Al An‘ām

وَقَالُواْ إِنْ هِيَ إِلاَّ حَيَاتُنَا الدُّنْيَا وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَبْعُوثِينَ

وَلَوْ تَرَى إِذْ وُقِفُواْ عَلَى رَبِّهِمْ قَالَ أَلَيْسَ هَذَا بِالْحَقِّ قَالُواْ بَلَى وَرَبِّنَا قَالَ فَذُوقُواْ العَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَ

29. "And they say: ' There is nothing save our life of the world and we shall not be resurrected'."
30. And if you could see when they are stationed before their Lord He will say: 'Is this not the truth? 'They will say: 'Yes, by our Lord I' He will say: 'Taste you then the chastisement for what you used to disbelieve'."

This verse is the continuation of the statements of the arrogant and stubborn pagans who, by seeing the scenes of Resurrection, desire to return back to this world once more in order to compensate. But the Qur'an implies that if these people return to the world, they not only will not compensate their evils, but also will continue committing their vicious deeds, and, basically, they deny the Resurrection and Hereafter, too. Surprisingly, they will say that the life is only the life of this world and they will not be raised again. The verse says:

In this holy verse, the Qur'an hints to these people's fate on the Resurrection Day, and says:

They are told once more that they should taste the punishment for that they used to reject that punishment, and they disbelieved. The Qur'an says:

It is sure that the purpose of 'standing before the Lord' is not that Allah (S.w.T.) has a place. It means to stand before the scenes of His punishments. This status is the same as the state of establishing the canonical prayer for which a servant says he is standing before Allah.