2:28

Kaifa takfuroona billaahi wa kuntum amwaatan fa ahyaakum summa yumeetukum summa

yuhyeekum summaa ilaihi turja'oon

How can you deny God, when you were dead and He gave you life, then He will put you
to death, then He will bring you to life, then to Him you will be returned?

How can you disbelieve in Allah seeing that you were dead and He gave you life Then
He
will give you death, then again will bring you to life and then unto
Him you will return.

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ASBAB AL NUZUL

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- Allah testifies to the fact that He exists and that He is the Creator and the
Sustainer Who has
full authority over His servants,

"How can you disbelieve in Allah"

How can anyone deny Allah's existence or worship others with Him while;

"You were dead and He gave you life" meaning, He brought them from the state of
nonexistence
to life. Similarly, Allah said,

"Were they created by nothing Or were they themselves the creators Or did they
create the
heavens and the earth Nay, but they have no firm belief" (52:35-36)

"Has there not been over man a period of time, when he was not a thing worth
mentioning"
(76:1)

- There are many other Ayat on this subject . Ibn Jarir reported from Ata' that Ibn
Abbas said
that ,

"Seeing that you were dead and He gave you life"

is similar to Allah's statement

"They will say: "Our Lord! You have made us to die twice and You have given us life
twice."
(40:11)

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TAFSIR AL TUSTARI

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Decoding the Quran
How can you deny that the Names of Allah comprise your essence (in accord with the
meaning of the letter B) when you were lifeless (unaware of your essential reality)
and He brought you to life (with the knowledge He disclosed to you); again He will
cause you to die (from the state of thinking you are only the body), and again He
will bring you to life (purify you from confining your existence to your body and
enable you to live in a state of consciousness)... eventually you will see your
reality.

...
[2:28] How do you, people of Mecca, disbelieve in God, when you were dead, semen
inside loins, and He gave you life, in the womb and in this world by breathing
Spirit into you (the interrogative here is either intended to provoke amazement at
their [persistent] unbelief despite the evidence established, or intended as a
rebuke); then He shall make you dead, after your terms of life are completed, then
He shall give you life, at the Resurrection, then to Him you shall be returned!,
after resurrection, whereupon He shall requite you according to your deeds; and He
states, as proof of the Resurrection, when they denied it: