Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[that] after we have died and become mere dust and bones we shall, forsooth, be brought to judgment?”’
Arthur John Arberry
What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be requited?"
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"'When we die and become dust and bones, shall we indeed receive rewards and punishments?'"
Arabic
أَءِذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابࣰا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَدِینُونَ ٥٣
Transliteration (2021)
a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman a-innā lamadīnūn