﴿ يَقُولُونَ أَءِنَّا لَمَرْدُودُونَ فِى ٱلْحَافِرَةِ ﴾

“[And yet,] some say, "What! Are we indeed to be restored to our former state –”

They those of the mentioned hearts and eyes will say mockingly and in rejection of the Resurrection ‘Are we indeed read a-innā pronouncing both hamzas or by not pronouncing the second and inserting an alif between them in both cases and in both instances being restored as before? Shall we be restored to life after death al-hāfira is a noun signifying the ‘first part’ of anything from which is derived the expression raja‘a fī hāfiratihi to mean that so and so ‘returned whence he had come’.