How can you disbelieve with Lord Allah while you were once dead, then He gave your life; then He causes your death, then He will bring you back to life, then unto Him, you all will be returned?
The soul of mankind till the Last Day was created when the first man Adam was created in Paradise. After taking the covenant mentioned in verses 7: 172-173, all of them were sent to the nape of Adam. That is the first death. Then the birth happening on the earth is the first life. Remember that it is not told: “He created you”, instead it is told: “He gave your life”. The death happening on the earth is the second death. Resurrection on the Day of Judgment is the second birth. On that Day everyone will be gathered at Mecca which is the center of the World.
It is told in verse 22: 66: “And He is the One who gave your life; then He causes you to die and then will give your life again, indeed mankind is ungrateful”. That means nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand don’t utilize the intelligence bestowed by the Lord to fulfill the aim of life. A scene is warned in verse 40: 11 when the Kafirs will stand on the edge of Hell on the Day of Judgment saying: “Our Lord! You have let us die twice and have revived twice, now we have identified our sins; and then is there any way out?” In every verse, death is mentioned first before mentioning the birth. It teaches that the first creation was made in Paradise. It is told in verse 16: 78: “Allah has delivered you out of your mother’s wombs while you don’t know anything, and He made for you hearing, vision, and intelligence so that you may become grateful”. It is told in verse 39: 6: “He created you in the wombs of your mothers in stages one after another in three veils of darkness, that is Allah, your Lord; and to Him, the Dominion belongs, there is no Deity except Him, then how can you turn away from this Lord”. It is told in verse 53: 32: “He knows you well when He planted you on the earth and when you were hidden in your mother’s wombs; therefore you shouldn’t purify yourselves, He knows the best that who is heedful among you”. ‘Don’t purify yourself’ means one should not be arrogant and boastful by following his whims without the Truth Adhikr. See explanation 7: 24-28; 20: 55 and 22: 5.