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And when your Lord took their descendants from the children of Adam, from their loins, and caused them to testify against themselves. \u00a0\u201cAm I not your Lord?\u201d \u00a0\u201cYes, we have testified.\u201d \u00a0Lest you should say, on the Day of Resurrection, \u201cWe were unaware of that.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Or should say \u201cOur fathers were idolators before us, and we are their descendants following after them. \u00a0Will you destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n (Qur\u2019an 7:172-173)<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The commentators have discussed and argued over these verses for many centuries, since the beginning. \u00a0Some have suggested that they refer to a sort of covenant in a sort of human pre-mortal existence.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Pre-mortal existence isn\u2019t a doctrine of the Qur\u2019an otherwise, though one might argue that its constant description of death as a \u201creturn\u201d to God implies something of that sort.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n And pre-mortality isn\u2019t a doctrine of mainstream Islam, although some thinkers (such as the great philosopher Ibn Sina [Avicenna] and the equally great Persian mystic poet Jalal al-Din Rumi) seem to have believed that humans lived before they came to earth.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Posted from San Antonio, Texas<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 My hasty translation: \u00a0 And when your Lord took their descendants from the children of Adam, from their loins, and caused them to testify against themselves. \u00a0\u201cAm I not your Lord?\u201d \u00a0\u201cYes, we have testified.\u201d \u00a0Lest you should say, on the Day of Resurrection, \u201cWe were unaware of that.\u201d Or should say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n