Surah Yaseen’s Last Verses and
their Significance
IQRASENSE·JUMANNE, 29 MEI 2018
These verses of the Quran were revealed at the time when non-believers of Makkah
asked the Holy Prophet that how could they become alive after they die. In these verses,
Allah asks these people how they came into being for the first time. Allah mentions that it
is not difficult for Him to do such things and that He is omnipotent, powerful and
supreme and none can equal Him. He is the master who gives orders and commands that
are to be fulfilled.
Revelation of Surah Yaseen Last Verses
In Makkah, addressing to the Holy Prophet, the chiefs of the disbelievers of Makkah were
constantly carrying out campaigns of vilification against the prophet (s). However, they
knew in their hearts and acknowledged in their private assemblies that the charges they
brought against him were absolutely baseless. In order to create suspicions against him in
the minds of the people, they branded him a poet, sorcerer, magician, madman, etc. But
their consciences recognized, and they also acknowledged before one another, that
whatever they were uttering Was false, which they were forging only to frustrate the
prophet’s mission. That is why Allah says to His Prophet earlier in this Surah: “Do not
grieve at their absurd and meaningless talk.”
Arguments of People of Makkah Against the Prophet
and Allah’s Response
According to the traditions related by Ibn ‘Abbas, Qatadah and Said bin Jubair, one of the
chiefs of Makkah, on this occasion, came up with a rotten bone of a dead person, from
the graveyard. He broke and crushed it into pieces before the Holy Prophet and scattering
its particles in the air, said.-“O Muhammad, you say that the dead will be raised back to
life. Tell us who will give life to these decayed and rotten bones?” The answer was
given immediately in the form of these verses.
Surah Yaseen Verses from the Quran
Translation (Interpretation of the meaning) of Surah
Yaseen
77. Does not man see that We have created him from Nutfah (mixed male and female
sexual discharge – semen drops). Yet behold he (stands forth) as an open opponent. 78.
And he puts forth for Us a parable, and forgets his own creation. He says: “Who will give
life to these bones after they are rotten and have become dust?” 79. Say: (O Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) “He will give life to them Who created them for the first
time! And He is the All-Knower of every creation!” 80. He Who produces for you fire
out of the green tree, when behold you kindle therewith. 81. Is not He Who created the
heavens and the earth, Able to create the like of them? Yes, indeed! He is the All-
Knowing Supreme Creator. 82. Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only
that He says to it, “Be!” – and it is! 83. So glorified be He and exalted above all that they
associate with Him, and in Whose Hands is the dominion of all things: and to Him you
shall be returned.
Reflections from the above verses of Surah Yaseen
In these verses Allah (SWT) chides those who in their insolence doubt the
concept of resurrection on the Day of Judgment.
The verses exhort us to ponder upon our own creation and what we are created
from. If we do it we would be in awe of our Creator instead of daring to oppose
The Almighty or doubting His Word, The Quran.
People commit the foolish blunder of using their own limited intelligence to draw
conclusions about what can happen (and what can’t) to oneself after death. Allah
(subhanahu wa ta’ala) urges us to realize that He The All- Powerful is capable of
bringing back to life a body that rots and becomes dust after death – just the way
He created life and the body when it didn’t even exist.
Allah reminds us that these people came to life while at one time they did not
exist. Thus, the all-powerful is capable of bringing them back to life after their
death. He knows how to create for the first time and to recreate again.
The verses give an example of the green tree drying up and being used as
firewood. Allah (SWT) gives this one example to highlight one of his infinite
powers that many times we don’t pay attention to or take for granted.
Since we can never comprehend how the heavens and earth and all the creation
came about, it rightly follows that we believe and trust the All-Knowing Supreme
Creator Who just has to say “Be!” and whatever He intends takes form.
Allah speaks to us through the Quran in a manner that is suitable to our
understanding. He asks a question to make us reflect and then answers it to clear
any doubt any one might have.
If influenced by Satan, some people adopt a defiant attitude. Instead, they should
realize that they possess the abilities bestowed by Allah to observe and think.
Allah urges us to use these abilities to acknowledge the Supremacy of The Lord of
the worlds to Whom we eventually will return.
