Al-Qur'an Surah An-Naml Verse 67

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And said those who disbelieved, “Is it that, when we and our fathers become dust,-is it that we shall really be brought forth?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

The disbelievers ask, “When we and our fathers are reduced to dust, will we really be brought forth ˹alive˺?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Those who disbelieve say, “What! Is it that when we and our forefathers become dust, will we really be brought forth [alive]?

A. J. Arberry

The unbelievers say, 'What, when we are dust, and our fathers, shall we indeed be brought forth?

Abdul Haleem

So the disbelievers say, ‘What! When we and our forefathers have become dust, shall we be brought back to life again?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And those who disbelieve say: when we have become dust, we and our fathers, shall we, for sooth, be brought forth?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The Unbelievers say; "What! when we become dust,- we and our fathers,- shall we really be raised (from the dead)?

Abul Ala Maududi

The unbelievers say: "When we become dust, we and our forefathers, shall we really be brought out (from our graves)?

Ahmed Ali

Those who do not believe, say: "When we and our fathers have turned to dust, how shall we be raised again?

Ahmed Raza Khan

And the disbelievers said, “Will we, when we and our forefathers have turned into dust, be removed again?”

Ali Quli Qarai

The faithless say, ‘What! When we and our fathers have become dust shall we be raised [from the dead]?

Ali Ünal

Those who obstinately persist in unbelief say: "What! is it when we have already become dust – is it then that we and our forefathers will be brought forth (to a new life)?

Amatul Rahman Omar

And those who disbelieve say, `Is it that when we and our forefathers have been reduced to dust we shall really be brought forth (alive again)?

English Literal

And those who disbelieved said: "Is (it that) if we and our fathers were dust/earth are we brought out (E)?"

Faridul Haque

And the disbelievers said, “Will we, when we and our forefathers have turned into dust, be removed again?”

Hamid S. Aziz

Nay, but does their knowledge reach to the Hereafter? Nay, but they are in doubt concerning it. Nay, but they are blind thereto.

Hilali & Khan

And those who disbelieve say: "When we have become dust, we and our fathers, shall we really be brought forth (again)?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Say: No one in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen but Allah; and they know not when they will be raised.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And those who disbelieve say: What! when we have become dust and our fathers (too), shall we certainly be brought forth?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Yet those who disbelieve say: When we have become dust like our fathers, shall we verily be brought forth (again)?

Muhammad Sarwar

The unbelievers have said, "Shall we and our fathers be brought out of the graves after we become dust?

Qaribullah & Darwish

The unbelievers say: 'When we and our fathers are turned to dust, shall we be brought forth?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And those who disbelieve say: "When we have become dust -- we and our fathers -- shall we really be brought forth"

Wahiduddin Khan

Those who deny the truth say, "When we have turned to dust like our fathers, shall we be brought back to life again?

Talal Itani

Those who disbelieve say, “When we have become dust, and our ancestors, shall we be brought out?

Tafsir jalalayn

And the disbelievers say, also in rejecting the [idea of] resurrection; `What! When we and our fathers are dust shall we indeed be brought forth [again]?, from the graves.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Scepticism about the Resurrection and Its Refutation

Allah tells;

وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَيِذَا كُنَّا تُرَابًا وَابَاوُنَا أَيِنَّا لَمُخْرَجُونَ

And those who disbelieve say;"When we have become dust -- we and our fathers -- shall we really be brought forth!"

Allah tells us about the idolators who deny the Resurrection, considering it extremely unlikely that bodies will be re-created after they have become bones and dust.

Then He says;