when thy lord drew forth from the children of adam from their loins their descendants and made them testify concerning themselves am i not your lord ? they said yea! we do testify! lest ye should say on the day of judgment of this we were never mindful or lest ye should say our fathers before us may have taken false gods but we are descendants after them wilt thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile?
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