Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 36 Ya-Sin, Ayat 78-79
وَضَرَبَ لَـنَا مَثَلًا وَّ نَسِىَ خَلۡقَهٗ ؕ قَالَ مَنۡ يُّحۡىِ الۡعِظَامَ وَهِىَ رَمِيۡمٌ
﴿36:78﴾
قُلۡ يُحۡيِيۡهَا الَّذِىۡۤ اَنۡشَاَهَاۤ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ ؕ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلۡقٍ عَلِيۡمُ ۙ
﴿36:79﴾
(36:78) He strikes for Us66 a similitude and forgot his own creation.67
He says: “Who will quicken the bones when they have decayed?” (36:79) Say: “He Who first brought them into being will quicken them; He
knows well about every kind of creation;
Notes
66. That is, he regards Us powerless and weak like the creation, and thinks
that just as man cannot raise the dead back to life, so also can’t We.
67. “Forgets his own creation”: Forgets that We created the basic germ of
life from dead matter, which became the means of his creation; then We caused
the germ to develop to such an extent that now he stands before Us as a disputant.