# Surah 72

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> Surah 72
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> Al Jinn (The Spirits)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  Say: It has been revealed to me that a company of Jinns listened (to the Qur'an).  They say, 'We have really heard a wonderful Recital!
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> 2.  It gives guidance to the Right, and we have believed therein: We shall not join (in worship) any (gods) with our Lord.
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> 3.  'And exalted is the Majesty of our Lord: He has taken neither a wife nor a son.
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> 4.  'There were some foolish ones among us, who used to utter extravagant lies against Allah;
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> 5.  'But we do think that no man or spirit should say aught that is untrue against Allah.
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> 6.  'True, there were persons among mankind who took shelter with persons among the Jinns, but they increased them in folly.
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> 7.  'And they (came to) think as ye thought, that Allah would not raise up anyone (to Judgment).
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> 8.  'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.
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> 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.
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> 11.  'There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary: we follow divergent paths.
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> 12.  'But we think that we can by no means frustrate Allah throughout the earth, nor can we frustrate Him by flight.
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> 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.
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> 14.  'Amongst us are some that submit their wills (to Allah), and some that swerve from justice.  Now those who submit their wills--they have sought out (the path) of right conduct:
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> 15.  'But those who swerve, they are (but) fuel for Hell Fire--'
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> 16.  (And Allah's Message is): "If they (the pagans) had (only) remained on the (right) Way, We should certainly have bestowed on them Rain in abundance.
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> 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.
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> 18.  "And the places of worship are for Allah (alone): so invoke not anyone along with Allah;
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> 19.  "Yet when the Devotee of Allah stands forth to invoke Him, they just make round him a dense crowd."
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> 20.  Say: "I do no more than invoke my Lord, and I join not with Him any (false god)."
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> 21.  Say: "It is not in my power to cause you harm, or to bring you to right conduct."
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> 22.  Say: "No one can deliver me from Allah (if I were to disobey Him), nor should I find refuge except in Him.
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> 23.  "Unless I proclaim what I receive from Allah and His Messages: for any that disobey and His Messenger--for them is Hell: they shall dwell therein forever."
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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.
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> 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.
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> 26.  "He (alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make any one acquainted with His Mysteries--
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> 27.  "Except an messenger whom He has chosen: and then He makes a band of watchers march before him and behind him,
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> 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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> — *Surah 72*