Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Why - [how could we be resurrected] after we have died and become mere dust? Such a return seems far-fetched indeed!”
Arthur John Arberry
What, when we are dead and become dust? That is a far returning!
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"What! When we die and become dust, (shall we live again?) That is a (sort of) return far (from our understanding)."
Arabic
أَءِذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابࣰاۖ ذَ ٰلِكَ رَجۡعُۢ بَعِیدࣱ ٣
Transliteration (2021)
a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban dhālika rajʿun baʿīdu