And when their understanding was fixed on the tangible due to their rigidity. And the decay, the stronger it was, the more distant that decayed thing was from their claim of resurrection. They said, bringing forth in a verbal sentence, in conjunction with the 'and' from 'ma'boothoon' without confirmation by the pronoun of separation through questioning: 'Or our forefathers?' meaning, 'Will our forefathers be resurrected? Will there be a resurrection for them at some time?' They increased the sense of improbability based on what they understood by their saying: 'the first ones,' meaning those whose bones have decayed along with their flesh, so they all became dust, especially if the floods carried them away and scattered their dust in every direction, and took it away in every way. And Nafi' and Ibn 'Amir made the 'and' stationary, on the basis that the conjunction is 'or,' and it is permissible that the conjunction is on the position of 'inna' and its subject.