وَّاَنَّا ظَنَنَّآ اَنْ لَّنْ تَقُوْلَ الْاِنْسُ وَالْجِنُّ عَلَى اللّٰهِ كَذِبًاۙ ( الجن: ٥ )
wa-annā
وَأَنَّا
And that we
ẓanannā
ظَنَنَّآ
thought
an
أَن
that
lan
لَّن
never
taqūla
تَقُولَ
will say
l-insu
ٱلْإِنسُ
the men
wal-jinu
وَٱلْجِنُّ
and the jinn
ʿalā
عَلَى
against
l-lahi
ٱللَّهِ
Allah
kadhiban
كَذِبًا
any lie
Wa annaa zanannaaa al lan taqoolal insu wal jinnu 'alal laahi kazibaa (al-Jinn 72:5)
Sahih International:
And we had thought that mankind and the jinn would never speak about Allah a lie. (Al-Jinn [72] : 5)
1 Mufti Taqi Usmani
and that we thought that the humans and the Jinn would never tell a lie about Allah, (therefore, we had followed them in shirk under this impression),