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“Does not man remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?” Occasions of Revelation According to the attitude of a group of commentators, the first holy verse mentioned in the above has been revealed concerning’Ubay-ibn-i-Khalaf, or Walid-ibn-i-Muqayrah, who had taken a piece of a rotten bone in the hand, crashing it with the hand, they scattered it in the wind so that every particle of it spread in a corner, and they said: “Look at Muhammad!
He thinks that, after dying and decaying our bones, like this bone, Allah will restore us to life again. Never such thing is possible!” Then, these verses were revealed and gave them a sever answer, an answer which is helpful and instructive for all human beings in all centuries and ages. Through former holy verses, a considerable discussion was mentioned upon Resurrection, Paradise, and Hell. The verses under discussion refer to the same matter, too.
In the first holy verse, the words of the hostile rejectors are restated as follows: “And man says: ‘When I am dead shall I be raised up alive?’” This interrogation, of course, is a positive interrogation with a negative sense, which means: ‘such thing will never be possible’. Immediately after that, the Qur’an, with the same tone and meaning, answers this question, saying that whether man does not remember this fact that Allah created him before, and he was nothing at all.
The verse says: “Does not man remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?” The application of the word ‘man’, here, may point to this meaning that a person, with natural talent and intellect, should not remain silent in front of such a question. He himself ought to answer it by remembering the first creation, otherwise he has not utilized the reality of his own humanness. These holy verses, similar to many other verses related to Resurrection, emphasize on resurrection of the body.
Else, if it were assigned that only spirit to remain and the return of body to new life were not propounded, neither that question would have any room, nor this answer.