The Ninety-Nine Names · the 49th name
الْبَاعِث
Al-Ba'ith
The Resurrector
- The rootب ع ث
- From the rootba'atha: to send out, to rouse from sleep, to raise up
The essay
The same verb sends a messenger and raises a body from a grave, and the Book uses them side by side deliberately. Resurrection in the Qur'an is not argued as magic; it is argued as a second instance of something already done once. The one who made you the first time is not stretched by the second. This is the Name behind the argument, and it is why the Qur'an keeps pointing at dead ground turning green after rain.
In the Qur'an
وَأَنَّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ ءَاتِيَةٞ لَّا رَيۡبَ فِيهَا وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَبۡعَثُ مَن فِي ٱلۡقُبُورِ
And that the Hour is coming, no doubt of it, and that Allah will raise up those who are in the graves.
from the enumeration · the verse carries the meaning
What it asks of you
Live as though nothing is finally lost: not the good you did that nobody saw, and not the person you buried.
Read beside it
The words