Commentary
His companion said to him while he was in conversation with him, denying [it]: "Have you disbelieved?"
And when his disbelief was due to denying the resurrection, it was indicated by His saying, the Most High: "By the One who created you from dust," by the creation of your origin. "Then from a drop of fluid," generated from foods whose origin is dust. "Then He shaped you" after He gave you birth and developed you through the stages of creation as a man.
Where you denied His returning to the one who began creating them in this manner, denying the messengers and underestimating the power. And you did not establish for it in the resurrection what was established for it by your knowledge in the beginning. Then you did not allow it after the definitive denial except as a hypothetical situation with a tool of doubt, and this is one of the foundations of the religion that cannot be accepted except with certainty.
And you attributed it to the absurdity that no sane person would approve of, as you made the purpose of this marvelous creation in this great development death, which, if it were a purpose - as you claimed - would deprive the obedient of reward and the disobedient of punishment.
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