The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف
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أَوْ
تَقُولُوا
إِنَّمَا
أَشْرَكَ
آبَاؤُنَا
مِن
قَبْلُ
وَكُنَّا
ذُرِّيَّةً
مِّن
بَعْدِهِمْ
أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا
بِمَا
فَعَلَ
الْمُبْطِلُونَ
ʾaw taqūlū ʾinnamā ʾashraka ʾābāʾunā min qablu wa-kunnā dhurriyyatan min baʿdihim ʾa-fa-tuhlikunā bi-mā faʿala l-mubṭilūna
or lest you should say, ‘Our fathers ascribed partners [to Allah] before [us] and we were descendants after them. Will You then destroy us because of what the falsifiers have done?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Or lest ye should say: "Our fathers before us may have taken false gods, but we are (their) descendants after them: wilt Thou then destroy us because of the deeds of men who were futile?"
