English Translation of Al-Quran
[27].Surah Al-Naml [The Ants]
Ayat 67. And those who disbelieve say: "When we have become dust, we and our fathers, shall we really be brought forth (again)?
Ayat 68. "Indeed we were promised this, we and our forefathers before, Verily, these are nothing but tales of ancients."
Tafseer of Surah Al Naml (The Ants) Ayat 67 and 68. The Unbelievers
say: "What! when we become dust,-we and our fathers,- shall we really be
raised (from the dead)? "It is true we were promised this,- we and our
fathers before (us): these are nothing but tales of the ancients."
Hadith
English Translation of Hadith
Hazrat Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah
[SAWW](PBUH) said, "Between the two Blowing of the Trumpet there will
be an interval of forty.” The people said, "O Abu Hurairah! Do you mean
forty days?” He said, "I cannot say anything.” They said, "Do you mean
forty years?” He said, "I cannot say anything.” They said, "Do you mean
forty months?” He said, "I cannot say anything. The Prophet
[SAWW](PBUH) added: `Everything of the human body will perish except
the last coccyx bone (end part of the spinal cord), and from that bone
Allah will reconstruct the whole body. Then Allah will send down water
from the sky and people will grow like green vegetables’.”
[Al-Bukhari Volume 6, Book 60, Number 457].
Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Al-Naml Ayat 67. “those who
disbelieve say: "When we have become dust, we and our fathers, shall we
really be brought forth (again)?” 1. When Israfil blows the Trumpet the
first time, by Allah’s Leave, all those who are in the heavens and on
earth will swoon away, except him whom Allah will. This will be the
first Blowing. Then, it will be blown a second time, they will become
alive and will emerge from their graves. These Blowing are known as the
`Blowing of Fainting and Rising’. As regard the interval between these
two Blowing, the narrator of the narration, Abu Hurairah (May Allah be
pleased with him), could not say anything when he was asked about it; as
he himself did not know it. But in other narrations the interval has
been mentioned as forty years.
2. The earth eats away the whole body of humans except the bodies of
the Prophets. However, only the end part of the spinal cord remains
intact. How it remains intact is known to Allah, but from it mankind
will be created again.
3. Bodies will rise from the earth as vegetation springs out from the earth after the rainfall.