أَيَعِدُكُمْ أَنَّكُمْ إِذَا مِتُّمْ وَكُنتُمْ تُرَابًا وَعِظَـٰمًا أَنَّكُم مُّخْرَجُونَ
A-Ya'idukum annakum izaa mittum wa kuntum turaabanw wa izaaman annakum mukhrajoon
How can he promise you that after you die and become dust and bones you will be brought out alive?
Does he promise you that when you have died and become dust and bones, you will be brought forth again?
The speakers are the notables of a people the surah leaves unnamed, and commentators have read them as the people of Hud or of Salih; the pattern recurs because the objection does. Their argument is addressed to the crowd rather than to the messenger, which makes it a piece of public management: turn resurrection into an absurdity everyone can laugh at, and the man asking for obedience loses his standing without ever being answered.