if you are in doubt about the Resurrection...

if you are in doubt about the Resurrection, then surely, We Created you from dust, then from a seed, then from a clot, then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed, in order to Clarify for you, and We Settle in the wombs whatever We so Desire up to a specified term, then We Extract you as babies for you to be reaching your maturity. And from you is one who is Caused to die, and from you is one who is Returned to the worst age, so he does not know anything after having known.

And you see the land as barren, then We Send the water upon it, it stirs and swells and sprouts every spending pair [22:5] فِي كِتَابِ الْإِحْتِجَاجِ لِلطَّبْرِسِيِّ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ فِي احْتِجَاجِ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الصَّادِقِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ: قَالَ السَّائِلُ: أَ فَيَتَلَاشَى الرُّوحُ بَعْدَ خُرُوجِهِ عَنْ قَالَبِهِ أَمْ هُوَ بَاقٍ؟ In the book Al Ihtijaj of Al Tabarsy – ‘There is an argumentation of Abu Abdullah Al-Sadiq – asws .

The questioner asked, ‘Does the soul disappear after its exit from its mould (body), or does it remain?’ قَالَ: بَلْ هُوَ بَاقٍ إِلَى وَقْتِ يُنْفَخَ فِي الصُّورِ، فَعِنْدَ ذَلِكَ تَبْطُلُ الْأَشْيَاءُ وَ تَفْنَى فَلَا حِسَّ وَ لَا مَحْسُوسَ، ثُمَّ أُعِيدَتِ الْأَشْيَاءُ كَمَا بَدَأَهَا مُدَبِّرُهَا، وَ ذَلِكَ أَرْبَعُ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ يَسْبُتُ فِيهَا الْخَلْقُ وَ ذَلِكَ بَيْنَ- النَّفْخَتَيْنِ، He – asws said: ‘But, it remains up to the time of the blowing into the Trumpet.

During that, the things would be invalidated and perish, so there would neither be a feeling nor (anything) felt. Then the things would be returned to just as they had begun, by their Mastermind, and that would (occur) over four hundred years, during which the creation would be dormant, and that would be between the two blowing’s of the Trumpet’.

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