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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Al-mizan an Exegesis of the Qur'an (volume One) Chapter 8 : 2:28-29 How do you deny Allâh and you were dead and He gave you life? Again He will cause you to die and again bring you to life; then you shall be brought back to Him (28). He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth, and He directed Himself to the heaven, so He made them complete seven heavens; and He know all things (29). GENERAL COMMENT The talk reverts again to the initial topic.
The beginning of the chapter dealt with three categories of mankind; then all were addressed together (verses 21-27) with the words, "O men", Now these verses describe the same subject with a grater detail.
The twelve verses, starting from here, depict the reality of man; show the potentialities of perfection which Allâh has endowed him with; delineate the vast scope of his inner being; describe the various stages - death and life, and again death and life; then the return to Allâh - through which he passes in his journey, explaining that the final destination is Allâh. In this context, the verses describe some basic bounties of Allâh upon him - creative as well as legislative.
He created for him all that is, in the earth and made the heaven subservient to him. He made him His deputy on the earth, ordered the angels to prostrate before him, put the first man into the Garden, opened for him the door of repentance and enhanced his prestige by guiding him to His worship. In this background, the opening words, "How do you deny Allâh", serve to emphasize the grace and bounty of Allâh on man. COMMENTARY QUR’?N: How do you deny Allâh . . .
you shall be brought back to Him: The verse is somewhat (though not exactly) similar to the verse 40:11: They shall say: "Our Lord! twice didst Thou give us death, and twice hast Thou give us life, so we do confess our faults; is there then a way to get out? This (later) is one of the verses that prove an al–barzakh (= intervening period or life ) between this world and the next. It says that Allâh gives death twice. First is the death that transfers us from this world.
But when and where shall we be given the second death? Giving of death presupposes a preceding life. It means that man shall be given a life in the period intervening between this first death and the Day of Resurrection. This argument is solid, and it has been offered in some traditions too. Question: Both verses have exactly the same connotation.