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The Jinn (72:8)
وَأَنَّا لَمَسْنَا ٱلسَّمَآءَ فَوَجَدْنَـٰهَا مُلِئَتْ حَرَسًۭا شَدِيدًۭا وَشُهُبًۭا ٨
˹Earlier˺ we tried to reach heaven ˹for news˺, only to find it filled with stern guards and shooting stars.[1]
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, The Clear Quran
[1] Some jinn used to eavesdrop on the heaven, then pass on what they heard to fortune-tellers. But this practice came to an end once Muḥammad (ﷺ) was sent as a messenger with the Quran.
And we have sought [to reach] the heaven but found it filled with powerful guards and burning flames.
— Saheeh International
8. ‘And we have sought to reach the heaven; but found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.
— Al-Hilali & Khan
and that “we tried to pry (the secrets of) the heaven, but we found it full of terrible guards and shooting meteors”;
— A. Maududi (Tafhim commentary)
And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur'an said): We had sought the heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors.
— M. Pickthall
'And we pried into the secrets of heaven; but we found it filled with stern guards and flaming fires.
— A. Yusuf Ali
The Bible and The Quran inform us that the sky has been raised high. It is water with a barrier, a skin.
The Jinns state, in the above ayat, that prior to the revelation of The Quran, they used to 'touch' (لَمَسْنَا) the sky. Looking at the usage of this word in The Quran, it is clear that it means 'to touch', particularly in terms of touching a skin (4:43:33 , 5:6:35) and/or touching with hands (6:7:7):
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