Al-Israa 17:98

"That is their recompense because they disbelieved in Our verses and said, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected [in] a new creation?""

Allah says: ` This punishment, being resurrected blind, dumb and deaf, is what they deserve, because they disbelieved

بِـَايَـتِنَآ

(Our Ayat), i.e., Our proof and evidence, and did not think that the resurrection could ever happen.'

وَقَالُواْ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً

(and said: "When we are bones and fragments...") meaning, when we have disintegrated and our bodies have rotted away,

أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقاً جَدِيداً

(shall we really be raised up as a new creation) meaning, after we have disintegrated and disappeared and been absorbed into the earth, will we come back a second time Allah established proof against them and told them that He is able to do that, for He created the heavens and the earth, so raising them up again is easier for Him than that, as He says:

لَخَلْقُ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ أَكْـبَرُ مِنْ خَلْقِ النَّاسِ

(The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind;) 40:57

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ وَلَمْ يَعْىَ بِخَلْقِهِنَّ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَى أَن يُحْىِ الْمَوْتَى

(Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, and was not wearied by their creation, is able to give life to the dead) 46: 33

أَوَلَـيْسَ الَذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ بِقَـدِرٍ عَلَى أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم بَلَى وَهُوَ الْخَلَّـقُ الْعَلِيمُ - إِنَّمَآ أَمْرُهُ إِذَآ أَرَادَ شَيْئاً أَن يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ

(Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth, able to create the like of them Yes, indeed! He is the All-Knowing Supreme Creator. Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be!" and it is!) (36:81-82) And Allah says here:

أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُمْ

(See they not that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them.) meaning, on the Day of Resurrection, He will recreate and restore their bodies, as He created them in the first place.

وَجَعَلَ لَهُمْ أَجَلاً لاَّ رَيْبَ فِيهِ

(And He has decreed for them an appointed term, whereof there is no doubt.) means, He has set a time for them to be re-created and brought forth from their graves, an appointed time which must surely come to pass. As Allah says:

وَمَا نُؤَخِّرُهُ إِلاَّ لاًّجَلٍ مَّعْدُودٍ

(And We delay it only for a term (already) fixed.) (11:104)

فَأَبَى الظَّـلِمُونَ

(But the wrongdoers refuse) -- after the proof has been established against them,

إِلاَّ كُفُورًا

((and accept nothing) but disbelief.) means, they persist in their falsehood and misguidance.

Всевышний поведал о том, что только Он способен наставить людей на прямой путь или ввести их в заблуждение. Если Он желает повести человека прямым путем, то облегчает ему благие начинания и отдаляет его от всего, что может обременить его. И такой человек действительно становится на прямой путь. Но если Аллах желает ввести кого-либо в заблуждение, то лишает его Своей поддержки и бросает на произвол судьбы. Никто не может наставить такого человека на правильный путь, кроме Аллаха, и никто не сможет защитить его от лютой кары, когда Он соберет неверующих лежащими лицом вниз, униженными, слепыми и немыми. Они не смогут видеть и разговаривать, а их постоянной обителью станет Преисподняя, в которой собраны воедино все печали, тяготы и страдания. Как только адский огонь станет затухать, Аллах велит вновь разжечь его, дабы страдания мучеников не ослабевали ни на мгновение. С ними там не будет покончено, потому что они никогда больше не познают смерти. Всевышний не поступит с ними несправедливо. Напротив, они получат справедливое возмездие за то, что отказывались уверовать в Его знамения и отрицали воскрешение, о котором предупреждали Его посланники и Небесные Писания. Они считали, что Господь не способен воскресить усопших, и не верили в Его безграничное могущество. Они считали невероятным воскрешение после того, как тела покойников превратятся в прах. Их испорченным умам это казалось совершенно невероятным.

In the last verse (95), it was said that they, despite being human, can-not demand that their messenger should be an angel. This demand was unreasonable. Yes, if angels had been living on the Earth and there was the need to send a messenger to them, then, indeed, an angel would have been sent as a messenger. It will be noted that the attribute of an-gels living on the Earth has been described here in the words: يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ (walking about in peace). This tells us that the need to send an angel deputed as a messenger to other angels would have come up only at a time when the angels of the Earth could not themselves go to the heavens rather remained living on the Earth alone. Otherwise, had they themselves possessed the power to go to the heavens, there would have remained just no need to send a messenger to the Earth.

Other English translations

Tafsīr · classical commentary

Allah says: ` This punishment, being resurrected blind, dumb and deaf, is what they deserve, because they disbelieved