Rebuttal of Materialist Beliefs and the Reality of Resurrection
Al-Jathiyah — Verses 24–27 | Explore this Quran theme on Muallim
وَقَالُوا مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ ٢٤
And they say: "There is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live and nothing destroys us except Ad-Dahr (the time). And they have no knowledge of it, they only conjecture.
- وَقَالُوا
- And they say:
- مَا هِيَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا
- There is nothing but our life of this world,
- نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا
- we die and we live
- وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ ۚ
- and nothing destroys us except Ad-Dahr (the time).
- وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ
- And they have no knowledge of it,
- إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
- they only conjecture.
وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ مَّا كَانَ حُجَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا ائْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ٢٥
And when Our Clear Verses are recited to them, their argument is no other than that they say: "Bring back our (dead) fathers, if you are truthful!"
- وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ
- And when Our Clear Verses are recited to them,
- مَّا كَانَ حُجَّتَهُمْ إِلَّا أَن قَالُوا
- their argument is no other than that they say:
- ائْتُوا بِآبَائِنَا
- "Bring back our (dead) fathers,
- إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ
- if you are truthful!"
قُلِ اللَّهُ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يَجْمَعُكُمْ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٢٦
Say (to them): "Allah gives you life, then causes you to die, then He will assemble you on the Day of Resurrection about which there is no doubt. But most of mankind know not."
- قُلِ اللَّهُ يُحْيِيكُمْ
- Say (to them): 'Allah gives you life,
- ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ
- then causes you to die,
- ثُمَّ يَجْمَعُكُمْ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ
- then He will assemble you on the Day of Resurrection
- لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ
- about which there is no doubt.
- وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
- But most of mankind know not.
وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍ يَخْسَرُ الْمُبْطِلُونَ ٢٧
And to Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. And on the Day that the Hour will be established, on that Day the followers of falsehood (polytheists, disbelievers, worshippers of false deities, etc.) shall lose (everything).
- وَلِلَّهِ مُلْكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ
- And to Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth.
- وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ
- And on the Day that the Hour will be established,
- يَوْمَئِذٍ يَخْسَرُ الْمُبْطِلُونَ
- on that Day the followers of falsehood (polytheists, disbelievers, worshippers of false deities, etc.) shall lose (everything).