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Surah Al-Jinn, Verse 8

سورة الجن، الآية ٨

72:8 Juz 29 Hizb 58 Page 572 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 72:8

وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًا شَدِيدًا وَشُهُبًا ۝٨

Transliteration

wa-annā lamasnā l-samāa fawajadnāhā muli-at ḥarasan shadīdan washuhuban

Translation

And we have sought [to reach] the heaven but found it filled with powerful guards and burning flames.

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Verse 8 of Surah Al-Jinn (72:8), 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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Tafsir of verse 8

Al-Mukhtasar

And that we sought the news of the heaven and we found the sky full of stern guards, who were the angels, who guarded it from the eavesdropping that we used to do, and full of flaming fires thrown at everyone who comes close to the sky.

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Other translations of verse 8

We have sought to reach heaven but found it filled with stern guards and flaming fire.

‘And we have sought to reach the heaven; but found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.

And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur'an said): We had sought the heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors.

'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.

And that we sought to reach heaven, but we found it filled with strong guards and flaming stars.

And that we contacted the heaven, yet we found it filled with very strict guards and flaming (meteors).

Verse 8 word by word

  1. وَأَنَّا wa-annā And that we
  2. لَمَسْنَا lamasnā sought to touch ل م س
  3. ٱلسَّمَآءَ l-samāa the heaven س م و
  4. فَوَجَدْنَٰهَا fawajadnāhā but we found it و ج د
  5. مُلِئَتْ muli-at filled (with) م ل أ
  6. حَرَسًا ḥarasan guards ح ر س
  7. شَدِيدًا shadīdan severe ش د د
  8. وَشُهُبًا washuhuban and flaming fires ش ه ب

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