Surah Al-Jinn English Translation & Transliteration

¹Say: —It has been revealed to me that a group of jinn listened to the Quran, went back to their own people, and said:

²—Because this Quran shows the straight path, we have believed in it. From now on we will not associate anyone with our Lord as a partner.

³—It is a fact that the majesty of our Lord is most exalted. He has taken neither a spouse nor a child.

⁴—It turns out that our foolish one used to say baseless things about Allah.

⁵—Yet we used to think that humans and jinn would never say baseless things about Allah.

⁶—True, some humans seek refuge with certain jinn, and this only increases their transgression.

⁷—Those humans too, like you, used to think that Allah would never raise anyone again and would never send anyone as a messenger.

⁸—We tried to reach the heavens to steal information, but we found them furnished with strong guards and fireballs.

⁹—Yet in the past we used to sit in certain places in the sky to obtain secret knowledge. But now whoever tries to steal news from there at once meets a burning fireball.

¹⁰—Indeed, we do not know whether harm is intended for those on earth, or whether their Lord intends to bring them to awareness of the right path.

¹¹—Indeed, among us some are good and some are not. We follow different paths.

¹²—Now we have understood with certainty that we can never resist Allah's power on earth and can never escape from Him.

¹³—Yes, we listened to the Quran, the source of guidance, and believed. Whoever believes in his Lord and becomes a believer will never fear that his reward will be diminished or that he will be wronged.

¹⁴—Among us there are some who have become Muslims, and some who have strayed from the right path. Those who have submitted are the ones who have sought out and found the right path.

¹⁵As for those who stray, they will be firewood for Hell.

¹⁶If they had walked on the right path, We would have poured abundant rain upon them and immersed them in abundant blessings,

¹⁷and We would have tested them with these blessings. Whoever turns away from the reminder/the Quran of his Lord, let him know that his Lord will strike him with a punishment hard to bear.

¹⁸Know well that the mosques belong to Allah alone. So do not implore in prayer those you place between yourselves and Allah.

¹⁹Despite this, when he rose to call people to serve the one Allah, they would crowd around him, almost crushing one another, to render him ineffective.

²⁰Say: —I implore only my Lord in prayer, and I do not associate anyone with Him as a partner.

²¹Say: —I have no power either to lead you astray from the right path or to guide you to it.

²²Say: —In that case, no one could protect me against Allah, nor could I find any refuge other than Him.

²³—My duty is only to convey to you the revelation that comes from Allah, and so to fulfill the duty of messengership He has placed upon me. Whoever rebels against Allah and His messenger who conveys Allah's messages, let him know that what such people deserve is to end up in the fire of Hell, to abide there forever.

²⁴In the end, when they see the punishment they were promised, they will understand who was more in need of help and who was fewer in number.

²⁵Say: —I do not know whether the punishment you are promised is near, or whether my Lord has postponed it for a while.

²⁶—For Allah alone knows the past and the future, and He does not disclose that knowledge of the unseen to anyone,

²⁷except that, to the messengers He is pleased with and has chosen, He makes known some knowledge concerning the unseen by revealing it, and He places watchers before and behind (the angel) who brings it,

²⁸so that it may become evident that the messengers have conveyed the revelation to you in full, and that their Lord oversees them from every side and records and preserves everything one by one.