Surah Al-Waqi'ah Ayat 87

(86-87) Ayat-ayat ini menerangkan tentang manusia yang sedang mengha¬dapi sakratulmaut, mereka dalam keadaan sama sekali tidak berdaya, dan manakala mereka mempunyai kesanggupan dan kemampuan, tentulah mereka dapat menahan nyawa mereka ketika sampai di tenggorokan, untuk me¬¬ngem¬balikannya kepada keadaan semula seperti ketika keadaan sehat. Anggapan mereka bahwa hari kebangkitan dan pembalasan semuanya itu tidak ada. Kenyataannya, mereka tidak berdaya menahan rohnya ketika sampai di tenggorokannya, namun mereka membangkang.

do you not bring it back why do you not restore the spirit to the body after it has reached the throat if you are truthful? in what you claim the second law-lā ‘why … if’ is repeated to emphasise the first one; idhā ‘when’ is an adverbial particle qualifying tarji‘ūna ‘bring it back’ to which both conditions are semantically connected. The meaning is ‘Why do you not bring it back when in repudiating resurrection you are being truthful in this repudiation?’ That is to say ‘Let death also be repudiated as impossible in its case just as you claim that resurrection is impossible’.