and when thy lord brought forth from the children of adam from their reins their seed and made them testify of themselves am i not your lord? they said yea verily. we testify. lest ye should say at the day of resurrection lo! of this we were unaware or lest ye should say only our fathers ascribed partners to allah of old and we were seed after them. wilt thou destroy us on account of that which those who follow falsehood did?
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