It (raising the dead) is a promise binding on Him in truth...

It (raising the dead) is a promise binding on Him in truth, but most people do not know.” It is quoted that a Muslim man, who was indebted to by a pagan, went to him to claim his due. The pagan acted evasively which made the Muslim man infuriated and made this oath in his speech: “ I swear to whatever I expect after death ” He meant the resurrection and Allah’s account, to which the pagan replied: “ I swear to God that He will raise no one from the dead.

” Upon this, the verse was revealed which embodied an answer to him and to the ones like him. Allah, the Almighty, deals with another type of their deviation and ill ways of thinking, indicating that they swear to the Lord vehemently, exaggerating with utmost insistence that He does not raise any one from the dead, and meaning that generally no one will be enlivened and revived after death. The holy verse…