The Quran

سورة البَقَرَة

Surah Al-Baqarah 2:56

The Cow · Verse 56 of 286

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاكُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Then We raised you up after your (deathlike) stupor, so that you might give thanks.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Then We raised you up after your death: Ye had the chance to be grateful.

Ahmed Ali

Even then We revived you after you had become senseless that you might give thanks;

12 more translations

Ali Unal

Then after that death-like state (and your spiritual death), We revived you (recovering you from the death-like state) so that you might give thanks.

Daryabadi

Then We raised you after your death that haply ye may return thanks.

Faridul Haque

Then We brought you back to life after your death, so that you may be grateful.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Then We raised you up after your stupor that you might give thanks.

Maulvi Sher Ali

The We raised you up after your death that you might be grateful.

Muhammad Asad

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

Muhammad Musin Khan

Then We raised you up after your death, so that you might be grateful.

Muhammad Pickthall

Then We revived you after your extinction, that ye might give thanks.

Muhammad Sarwar

Then We brought you back to life in the hope that you might appreciate Our favors.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Then We raised you up after your death that you may give thanks.

Rashad Khalifa

We then revived you, after you had died, that you may be appreciative.

Shabbir Ahmed

Then We revived you, and raised you from a dead to a living nation so that you might show gratitude (by following the Divine Commands.)

Commentary 2:55-56 This reference is to the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their wandering in the deserts of Sinai for forty years (19:16-17). Mautموت has a…

On 2:55–56

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَـٰكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ.

2:55-56 This reference is to the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their wandering in the deserts of Sinai for forty years (19:16-17). Mautموت has a broad meaning: “We give the earth life after its death” (cf. 57:17; 14:16). Here Maut does not mean the physical death of Israelites. According to Râghib, the word here means to be deprived of moral consciousness. Râghib gives several other meanings to this word. Here, the word Maut is used in the sense of death-like stupor, or metaphorically, moral death before spiritual life.