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His example is that of a smooth rock covered with earth: a torrential rain strikes it, and leaves it bare.

He created him from earth, then said to him: "Be",

And if you marvel, marvelous is their saying: "When we are earth, shall we really be in a new creation?"

shall he retain her despite the degradation, or bury her in the ground?

His companion said to him, while conversing with him: "Do you disown Him who created you from earth, then from a drop, then fashioned you into a well-formed man?

O mankind, if you are in doubt about the Raising, then indeed We created you from earth, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then from an embryo, formed and unformed, that We may make things clear to you.

And the court of his people, those who disowned and denied the meeting of the last life, and to whom We had given affluence in the present life, said: "This is nothing but a human like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you defer to a human like you, you will then surely be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become earth and bones, you will be brought out? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not give him credit."

But they said the same thing that the ancients used to say; they said: "When we are dead and have become earth and bones, shall we really be raised?

And those who disown said: "When we are earth, we and our ancestors, will we really be brought out?

And among His signs is that He created you from earth; then, behold, you are humans deploying.

God created you from earth, then from a drop, then made you into pairs.

and say: "This is nothing but a manifest illusion. When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we really be raised? And our earliest forefathers too?"

One of them says: "I had an acolyte who used to say: 'Are you really one of those who declare this true? When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we really be indebted?'"

And beside them will be companions of reserved gaze, fertile and of shared stock.

It is He who created you from earth, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then brings you out as a child, then lets you reach your full strength, then become old men —

By the glorious Recitation! They marveled instead that a warner, one of their own, had come to them. Those who disown said: "This is an astonishing thing. When we are dead and become earth...? That return is far-fetched."

We brought them into being in a coming-into-being, and made them inaugural beings, loving, fertile and of shared stock, for the companions of the right.

And they used to say: "When we are dead, earth and bones, shall we really be raised? And our earliest forefathers too?"

Indeed, for those who guarded themselves is a triumph: enclosed gardens and vineyards, and companions full of vitality, fertile and of shared stock, and a brimming cup. They will hear therein neither idle talk nor lies —

Indeed, We have warned you of an imminent punishment — the Day when man will observe what his hands have prepared, and the one who disowns will say, "Oh, that I were earth!"

He was created from a gushing water, emerging from between the loins and the bosom.

It is having freed a person from the burden of a debt, or having fed, on a day of famine, an orphan near of kin, or a destitute person in privation.