Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?

There are seven compelling rebirth surahs which are found scattered in the Holy Qur'n and must be studied by the Ummah to confirm rebirth of all humans, and not 'graves opening up', to face the Resurrection and Last Judgment. As mentioned even Christian and Jews are unable to make sense but Jesus declared that no one can enter paradise and attain eternal life unless he or she receives second birth by the Spirit (Baptism of Allah). All this is only possible after the arrival of the promised Comforter (Holy Spirit/Ruh) who triggers it during the Last Judgment and Resurrection when all souls who existed on Earth since creation will be born again, receive the Baptism of Allah and begin cleansing themselves in mind, body and soul. The seven ayaats are as follows:
1. Surah 2.28 Al Baqarah (The Heifer)
2. Surah 4:97-99 Al Nisa (The Women)
3. Surah 22:5 Al Hajj (The Pilgrimage)
4. Surah 23:12-15 Al-Mu'minum (The True Believers)
5. Surah 39:42 Al Zumar (Crowds)
6. Surah 56:60-61 Al Waqi'h (The Inevitable)
7. Surah 71:13-14 Nuh (Noah)

Surah 75:3-4

1.   I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;
2.   And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit.
3.   Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?
4.   Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order, the very tip of his fingers.
5.   But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him.
6.   He questions: "When is the Day of Resurrection?”
7.   At length, when the sight is dazed
8.   And the moon is buried in darkness
9.   And the sun and moon are joined together that Day will Man say;
10. "Where is the refuge?”
11. By no means! No place of safety!
12. Before the Lord (alone), that Day will be the place of rest.
13. That Day will Man be told (all) that he put forward, and all that he put back.
14. Nay, man will be evidence against himself,
15. Even though he were to make excuses.
16. Move not thy tongue concerning the (Qur'n), to make haste therewith.
17. It is for Us to collect it and to promulgate it:
18. But when We have promulgated it, follow thou its recital:
19. Nay more, it is for Us to explain it:
20. Nay, (ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life,
21. And leave alone the Hereafter.
22. Some faces, that Day, will beam (in brightness and beauty) -
23. Looking towards their Lord;
24. And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal,
25. In the thought that some backbreaking calamity was about to be inflicted on them;
26. Yea, when (the soul) reaches to the collarbone (in its exit),
27. And there will be a cry, "Who is a magician (to restore him)?”
28. And he will conclude that it was (the Time) of Parting;
29. And one leg will be joined with another:
30. The Day the Drive will be (all) to thy Lord!
31. So he gave nothing in charity, nor did he pray! -
32. But on the contrary, he rejected Truth and turned away!
33. Then did he stalk to his family in full conceit!
34. Woe to thee, (O man!), yea, woe!
35. Again, woe to thee, (O man!), yea, woe!
36. Does Man think that he will be left uncontrolled, (without purpose)?
37. Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)?
38. Then did he become a clinging clot; then did (Allah) make and fashion (him) in due proportion.
39. And of him He made two sexes, male and female.
40. Has not he, (the same), the power to give life to the dead?

surah 75:1-40 Al Qiyamah (The Resurrection)

Ayahsabu al-insanu allannajmaAAa AAithamahu
Bala qadireena AAala annusawwiya bananahu
Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?
Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers.

surah 75:3-4 Al Qiyamah (The Resurrection)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'n, Amana Corporation, 1989.

"There are some people who think that the Qur'n is to be read merely for the purpose of obtaining spiritual reward (thawab) without need of understanding anything of its contents. They continuously recite the Qur'n, but if they are even once asked)"Do you understand the meaning of what you are reading?”They cannot answer. To recite the Qur'n is essential and good, being regarded as the first step necessary for comprehending its contents; and not merely as a means for gaining Divine reward.

