اَوْ تَقُوْلُوْٓا اِنَّمَا͏ٓ اَشْرَكَ اٰبَا࢜و͏ٔ͏ُنَا مِنْ قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةً مِّنْۢ بَعْدِهِمْۚ اَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ الْمُبْطِلُوْنَ ١٧٣
Translation
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?’