Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Why - after we have died and become mere dust and bones, shall we, forsooth, be raised from the dead? –
Arthur John Arberry
What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"What! when we die, and become dust and bones, shall we (then) be raised up (again)
Arabic
أَءِذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابࣰا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ ١٦
Transliteration (2021)
a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman a-innā lamabʿūthūn