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By Vexen Crabtree 2013
Title: Al-Jinn
English: The Jinn
Location: Makkah
Traditional Order:
< Sura 71 (Nooh - Nooh)
> Sura 73 (Al-Muzzammil - The Enshrouded One)
Chronological Order:
< Sura 7 (Al-Araf - The Heights)
> Sura 36 (Ya Seen - Ya Seen)
Verses: 28
| 1 | Say: 'It has been revealed to me that a company of the jinn gave ear, then they said, "We have indeed heard a Koran wonderful, | For more on Sura 72:8-9 see Christianity v. Astronomy: The Earth Orbits the Sun!: 7. Islam and the Qur'an. Sura 72:8-9 appears on Islam and Science: Errors in the Qur'an and Arab Education: 1. Astronomy Mistakes. |
| 2 | guiding to rectitude. We believe in it, and we will not associate with our Lord anyone. | |
| 3 | He -- exalted be our Lord's majesty! has not taken to Himself either consort or a son. | |
| 4 | The fool among us spoke against God outrage, | |
| 5 | and we had thought that men and jinn would never speak against God a lie. | |
| 6 | But there were certain men of mankind who would take refuge with certain men of the jinn, and they increased them in vileness, | |
| 7 | and they thought, even as you also thought, that God would never raise up anyone. | |
| 8 | And we stretched towards heaven, but we found it filled with terrible guards and meteors. | |
| 9 | We would sit there on seats to hear; but any listening now finds a meteor in wait for him. | |
| 10 | And so we know not whether evil is intended for those in the earth, or whether their Lord intends for them rectitude. | |
| 11 | And some of us are the righteous, and some of us are otherwise; we are sects differing. | |
| 12 | Indeed, we thought that we should never be able to frustrate God in the earth, neither be able to frustrate Him by flight. | |
| 13 | When we heard the guidance, we believed in it; and whosoever believes in his Lord, he shall fear neither paltriness nor vileness. | |
| 14 | And some of us have surrendered, and some of us have deviated. Those who have surrendered sought rectitude; | |
| 15 | but as for those who have deviated, they have become firewood for Gehenna!"' | |
| 16 | Would they but go straight on the way, We would give them to drink of water copious, | |
| 17 | that We might try them therein. And whosoever turns away from the Remembrance of his Lord, He will thrust him into chastisement rigorous. | |
| 18 | The places of worship belong to God; so call not, along with God, upon anyone. | |
| 19 | When the servant of God stood calling on Him, they were wellnigh upon him in swarms. | |
| 20 | Say: 'I call only upon my Lord, and I do not associate with Him anyone. | |
| 21 | Say: 'Surely I possess no power over you, either for hurt or for rectitude.' | |
| 22 | Say: 'From God shall protect me not anyone, and I shall find, apart from Him, no refuge, | |
| 23 | excepting a Deliverance from God and His Messages. And whoso rebels against God and His messenger, for him there awaits the Fire of Gehenna; therein they shall dwell forever.' | |
| 24 | Until, when they see that which they are promised, then they will know who is weaker in helpers and fewer in numbers. | |
| 25 | Say: 'I do not know whether that which you are promised is nigh, or whether my Lord will appoint for it a space; | |
| 26 | Knower He of the Unseen, and He discloses not His Unseen to anyone, | |
| 27 | save only to such a Messenger as He is well-pleased with; then He despatches before him and behind him watchers, | |
| 28 | that He may know they have delivered the Messages of their Lord; and He encompasses all that is with them, and He has numbered everything in numbers.' |