Al-Ba'ith
The Resurrector
O Men! If you are in doubt as to the truth of resurrection, remember
that, verily, We have created every one of you out of dust, then out
of a drop of sperm, then out of a germ-cell, then out of an embryonic
lump complete in itself and yet incomplete, so that We might make
your origin clear unto you. And whatever We will to be born We cause
to rest in the mothers' wombs for a term set by Us,
and then We bring you forth as infants and allow you to live so that
some of you might attain to maturity;
for among you are such as are caused to die in childhood, just as
many a one of you is reduced in old age to a most abject state, ceasing
to know anything
of what he once knew so well. And if, O man, thou art still in doubt
as to resurrection, consider this:
thou canst see the earth dry and lifeless -- and suddenly, when We
send down waters upon it,
it stirs and swells and puts forth every kind of lovely plant! All
this happens because God alone is the Ultimate Truth, and because
He alone brings the dead to life, and because He has the power to
will anything.
Al-Hajj 22:5-6, tr. Asad