Bani Israil 17:50 ۞ قل كونوا حجارة او حديدا ٥٠

17:50

۞ قُلۡ

كُونُواْ

حِجَارَةً

أَوۡ

حَدِيدًا

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Say, “Be you stones or iron

Endelea Kusoma

Soma Tafsir

Ibn Kathir (Abridged)

Refutation of Those Who do not believe in Life after Death

Allah tells us about the disbelievers who think it very unlikely that the Resurrection will happen and who say, in a tone of denial,

أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً

(When we are bones and fragments.) meaning earth. This was the view of Mujah

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Refutation of Those Who do not believe in Life after Death

Allah tells us about the disbelievers who think it very unlikely that the Resurrection will

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Zaidi Tafsir

Soma Maudhui Yanayohusiana

Sura 17, Ukurasa 287, Juzuu 15

45. When you recite the Qur’ān, We place an invisible curtain between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter, 46. and We put covers on their hearts barring them from understanding it, and (We put) deafness in their ears; and when you refer to your Lord alone (without referring to their presumed deities,) in the Qur’ān, they turn their backs in aversion. 47. We are fully aware of the reason for which they listen, when they listen to you, and when they are in secret consultation: when the transgressors say, “You are following none but a bewitched man.” 48. See how they have made (silly) statements about you; so they have gone astray and cannot find a way. 49. And they say, “Once we are reduced to bones and dust, is it then that we will be raised, created anew?” 50. Say, “Be you stones or iron 51. or any creation you deem harder in your hearts.” Thereupon they will ask, “Who will bring us back?” Say, “The One who created you for the first time.” So, they will shake their heads before you and say, “When shall that be?” Say, “May be, it is near.” 52. (It will be) on a day when He will call you, and you will respond praising Him, and you will think you did not stay (on the earth) but for a short while.

- T. Usmani