The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف
al-A‘rāf (The Elevations)
ٱلْأَعْرَاف
7:172
وَإِذْ
أَخَذَ
رَبُّكَ
مِن
بَنِي
آدَمَ
مِن
ظُهُورِهِمْ
ذُرِّيَّتَهُمْ
وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ
عَلَى
أَنفُسِهِمْ
أَلَسْتُ
بِرَبِّكُمْ
قَالُوا
بَلَى
شَهِدْنَا
أَن
تَقُولُوا
يَوْمَ
الْقِيَامَةِ
إِنَّا
كُنَّا
عَنْ
هَذَا
غَافِلِينَ
wa-ʾidh ʾakhadha rabbuka min banī ʾādama min ẓuhūrihim dhurriyyatahum wa-ʾashhadahum ʿalā ʾanfusihim ʾa-lastu bi-rabbikum qālū balā shahidnā ʾan taqūlū yawma l-qiyāmati ʾinnā kunnā ʿan hādhā ghāfilīna
When your Lord asked all the offspring of Adam (before their birth), "Am I not your Lord?" All of them testified and bore witness to their testimony that on the Day of Judgment they would not say, "We were not aware of this (fact),"
