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He mentions sleep resembles death, and Xtain writers wrote about sleep metaphorically Jesus's death and waking up like the resurrection; this taken literally by Muhammad, could well have been done by Arabic people pre-Islam. | He mentions sleep resembles death, and Xtain writers wrote about sleep metaphorically Jesus's death and waking up like the resurrection; this taken literally by Muhammad, could well have been done by Arabic people pre-Islam. | ||
=== Arguments for resurrection === | |||
{{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (pp. 76-77). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|Few arguments are more common in the Qur’an than the analogy that it makes between God’s ability to bring a dead body to life and the way in which rain brings a barren land back to life: | |||
17So glorify God when you enter evening and when you rise at dawn. 18To Him belongs all praise in the heavens and the earth, at nightfall and when you enter noontime. 19He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and revives the earth after its death. Likewise you [too] shall be raised [from the dead]. (Q 30:17–19; cf. Q 16:65, 43:11, 50:6–11, 57:17) | |||
One can imagine that this argument would be meaningful in the arid climate of the Middle East. In many places, when autumn rains come after a long dry summer, one can see a barren landscape turn dramatically green.<sup>10</sup>}} | |||
Footnote 10 above : | |||
{{Quote|Reynolds, Gabriel Said. Allah: God in the Qur'an (p. 254). Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.|10. This argument in the Qurʾan, that the resurrection of the dead is like the effect of rain on dry earth, might be related to a Jewish tradition that God will resurrect the dead with dew. For example, see b. Shabbat 88b.}} | |||
==Parallels in the hadith== | ==Parallels in the hadith== | ||