Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and would say, “What! After we have died and become mere dust and bones, shall we, forsooth, be raised from the dead?
Arthur John Arberry
ever saying, 'What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And they used to say, "What! when we die and become dust and bones, shall we then indeed be raised up again?
Arabic
وَكَانُوا۟ یَقُولُونَ أَىِٕذَا مِتۡنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابࣰا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبۡعُوثُونَ ٤٧
Transliteration (2021)
wakānū yaqūlūna a-idhā mit'nā wakunnā turāban waʿiẓāman a-innā lamabʿūthūn