سورة الجنّ

Surah Al-Jinn 72:5

The Jinn · Verse 5 of 28

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّا أَنْ لَنْ تَقُولَ الْإِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا

Abdul Mannan Omar

"And (we acknowledge) that (we believed in them because) we never thought that men and jinn could ever possibly utter a lie about Allâh.

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

We had in fact thought that men and jinns would never speak a lie about God,

11 more translations

‘And that (we were mistaken when) we thought that humankind and jinn would never speak a falsehood against God.

And verily we! we had imagined that humankind and Jinn would never forge against Allah a lie.

‘Whereas we thought that men and jinns would never fabricate a lie against Allah!’

`And we thought that men and jinn would never utter a lie concerning ALLAH,

and that [we were mistaken when] we thought that neither man nor [any of] the invisible forces would ever tell a lie about God.

'And verily, we thought that men and jinns would not utter a lie against Allah.

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

We thought that no man or jinn could ever tell lies about God.

And that we thought that men and jinn did not utter a lie against Allah:

`We thought that neither the humans, nor the jinns, could possibly utter lies about GOD.

We used to think that people, whether civilized or uncivilized, would never utter a lie about God.