
In the name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy
Qaf
By the glorious Quran. But the disbelievers are amazed that a warner has come from among them and they say, ‘How strange! To come back [to life] after we have died and become dust? That is too far-fetched.’ We know very well what the earth takes away from them: We keep a comprehensive record. But the disbelievers deny the truth when it comes to them; they are in a state of confusion.
Do they not see the sky above them––how We have built and adorned it, with no rifts in it; how We spread out the earth and put solid mountains on it, and caused every kind of joyous plant to grow in it, as a lesson and reminder for every servant who turns to God; and how We send blessed water down from the sky and grow with it gardens, the harvest grain, and tall palm trees laden with clusters of dates, as a provision for everyone; how with water We give [new] life to a land that is dead? This is how the dead will emerge [from their graves]. The people of Noah disbelieved long before these disbelievers, as did the people of Rass, Thamud, Ad, Pharaoh, Lot, the Forest-Dwellers, Tubba: all of these people disbelieved their messengers, and so My warning was realized.
So were We incapable of the first creation? No indeed! Yet they doubt a second creation. We created man––We know what his soul whispers to him: We are closer to him than his jugular vein––with two receptors set to record, one on his right side and one on his left: he does not utter a single word without an ever-present watcher. The trance of death will bring the Truth with it: ‘This is what you tried to escape.’ (Al Quran 50:1-19)
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