Surah As-Sajda (32) — Ayah 10

(Ayah 10) ➊ { وَ قَالُوْۤا ءَاِذَا ضَلَلْنَا فِي الْاَرْضِ …:} After mentioning the truthfulness of the Noble Messenger (peace be upon him) and the Noble Qur’an, and the oneness of Allah and some of its evidences, now the third fundamental belief of Islam, the Hereafter, and the objection of the disbelievers to it and its answer are mentioned. In {’’ وَ قَالُوْۤا ‘‘}, the “waw” is used to connect to their statement which is apparent from the previous verses, as if the speech would be: {’’قَالُوْا مُحَمَّدٌ لَيْسَ بِرَسُوْلٍ وَالإِلٰهُ لَيْسَ بِوَاحِدٍ وَقَالُوْا ءَ إِذَا ضَلَلْنَا فِي الْأَرْضِ…‘‘} “That is, they said that Muhammad is not a Messenger and there is not only one deity, and they said, ‘When we are lost in the earth…’” Zamakhshari and Tabari said: {’’ ضَلَّ الْمَاءُ فِي اللَّبَنِ ‘‘} This is said when water is thoroughly mixed with milk and disappears. That is, “When we are mixed with the soil and become dust, will we really be raised alive in a new creation?” After the interrogative hamzah, another interrogative hamzah is for amazement and denial of the second life, meaning how can this be? This can never happen.

➋ {بَلْ هُمْ بِلِقَآئِ رَبِّهِمْ كٰفِرُوْنَ :} After mentioning the creation of man from dust and then from a drop of fluid, there was no need to answer the objection of the disbelievers that when we become dust in the earth, how will we be created again? The answer was obvious: just as you were created the first time from this dust when you had no existence, now if you are mixed with this dust, why can you not be created again? See Surah Ya-Sin (79 to 81 and 12). Therefore, it is said, rather the real issue is that these people do not want to accept the meeting with their Lord, because they do not want to abandon their worship of desires and wickedness, which they would have to leave after accepting the meeting with Allah, as He said: « لَاۤ اُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ الْقِيٰمَةِ (1) وَ لَاۤ اُقْسِمُ بِالنَّفْسِ اللَّوَّامَةِ (2) اَيَحْسَبُ الْاِنْسَانُ اَلَّنْ نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَهٗ (3) بَلٰى قٰدِرِيْنَ عَلٰۤى اَنْ نُّسَوِّيَ بَنَانَهٗ (4) بَلْ يُرِيْدُ الْاِنْسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ اَمَامَهٗ » [ القیامۃ : ۱ تا ۵ ] “No! I swear by the Day of Resurrection! And no! I swear by the self-reproaching soul! Does man think that We will never assemble his bones? Why not? (We will assemble them) while We are able to perfectly restore even his fingertips. Rather, man desires to continue committing sins ahead of him.”

10-1. When something becomes dominant over another thing and all traces of the first are erased, this is expressed as ضلالت (being lost). The meaning of ضَلَلُنَا فِیْ الْاَرْضِ is that when, after mixing with the soil, our existence disappears into the earth.

And they say, "When we are lost in the earth, shall we indeed be created anew?" In fact, they are deniers of the meeting [11] with their Lord.

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The Real Reason for Man’s Denial of the Day of Resurrection:

That is, if a person reflects, he can easily understand that the same Allah Who first created man from the elements of clay, why can He not create them again from those same elements of clay? According to current research, all the elements that make up a human being are found in the earth itself. If Allah created the first human by combining these elements, then those elements are still present in the earth. Then, what meaning does the objection of those people hold, “When we have mingled with the earth and become dust, will we be created anew?” The real issue is not that man cannot understand this simple matter, but in reality, these people are apprehensive and evasive about being presented before Allah and being held accountable for their deeds in the Hereafter. And since this concept imposes restrictions on their free lifestyle and desires of the self, they begin to invent such unreasonable objections.