98ذٰلِكَ جَزاؤُهُم بِأَنَّهُم كَفَروا بِآياتِنا وَقالوا أَإِذا كُنّا عِظامًا وَرُفاتًا أَإِنّا لَمَبعوثونَ خَلقًا جَديدًاMuhammad AsadSuch will be their requital for having rejected Our messages and having said, "After we will have become bones and dust, shall we, forsooth, be raised from the dead in a new act of creation?"1Implying that this denial of God's power to resurrect the dead (mentioned in exactly the same phrasing in verse 49 of this surah) is equivalent to a denial of His almightiness and, hence, of His Being - all of which is characterized by the words "blind and deaf and dumb" in the preceding verse.