And He it is Who gives life and causes death, and (in) His (control) is the alternation of the night and the day; do you not then understand? / Nay, they say the like of what the ancients said: / They say: What! When we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we then be raised? / Certainly we are promised this, and (so were) our fathers aforetime; this is naught but stories of those of old. quran