The comprehension of the meaning of the Qur'n has certain peculiarities to which due attention must be paid. While other books are read for the purpose of acquiring the knowledge of novel ideas that merely involve reason and the rational faculties of the reader's mind, the Qur'n must be studied with the intention of educating oneself. The Qur'n itself clarifies this point: A book We have sent down to thee, blessed, that men possessed of mind may ponder its signs end so remember. (The Holy Qur'n, 38:29) One of the functions of the Qur'n is to instruct and to teach. For this purpose, the Qur'n addresses human reason and speaks in logical and demonstrative terms.” ¹

The verse below needs a little elaboration to emphasize its great importance in our understanding Surah Al-Qiyamah:

"He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except God. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: "We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord: 'and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.'" (The Holy Qur'n 3:7 Ali-Imran)

Thus when the Prophet of Islam, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, expounded the topic of resurrection to the pagan Arabs, a Bedouin by the name of Ubayy b. Khalaf picked up a decayed bone and set out for Medina to visit the Prophet. In the hope of refuting the arguments of the Prophet and the logic of the Qur'n on which they were based, he raised up the bone, as if it were a valuable and convincing piece of evidence, and crumbled it to dust, scattering the pieces in the air. Then, he addressed to the Prophet these crude, unadorned words, inspired by his rebelliousness and ignorance:

"Who will restore to life the scattered particles of this rotten bone?”

He believed that he would thus be able to refute the arguments of the Prophet and to destroy the belief of others in resurrection of the dead. His ignorant mode of thought prevented him from having any correct notion of the creation of being so that he imagined that the scattered particles of a decayed bone could not possibly be brought back to life. He obstinately maintained that the reassembling of the countless particles of the body was unacceptable to man's reason.

The Qur'n replied with this convincing argument based on persuasive logic: " (O Messenger,) say: 'God Who first brought them to life will restore them to life. He has knowledge of all His creation.' ... Is the Creator Who brought into being the heavens and the earth incapable of creating the like thereof? Certainly He is the Creator and All-Knowing" (36:79, 81).” ²

The Qur'n categorically declares that only Allah knows the true interpretation of the allegorical verses i.e., 'having hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text.' (Since His Ruh Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has come to announce and explain Al-Qiyamah to all humanity, the allegorical verses of the Qur'n now make far more sense.)

Thus the Ummah must comprehend that although surah 75:3-4 seems a mere rebuke to humans that the Creator is perfectly capable of bringing back the physically dead to life again, it has a far profound meaning. Putting bones together is simple; even the very tips of the fingers can be perfectly reconstructed. This assurance of bringing the dead to life again is given in the most elementary terms possible to explain briefly the topic of resurrection to the pagan Arabs. It does not mean that bones in graves will come to life. This was a simple way of explaining the profoundly complex reality to uneducated desert dwellers 1400 years ago. Modern minds, despite vast leaps in intelligence and education, cannot still explain logically how skeletal and dust remains hundreds and thousands of years old will become flesh during the Resurrection. This doctrine of rebirth controversy has raged for centuries among Christians and Jews without any firm faith or logical conviction.

Belief in al-akhirah (life after death) is crucial to the Islamic faith

"Belief in al-akhirah (life after death) is so crucial to the Islamic faith that any doubts about it amount to the denial of Allah (God). Allah's own word in the Qur'an is the foundation of this faith. Besides, the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) explained the centrality of this belief for a person who wishes to lead an Islamic life. We know that we have no means of knowing life after death as a perceptual experience. But Allah has given us certain levels of consciousness that provide us with insight into realities not perceptible through the senses. The Qur'an speaks to our rational mind when it answers the disbelievers who ask, 'Who will give life to the dead bones?' The answer is, of course, the One Who created them. Allah in the Holy Qur'an appeals to man's reasoning and addresses his power of reflection and judgment by asking him to reflect on how rain revives the dead earth. This is something that is obvious to us; if so, how can we then deny the truth of the resurrection, when Almighty Allah can just as easily revive the dead bones as He revives the earth? (It is Allah Who sends forth the Winds, so that they raise up the clouds, and We drive them to a land that is dead, and revive the earth therewith after its death: even so [will be] the Resurrection!) (35: 9).” (www.islamonline.net)

Fourteen centuries ago Allah very briefly told that He is capable of putting their bones and even fingertips together again - simple terms to make simple minds understand that after death they will be brought back to life in future during the Resurrection. This extremely complex subject of dead humans coming back to life was too confusing and complicated to be explained to illiterate humans. Since it was to take place in the future, a brief explanation was sufficient. Thus when Qiyamah would finally take place, as it is taking place now, humans will be far more educated and advanced to understand that Allah is talking about the rebirth of souls and nothing else. Nothing else!

Humans during the medieval ages could not have believed in their wildest imaginations that the modern scientific progress would be possible. Electricity, telephones, gasoline driven engines, television, air travel and space exploration must have seemed like fantasy and fiction, even a century ago. The presence and the function of genes and DNA were not even known until the middle of the 20th century. What appeared far-fetched yesterday is taken for granted as ordinary. So will the 'putting together of bones, even the very tip of the fingers' of centuries past be understood in this enlightened age as the rebirth of all dead beings to face the Resurrection?


