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Qur’an 72:4 Al-Jinn, verse 4

وَأَنَّهُۥ كَانَ يَقُولُ سَفِيهُنَا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ شَطَطًۭا

And that our foolish one has been saying about Allah an excessive transgression.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Jinn (72)
Verse
4 of 28
Revealed
Makki
Juz
29
Mushaf page
572

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَأَنَّهُۥwa-annahuAnd that he
كَانَkānaused toك و ن
يَقُولُyaqūluspeak ق و ل
سَفِيهُنَاsafīhunāthe foolish among usس ف ه
عَلَىʿalāagainst
ٱللَّهِl-lahiAllahأ ل ه
شَطَطًۭاshaṭaṭanan excessive transgressionش ط ط

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 72:4 in Al-Jinn.

  • 72:2يَهْدِىٓ إِلَى ٱلرُّشْدِ فَـَٔامَنَّا بِهِۦ ۖ وَلَن نُّشْرِكَ بِرَبِّنَآ أَحَدًۭاIt guides to the right course, and we have believed in it. And we will never associate with our Lord anyone.
  • 72:3وَأَنَّهُۥ تَعَٰلَىٰ جَدُّ رَبِّنَا مَا ٱتَّخَذَ صَٰحِبَةًۭ وَلَا وَلَدًۭاAnd [it teaches] that exalted is the nobleness of our Lord; He has not taken a wife or a son
  • 72:5وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًۭاAnd we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allah a lie.
  • 72:6وَأَنَّهُۥ كَانَ رِجَالٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْإِنسِ يَعُوذُونَ بِرِجَالٍۢ مِّنَ ٱلْجِنِّ فَزَادُوهُمْ رَهَقًۭاAnd there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn, so they [only] increased them in burden.

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