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72:1  Say, "It has been revealed to me that a group of spirits listened and said, 'We have heard a wondrous Recital!
72:2  It guides to true direction, so we surely believe in it; and we do not equate anyone with our Lord.
72:3  And exalted is the majesty of our Lord, who takes neither wife nor son.
72:4  And the fools among us used to declaim extravagant lies against God;
72:5  but we think no human or spirit should speak falsely of God.
72:6  Yet there were individual humans who resorted to individual spirits; but that increased their folly.
72:7  And they came to suppose, as did you, that God would resurrect no one.
72:8  And we pried into the secrets of heaven, but found it filled with steadfast guards and bluing fires.
72:9  ‘And we used to sit in some of its seats to listen: but whoever listens now' will find a blaze lying in wait for him.
72:10  And we do not know if ill is intended for the inhabitants of earth; or if their Lord intends right direction for them.
72:11  And some of us are good, and some of us are otherwise: we are on divergent paths.
72:12  And we consider ourselves unable to thwart God on earth; nor can we thwart God by fleeing.
72:13  And when we heard the Guidance, we believed in it: and whoever believes in their Lord will never be shortchanged and will not be oppressed.
72:14  And among us are some who surrender to God, and some who act unjustly. And those who have surrendered to God, they seek right direction;
72:15  while those who act unjustly, they are the firewood of hell.”
72:16  And [say] that if they had gone straight on the Path, We would have given them plenty of water,
72:17  that We might try them thereby. And whoever turn away from mention of their Lord, God sends to a torment severe.
72:18  And [say] that the houses of worship are for the only God, so do not invoke anyone together with God;
72:19  and that when the servant of God stands to all upon God. they have nearly become suffocating to him.
72:20  Say, “I call only on my Lord. with whom I associate no one."
72:21  Say, "I have no power in me to do you ill or guide you right.”
72:22  Say. "No one can deliver me from God, and I will find no refuge apart from God,
72:23  "except reporting from God and God’s messages. And for whoever disobeys God and God's envoy, there is the fire of hell, wherein they remain forever,"
72:24  until, that is, they see what they were promised: and they will know who is weaker in helpers and who is smaller in numbers.
72:25  Say, "I do not know if what you are promised is near, or if my Lord has set it a distant time,
72:26  “knowing the unseen: God does not reveal the unseen mystery divine to anyone at all,
72:27  “except a Messenger with whom God is pleased; and God sends forth observers before and behind him,
72:28  “in order to know if he has delivered the messages of their Lord. And God encompasses all that is with them, and takes account of every single thing."