Al-Jinn

Say, (O Prophet), it was revealed to me that a band of jinn attentively listened to (the recitation of the Qur'an) and then (went back to their people) and said:

“We have indeed heard a wonderful Qur'an which guides to the Right Way; so we have come to believe in it, and we will not associate aught with Our Lord in His Divinity”;

and that “He – exalted be His Majesty – has not taken to Himself either a wife or a son”;

and that “the foolish among us have been wont to say outrageous things about Allah”;

and that “we had thought that men and jinn would never speak a lie about Allah”,

and that “some from among the humans used to seek protection of some among the jinn, and thus they increased the arrogance of the jinn”;

and that “they thought, even as you thought, that Allah would never raise anyone (as a Messenger)”;

and that “we tried to pry (the secrets of) the heaven, but we found it full of terrible guards and shooting meteors”;

and that “we would take up stations in the heaven to try to hear but anyone who now attempts to listen finds a shooting meteor in wait for him”;

and that “we do not know whether evil is intended for those on the earth, or whether their Lord intends to direct them to the Right Way”;