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Sura 17
Aya 99
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۞ أَوَلَم يَرَوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذي خَلَقَ السَّماواتِ وَالأَرضَ قادِرٌ عَلىٰ أَن يَخلُقَ مِثلَهُم وَجَعَلَ لَهُم أَجَلًا لا رَيبَ فيهِ فَأَبَى الظّالِمونَ إِلّا كُفورًا

Muhammad Asad

Are they, then, not aware that God, who has created the heavens and the earth, has the power to create them anew in their own likeness,1 having, beyond any doubt, set a term for their resurrection?"2 However, all [such] evildoers are unwilling to accept anything but blasphemy!3
  • Lit., "to create the like of them" - i.e., to resurrect them individually, each of them having the same identity (or "likeness") which he or she had before death.
  • Lit., "a term (ajal) for them". Since ajal denotes, primarily, "a specified term [at which something falls due]", it obviously relates here to the inescapable fact of resurrection.
  • See notes 98 and 105 above.