10 Preface وَقالوا أَإِذا ضَلَلنا فِي الأَرضِ أَإِنّا لَفي خَلقٍ جَديدٍ ۚ بَل هُم بِلِقاءِ رَبِّهِم كافِرونَYusuf AliAnd they say: “What! when we lie, hidden and lost, in the earth, shall we indeed be in a Creation renewed?1 Nay, they deny the Meeting with their Lord.Cf. 13:5. It has been the cry of Materialists and Sceptics through the ages not only to bound their horizon with this brief life, but to deny dogmatically that there can be a future life. Here “they” refers to those “who give little thanks” to God, mentioned in the last verse. The argument used against them is: if God can produce such a wonderful creation the first time, why can He not make it again? That points to the possibility: our own general inner hope and expectation of a future life, coupled with Faith in God’s work, is the ground of our certainty. (R).