say it was revealed to me that a band of jinn attentively listened to and then and said we have indeed heard a wonderful quran 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 and that we tried to pry 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 and that some of us are upright and some of us are otherwise for we follow widely divergent paths and that we thought that we will neither be able to frustrate allah on earth nor frustrate him by flight and that when we heard the teaching of the right way we came to believe in it he who believes in his lord shall have no fear of suffering loss or being subjected to any injustice and that among us some are muslims and some of us are deviant. so those who became muslims found the right course but those who deviated from the truth will be the fuel for hell.
قل أوحي إلي أنه استمع نفر من الجن فقالوا إنا سمعنا قرآنا عجبا يهدي إلى الرشد فآمنا به ولن نشرك بربنا أحدا وأنه تعالى جد ربنا ما اتخذ صاحبة ولا ولدا وأنه كان يقول سفيهنا على الله شططا وأنا ظننا أن لن تقول الإنس والجن على الله كذبا وأنه كان رجال من الإنس يعوذون برجال من الجن فزادوهم رهقا وأنهم ظنوا كما ظننتم أن لن يبعث الله أحدا وأنا لمسنا السماء فوجدناها ملئت حرسا شديدا وشهبا وأنا كنا نقعد منها مقاعد للسمع فمن يستمع الآن يجد له شهابا رصدا وأنا لا ندري أشر أريد بمن في الأرض أم أراد بهم ربهم رشدا وأنا منا الصالحون ومنا دون ذلك كنا طرائق قددا وأنا ظننا أن لن نعجز الله في الأرض ولن نعجزه هربا وأنا لما سمعنا الهدى آمنا به فمن يؤمن بربه فلا يخاف بخسا ولا رهقا وأنا منا المسلمون ومنا القاسطون فمن أسلم فأولئك تحروا رشدا وأما القاسطون فكانوا لجهنم حطبا