Surah Ya-Sin 36:79
سُورَةُ يسٓ · Meccan · Verse 79 of 83
قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنشَأَهَآ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍۢ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِيمٌ
Translation
Say, ‘He who created them in the first place will give them life again: He has full knowledge of every act of creation.
English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.
Meaning and reflection
'Say: He will give them life who produced them the first time, and He knows all creation.' Ibn Ashur and al-Saadi note the clean answer to the doubter: the One who made you from nothing the first time finds the re-making trivial, the first creation is itself the proof of the second. And 'He knows all creation', even the scattered atoms of a decayed body are fully known to Him. Ask yourself: I doubt renewal, of my body after death, but also of my broken situations, my deadened heart, as if starting again were harder than starting at all. This verse reasons the opposite: the One who began me from nothing can surely begin me again. Where am I treating a fresh start as impossible, when my very first start already answers the doubt?
Grounded in classical tafsir: Ibn Ashur, al-Saadi, al-Biqa'i.
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