Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Jinn, Ayah 5

Al-Jinn · Ayah 5 · View Ayah
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.

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Al-Jalalayn Commentary

And we thought that an softened that is to say annahu humans and jinn would never utter a lie against God by attributing such things to Him until we discovered their mendacity thereby. God exalted be He says

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And lo! we had supposed that humankind and jinn would not speak a lie concerning Allah) and we thought that what humans and the jinn said about Allah was not a lie, but we know now that it is. From the beginning of the surah up to here, Allah related what the jinn said.

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