and whenever thy sustainer brings forth their offspring from the loins of the children of adam he calls upon them to bear witness about themselves am i not your sustainer? to which they answer yea indeed we do bear witness thereto! lest you say on the day of resurrection verily we were unaware of this or lest you say verily it was but our forefathers who in times gone by began to ascribe divinity to other beings beside god and we were but their late offspring wilt thou then destroy us for the doings of those inventors of falsehoods?
وإذ أخذ ربك من بني آدم من ظهورهم ذريتهم وأشهدهم على أنفسهم ألست بربكم قالوا بلى شهدنا أن تقولوا يوم القيامة إنا كنا عن هذا غافلين أو تقولوا إنما أشرك آباؤنا من قبل وكنا ذرية من بعدهم أفتهلكنا بما فعل المبطلون