سُوْرَةُ الْجِنِّ

Surah Al-Jinn (72) — Ayah 5

The Jinn · Meccan · Juz 29 · Page 572

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وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا ﴿5﴾

Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

‘And verily, we thought that men and jinn would not utter a lie against Allâh.

Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning

وَأَنَّا wa-annā And that we
ظَنَنَّآ ẓanannā thought
أَن an that
لَّن lan never
تَقُولَ taqūla will say
ٱلْإِنسُ l-insu the men
وَٱلْجِنُّ wal-jinu and the jinn
عَلَى ʿalā against
ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah
كَذِبًۭا kadhiban any lie

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(Ayah 5) {وَ اَنَّا ظَنَنَّاۤ اَنْ لَّنْ تَقُوْلَ الْاِنْسُ وَ الْجِنُّ … :} That is, we used to think that humans and jinn, at the very least, could never lie against Allah, so we believed them when we heard from them that Allah has some partners, and that He has children and a wife. Now it has become clear that these wrongdoers were liars.

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5. 1. That is why we continued to affirm it and held this belief about Allah. Until we heard the Qur'an, then the falsehood of this belief became clear to us.

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And that we had thought that neither humans nor jinn would ever tell a lie about Allah.

[4] That is, the vast majority of jinn and humans say that Allah has a wife and children, or that angels are His daughters, or that Allah has delegated various powers to His beloved ones—so how can this be false? How can such a large majority agree on a falsehood? Therefore, we too accepted these things as correct.
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