Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 41 Fussilat, Ayat 21-21
وَقَالُوۡا لِجُلُوۡدِهِمۡ لِمَ شَهِدْتُّمۡ عَلَيۡنَا ؕ قَالُوۡۤا اَنۡطَقَنَا اللّٰهُ الَّذِىۡۤ اَنۡطَقَ كُلَّ شَىۡءٍ وَّهُوَ خَلَقَكُمۡ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَّاِلَيۡهِ تُرۡجَعُوۡنَ
﴿41:21﴾
(41:21) They will ask their skins: “Why did you bear witness against us?”
The skins will reply: “Allah gave us speech,26 as He gave speech
to all others. He it is Who created you for the first time and it is to Him
that you will be sent back.
Notes
26. This shows that not only man’s own limbs will bear witness on the Day
of Resurrection, but every such thing before which man would have committed
any crime will also speak out. The same thing has been said in Surah Al- Zilzal,
thus: The earth will cast out all the burdens, which lie within it, and man
will say: what has befallen it? On that Day shall it relate whatever had happened
(on it), because your Lord will have commanded it (to do so). (verses 2-5).