﴿ ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَٰكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ ﴾

“But We raised you again after you had been as dead, so that you might have cause to be grateful.”

Then We raised you up after you were dead so that you might be thankful. He returned them to consciousness after the blows of punishment over- whelmed them in order to fulfill the decree for them and to implement [God's] way of pardoning sin. One of the aspects of generosity is to lower the veil over the defects of servants.