The Qur'an which is the principal source for all such topics...

The Qur'an which is the principal source for all such topics repeatedly states that resurrection will be bodily. It proclaims, clearly and unmistakably, that man will be resurrected with the body he has had in this world. The verses in question are indeed so explicit as to leave no room for symbolic interpretation. Consider, for example, these verses: “God begins creation, then He renews it, and after that causes it to return to Him” (30:11) .

“Does man imagine that We will not gather together his bones? We are able to recreate even the tips of his fingers” (75:3-4).

The second of these two verses states that those who imagine the body to be incapable of renewed life, after the dissolution and scattering of its particles, are, in reality, unaware of God's infinite power; they do not understand that the reconstruction of human life out of the scattered particles of the body, even to the extent of reproducing the minutiae of the fingertips, represents a small and insignificant task for the boundless power of the Creator.

“Say: `He will give life to the bones Who created them for the first time; certainly He is aware of all His creation.” (36:79). A Story from the Qur'an The Noble Qur'an presents narratives concerning the prophets `Uzayr and Ibrahim, the Friend of God, each of which includes a living example of bodily resurrection.

God clarifies the matter for each of these great prophets by placing before them a concrete example of dead forms being restored to life once the necessary circumstances come to obtain by divine order: the spirit becomes manifest anew in the body so that its life resumes. We read in the story of `Uzayr that mounted on his donkey he once came across a ruin in the course of a journey. In that ruin he was confronted by the dreadful sight of the rotting bones of men who had long since died.

He plunged deep into thought and asked himself, “How will God bring these back to life?” At that very moment God took his soul, but one hundred years later He brought him back to life. He asked him, “How long have you been here?” He immediately answered, “One day or less.” `Uzayr was then informed that he had been in that place for a hundred years, lying lifeless on the ground exactly where he had fallen.

He was instructed to look at his donkey, and saw that its body was thoroughly decomposed: then God brought it back life.