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254 THE MIRACLE OF PROTEIN

When your Lord took out all their descendants from the loins
of the children of Adam and made them testify against them-
selves ‘Am I not your Lord?’ they said, ‘We testify that indeed
You are!’ Lest you say on the Day of Rising, ‘We knew nothing
of this.’ (Surat al-A’raf, 172)
As it is seen, God informs us in the verse that mankind was
brought into being before the universe, that they were created flaw-
lessly and were fully developed, and that they testified and promised
that God is their Lord. According to the information imparted by the
verse, fully developed, talking, hearing, promising, testifying human
beings existed with all their organs and all their physical characteris-
tics even before the universe was created.
The original Arabic verse is as below:

“Ve iz ehaze rabbuka min benî âdama min zuhûrihim zurriyy-
atahum wa asyhadahum alâ anfusihim, a lastu birabbikum,
qâlû balâ, syahidna, an taqûlû yaumal qiyâmati innâ kunnâ
an hâzâ gâfilîn (gâfilîna).”
ve iz ehaze: And when (He) took out
(iz: you know, remember, then, at that time, … when… because,
as, hence)
rabbuka: your Lord
min benî âdama: from the children of Adam
min zuhûri-him: from their loins
zurriyyatahum: their descendant, their lines, their lineage
wa asyhadahum: and made them testify
alâ anfusi-him: against themselves
a lastu: am I not?
bi rabbikum: your Lord
qâlû: they said
bala: yes
syahidna: we testify
an taqûlû: lest, so that you say not
yaumal qiyâmati: the Day of Rising
innâ: certainly we, genuinely we
kunnâ: we are, … we were
'an hâza: of this