The above verses contain three issues, (the coming out of the graves; the grave and the sleeping place). There are seven verses if we merge all of them that speak clearly about physical resurrection:

 In the first verse God says: “And surely the Hour will come: there can be no doubt about it or about (the fact) that God will raise up all who are in their graves.”

It is unsaid but easily understood that those4 are resting in the graves are the human bodies and we learn that the new life will being from the material body.

The second verse terms the word as “Ajdas” instead of “Qaboor”. The word “Ajdas” is the plural of “Jadas” which means the sepulcher or the grave. Some linguist say the word Jadas is used by the people of Tahama and the people of Najd call it Jazaf.

This explanation is about nothing but physical resurrection because the graves contain the bones and dust of the bodies and the rising from these graves proves the renewal of life in these bodies.

In the third verse we find the third explanation

 And that is about the stay of the dead in their graves. When the disbelievers will find themselves alive in the new world they will lament, “Woe to us! Who has raised us from our sleeping place?”

The word “Marqad” is derived from “Ruquud” or “Ruqad” which means sleep in the day or night. Some linguists take it as night sleep and it is also said that this means a sleep or repose in the time of difficulties (a Peace giving sleep). This world is also used to denote the period of rest between two periods of hardships.

The word “Marqad” means resting place, or bedroom and it is has been used for the grave because the body after gaining freedom from worldly predicaments and hardships gets a peaceful sleep there. (1)

It has been used or the grave because death and sleep have many similarities and it is often said, “Sleep and death are brothers.”

Some have said that this was chosen because the disbelievers of resurrection thought that if they were raised they could say that they were sleeping or were they dead and rose?

Not much time had passed when they gave the answer to their own question and admitted “This is what the Most Beneficent (God) had promised and the Messengers spoke the truth.”

The event of the Day of Reckoning is so terrifying that it makes the most adamant sinner to admit his sins.

By using the word “Rahman” in their praise they admit their mistakes and want to take the benefit of God’s mercy so that they could erase their doings of their dark times.

This explanation also proves the resurrection and the life after death. Man was created from clay, and will be returned to it only to rise again from it.

1. Maqayis-ol-Loghata, Sahahol-Loghata, At-Tahqiq fi Kalimati Qura’n for the origin of Raqad