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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:37 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjJu4sI-18U&feature=g-user-uMany people do not know that other creatures share this world with us. Among which are Jinn and Devils. What about these creatures which are known to be living right here with us on the earth? They share our houses and they eat and drink with us. In fact, they are even capable of spoiling our thoughts and hearts. They drive us to destroy our own species. They can make us associate them (in worship) with Allah.
Fortunately, texts of the Glorious Qur'an and the Sunnah reveal to us the secrets of the jinn's and devil's existence. Such texts provide us with enough information about the details of their lives. They also tell us about the enmity between them and mankind, a one that has been alive since Prophet Adam, alayhes salam, was created in heaven. Evidence is also found of the intriguing actions that they go through in order to mislead and destroy the children of Adam.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:49 am
The jinn are a world of their own, different from that of the humans or the Angels. They do, however, possess some characteristics in common with human beings, such as the ability to think and reflect. Likewise, they have the ability to choose between good and evil. However, they substantially differ from humans in one very important characteristic or rather property: their origin.
They are called 'jinn' because they are obscured from human sight. Allah, sub hanahu wa ta'ala, said:“ Verily he (Satan) and Qabiluhu (his solders from the jinn or his tribe) see you from where you cannot see them”(7:27).
We are informed by Allah that the jinn was created from 'marijin min nar' (i.e., fire) as He says in the Glorious Qur'an:“ And the jinn, We have created aforetime from the smokeless flame of fire”(55:27). And:“ And the jinn: He created from a smokeless flame of fire”(55:15).
According to Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, AlHasan al-Basri and others; the meaning of marijin min nar is the extremity of the flame, and in one narration it is described as the purest and best (of fire) In his commentary on Sahih Muslim Imam An-Nawawi said; The smokeless flame of fire is that mixed with the blackness of the fire In a hadeeth recorded by Muslim on the authority of Aisha, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa sallam said:“ The angels were created from light, the jinn were created from a smokeless flame of fire and Adam was created from what has been described to you [by Allah in the Qur'an]”.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:50 am
It needs no special stressing that the jinn were created before mankind, as Allah says:“ And indeed, We created man out of clay of altered sound mud And the jinn, We created aforetime from a scorching flame of fire”[15:26-27].
The verse clearly states that the jinn were created before mankind. Some of the earlier Islamic scholars claimed that the jinn were created a thousand years before mankind, but they did not provide any evidence for their statement, either from the Qur'an or the Sunnah. There is no room for the denial of the existence of the jinn: Very few people still deny the existence of the world of the jinn.
Some of the pre-Islamic polytheists claimed that the word 'jinn' meant the souls of the planets. Some philosophers (both modern and contemporary) claim that the jinn refer to those evil inclinations in the souls of mankind while the angels refer to the good intentions planned by mankind.
A number of contemporary scientists, however, believe that the jinn are the microorganisms discovered every day by modern science. In his interpretation of Suratul Jinn (Chapter 72 in the Glorious Qur'an), Muhammad al-Bahi says that the jinn are the angels. To him, the jinn and angles are one entity; there are no distinguishing characteristics that can differentiate one species from the other. His evidence is that both are invisible to mankind. He concluded, though, that the jinn are more like humans as far as belief in Allah is concerned: some believe in Him, others do not.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:50 am
Not everyone is Muslim here.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:53 am
Those who deny the existence of the jinn have no proof to support their denial, but they say that they cannot believe in that of which they possess no tangible knowledge. Doing so, they seem to belittle the faculties of the human mind that can encompass things that are not felt to the human five senses. Allah, Subhanahu wa tatala, says:“ Nay, they have belied the knowledge whereof they could not comprehend and what has not been fulfilled”[10:39].
It is of course likely that someone who lived and died hundreds of years ago could have denied the fact that sounds travel through hearing the air. But not sounds that are being transmitted does not do not exist mean that they because the invention of the radio made it possible for everyone to hear them. The same can be said of the jinn. They constitute a species on their own, different from angles or humans. They are intelligent beings. They are also responsible for their own actions, and they have received ordainments from Allah to perform certain deeds and abstain from others. Although several eyewitness accounts are heard every now and then of people who are reported to have seen the jinn, we humans do not have the ability to see them. However, such animals as dogs and donkeys can see them. It is recorded in Musnad of Ahmed and Sunan of Abu-Dawud that the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa sallam, said:“ If you hear the barking of dogs or the braying of donkeys during the night, seek refuge in Allah from Satan, because they can see what you cannot”.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:57 am
Satan, which is recurrently mentioned in the Qur'an, belongs to the world of the jinn. He lived among the angles and worshipped Allah. But ever since he refused to prostrate to Allah, out of vanity; pride, arrogance and envy, he was cast out of Heaven and out of Allah's mercy.
