سورة الجن، الآية ٥
وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا ٥
wa-annā ẓanannā an lan taqūla l-insu wal-jinu ʿalā l-lahi kadhiban
And we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allāh a lie.
Verse 5 of Surah Al-Jinn (72:5), 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 thought that the idolaters from among mankind and the jinn were not speaking lies when they claimed that He had a wife and child, so we accepted their statement blindly following them.
although we thought that humans and jinn would never tell lies about Allah.
‘And verily, we thought that men and jinn would not utter a lie against Allâh.
And lo! we had supposed that humankind and jinn would not speak a lie concerning Allah -
'But we do think that no man or spirit should say aught that untrue against Allah.
And that we thought that men and jinn did not utter a lie against Allah:
And that we surmised that humankind and the jinn would never speak against Allah a lie.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن نُّعْجِزَ ٱللَّهَ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُۥ هَرَبًا
And we have become certain that we will never cause failure to Allāh upon earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.