"The doctrine of bodily resurrection, linked closely to the soul's nature and destiny, suffers like a fate. The ancients knew little or nothing about the human organism—its chemical constituents, its functioning parts, its psychology—and even less about the nature of death. Modern man has measured corruption, can detail the chemical changes that take place when bodily life ceases, has a clear idea of what precisely corruption and decay of the human frame connote, and defines human death precisely by the cessation of the observable functions of the body. The three religions define death as the moment when the soul leaves the body.

On the other hand, the scientist cannot accept the 'outside' explanation: that a god will 'resurrect' the corrupted body. He knows that in a living body today the actual molecules which compose it were not part of it some time ago. In another decade it will be made up of molecules which at present are elsewhere: in African lions, in passion-flowers of the Amazon, in Maine lobsters, in earth in Patagonia, and in the fur of a Polar bear. For the scientist, the body as such has truly ceased to exist. No 'shade' or reduced form of the body exists in an 'underworld' or in Elysian fields. The body has ceased to exist. He therefore finds the resurrection of the body unintelligible.”

Malachi Martin, The Encounter,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970, 286.

But if one follows the Islamic scholars version of 'graves opening up', we beg for logical answers to the following questions:

1) How will the millennia-old buried remains be collected together and 'raised up again' during the Resurrection into perfect beings, a disbelieve rampant even centuries ago?

2) What about the cremated dust of billions of beings that have been scattered over the seven seas, and recycled back by nature into the atoms that are now part and parcel of you and me?

3) What about the millions lost and digested by the sea, or those eaten by animals and scavengers, and their remains scattered all over the land?

4) And how will the countless headless, limbless skeletons of wars and genocide be assembled together and brought to life during the Resurrection?


Mass of chopped limbs and heads of some 800,000 victims of 1994 Rwandan genocide (BBC)



5) What about those who knew next to nothing about Islam, like the two million Cambodians (above) who lost their lives during Pol Pot's reign of terror?

6) What about the millions dying daily upon birth or soon after?

"Some two million babies born every year in the developing world die on the first day of their lives, the Save the Children charity has said. (BBC, 9 May 2006)

Over two million die of diarrhea annually in Nigeria. (UNICEF 8 October 2005)

"Childhood death rates around the world have halved since 1990 but an estimated 6.6 million children under the age of 5 still died last year, the U.N. children's agency said Friday.

Nearly half of all children who die are in five countries: Nigeria, Congo, India, Pakistan and China, it said in a report. 'Progress can and must be made,' said Anthony Lake, UNICEF's executive director...

The top killers are malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea, the report said, taking the lives of about 6,000 children under age 5 daily. A lack of nutrition contributes to almost half of these deaths, the U.N. said. "

The Associated Press, September 13, 2013

BANGALORE: As many as 1.2 million new-born babies die in a month due to lack of proper care and access to medical facility, Dr N Karthik Nagesh, neonatologist, and Director (Paeditric Research), Manipal Hospital, said on Tuesday. (Tuesday, November 21, 2006 15:50 IST) A non-governmental organization Food Aid International (FAI) has said that about 3,000 people die daily of hunger and poverty in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. (The Punch reported Monday. March 01, 2004)

Every day, more than 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes—one child every five seconds. State of Food Insecurity in the World 2005. (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.)

Wealth 'may not lead to health'
By David Loyn
International development correspondent

Economic growth does not necessarily translate into improvements in child mortality, major new research suggests.

Every year 10 million children still die before their fifth birthday, 99% of them in the developing world, according to Save the Children.

BBC, 18 February 2008

"Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012, a study shows.

Half of them were children under the age of five, says the report by the UN food agency and the US-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network.”

BBC, 2 May 2013

7) How about the cremated billions, a ritual widely practiced by Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs since time immemorial. "Beliefs differ among Christian groups; some, such as Protestants, have no objections, while others, particularly Roman Catholics, generally frown on the practice because they see it conflicting with their belief in the resurrection of the body.” ⁵

8) What about the hundreds of millions mentally sick over the centuries who have no way of knowing God Almighty?

