I do believe that jinn are a different species and that they are the "family" of shaytaan.(good and bad ones).I do not believe that we can touch them since they are spirit and they can therefore only have sexual relations with their own kind.
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for the answer. I do believe that jinn are a different species and that they
are the "family" of shaytaan.(good and bad ones).I do not believe
that we can touch them since they are spirit and they can therefore only have
sexual relations with their own kind.
I am a
bit disappointed that your answer does not quote any ahadith in order for me to
reply to those who believe that jinn could be visible to some or that their
presense are felt by some.A learned sheikh actually said that Jinn do not
blink and that is how we can tell when we feel a strange presense.
Are
you saying that people cannot become possessed by evil Jinn?Is the rituals that
are used by muslim scholars to free people from such possession all mind games?
You
always give beautiful anwers in the light of The Quraan and
Hadith.Unfortunately, you have failed me in this case.Please try again .I
cannot prove that people imagine things without concrete evidence to help
them right.
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Allah reward you for the time and effort.
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Answer:
Can Jinns Possess?
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your
Question: I am a bit disappointed that your answer does not quote any ahadith
in order for me to reply to those who believe that jinn could be visible to
some or that their presense are felt by some.
Dear and Beloved Brother, in light of the above absolutely
clear guidance of the Holy Quran, it is not possible for a human being to ‘see’
a Jinn! And since a Jinn cannot be seen,
nor touched, nor smelt, nor tasted, nor heard, etc., I am not entirely sure
what it would mean to ‘feel’ their presence, especially when their creation and
presence cannot be appreciated by either of our five given senses.
Jinn are without a doubt a creation of the Lord and in
light of the guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah they live amongst us; but
without an iota of a doubt, they have been bestowed with the property by the
Lord to see us, but we as human beings absolutely cannot see them.
If any amongst the human race claims to have seen a Jinn,
then we as believers must determine whether the person who claims to have seen
a Jinn is more truthful than Declaration and Guidance of the All-Knowing
All-Wise Lord! And Allah is our witness,
there can be none more Truthful than Allah Subhanah, the Lord of the Worlds!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah
An-Nisa verse 122:
The promise of Allah is true, and who can
be truer in his word than Allah?
Your
Statement: A learned sheikh actually said that Jinn do not blink
and that is how we can tell when we feel a strange presense.
To check whether our Jinn brethren ‘blink’ their eyes or
not would imply that a human being has to see them; and the Lord Most Majestic
Himself has Declared that it is not possible for the human beings to see a
Jinn!!!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 7 Surah
Aaraf verse 27:
27 O ye children of
Thus brother, it would only be prudent and wise to ask the
brother learned ‘shaykh’ how would one know whether the Jinn has ‘blinked’ or
not, when it is simply not possible for a human being to see a Jinn!!!
Your
Statement: Are you saying that people cannot become possessed by evil Jinn?
The Jinns are a distinct creation of Allah who have their
own test of life ordained for them by Allah Subhanah, and they too will have a
full accounting of their deeds on the Day of Judgment like the humans.
The system or nature of this life created by the Lord Most
High is that every person is responsible for the deeds he does with his own
will. If the ‘jinns’ had the power or
could possess someone, then whatever that person does or says, he does not do
or say with his own will but rather it would be the will of the Jinn! If a jinn could posses a human being, he
could murder someone, rape someone, steal something, etc. and make the human
being he has possessed do many an evil deed….and the innocent person could be
held guilty in a court of law and punished for something he did not will to
do!!!! The whole system of life and the
test that the All-Knowing, All-Wise Lord has bestowed would be in total
disarray…and no ones’ life or property would be safe on this earth!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 114 Surah
An-Naas verses 4-6:
4 (Say: I seek refuge in
Allah ) from the mischief of the whisperer (of evil) who withdraws
(after his whisper)
5 (The same) who whispers into the hearts
of mankind
6 Among Jinns, and among men.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 14 Surah
Ibraheem verse 22:
22 And the Shaytaan (on the Day of Judgment) will say when the matter
is decided: "It was Allah Who gave you a promise of Truth: I too promised,
but I failed in my promise to you. I
had no authority over you except to call you, but ye listened to me:
then reproach not me but reproach your own souls. I cannot listen to your cries nor can ye
listen to mine. I reject your former act
in associating me with Allah. For wrongdoers
there must be a Grievous Penalty."
In light of the above absolutely clear guidance of the
Quran, the absolute maximum the Jinn has the power to do is to whisper some
evil into the hearts of men, and inspire man to commit some evil! They have absolutely no power to help or hurt
any human being, and they absolutely do not possess the power to possess a
human being.
Thus not only is the guidance of the Holy Quran against
the very concept of a jinn possessing a human being, but even logically it is absolutely
impossible for a jinn to possess a human being and make him do his will!
Your
Question: Is the rituals that are used by muslim scholars to free people from
such possession all mind games?
When the Guidance of the Glorious Quran is absolutely clear
that Jinns cannot be seen by human beings and Jinns cannot posses a human
being, then obviously the so-called rituals performed by people who claim to
free people from the possession of Jinns has to be nothing but a falsehood!
There is absolutely nothing in the Glorious Quran, nor the
authentic and established traditions of the Messenger of Allah (saws), nor in
the practice of the noble companions of the Messenger of Allah (saws) that a
ritual was prescribed or practiced to free a human being from the possession of
a Jinn!!!
Beloved brother, the onus and responsibility of presenting
the proof and evidence is always on the shoulders of one who claims that such
and such a thing can happen, never on the people who deny its happening! Instead of asking the believers of the Quran
and the Sunnah to prove that a Jinn cannot be seen, or felt, or cannot possess
a human being, etc.; how about posing the question to the people who claim that
Jinns can be seen, or felt, or have the power to possess a human being to
produce their evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah for their absurd claim?
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source
of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister