38وَأَقسَموا بِاللَّهِ جَهدَ أَيمانِهِم ۙ لا يَبعَثُ اللَّهُ مَن يَموتُ ۚ بَلىٰ وَعدًا عَلَيهِ حَقًّا وَلٰكِنَّ أَكثَرَ النّاسِ لا يَعلَمونَMuhammad AsadAs it is,1 they swear by God with their most solemn oaths, "Never will God raise from the dead anyone who has died!"2 Yea indeed! [This very thing has God promised] by a promise which He has willed upon Himself; but most people know it not.Lit., "And - but since this conjunction is obviously meant to elaborate the preceding statement, it is best rendered as above.This categorical denial of resurrection - implying as it does a denial of God's ultimate judgment of good and evil - is characteristic of a mental attitude which refuses to admit the reality, or even possibility, of anything that lies beyond the range of man's actual or potential observation. Since such an attitude is an outcome of an intrinsically materialistic outlook on life and the "false pride" referred to in verses 22-23 above, it is anti-religious in the deepest sense of this word even if it is accompanied by a vague - because non-consequential - belief in the existence of God.