Al-Isra 17:50

<h2>Refutation of Those Who do not believe in Life after Death</h2><p>Allah tells us about the disbelievers who think it very unlikely that the Resurrection will happen and who say, in a tone of denial,</p><div class="arabic uthmani">أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً وَرُفَـتاً</div><p>(When we are bones and fragments.) meaning earth. This was the view of Mujahid. `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported from Ibn `Abbas that it means dust.</p><div class="arabic uthmani">أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ خَلْقاً جَدِيداً</div><p>(should we really be resurrected (to be) a new creation) meaning, on the Day of Resurrection after we have disintegrated and become nothing, and have been forgotten. Allah tells us about them elsewhere:</p><div class="arabic uthmani">يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى الْحَـفِرَةِ - أَءِذَا كُنَّا عِظَـماً نَّخِرَةً - قَالُواْ تِلْكَ إِذاً كَرَّةٌ خَـسِرَةٌ </div><p>(They say: "Shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state of life Even after we are crumbled bones" They say: "It would in that case, be a return with loss!") (79:10-12). And,</p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَضَرَبَ لَنَا مَثَلاً وَنَسِىَ خَلْقَهُ</div><p>(And he puts forth for Us a parable, and forgets his own creation.) until the end of two Ayat. (36:78-79) Allah commands His Messenger to respond to them, so He says:</p><div class="arabic uthmani">قُلْ كُونُواْ حِجَارَةً أَوْ حَدِيداً </div><p>(Say (O Muhammad): "Be you stones or …

Say: Be ye stones or iron

Say: "(Nay!) be ye stones or iron,

Say (O Muhammad SAW) "Be you stones or iron,"

Say, “Even if you become rocks or iron.