Al-Jinn 72:11
SAHIHوَأَنَّا مِنَّا ٱلصَّٰلِحُونَ وَمِنَّا دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ كُنَّا طَرَآئِقَ قِدَدًۭا
And among us are the righteous, and among us are [others] not so; we were [of] divided ways.
Wa annaa minnas saalihoona wa minnaa doona zaalika kunnaa taraaa'ilqa qidadaa
Tafsir (Commentary)
<h2>The Jinns testify that among Them there are Believers, Disbelievers, Misguided and Guided</h2><p>Allah says that the Jinns said about themselves,</p><div class="arabic uthmani">وَأَنَّا مِنَّا الصَّـلِحُونَ وَمِنَّا دُونَ ذَلِكَ</div><p>(There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary;) meaning, other than that.</p><div class="arabic uthmani">كُنَّا طَرَآئِقَ قِدَداً</div><p>(We are groups having different ways.) meaning, on numerous differing paths and having different thoughts and opinions. Ibn `Abbas, Mujahid and others have said,</p><div class="arabic uthmani">كُنَّا طَرَآئِقَ قِدَداً</div><p>(We are groups having different ways.) "This means among us are believers and among us are disbelievers." Ahmad bin Sulayman An-Najjad reported in his (book of) Amali that he heard Al-A`mash saying, "A Jinn came to us, so I said to him, `What is the most beloved food to your kind' He replied, `Rice.' So we brought them some rice and I saw the morsels being lifted but I did not see a hand lifting it. So I asked him, `Do you have these desires (religious innovations) among your kind as we have among ours' He replied, `Yes.' Then I said, `Who are the Rafidah among you' He said, `They are the worst of us."' I presented this chain of narration to our Shaykh, Al-Hafiz Abi Al-Hajjaj Al-Mizzi …
Other Translations
And among us there are righteous folk and among us there are far from that. We are sects having different rules.
'There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary: we follow divergent paths.
'There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary; we are groups each having a different way (religious sect, etc.).
Some of us are righteous, but some of us are less than that; we follow divergent paths.