The atheists who deny the ‘existence of God’ and the ‘Day of Judgement’ comment that whilst living in scientific age with logical reasoning why should one believe in the life after death. It is not possible that one after death having reduced to dust particles be resurrected.
Answer: In response to such questions when people fail to understand any Islamic point, they cite science and reasoning and always harp on the same cliché: How can it be possible in the light of science and logic? This cliché is used on many occasions whether befitting or unbefitting and then people continue their conversation at their whims. So, it is always badly misused in the matters related to unseen and metaphysics.
Regarding it, a detail answer is that Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has described about the Day of Judgement with great detail and proofs that anyone having common sense can’t deny it. It is being described in few steps:
First of all the wrong belief that, ‘no one will be raised after death because once one dies everything is finished with him’, is not a new belief. During the eras of earlier Prophets and Rusul عَلَيْهِمُ السَّلَام of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ, they made the people of their nations understand about the Day of Judgement but they (people of their nations) uttered the same words in response.
وَ قَالُوْا مَا هِیَ اِلَّا حَیَاتُنَا الدُّنْیَا نَمُوْتُ وَ نَحْیَا وَ مَا یُهْلِكُنَاۤ اِلَّا الدَّهْرُۚ-
And they said, ‘There is nothing except our
worldly life, (in which) we die and we live,
and nothing destroys us except the time.’
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 25, Surah Al-Jaasiyah, Ayah 24)
It was claimed by unbelievers. Thereupon Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ said:
وَ مَا لَهُمْ بِذٰلِكَ مِنْ عِلْمٍۚ-
And they do not have any knowledge of it.
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 25, Surah Al-Jaasiyah, Ayah 24)
It means they don’t have knowledge about their claim that there is only this life, not any other life and what causes us to die is the time not anybody else.
Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ said:
اِنْ هُمْ اِلَّا یَظُنُّوْنَ(۲۴)
They make mere speculations.
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 25, Surah Al-Jaasiyah, Ayah 25)
[The question is] who told them that it is the time that causes them to die and what proof do they have that God doesn’t causes them to die. Give its proof [if you have]. Therefore, He عَزَّوَجَلَّ said:
قُلْ هَاتُوْا بُرْهَانَكُمْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صٰدِقِیْنَ(۶۴)
Proclaim (O Beloved), ‘Bring your proof, if you are truthful!’
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 20, Surah An-Naml, Ayah 64)
Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ says, people will be raised up after death on the Day of Judgement, then a question arises when bodies will be reduced to dust particles after death how these disintegrated pieces of bodies will come together and will be raised back to life again. Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ Himself has mentioned this objection in Quran:
قَالَ مَنْ یُّحْیِ الْعِظَامَ وَ هِیَ رَمِیْمٌ(۷۸)
He stated, ‘Who is such that can revive the bones when they have become disintegrated?’
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 23, Surah Yaseen, Ayah 78)
Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ has said:
قُلْ یُحْیِیْهَا الَّذِیْۤ اَنْشَاَهَاۤ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍؕ-وَ هُوَ بِكُلِّ خَلْقٍ عَلِیْمُۙﰳ(۷۹)
Say you (O Beloved), ‘The One Who created
them initially will revive them,
and He is aware of all (aspects of) creation.’
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 23, Surah Yaseen, Ayah 79)
Whether to create from a drop or out of bones or from a cell presents in bones, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ knows all about it. When Allah Almighty is powerful to create a man from a drop, why can’t He bring him back to life again re-joining his scattered particles? This is the proof! In contrast of this what disbelievers claim: ‘It is the time that destroys’. Whereas it is merely a claim, not the proof of the claim, so, give a reference or any other proof if mentioned in any book or if it is any kind of observation, explain about it. On the other hand, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ puts forward a claim supported by an undeniable proof as mentioned in this way: ‘He Who created them the first time will give them life. And He knows best every way of creation.
Thereafter Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ describes His Divine power:
مَا خَلْقُكُمْ وَ لَا بَعْثُكُمْ اِلَّا كَنَفْسٍ وَّاحِدَةٍؕ-
Creating and raising you all on the Day of Judgement is like (creating and raising) a single soul.
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 21, Surah Luqman, Ayah 28)
The act of creating billions or trillions human beings first time or resurrecting them after their death may seem to you difficult or impossible but it is like creating a single person for Allah عزوجل. It is His Divine Power.
اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَیْءٍ قَدِیْرٌ(۷۷)
Indeed Allah is Able to do all things.
[Kanz-ul-Iman (translation of Quran)] (Part 14, Surah An-Nahl, Ayah 77)
After this, Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ gives another proof and it is very easy to understand.
Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ first mentions what disbelievers say:
وَ قَالُوْۤا ءَاِذَا كُنَّا عِظَامًا وَّ رُفَاتًا ءَاِنَّا لَمَبْعُوْثُوْنَ خَلْقًا جَدِیْدًا(