After Satan had lost hope of ever receiving mercy from Allah, he was named 'Iblis' which derives from the Arabic root 'alabalas' denoting one who has no good in ruin; and when transformed into past participle 'ublisa' it means 'despaired and lost.' Many of the early Islamic scholars believed that Satan's original name was "Azarel"
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:58 am
Both the jinn and mankind were created for the same purpose; to worship Allah, in the fullest sense of the word worship:“ And I (Allah) created not the jinn and mankind except that they worship Me (Alone)”(50:56).
Therefore, the jinn are responsible for their own actions. They have been ordered to perform certain acts and to abstain from performing others. And on the day of Resurrection the jinn and mankind will be addressed by Allah with the following words:“ 0 you assembly of jinn and mankind! Did not there come to you Messengers from amongst you, reciting unto you My verses and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours? They will say: We bear witness against ourselves. It was the life of this world that deceived them. And they will bear witness against themselves that they were disbelievers”(6:130).
But according to Ibn Taymiyyah, what the jinn are ordered to do or prohibited from is not necessarily identical to what humans are ordered to do or prohibited from. His discussion is based on the nature of each of the two species. As the two species are fundamentally different, at least in the substance they have been created from, the responsibilities charged upon each must be different as well.
As the jinn were created with the ultimate purpose of worshipping Allah (alone), the claim that there is some sort of lineage or affinity between them and the Almighty Allah must be a sheer fabrication. The Jews and the pre-Islamic polytheists believed that Allah took wives from among the jinn, and that the offspring resulting from that relationship consisted of the angels. This has been stated in the Glorious Qur'an as follow:“ And they have invented a kinship between Him and the jinn, but the jinn know well that they have indeed to appear (before Him) (i.e., they will be called to account). Glorified is Allah! (He is free) from what they attribute unto Him)!”(37:158-139).
Since the jinn are responsible for their own actions, there is no doubt that Allah's Word must have reached them, but how? Did they have messengers from among themselves? Or were human messengers sent to them? The Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa salam, was sent to both the jinn and mankind. This is because the Glorious Qur'an posed to both of collectively, the challenge of composing a work similar to that of the Qur'an:“ Say: 1f the mankind and the jinn were to come together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could not produce the like thereof, even if they helped one another”(27:8 cool .
This verse is also supported by the following verse from the Qur'an:“ Say (0 Muhammad): It has been revealed to me that a group (from three to ten in number) of jinn listened (to this Qur'an). They said: Verily, we have heard a wonderful Recitation (this Qur'an)! If guides to the Right Path, and we have believed therein, and we shall never join (in worship) anything with our Lord (Allah)”[72:1-2].
Those who listen to the Qur'an and believed in it returned to their follow jinn asking them to follow the Right Path:“ And (remember) when We sent towards you (Muhammad) a group of the jinn, (quietly) listening to the Qur'an. When they stood in the presence thereof, they said: Listen in silence! And when it was finished, they returned to their people, as warners. They said: O our people! Verily, we have heard a Book (this Qur'an) sent down after Muosa (Moses), confirming what come before it; it guides to the truth and to the Straight Path (i.e., Islam)”[46:29-30].
The incident suggests that the jinn listened to the Qur'an as though the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa salam, being aware of their presence. Later, however, a delegation of the jinn met with the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa salam, to gain knowledge from him. The Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa salam, taught them what Allah prescribed for them. This latter incident took place in Makkah before the Prophet's migration to Madinah. A full account of it is found in Sahib Muslim. It says that on that night the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, missed the Prophet, sallallahu alayhe wa salam. No trace of him was found in Makkah. They thought he was kidnapped by the jinn, or got killed. As dawn approached, they saw him towards them. He explained that he was invited by a group of jinn to recite the Qur'an and answer their questions.
The jinn are of different ranks in terms of piety or impiety. Some are fully devoted to righteous deeds; others are less so. Some are heedless; others are disbelieves. They speak of themselves in the Qur'anL:“ There are among us some that are righteous, and some the contrary; we are groups having different ways (religions sects)”[72:11].
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