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Surah Al-Jinn, verse 5: meaning and tafsir

  • Verse 5 of 28
  • Juz 29
  • Meccan
  • 72:5

وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ أَن لَّن تَقُولَ ٱلْإِنسُ وَٱلْجِنُّ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا ۝٥

although we thought that humans and jinn would never tell lies about Allah.

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72:5

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5. And that we thought that the idolaters from among mankind and the jinn were not speaking lies when they claimed that He had a wife and child, so we accepted their statement blindly following them.

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