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Qur’an 72:5 Al-Jinn, verse 5

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًۭا

And we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allah a lie.

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

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

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
وَأَنَّاwa-annāAnd that we
ظَنَنَّآẓanannāthoughtظ ن ن
أَنanthat
لَّنlannever
تَقُولَtaqūlawill sayق و ل
ٱلْإِنسُl-insuthe menأ ن س
وَٱلْجِنُّwal-jinuand the jinnج ن ن
عَلَىʿalāagainst
ٱللَّهِl-lahiAllahأ ل ه
كَذِبًۭاkadhibanany lieك ذ ب

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 72:5 in Al-Jinn.

  • 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
  • 72:4وَأَنَّهُۥ كَانَ يَقُولُ سَفِيهُنَا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ شَطَطًۭاAnd that our foolish one has been saying about Allah an excessive transgression.
  • 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.
  • 72:7وَأَنَّهُمْ ظَنُّوا۟ كَمَا ظَنَنتُمْ أَن لَّن يَبْعَثَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدًۭاAnd they had thought, as you thought, that Allah would never send anyone [as a messenger].

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