Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qiyamah Verse 40

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Has He no power to give life to the dead?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Is such ˹a Creator˺ unable to bring the dead back to life?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Is not He able to bring the dead back to life?

A. J. Arberry

What, is He not able to quicken the dead?

Abdul Haleem

Does He who can do this not have the power to bring the dead back to life?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Is not That One then Able to quicken the dead?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Has not He, (the same), the power to give life to the dead?

Abul Ala Maududi

Does He, then, not have the power to bring back the dead to life?

Ahmed Ali

Cannot such as He bring the dead to life?

Ahmed Raza Khan

So will He, Who has done all this, not be able to revive the dead?

Ali Quli Qarai

Is not [someone like] that able to revive the dead?

Ali Ünal

Is not He (Who does that, equally) able to bring the dead back to life?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Has not such a One (Who creates from an inanimate source) the power of raising the (physically and spiritually) dead to life.

English Literal

Is not that with capable/able on that He revives/makes alive the deads?448

Faridul Haque

So will He, Who has done all this, not be able to revive the dead?

Hamid S. Aziz

Is not He able to give life to the dead?

Hilali & Khan

Is not He (Allah Who does that), Able to give life to the dead? (Yes! He is Able to do all things).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Is not He powerful to give life to the dead?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Is not He able to give life to the dead?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life?

Muhammad Sarwar

Does He then not have the power to bring the dead back to life?

Qaribullah & Darwish

What, is He then unable to revive the dead?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Is it not so then, that He would be able to give life to the dead

Wahiduddin Khan

Then is He not able to bring the dead back to life?

Talal Itani

Is He not Able to revive the dead?

Tafsir jalalayn

Is not such, a Doer of [all] these things, able to revive the dead? -- the Prophet (s) would say, `Yes, indeed!' Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 31 verses.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Is it not so then, that He would be able to give life to the dead?

meaning, is not He Who made this perfect creation from this weak drop of sperm able to repeat that as He did originally?

And "the ability to repeat that" either refers to the origination only, or to both that and the process of perfecting it, according to two different views, as in Allah's saying;

وَهُوَ الَّذِى يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ وَهُوَ أَهْوَنُ عَلَيْهِ

And He it is Who originates the creation, then He will repeat it; this is easier for Him. (30;27)

The first view is more popular, and Allah knows the best.
Supplication upon Completing this Surah

Abu Dawud recorded from Musa bin Abi A'ishah that he said,

"A man used to pray on top of his house and whenever he recited,
لَيْسَ ذَلِكَ بِقَادِرٍ عَلَى أَن يُحْيِيَ الْمَوْتَى
(Is it not so then, that He would be able to give life to the dead) he would say,

`Glory to You, of course.'

So the people asked him about that and he said,

`I heard it from the Messenger of Allah ."'

Abu Dawud was alone in transmitting this Hadith and he did not mention who this Companion was, but there is no harm in that.

This is the end of the Tafsir of Surah Al-Qiyamah, all praise and thanks are due to Allah