Al-Jathiyah (The Crouching)
Verse 24of 37
وَقَالُوا۟ مَا هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَآ إِلَّا ٱلدَّهْرُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم بِذَٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍ ۖ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ﴿٢٤﴾
Translation (Sahih International)
And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.
Word-by-word meaning
Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)
The Conviction of the Disbelievers, Their Argument and the Refutation of itAllah mentions here the creed of Ad-Dahriyyah and the Arab idolators who embraced their creed, denying Resurrection,وَقَالُواْ مَا هِىَ إِلاَّ حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا نَمُوتُ وَنَحْيَا(And they say: "There is nothing but our life of this world, we die and we live....") They say that there is only this life, some people die while others are born to life, without Resurrection or Judgement.
Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt
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