{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_072_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_072_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_sbe09_072_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sbe09/072.htm","summary":"This is Surah Al-Jinn (Chapter 72) of the Qur'an, presented in E.H. Palmer's 1880 English translation as part of the Sacred Books of the East scholarly series. The surah recounts a revelation to Muhammad in which a company of jinn (supernatural beings) overhear the Qur'an being recited and are converted by it, delivering a speech affirming God's absolute unity, His transcendence above taking a consort or son, and their own division into the righteous and the wicked. The jinn also describe being barred from their former practice of eavesdropping on heavenly councils, now repelled by shooting stars \u2014 a detail the text uses to signal that divine revelation has superseded all other channels of hidden knowledge. The surah then shifts to Muhammad's own voice, emphasizing his role as a messenger with no independent power to help or harm, only to convey God's commands faithfully. A distinctive theological claim running throughout is radical divine inscrutability: God alone knows the unseen, shares it only with chosen prophets, and maintains complete numerical reckoning of all things. The footnotes situate the passage historically, noting it was revealed after Muhammad's unsuccessful mission to Ta'if, making the jinn's ready acceptance a pointed contrast to human rejection.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Qur'\u00e2n, ed. Palmer (SBE9): LXXII. The Chapter o...","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":646}