“Allah creates in the first instance and will later repeat it. Thereafter it is to Him that you shall be sent back. On that Day when the Hour will come to pass, the criminals shall be dumbfounded.”
(Al Qur’ān – 30:11-12)
The ayah 30-11 is an assertion. However, the assertion is also inclusive of its supportive argument. For common sense requires that He Who was able to bring all His creatures into existence in the first instance will definitely be able to recreate them. The initial act of creation is obviously a fact that is recognised by all. In fact, even the unbelievers and polytheists acknowledge this to be God’s act, the act of the Supreme Deity. It would be absolutely puerile, then, to contend that God, Who in their own belief is the initial Creator of all, lacks the power to recreate them.
The significance of the term mujrimūn (criminals) is not confined to those who are guilty of murder, theft, robbery and other crimes of the kind. The term also applies to those who are guilty of rebellion against God, who disown the teachings and guidance of His Messengers, who deny or are heedless of accountability in the Next Life, who serve others rather than the One True God, and who worship their own carnal desires. Such people are criminals in God’s sight. The term ‘criminals’ is also applicable to those who, despite affirming belief in God, in the Messengers, and in the Hereafter, deliberately disobey God and persist in this disobedience till their very last breath.