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And they swear by Allahu ta’ālā their most earnest oaths, in other words, with their utmost earnestness therein, that Allahu ta’ālā will not resurrect the dead. Allahu ta’ālā, exalted be He, says: Nay, He will resurrect them: it is a promise binding upon Him (both wa'dan and haqqan are verbal nouns, used for emphasis, and are in the accusative because of the verbal actions implicit in them; in other words, He promised that and made it a binding truth) but most people, that is, the people of Mecca, do not know, that.