سورة الروم

Imam Kazim (peace be upon him): یُحْیِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِها [He gives life to the earth after its death] — He does not give it life by rain, rather Allah the Mighty and Majestic sends people who bring justice back to life, and the earth is revived through the revival of justice and the establishment of the divinely-ordained punishment (hadd). This life and revival is more beneficial than forty days of rain.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Imam Askari (peace be upon him) narrated from his father from Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): When a believer dies, he is not truly dead; rather it is the disbeliever who is truly dead. Allah says: یُخْرِجُ الحَیَّ مِنَ الْمیِّتِ وَ یُخْرِجُ المَیِّتَ مِنَ الحَیِّ [He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living], meaning the believer from the disbeliever and the disbeliever from the believer.

Ali ibn Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him): یُخْرِجُ الحَیَّ مِنَ المَیِّتِ وَ یُخْرِجُ المَیِّتَ مِنَ الحَیِّ [He brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living], meaning that He brings forth the believer from the disbeliever and the disbeliever from the believer. And as for this word of Allah: وَ یُحْیِی الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَ کَذَلِکَ تُخْرَجُونَ [and He gives life to the earth after its death, and thus shall you be brought forth], it is a response to the Dahriyyun (materialists who deny the Hereafter).

Imam al-Askari (peace be upon him): In the book Kamal al-Din wa Tamam al-Ni'mah, with its chain of narration, it is reported from Hakimah, daughter of Imam al-Jawad (peace be upon him) and paternal aunt of Imam Hasan al-Askari (peace be upon him), who said: I was with Imam Hasan al-Askari (peace be upon him) when he said to me: "Spend this night with us, for tonight a blessed child will be born, through whom the dead earth will be brought back to life." I said: "From which woman will this blessed child be? For I see nothing in Narjis." He said: "Despite that, he will only be from Narjis!" Then I went to Narjis and looked at her and saw no sign of pregnancy in her! So I went and informed the Imam (peace be upon him) of the matter. His Eminence (peace be upon him) smiled and said: "O aunt! At the time of dawn the sign of her pregnancy will become apparent. She is like the mother of Musa (peace be upon him), in whom the sign of pregnancy was not visible, and until the time of the birth of Musa (peace be upon him) no one had any knowledge of it. For Pharaoh, in order to seize Musa (peace be upon him), used to rip open the bellies of pregnant women; this one too is like Musa (peace be upon him) [in that enemies seek to kill him]."