Mentally ill 'suffering neglect'
BBC, 4 September 2007

Mentally ill people in the developing world are being badly neglected, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal.

The authors say mental illness makes up about 14% of global disease, more than cancer or heart disease.

Up to 800,000 people commit suicide each year, mostly in poorer countries.

Despite this, the authors say, 90% of sufferers in developing countries receive no care - and in some cases are chained to trees or kept in cages.

Health officials call for new strategies and more money for treatment of the mentally ill in the developing world in a special series published by the Lancet.

They warn that as more people suffer from mental problems as a result of war, poverty and disease, unless widespread treatment becomes available, poor countries will be further handicapped in the future.

BBC, 4 September 2007

Million Chinese Suffer From Mental Illness
Beijing, China.
by Staff Writers
Beijing, China (XNA) Sep 25, 2006

Experts claim that as many as 100 million people out of China's 1.3 billion population may be suffering from mental illness. The estimates are based on surveys carried out in several parts of the country, said Zhang Mingyuan, an expert with the mental illness branch of the Chinese Medical Association, at the seventh annual meeting of the association's psychiatry branch.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

Million Mentally Ill in India

The mentally ill are the most vulnerable members of our society and are most prone to abuse, neglect and despair. Due to the very nature of illness, which in severe cases takes away the insight, these citizens form a voiceless population.

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare in his opening remarks in the Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry, held in Delhi last week, said that he would like to share the experience of his ministry regarding the progress made in the National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) in the country. He wished to share the difficulties faced in reaching the unreached population i.e. the mentally ill who have been away from benefits of modern treatment due to stigma, ignorance and paucity of services.

Underlining the importance of the programme he said that at any given time about 10% of the population suffers from various mental and behavioral disorders. Out of these, approximately 10% suffer from severe mental disorders. And 10% of those suffering from severe mental disorders require long-term treatment. Out of those requiring long-term treatment, approximately 10% require hospitalization.

From the above estimate about 100 million population suffer from some mental ailment at any given time. The burden of neuropsychiatry disorders is estimated to be a whopping 12% of the total disease burden and imposes a heavy burden on the family and society in terms of morbidity, loss of productivity and mortality in terms of suicide in extreme cases.
(Source: Bio-Medicine.org)

9) What about the millions who cannot practise any religion on pain of death?

North Korea 'executes Christians'
By Andre Vornic
BBC News
24 July 2009

Human rights groups in South Korea say North Korea has stepped up executions of Christians, some of them in public.

The communist country, the world's most closed society, views religion as a major threat.

Only the founder of the country, Kim Il-sung, and his son, Kim Jong-il, may be worshipped, in mass public displays of fervour.

BBC News

10) What about all those born before the advent of Prophet Muhammad, and those after, who never were Muslims and make up roughly 90% of the total humans born on Earth since creation? Does the Day of Judgment apply to these non-Muslims?

11) What Truth about the Resurrection must Allah manifest to those who, after having died over the centuries, are 'raised up' (brought back to live by rebirth) during the Resurrection?

"They swear their strongest oaths by Allah, that Allah will not raise up those who die: Nay, but it is a promise (binding) on Him in truth:
But most among mankind realise it not.
(They must be raised up), In order that He may manifest to them,
The truth of that wherein they differ,
And that the rejecters of Truth, may realise that they had indeed (surrendered to) Falsehood.
For to anything which We have willed, We but say the word,"

surah 16:38-40 Al Nahl (The Bees)
A. Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'n, 1989.

12) Why does Allah insist that humans beings "must be raise up, in order that He may manifest to them the truth of that wherein they differ" during the Resurrection, if the terror and mayhem of the dreaded Doomsday is at its height?

13) Why does Allah insist that the rejecters of Al-Qiyamah "must be raise up, in order that ... the rejecters of Truth, may realise that they had indeed (surrendered to) Falsehood", if all around mountains are crashing and skies rent asunder? What is the point of this absolutely futile exercise? Why do Islamic scholars indulge in such satanic lies and delude the Believers away from the Straight Path?

14) How is Allah going to explain to all humans, especially Jews, Christians and Muslims, about "The truth of that wherein they differ" which, as far as religion is concerned, requires months and years of meticulous cross-examination and critical appraisal? Do fools, idiots and fundamentalists think these centuries-old differences are going to be ironed out during a brief Friday sermon or Sunday mass?

