Al-Waqi'ah Verse 87

bring that soul back, if what you say is true.

bring that [soul] back, if you are truthful?

do you not bring back his soul, if you speak truly?

do you not restore his soul to him, if what you say is true?

Cause ye it not to return, if ye say sooth?

Call back the soul, if ye are true (in the claim of independence)?

why are you then not able to bring them back to life if you are truthful?

Can you not bring him back? (Answer) if you are truthful

That you bring it back, if you are truthful?

[to Divine dispensation], if you are truthful?

(How is it that) you do not restore the soul (of that dying human), if you are truthful (in your claim)?

You do not bring it (- the soul) back (to the body of the dying person), if you are truthful (in your claim of being independent of the supreme authority)?

You return it (the life), if you were truthful.

That you bring it back, if you are truthful?

Force back (the soul), if you are truthful (about your independence)?

Bring back the soul (to its body), if you are truthful?

Why then, if you are not held under authority,

That you send it (not) back-- if you are truthful?

Do ye not force it back, if ye are truthful?

why can you not bring it (the soul) back (to life)?

do you not restore his soul, if you are truthful?

Return the soul, if you are truthful

do you not cause the soul to return to him if you are truthful in your claim?

Then bring it back, if you are truthful.

do you not bring it back, [why] do you not restore the spirit to the body after it has reached the throat, if you are truthful?, in what you claim (the second law-l, `why ... if', is [repeated] to emphasise the first one; idh, `when', is an adverbial particle qualifying tarji`na, `bring it back', to which both conditions are semantically connected). The meaning is; `Why do you not bring it back, when, in repudiating resurrection, you are being truthful in this repudiation?' That is to say, `Let death also be repudiated [as impossible] in its case just as [you claim that] resurrection is [impossible]'.

تَرْجِعُونَهَا

Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin -- return the soul,

means, `Will you not return this soul, that has reached the throat, to its body as it used to be, if you are exempt from the reckoning and recompense?'

Sa`id bin Jubayr and Al-Hasan Al-Basri said,
فَلَوْلَا إِن كُنتُمْ غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ
(Then why do you not -- if you are not Madinin. ..),

"If you do not believe that you will be reckoned, recompensed, resurrected and punished, then why do you not return this soul to its body"

Mujahid said that,
غَيْرَ مَدِينِينَ
(...if you are not Madinin), means,

"if you are not certain."

إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ



if you are truthful?