The verses of the Holy Qur’an clearly show this truth that the idol-worshippers and also the other infidels, not only at the time of the Holy Prophet but in other ages as well, were surprised or amazed by the issue of resurrection and life after death and they were frightened by it to the point that whoever mentioned it was considered to be insane and they would say to each other:
“The kuffar say (in ridicule), ‘Shall we point out to you a man that will tell you when you are scattered to Pieces in disintegration that you shall (then be raised) in a new creation?” (1)
Yes. In that age, because of a lack of knowledge and short-sightedness, any mention of the belief in a life after death and a world after death was considered to be insanity or an insult to God and the belief that giving life to a dead body was considered to be insanity.
But it is interesting that as opposed to this way of thinking, the Holy Qur’an refers to various reasons of life which both a common average person can understand as well as scholars, each one to their own extent of ability. Even though referring to all of the Qur’anic verses in this area requires a separate book, we have tried here to present some of them.
1. Sometimes the Qur’an says to them:
“It is God Who sends forth the winds so that they raise up the clouds and We drive them to a land that is dead and revive the earth therewith after its death; even so (will be) the Resurrection.” (2)
We look at the visage of nature in the wintertime. Every place smells of death. The trees all lack leaves, fruit and blossoms and the only thing remaining of it is dry branches. Neither do the flowers laugh nor blossoms blossom nor is any movement of life to be seen. The spring season arrives.
The weather grows warmer, and life-giving drops of rainfall. Suddenly a movement is seen in all of nature: flowers bloom, trees grow leaves, blossoms and flowers appear, birds find their places upon the branches of trees and it is glorious to see.
If life after death had no meaning, we would not see this scene every year before our eyes. If life after death was something which was absolutely impossible, and words of the insane, we would not be able to sense it every year before our eyes. What difference is there between the life of the earth after death and the life of human beings after death?
2. Sometimes, the Qur’an also grips their hands and takes them to the beginning of creation and recalls it to them and refers to that Arab Bedouin who picks up a rotten bone and goes to the Prophet of Islam and says, “O Muhammad, who will be able to enliven this rotten bone? Tell me who?” And he thinks that he has found the final proof for disproving the Resurrection.
The Holy Qur’an says: “Say, ‘He will give them life Who created them for the first time. For He is well-versed in every kind of creation!” (3)
What is the difference between initiating creation and new creation? And the answer is found in another verse: “Even as We produced the first creation shall We Produce a new one.” (4)
3. Sometimes the great Creation of God of the heavens and the earth is mentioned: “Is not He Who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like thereof? Yea, indeed! For He is the Creator Supreme of skill and knowledge. Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, ‘Be,’ and it is.,. (5)
Those who doubted this issue were individuals who had short-sightedness and never saw beyond their own environment. Otherwise, they would know that a new creation or a recreation is easier than initiating creation and the new life given. God with all of His strength is not a difficult issue, and new creation is not a difficult task.
4. Sometimes the Resurrection energies have been mentioned whereby it says: “The same Who produces for you fire out of the green tree when behold! you kindle therewith (your own fires).” (6)
When we study this wondrous verse of the holy Qur’an with care and we seek aid from today’s science, science tells us that only green trees can store the energy of light of the sun and that when we burn a piece of wood and we make a fire, that is the same heat and energy which is similar to the heat of the sun which has been stored in it for years and we thought that that light and heat had died and had been destroyed but we see today that it has found new life.
For God Who has all of this power, who can store tens of years of the energy of light from the sun within a tree and in one moment bring all of it forward, and it receives new life, it is not a difficult task. At any rate, we see with what logic and clarity the Holy Qur’an explains the issue of the resurrection to those who have doubts about it and they even thought that anyone who believed such a thing was insane. It clearly proves the existence of the resurrection, only a small part of which we have been able to mention here.
NOTES:
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1. The Holy Quran 34:7
2. The Holy Quran 35:9
3. The Holy Quran 36:79
4. The Holy Quran 21:104
5. The Holy Quran 36:81-82
6. The Holy Quran 36:80
