to life again after creation, saying, ‘Who will give life to bones
it was dead?’ they will say, ‘Allah.’ Say: ‘Praise be when they are decayed?’ (36:78)
to Allah.’ But most of them do not use their intel- Say: ‘He Who made them in the first place will
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