"How can you deny God, when 1) you were dead and 2) God gave you life? Then 3) God will cause you to die, and 4) then revive you, and then you will be returned to God." (Quran 2:28)



That aayah/verse has a powerful impact on the people because you say to the person, no matter what they are.



1) Were you alive 200years ago? Their going to say No obviously. [Which means they agree with point one in that verse]


2) Then the person was born, no matter how they think they were born - someone gave them life from just a drop of water (fluids of sperm etc.)

[the person agrees that they were created]


3) You will die. [the person agrees with this too]




The only point they differ on is the last point:



4) then revive you, and then you will be returned to God."



You have to make them reflect on the points mentioned previously. That if Allaah can give you life once when you were nothing, He can easily give us life once again when we are dust [because making something out of nothing is much harder than making something out of something already created.]




The person still might not agree, but then you use this verse:

And among His Signs (in this), that you see the earth barren, but when We send down water (rain) to it, it is stirred to life and growth (of vegetations).

Verily, He Who gives it life, surely, (He) is Able to give life to the dead (on the Day of Resurrection). Indeed! He is Able to do all things.

[Qur'an 41:39]



And I heard in Suhaib Webb's tafsir on Surah Qaaf and also in Imaam Anwar al Awlakis - Hereafter series (Imaam Anwar al Awlaki - Lot's of Downloadable Lectures - Free insha'Allaah.) that our resurrection on that day will be similar too.




Our bodies will be like dust, and our backbones. Then Allaah will send a liquid of rain to fall down, and we will grow into our bodies once again [like the plants do] by the will of Allaah.



Allaah Almighty knows best.




PS: Sister syilla, you can also use these kind of explanations to make the muslims understand. Because one of the biggest problems with us today is that most of us don't know much about islaam. So it will be beneficial to them too insha'Allaah.