ٱلنَّازِعَات : ١١

  • أَءِذَا What! When
  • كُنَّا we are
  • عِظَٰمٗا bones
  • نَّخِرَةٗ decayed
Even if we should be decayed bones?"1
Footnotes
1 The disbelievers say this in ridicule of the warning.
What! When we have been decayed bones?' (nakhira: a variant reading has naakhira, 'decayed and withered'), will we have life again?