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Sura Lxxii. Jinn, Or The Spirits

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

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Sra Lxxii.

\"JINN," Or The Spirits.

In the name of God, Most Gracious,

Most Merciful.

1.
Say: It has been

Revealed to me that

A company of Jinns

Listened (to the Qur-n).

They said, 'We have

Really heard a wonderful Recital!

2.
'It gives guidance

To the Right,

And we have believed therein:


We shall not join (in worship)

Any (gods) with our Lord.

3.
'And exalted is the Majesty

Of our Lord: He has

Taken neither a wife

Nor a son.

4.
'There were some foolish ones

Among us, who used

To utter extravagant lies

Against God;

5.
'But we do think

That no man or spirit

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Should say aught that is

Untrue against God.

6.
'True, there were persons

Among mankind who took shelter

With persons among the Jinns,

But they increased them

In folly.

7.
'And they (came to) think

As ye thought, that God

Would not raise up

Any one (to Judgment).

8.
'And we pried into

The secrets of heaven;

But we found it filled

With stern guards

And flaming fires.

9.
'We used, indeed, to sit there

In (hidden) stations, to (steal)

A hearing; but any

Who listens now

Will find a flaming fire

Watching him in ambush.

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10.
'And we understand not

Whether ill is intended

To those on earth,

Or whether their Lord

(Really) intends to guide

Them to right conduct.

11.
'There are among us

Some that are righteous,

And some the contrary:


We follow divergent paths.

12.
'But we think that we

Can by no means frustrate

God throughout the earth,

Nor can we frustrate Him

By flight.

13.
'And as for us,

Since we have listened

To the Guidance, we have

Accepted it: and any

Who believes in his Lord

Has no fear, either

Of a short (account)

Or of any injustice.

14.
'Amongst us are some

That submit their wills

(To God), and some

That swerve from justice.

Now those who submit

Their wills--they have

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Sought out (the path)

Of right conduct:

15.
'But those who swerve,--

They are (but) fuel

For Hell-fire'--

16.
(And God's Message is):


"If they (the Pagans)

Had (only) remained

On the (right) Way,

We should certainly have

Bestowed on them Rain

In abundance.

17.
\"That We might try them

By that (means).

But if any turns away

From the remembrance

Of his Lord, He will

Cause him to undergo

A severe Penalty.

18.
\"And the places of worship

Are for God (alone):

So invoke not any one

Along with God;

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19.
\"Yet when the Devotee

Of God stands forth

To invoke Him, they just

Make round him a dense crowd."

Section 2.

20.
Say: "I do

No more than invoke

My Lord, and I join not

With Him any (false god)."

21.
Say: "It is not

In my power to cause

You harm, or to bring

You to right conduct."

22.
Say: "No one can

Deliver me from God

(If I were to disobey Him),

Nor should I find refuge

Except in Him,

23.
\"Unless I proclaim what

I receive from God

And His Messages:


For any that disobey God

And His Apostle,--for them

Is Hell: they shall dwell

Therein for ever."

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24.
At length, when they

See (with their own eyes)

That which they are promised,--

Then will they know

Who it is that is

Weakest in (his) helper

And least important

In point of numbers.

25.
Say: "I know not whether

The (Punishment) which ye

Are promised is near,

Or whether my Lord

Will appoint for it

A distant term.

26.
\"He (alone) knows the Unseen,

Nor does He make any one

Acquainted with his Mysteries,--

27.
\"Except an apostle

Whom He has chosen:

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And then He makes

A band of watchers

March before him

And behind him,

28.
\"That he may know

That they have (truly)

Brought and delivered

The Messages of their Lord:


And He surrounds

(All the mysteries) that are

With them, and takes account

Of every single thing."

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