In the hope of refuting the arguments of the Prophet and the...

In the hope of refuting the arguments of the Prophet and the logic of the Qur'an on which they were based, he raised up the bone, as if it were a valuable and convincing piece of evidence, and crumbled it to dust, scattering the pieces in the air.

Then, he addressed to the Prophet these crude, unadorned words, inspired by his rebelliousness and ignorance: “Who will restore to life the scattered particles of this rotten bone?” He believed that he would thus be able to refute the arguments of the Prophet and to destroy the belief of others in resurrection of the dead.

His ignorant mode of thought prevented him from having any correct notion of the creation of being so that he imagined that the scattered particles of a decayed bone could not possibly be brought back to life. He obstinately maintained that the reassembling of the…