Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity, / Say: O unbelievers! / I do not serve that which you serve, / Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve: / Nor am I going to serve that which you serve, / Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve: / You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion.

Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of this low life and saying: It will be forgiven us. And if the like good came to them, they would take it (too). Was not a promise taken from them in the Book that they would not speak anything about Allah but the truth, and they have read what is in it; and the abode of the hereafter is better for those who guard (against evil). Do you not then understand? / And (as for) those who hold fast by the Book and keep up prayer, surely We do not waste the reward of the right doers.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.