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Quran 72:5

Surah Al-Jinn, Verse 5

Juz 29 · Page 572 · Ruku 506 · Meccan

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا

Word by word

وَأَنَّا wa-annā And that we ظَنَنَّآ ẓanannā thought أَن an that لَّن lan never تَقُولَ taqūla will say ٱلْإِنسُ l-insu the men وَٱلْجِنُّ wal-jinu and the jinn عَلَى ʿalā against ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah كَذِبًۭا kadhiban any lie

Transliteration

Waanna thanannaan lan taqoola al-insu waljinnu AAala Allahikathiba

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And lo! we had supposed that humankind and jinn would not speak a lie concerning Allah -

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

'But we do think that no man or spirit should say aught that untrue against Allah.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( وأنا ظننا أن لن تقول الإنس والجن على الله كذبا ) أي : ما حسبنا أن الإنس والجن يتمالئون على الكذب على الله في نسبة الصاحبة والولد إليه ، فلما سمعنا هذا القرآن وآمنا به ، علمنا أنهم كانوا يكذبون على الله في ذلك .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.