سُوْرَةُ الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَ

Surah Al-Muminoon (23) — Ayah 85

The Believers · Meccan · Juz 18 · Page 347

سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ۚ قُلْ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ ﴿85﴾
They will say: "It is Allâh’s!" Say: "Will you not then remember?"
سَيَقُولُونَ sayaqūlūna They will say
لِلَّهِ ۚ lillahi To Allah
قُلْ qul Say
أَفَلَا afalā Then will not
تَذَكَّرُونَ tadhakkarūna you remember

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85. They will immediately say, "It is Allah's." Say, "Then why do you not take heed?" [83]

[83] That is, they themselves admit that the earth and whatever is in it belongs to Allah alone; both those who are alive and moving about on this earth, and those who have died and gone into the earth—whether they have mixed with the soil and become dust themselves—everything is within Allah's power and ownership. Then why do they not accept that Allah can recreate them from that very dust in which their existence has merged?