Tafheem-ul-Quran (En) - Ar-Ra'd : 5
وَ اِنْ تَعْجَبْ فَعَجَبٌ قَوْلُهُمْ ءَاِذَا كُنَّا تُرٰبًا ءَاِنَّا لَفِیْ خَلْقٍ جَدِیْدٍ١ؕ۬ اُولٰٓئِكَ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا بِرَبِّهِمْ١ۚ وَ اُولٰٓئِكَ الْاَغْلٰلُ فِیْۤ اَعْنَاقِهِمْ١ۚ وَ اُولٰٓئِكَ اَصْحٰبُ النَّارِ١ۚ هُمْ فِیْهَا خٰلِدُوْنَ
And were you to wonder, then wondrous indeed is the saying of those who say: "What! After we have been reduced to dust, shall we be created afresh?" They are the ones who disbelieved in their Lord; 12 they are the ones who shall have shackles around their necks. 13 They shall be the inmates of the Fire, wherein they will abide for ever.
12. They“disbelieved in their Lord”: their denial of the Hereafter is, in fact, the denial of the Power and Wisdom of Allah. As they say that it is impossible to bring them again to life after their death, it implies that, God forbid, their Allah Who has created them lacks not only power but wisdom, too. 13. As a shackle around the neck is a symbol of imprisonment, the words“shackles upon their necks”have been used here idiomatically to show that they are slaves of ignorance, obduracy, lust and are blind followers of their forefathers. As their thinking is influenced by their prejudices, they cannot believe in the Hereafter and would deny this, though there is every reason to believe that it is inevitable.
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