An-Nazi'at Verse 10

˹But now˺ they ask ˹mockingly˺, “Will we really be restored to our former state,

They say, “Will we be brought back to life,

They shall say, 'What, are we being restored as we were before?

They say, ‘What? shall we be brought back to life,

They say: shall we indeed be restored to the first state,

They say (now); "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state?

They say: “Shall we indeed be restored to life,

They say: "Shall we go back to our original state

The disbelievers say, “Will we really return to our former state?”

They will say, ‘Are we being returned to our earlier state?

Yet, they (the unbelievers) say: "Will we really be restored to our former state (of life)?

(These are the people) who say, `Shall we (really) be restored to (our) former state (after we are dead)?

They say: "Are we returning (E) in the first creation ?"

The disbelievers say, “Will we really return to our former state?”

They say, "Shall we indeed be restored to our first state?

They say: "Shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state of life?

What! After we are rotten bones?

They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?

(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state

(The disbelievers) say, "Shall we be brought back to life again

They say: 'What, are we being restored as we were before,

They say: "Shall we indeed be brought back from Al-Hafirah"

They say, "What? shall we be brought back to life,

They say, “Are we to be restored to the original condition?

They, those of the [mentioned] hearts and eyes, will say, mockingly and in rejection of the Resurrection; `Are we indeed (read a-inn pronouncing both hamzas, or by not pronouncing the second, and inserting an alif between them in both cases, and in both instances) being restored as before? Shall we be restored to life after death (al-hfira is a noun signifying the `first part' of anything, from which is derived the expression raja`a f hfiratihi to mean that so and so `returned whence he had come').

They say;"Shall we indeed be brought back from Al-Hafirah"

meaning, the idolators of the Quraysh and whoever rejects the Hereafter as they did. They consider the occurrence of the resurrection after being placed in Al-Hafirah -- which are the graves -- as something farfetched.

This has been said by Mujahid.

They feel that this is something impossible after the destruction of their physical bodies and the disintegration of their bones and their decaying.

Thus, Allah says,

أَيِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا نَّخِرَةً