Tafsir

Allah says: ` This punishment, being resurrected blind, dumb and deaf, is what they deserve, because they disbelievedبِـَايَـتِنَآ(Our Ayat), i.e., Our proof and evidence, and did not think that the resurrection could ever happen.'وَقَالُواْ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً(and said: "When we are bones and fragments...") meaning, when we have disintegrated and our bodies have rotted away,أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقاً جَدِيداً(shall we really be raised up as a new creation) meaning, after we have disintegrated and disappeared and been absorbed into the earth, will we come back a second time Allah established proof against them and told them that He is able to do that, for He created the heavens and the earth, so raising them up again is easier for Him than that, as He says:لَخَلْقُ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ أَكْـبَرُ مِنْ خَلْقِ النَّاسِ(The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind;) 40:57أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضِ وَلَمْ يَعْىَ بِخَلْقِهِنَّ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَى أَن يُحْىِ الْمَوْتَى(Do they not see that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, and was not wearied by their creation, is able to give life to the dead) 46: 33أَوَلَـيْسَ الَذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ بِقَـدِرٍ عَلَى أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُم بَلَى وَهُوَ الْخَلَّـقُ الْعَلِيمُ - إِنَّمَآ أَمْرُهُ إِذَآ أَرَادَ شَيْئاً أَن يَقُولَ لَهُ كُن فَيَكُونُ (Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth, able to create the like of them Yes, indeed!

He is the All-Knowing Supreme Creator. Verily, His command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be!" and it is!) (36:81-82) And Allah says here:أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْاْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِى خَلَقَ السَّمَـوَتِ وَالاٌّرْضَ قَادِرٌ عَلَى أَن يَخْلُقَ مِثْلَهُمْ(See they not that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them.) meaning, on the Day of Resurrection, He will recreate and restore their bodies, as He created them in the first place.وَجَعَلَ لَهُمْ أَجَلاً لاَّ رَيْبَ فِيهِ(And He has decreed for them an appointed term, whereof there is no doubt.) means, He has set a time for them to be re-created and brought forth from their graves, an appointed time which must surely come to pass. As Allah says:وَمَا نُؤَخِّرُهُ إِلاَّ لاًّجَلٍ مَّعْدُودٍ (And We delay it only for a term (already) fixed.) (11:104)فَأَبَى الظَّـلِمُونَ(But the wrongdoers refuse) -- after the proof has been established against them,إِلاَّ كُفُورًا((and accept nothing) but disbelief.) means, they persist in their falsehood and misguidance.

In the last verse (95), it was said that they, despite being human, can-not demand that their messenger should be an angel. This demand was unreasonable. Yes, if angels had been living on the Earth and there was the need to send a messenger to them, then, indeed, an angel would have been sent as a messenger. It will be noted that the attribute of an-gels living on the Earth has been described here in the words: يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ (walking about in peace). This tells us that the need to send an angel deputed as a messenger to other angels would have come up only at a time when the angels of the Earth could not themselves go to the heavens rather remained living on the Earth alone. Otherwise, had they themselves possessed the power to go to the heavens, there would have remained just no need to send a messenger to the Earth.

هذا الذي وُصِف من العذاب عقاب للمشركين؛ بسبب كفرهم بآيات الله وحججه، وتكذيبهم رسله الذين دَعَوْهم إلى عبادته، وقولهم استنكارًا - إذا أُمروا بالتصديق بالبعث -: أإذا متنا وصِرْنا عظامًا بالية وأجزاءً متفتتة نُبعث بعد ذلك خَلْقًا جديدًا؟

يقول تعالى : هذا الذي جازيناهم به ، من البعث على العمى والبكم والصمم ، جزاؤهم الذي يستحقونه ؛ لأنهم كذبوا ) بآياتنا ) أي بأدلتنا وحججنا ، واستبعدوا وقوع البعث ) وقالوا أئذا كنا عظاما ورفاتا ) بالية نخرة ) أئنا لمبعوثون خلقا جديدا ) أي : بعد ما صرنا إلى ما صرنا إليه من البلى والهلاك ، والتفرق والذهاب في الأرض نعاد مرة ثانية ؟ فاحتج تعالى عليهم ، ونبههم على قدرته على ذلك ، بأنه خلق السماوات والأرض ، فقدرته على إعادتهم أسهل من ذلك كما قال : ( لخلق السماوات والأرض أكبر من خلق الناس ) [ غافر : 57 ] وقال ( أولم يروا أن الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض ولم يعي بخلقهن بقادر على أن يحيي الموتى بلى إنه على كل شيء قدير ) [ الأحقاف : 33 ] وقال ( أوليس الذي خلق السماوات والأرض بقادر على أن يخلق مثلهم بلى وهو الخلاق العليم إنما أمره إذا أراد شيئا أن يقول له كن فيكون فسبحان الذي بيده ملكوت كل شيء وإليه ترجعون ) [ يس : 81 ، 83 ] .