ٱلْأَعْرَاف : ١٧٢

  • وَإِذۡ And when
  • أَخَذَ (was) taken
  • رَبُّكَ (by) your Lord
  • مِنۢ from
  • بَنِيٓ (the) Children
  • ءَادَمَ (of) Adam
  • مِن from
  • ظُهُورِهِمۡ their loins
  • ذُرِّيَّتَهُمۡ their descendants
  • وَأَشۡهَدَهُمۡ and made them testify
  • عَلَىٰٓ over
  • أَنفُسِهِمۡ themselves
  • أَلَسۡتُ Am I not
  • بِرَبِّكُمۡۖ your Lord
  • قَالُواْ They said
  • بَلَىٰ Yes
  • شَهِدۡنَآۚ we have testified
  • أَن Lest
  • تَقُولُواْ you say
  • يَوۡمَ (on the) Day
  • ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ (of) the Resurrection
  • إِنَّا Indeed
  • كُنَّا we were
  • عَنۡ about
  • هَٰذَا this
  • غَٰفِلِينَ unaware
And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] - lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware."
And, remember, when your Lord took from the Children of Adam, from their loins (min zuhoorihim, is an inclusive substitution for the preceding [clause: min banee aadama, 'from the Children of Adam'], with the same preposition [min, 'from']) their seed, by bringing forth one from the loins of the other, [all] from the loins of Adam, offspring after offspring, in the way that they multiply, [looking] like small ants at [the valley of] Na'maan on the Day of 'Arafa [because of their multitude]. God set up proofs of His Lordship for them and endowed them with [the faculty of] reason, and made them testify against themselves, saying, 'Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yea, indeed, You are our Lord, we testify', to this, and this [taking of] testimony is, lest they should say (in both instances, read third person [yaqooloo, 'they say'] or second person [taqooloo, 'you say']) on the Day of Resurrection, 'Truly, of this, Oneness of God, we were unaware', not knowing it!