Surah Jinn ayat 12 Tafsir Quran 72:12

﴿وَأَنَّا ظَنَنَّا أَن لَّن نُّعْجِزَ اللَّهَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَن نُّعْجِزَهُ هَرَبًا﴾
[ الجن: 12]

72:12 And we have become certain that we will never cause failure to Allah upon earth, nor can we escape Him by flight.

And we assume that an softened in place of the hardened form that is to say annahu we will never be able to elude God in the earth nor will we be able to elude Him by fleeing — we will not be able to escape Him whether we are on earth or fleeing from it in the heavens.

We have realized that we will never be able to defeat Allah nor frustrate Him had we escaped

(72:12) and that 'we thought that we will neither be able to frustrate Allah on earth, nor frustrate Him by flight'; *12

And we have become certain that we meaning

*12) That is, " We were led by this very idea to the way of success.
As we were not fearless of AIlah and we believed that we would not be able to avoid His punishment if we disobeyed Him, so when we heard the Divine Revelation that had been sent to show the right way, we could not have the courage and boldness to persist in the beliefs that our foolish people had spread among us, afar we had known the truth.
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( And we know ) and are certain ( that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth ) for He can reach us wherever we might be, ( nor can we escape by flight ) nor can we escape from Him by running away.

'And we think that we cannot escape (from the punishment of) Allah in the earth, nor can we escape (from the punishment) by flight.

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