Tom Facchine – How Does Allah Resurrect The Dead

The end of Surah Al Baqarah Allah, Aesawajal,

he tells a couple stories that that have

a a very similar theme, and it has

to do with

increasing

certainty

in Allah's power and the resurrection and sort

of the things that are gonna happen in

the last day. So you have the story

of the person who passes by the township

and it's ruins. You know, it's like people

used to live there. Now it's completely abandoned

and and in ruins. And he kind of

expresses

something like a doubt, but it's more it's

kind of like a question. He says, could

Allah resurrect even this? Basically saying it's like

these guys are so dead and gone. It's

like

even these guys, like, Allah can bring back.

And so he causes this person to to

die, to fall asleep. Right? And he's got

you know, he's traveling. He's got his his

donkey and he's got his provisions and stuff

like that.

And so Allah causes him to, you know,

knock out and then brings him back to

life and then questions him and says, how

long were you, you know, asleep for? And

he says, I don't know, maybe like a

day or part of a day. And then

Allah says, no. Actually, it was, was, you

know, quite a long time. It was, like,

a 100 years. And it points to the

fact is, like, look at your donkey. Like,

your your your donkey is bones now. Like,

it's completely disintegrated or decomposed. Whereas Allah

preserved his provisions and his food and stuff

like that. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala

causes the the donkey to be brought back

to life right in front of his eyes.

And so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is proving

to this person that, just like Allah

created everything in the first place, that resurrecting

everything after it has died is even easier.

And so he's the one that decides

what stays alive and what dies and when

it dies and for how long it rests

and then brings it all back. And then

immediately after the story, we have the story

of Ibrahim and the birds. Right? So Ibrahim

asks a certain question. He said, kefthorhilmalta.

He's like, how are you going to bring

he couldn't get it. You know? Like, he

believed in it. It wasn't he didn't believe,

but he didn't understand how. And so he's

he's he said basically to Allah, like, how

are you gonna bring life to the dead?

And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala actually, you

know, answers the question with a question, falaatutman.

He's like like, don't you believe? And he

says, yeah. But I want to bring ease

to my heart. And this is the key.

This is the key ingredient of these of

these both of these stories is that the

person is not asking out of a inad.

They're not asking out of sort of opposition

and,

doubt that's significant enough that it is sort

of, taking them away from faith. They actually

have the intention of wanting to increase their

certainty by asking these questions. And because they

have that good intention when they're asking these

questions, Allah honors their question and actually responds

to it in a meaningful way, as opposed

to other scenarios all over the Quran when

people ask with a bad intention and Allah

you know, basically rebuffs them and refutes them

and says, you know, this is a ridiculous

or a dumb question to ask. So this

is the opposite. Ibrahim is asking this question

and he he wants to have more certainty.

And so Allah says, okay, take these birds,

you know, sacrifice them, cut them up into

pieces, mix the pieces up and put them

on different hilltops or different mountain tops and

then call to them. And Allah Subhana Wa

Ta'la causes all of them to reassemble in

the proper way right in front of his

eyes and bring them back to light. And

so Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can do anything.

Right? Material cause or no material cause, mechanism

or no mechanism, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can

do what he wants. And for us, the

one of the takeaways is that we can't

be afraid to ask questions if we have

a good intention, a sincere intention, because we

want to have more certain faith. Right? And

we need to encourage our children and other

people to ask questions if the intention behind

their question is to have more certainty in

their faith. This is something that even Allah,

Aas Wajal, honors in the Quran.