Surah Al-Isra (الإسراء) • The Night Journey

Quran 17:49

17:49

وَقَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمًا وَرُفَـٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقًا جَدِيدًا

waqālū a-idhā kunnā ʿiẓāman warufātan a-innā lamabʿūthūna khalqan jadīdan

And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"

— Saheeh International

They also say, ‘What? When we are turned to bones and dust, shall we really be raised up in a new act of creation?’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

And they say: "When we are bones and fragments (destroyed), should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation?"

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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وَقَالُوٓا۟waqālūAnd they say
أَءِذَاa-idhāIs it when
كُنَّاkunnāwe are
عِظَـٰمًۭاʿiẓāmanbones
وَرُفَـٰتًاwarufātanand crumbled particles
أَءِنَّاa-innāwill we
لَمَبْعُوثُونَlamabʿūthūnasurely (be) resurrected
خَلْقًۭاkhalqan(as) a creation
جَدِيدًۭاjadīdannew