﴿ وَكَانُوا۟ يَقُولُونَ أَئِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًۭا وَعِظَٰمًا أَءِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ﴾

“and would say, “What! After we have died and become mere dust and bones, shall we, forsooth, be raised from the dead? -”

(And they used to say) in the life of the world: (When we are dead and have come) scattered (dust and) rotten (bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised again) shall we then be given life again,