أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
When we are dead and reduced to dust and bones, will we really be resurrected?
Compare 37:16 and 23:82
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قَالُوٓا۟ أَءِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ
They said, “Once we are dead and reduced to dust and bones, will we really be resurrected?
Verbatim denial of resurrection: 'when we have died and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be resurrected?'; 23:82 is in a list of disbeliever objections, 37:16 is the Quraysh mocking the promise of resurrection.
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