Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And [thus, too,] they say, "After we will have become bones and dust, shall we, forsooth, be raised from the dead in a new act of creation?"
Arthur John Arberry
They say, 'What, when we are bones and broken bits, shall we really be raised up again in a new creation?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"
Arabic
وَقَالُوۤا۟ أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـٰمࣰا وَرُفَـٰتًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ خَلۡقࣰا جَدِیدࣰا ٤٩
Transliteration (2021)
waqālū a-idhā kunnā ʿiẓāman warufātan a-innā lamabʿūthūna khalqan jadīda