The Jinn (al-Jinn)

A band of jinn listened in and said:

We have heard a wondrous Quran.

• ² It guides to rectitude, so we have believed in it

We will never associate anyone with our Lord.

• ³ Our Lord never had a mate, nor a child.

⁴ But the fools among us used to say nonsense about Allah.

• ⁵ We thought that humans and jinn would never utter lies about Allah.

⁶ Some humans used to seek power through some individual jinn, but they only increased them in confusion.

⁷ They thought, as you thought, that Allah would never resurrect anyone.

⁸ We probed the heaven, and found it filled with stern guards and projectiles.

• ⁹ We used to take up positions to listen in on the angels.
• But whoever listens now finds a projectile waiting for him.

¹⁰ We do not know whether the Lord of those on earth intends good or bad for them.

¹¹ Some of us are righteous. But some of us are not. We follow divergent paths.

¹² We realized that:

• we cannot defeat Allah on earth
• we cannot escape Him by fleeing.

¹³ When we heard the Quran, we believed in it.

• ¹⁴ Some of us are submitting
  • These pursue rectitude.
• Some of us are compromisers
  • ¹⁵ The compromisers will have firewood for Hell.
  • ¹⁶ Had they kept true to the Path, We would have given them plenty water to drink ¹⁷ to test them with it.

¹⁸ The places of worship are for Allah. So besides Allah, do not call on anyone else. ¹⁹ When the Prophet Mohammad got up calling on Him, the jinn crowded on him in a mass.

Mohammad, say:

• ²⁰ “I pray only to my Lord, and I never associate anyone with Him.”
• ²¹ “It is not in my power to harm you, nor to bring you to right conduct.”
• ²² “No one can protect me from Allah, and I will not find any refuge except with Him."

²³ I only have a notification and messages from Allah.

²⁴ When they see what they were promised, the jinn will know who is weaker in helpers, and fewer in numbers.

²⁵ Say, “I do not know whether what you were promised is near, or whether my Lord will extend it for a period.”

²⁶ Allah is the Knower of the invisible.

• He does not disclose His knowledge of the invisible to anyone, ²⁷ except to his messengers.
• He then dispatches guardian angels in front of and behind those messengers so that ²⁸ the messengers may know that they have conveyed the messages of their Lord.