Surah Al-Jinn Ayat 07 to 09 Daily Qur'an & Hadith (25 July 2026)
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Al-Quran القرأن
English Translation of Al-Quran
[72] Surah Al-Jinn [The Spirits]
Ayat 7. 'And they thought as you thought, that Allah will not send any Messenger (to mankind or jinns).
Ayat 8. 'And we have sought to reach heaven; but found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.
Ayat 9. 'And verily, we used to sit there in stations, to (steal) a hearing, but any who listens now will find a flaming fire watching him in ambush.
Tafseer of Surah 72. Al Jinn (The Spirits) Ayat 7 to 9. ´And they (came to) think as ye thought, that Allah would not raise up any one (to Judgment). 8. ´And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires. The speakers here have repented of sin and evil; but they recognize that there are evil ones among them, who love stealth and prying, but their dark plots will be defeated by vigilant guardians of the Right, whose repulse of the attacks of evil is figured by the shafts of meteoric light in the heavens. 9. ´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. What is the force of "now"? It refers to the early Makkan period of Revelation. It means that whatever excuse there may have been before, for people to try to seek out the hidden truths of the Unseen World through spirits, there was none now, as the perspicuous Qur'an had restored the Message of Unity and cleared religion of all the cobwebs, mysteries, and falsehoods with which priest craft and pious fraud had overlaid it. The result is that such seekers after false hidden knowledge will find themselves confronted now by the flaming fire of the Quran, which, like the shafts of meteoric light (see last note), will lie in wait for and nip such priest craft and black magic in the bud.
Hadith الحدیث
English Translation of Hadith
Hazrat Aisha (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: Some people asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ [SAWW](PBUH) about soothsayers. He ﷺ [SAWW](PBUH) said, "They are of no account.'' Upon this they said to him, "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ [SAWW](PBUH) ! But they sometimes make true predictions.'' Thereupon the Messenger of Allah ﷺ [SAWW](PBUH) said, "That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches (from the angels) and whispers into the ears of his friend (the soothsayers) who will then mix more than a hundred lies with it.''
[Muslim Book 26, Number 5535].
Lesson: This Hadith brings out the following points: Kahin (soothsayer), Munajjim (astrologer) and Arraf (foreteller) have similar characteristics but with a slight difference. All of them make predictions about the future. Kahin would overhear some jinn and disclose the secret to people which would sometimes prove true, because the jinn's source of information was Satan who sometimes stole away some information from the angels. But after the annunciation of the Prophet ﷺ [SAWW](PBUH) it was made impossible for jinns and Satan’s to overhear anything in the skies. Moreover, Kahin and others of his ilk would make predictions on the basis of certain signs and circumstantial evidence which could go wrong or right. This is so even to this day. Astrological prediction is also a form of foretelling but this is often wrong. Al-Irafah, or what is known to be as divination is also an indication of some future occurrence on the basis of certain causes and events. All the three occult arts supplement each other and also take the help of similar other things. In other words, these are all different forms of soothsaying. Geomancy also tries to talk about the invisible future. At-Tarq is the art of taking omen by striking birds with gravel on their wings or by throwing barley, etc., before them. In the latter formula, if a bird flies towards the right side, it would be a good omen; and if it goes towards the left, it will be a bad one. All such things are unlawful and have been strictly forbidden by Islam. If anything predicted by these means comes by chance true, it does not furnish any justification for their validity.
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