Resurrection
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Qur’aanic Verse 17.49:
Transliteration:
49. Waqaloo a-itha kunna AAithaman warufatan a-inna lamabAAoothoona khalqan jadeedan
Translation:
49. And they ask, “When we shall have become bones and dust (after death), shall we even then be raised up as a new creation!?10”
Study Note:
10. This concept of being raised to life again after being dead and turned to dust might have been a little more difficult to digest for people at the time of revelation of the Qur’aan. But, now, when man is endowed with advanced knowledge in genetics and has even been able to get a clone of an animal from a tiny cell of the original, he should be in a better position to understand that the Creator ahould be able to resurrect him after death. Man now knows that even the tiniest particle of his dead body would contain his DNA mapping his entire history.
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The above is extracted from yet-to-be-published Qur’aanic Studies - Volume XXVIX. It will be published, in due course, inshaAllah on the website INVITATION TO SALVATION, in continuation of Volumes I to XXVIII already published and freely available thereon.
Mohammad Shafi
Author of ‘ISLAM & INTEREST‘