Nor can you say, "It was our fathers who set up partners before and we were simply a progeny who came after them. Would You destroy us for what the innovators did?"
Translation endnotes
[7:172-173] The past tense denotes the creation of human prototype. We translated the verse by taking its whole meaning. The dialog here is not necessarily verbal; it is by the nature. We, the humans, are all born with innate ability to infer God's existence and power. In other words, by the very possession of DNA we are born with a divine contract not to corrupt our person, discover our creator and devote ourselves to Him alone. Compare this to verse 41:11.