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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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
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.
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.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Jinn
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
وَأَنَّا
wa-annā And that we
لَمَسْنَا
lamasnā sought to touch ل م س
ٱلسَّمَآءَ
l-samāa the heaven س م و
فَوَجَدْنَٰهَا
fawajadnāhā but we found it و ج د
مُلِئَتْ
muli-at filled (with) م ل أ
حَرَسًا
ḥarasan guards ح ر س
شَدِيدًا
shadīdan severe ش د د
وَشُهُبًا
washuhuban and flaming fires ش ه ب
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Surah Al-Jinn
سورة الجن
28 verses · Meccan