سورة الجن، الآية ١٢
وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن نُّعْجِزَ ٱللَّهَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُۥ هَرَبًا ١٢
wa-annā ẓanannā an lan nuʿ'jiza l-laha fī l-arḍi walan nuʿ'jizahu haraban
And we have become certain that we will never cause failure to Allāh upon earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.
Verse 12 of Surah Al-Jinn (72:12), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 572 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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And that we are certain that we cannot escape Allah, may He be glorified, when He intends some matter for us. We will never be able to escape Him by fleeing because He surrounds us.
We have realized that we can never escape Allah on earth, nor can we ever escape Him by fleeing.
‘And we think that we cannot escape (the punishment of) Allâh in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.
And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.
'But we think that we can by no means frustrate Allah throughout the earth, nor can we frustrate Him by flight.
And that we know that we cannot escape Allah in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight:
And that we surmised that we can never defy Allah in the earth, and we can never defy Him by escaping.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا
And we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allāh a lie.