15) Will Allah appear in Person or send His Ruh to clarify "The truth of that wherein they differ", so that all religious regimes and their blind followers are amply warned?

16) Has His Ruh Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi already "manifest to them the truth of that wherein they differ" over the last 30 years so "that the rejecters of Truth may realise that they had indeed (surrendered to) Falsehood"?

17) Why is the pre-ordained Qiyamah of His Ruh so full of hope, promise, peace, love and healing, and aptly called the Night of Power and Honour (The Holy Qur'n, 97:1-5 Al Qadr) in the Qur'n? It is because all humans since creation began are given the right to take part in the Resurrection. All souls who lived on Earth, no matter how briefly or ignorantly, will be told/warned of the Resurrection and given a chance to follow the Straight Path

Seven compelling rebirth surahs in the Qur'n

There are seven compelling rebirth surahs which are found scattered in the Holy Qur'n and must be studied by the Ummah to confirm rebirth of all humans, and not 'graves opening up', to face the Resurrection and Last Judgment. As mentioned even Christian and Jews are unable to make sense but Jesus declared that no one can enter paradise and attain eternal life unless he or she receives second birth by the Spirit (Baptism of Allah). All this is only possible after the arrival of the promised Comforter or Allah's Ruh who triggers it during the Last Judgment and Resurrection when all souls who existed on Earth since creation will be born again, receive the Baptism of Allah and begin cleansing themselves in mind, body and soul. The seven ayaats are as follows:

1. Surah 2.28 Al Baqarah (The Heifer)
2. Surah 4:97-99 Al Nisa (The Women)
3. Surah 22:5 Al Hajj (The Pilgrimage)
4. Surah 23:12-15 Al-Mu'minum (The True Believers)
5. Surah 39:42 Al Zumar (Crowds)
6. Surah 56:60-61 Al Waqi'h (The Inevitable)
7. Surah 71:13-14 Nuh (Noah)

"Belief in reincarnation is an ancient phenomenon; in various guises humans have believed in a future life since the Ancient Egyptians, perhaps earlier, and ancient graves containing both people and possessions may testify to beliefs that a person would have need for their treasured possessions once again despite physical death.

In brief, there are several common concepts of a future life. In each of them either the person, or some essential component that defines that person (variously called the soul or spirit) persists in continuing existence:

People live on this earth, and then live in some kind of afterlife for the rest of eternity - variously called heaven (paradise) or hell, or the Kingdom of the Dead, or some higher plane, or similar. They do not return to earth as such.

People die, but will return to the earth or are revived in some final Judgement, or at some final battle (eg the Norse Ragnarok). They may go to heaven or hell at that time, or live again and repopulate the earth. This is often called an apocalyptic vision of the future.

People die, and are returned to this or another existence continually, their form upon return being of a 'higher' or 'lower' kind depending upon the virtue (moral quality) of their present life. This is often called Transmigration.

People die, go through inner planes and return, rebirth, (usually or often) as new human beings. Strictly, it is this which is known as reincarnation (also called "rebirth"). In many versions, eventually there is the potential to escape the cycle, e.g. by joining God, enlightenment, some kind of self-realization, a spiritual rebirth, entering a spiritual realm, etc. (There is some confusion, in general society, between reincarnation and transmigration; see below for comparison)

Beliefs in reincarnation or transmigration are widespread amongst religions and beliefs, some seeing it as part of the religion, others seeing in it an answer to many common moral and existential dilemmas, such as "Why are we here" and "Why do bad things sometimes appear to happen to good people.” Reincarnation is therefore a claim that a person has been or will be on this earth again in a different body. It suggests that there is a connection between apparently disparate human lifetimes, and (in most cases) that there may even be covert evidence of continuity between different people's lifetimes, if looked for.”⁶

In this 21st century the reality of rebirth bursts forth with all its ancient mystery and splendor, and those enlightened will understand the parable of 'graves opening up.' Simple, illiterate, desert tribes 1400 years ago would never have understood the complexities of rebirth and Resurrection.

LAA UQSIM BI-YAWM AL-QIYAMAH;
WA-LAA UQSIM BI-AN-NAFSAL-LAWWAAMAH
I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;
And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit.

Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News. [5889]
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!

surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)

"5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of the Resurrection.”

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'n, Amana Corporation, 1989.

QUOTES OF ALLAH'S (SWT) RUH SHRI MATAJI NIRMALA DEVI

His Ruh Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi