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72: The Jinn, Sprites
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Say: It has been revealed to me that a company of Jinns listened (to
the Qur'án). They said, 'We have really heard a wonderful Recital!
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'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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'And Exalted is the Majesty of our Lord: He has taken neither a wife
nor a son.
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'There were some foolish ones among us, who used to utter extravagant
lies against God;
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'But we do think that no man or spirit should say aught that untrue
against God.
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'True, there were persons among mankind who took shelter with persons
among the Jinns, but they increased them in folly.
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'And they (came to) think as ye thought, that God would not raise up
any one (to Judgment).
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'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with
stern guards and flaming fires.
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'We used, indeed, to sit there in (hidden) stations, to (steal) a
hearing; but any who listen now will find a flaming fire watching him
in ambush.
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'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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'There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary: we
follow divergent paths.
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'But we think that we can by no means frustrate God throughout the
earth, nor can we frustrate Him by flight.
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'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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'Amongst us are some that submit their wills (to God), 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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'But those who swerve,- they are (but) fuel for Hell-fire'-
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(And God'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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"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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"And the places of worship are for God (alone): So invoke not any one
along with God;
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"Yet when the Devotee of God stands forth to invoke Him, they just
make round him a dense crowd."
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Say: "I do no more than invoke my Lord, and I join not with Him any
(false god)."
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Say: "It is not in my power to cause you harm, or to bring you to
right conduct."
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Say: "No one can deliver me from God (If I were to disobey Him), nor
should I find refuge except in Him,
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"Unless I proclaim what I receive from God and His Messages: for any
that disobey God and His Apostle,- for them is Hell: they shall dwell
therein for ever."
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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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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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"He (alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make any one acquainted with
His Mysteries,-
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"Except an apostle whom He has chosen: and then He makes a band of
watchers march before him and behind him,
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"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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