{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq072.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq072.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq072.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful.\n1. Say: It has been\n Revealed to me that\n A company of Jinns\n Listened (to the Qur-\u0101n).\n They said, 'We have\n Really heard a wonderful Recital!\n2. 'It gives guidance\n To the Right,\n And we have believed therein:\n We shall not join (in worship)\n Any (gods) with our Lord.\n3. 'And exalted is the Majesty\n Of our Lord: He has\n Taken neither a wife\n Nor a son.\n4. 'There were some foolish ones\n Among us, who used\n To utter extravagant lies\n Against God;\n5. 'But we do think\n That no man or spirit\nShould say aught that is\n Untrue against God.\n6. 'True, there were persons\n Among mankind who took shelter\n With persons among the Jinns,\n But they increased them\n In folly.\n7. 'And they (came to) think\n As ye thought, that God\n Would not raise up\n Any one (to Judgment).\n8. 'And we pried into\n The secrets of heaven;\n But we found it filled\n With stern guards\n And flaming fires.\n9. 'We used, indeed, to sit there\n In (hidden) stations, to (steal)\n A hearing; but any\n Who listens now\n Will find a flaming fire\n Watching him in ambush.\n10. 'And we understand not\n Whether ill is intended\n To those on earth,\n Or whether their Lord\n (Really) intends to guide\n Them to right conduct.\n11. 'There are among us\n Some that are righteous,\n And some the contrary:\n We follow divergent paths.\n12. 'But we think that we\n Can by no means frustrate\n God throughout the earth,\n Nor can we frustrate Him\n By flight.\n13. 'And as for us,\n Since we have listened\n To the Guidance, we have\n Accepted it: and any\n Who believes in his Lord\n Has no fear, either\n Of a short (account)\n Or of any injustice.\n14. 'Amongst us are some\n That submit their wills\n (To God), and some\n That swerve from justice.\n Now those who submit\n Their wills\u2014they have\nSought out (the path)\n Of right conduct:\n15. 'But those who swerve,\u2014\n They are (but) fuel\n For Hell-fire'\u2014\n16. (And God's Message is):\n \"If they (the Pagans)\n Had (only) remained\n On the (right) Way,\n We should certainly have\n Bestowed on them Rain\n In abundance.\n17. \"That We might try them\n By that (means).\n But if any turns away\n From the remembrance\n Of his Lord, He will\n Cause him to undergo\n A severe Penalty.\n18. \"And the places of worship\n Are for God (alone):\n So invoke not any one\n Along with God;\n19. \"Yet when the Devotee\n Of God stands forth\n To invoke Him, they just\n Make round him a dense crowd.\"\n20. Say: \"I do\n No more than invoke\n My Lord, and I join not\n With Him any (false god).\"\n21. Say: \"It is not\n In my power to cause\n You harm, or to bring\n You to right conduct.\"\n22. Say: \"No one can\n Deliver me from God\n (If I were to disobey Him),\n Nor should I find refuge\n Except in Him,\n23. \"Unless I proclaim what\n I receive from God\n And His Messages:\n For any that disobey God\n And His Apostle,\u2014for them\n Is Hell: they shall dwell\n Therein for ever.\"\n24. At length, when they\n See (with their own eyes)\n That which they are promised,\u2014\n Then will they know\n Who it is that is\n Weakest in (his) helper\n And least important\n In point of numbers.\n25. Say: \"I know not whether\n The (Punishment) which ye\n Are promised is near,\n Or whether my Lord\n Will appoint for it\n A distant term.\n26. \"He (alone) knows the Unseen,\n Nor does He make any one\n Acquainted with his Mysteries,\u2014\n27. \"Except an apostle\n Whom He has chosen:\nAnd then He makes\n A band of watchers\n March before him\n And behind him,\n28. \"That he may know\n That they have (truly)\n Brought and delivered\n The Messages of their Lord:\n And He surrounds\n (All the mysteries) that are\n With them, and takes account\n Of every single thing.\"","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXXII. Jinn, or the Spirits.","type":"page"}