PART 2 – ABOUT THE JINN
5. Muslim Jinn Must not Be Employed in Illness Diagnosis
Question:
Can a Raqi use one of the Muslim Jinn to check if a patient is, for example, possessed?
Answer:
I do not recommend this should be done. It is customary that the Jinn serve humans in return for the latter’s obedience to do something forbidden or commit a sin. The Jinn generally do not approach humans unless the former are devils or the latter approach them.
However, it has been reported by some righteous people that the Muslim Jinn sometimes speak to them, and may answer their questions. It is worth emphasizing that those righteous people are not accused of performing any acts of Shirk or sorcery. If such communication is true, there is no objection to asking the Muslim Jinn questions, but one does not have to believe all what they say.
Wa-Allahu-A’ lam (and the whole truth is with Allah). (A Fatwa by Al-Jibreen, Signed by him.)
6. If One Feels He Is Having Intercourse, It might Be Jinn’s Work
Question:
I know a man who complains of feeling he is having a full intercourse with a woman when he goes to bed. This takes place frequently. He has sought an explanation, and he has been told a female Jinni might be his partner.
Can this be true?
Can there be intercourse between humans and the Jinn?
Can humans marry the Jinn? What is the ruling with respect to these matters?
Answer:
This can happen to men and women. A male Jinni can take the full form of a human male, and can have intercourse with a woman, unless the woman protects herself by Allah’s remembrance, supplications and established prayers. However, some women may be vulnerable if they are possessed. The same applies to a female Jinni regarding what she can do, and to a man seeking protection from her evil advances. Besides, doing good deeds and distancing oneself from prohibitions provide, by Allah’s permission, protection from the evil of the Jinn.
Wa-Allahu-A’lam (and the whole truth is with Allah). (A Fatwa by Al-Jibreen, Signed by him.)
7. Like Humans, the Jinn Have Animals of Their Own
Question:
Concerning the Jinn food, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is reported to have said to the Jinn, “Every bone on which the name of Allah is recited is your provision. The time it falls in your hand it shall be covered with flesh, and the dung (of the camels) is fodder for your animals.” Therefore, he says to us, “Don’t do Istinja (cleansing after stools) with dung or with bones for that is L. food of your brothers (the Jinn).”
Does this mean that the Jinn have animals of their own? What is the reality of such animals?
Answer:
Yes, the Hadith indicates that the Jinn, like humans, have their own animals, of which some are for riding, similar to camels and horses, and others for milking, similar to sheep and cows. Such animals can take the form of our domestic animals and wild animals, etc. They almost always remain concealed from human eyes, for they like the Jinn, which are such light bodies that they can see us while we cannot see them.
The Hadith also indicates that the Jinn, like us, eat and drink, and so do their animals. Their animal feed is the dung of our animals, so we are instructed not to cleanse ourselves with bones or dung.
Wa-Allahu-A’lam (and the whole truth is with Allah). (A Fatwa by Al-Jibreen, Signed by him.)
8. Evocation of Spirits Is Evocation of Devils
Question:
There are those who practise the so-called evocation of spirits. They follow varied methods. For example, some use a small cup or letters drawn on a table. The spirits’ answers to the questions asked are the total number of the letters on which the cup has moved in the order of movement. Others use a basket on the edge of which is fixed a pen, which writes the answers to the questions asked by those present.
Is it really a spirit which they claim to evoke, or is it its satanic companion, or just a devil?
What is the legality of such a practice?
Answer:
The word ‘spirits’ / ‘souls’ in the context you have mentioned refers to the Jinn species, which Allah has created from fire, and they have souls, but no bodies. Evocation of spirits means calling them to come and speak to and be heard by [humans. Allah has made the Jinn – and the angels, too – invisible to us. Regarding the Jinn, He says, “. . . .Lo! he (Satan) seeth you, he and his tribe, from whence ye see him not…..”(Al-A’Raaf Sura, Ayahs No. 27.) His tribe Includes all Jinn, believers and disbelievers. Allah has endowed .inn with the ability to take various shapes, such as humans, insects, etc., and the ability to possess humans, for He says, “Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he ariseth whom the devil hath prostrated by (his) touch.” (Al-Baqarah Surah, Ayah No. 275.) Also, the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says, “Satan can go in the human body wherever blood circulates.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Kitab Al-I’tikaf (Book of Seclusion), Hadith No.2038.)
If the Muslim seeks protection by Allah’s remembrance, prayers, reading the Qur’an, good deeds and shunning what is forbidden, Allah will protect him, so devils cannot possess or harass him, except by His permission.
As for the spirit evocation you have mentioned in your question, undoubtedly, the evoker either works as a servant of the devils whose pleasure he seeks, or writes incomprehensible things which contain Shirk or invocation of other than Allah; the devils answer the invocation, and the audience present hear them talk. Obviously, in most cases, the evoker employs a medium – often someone mentally and religiously weak, careless of Allah’s remembrance and prayers. The medium is to be possessed by a devil that speaks through him. Such practice is the work of sorcerers and soothsayers. Nonetheless, it is possible to hear Muslim Jinn speak, for it happens that they sometimes wake Muslim humans for prayers or night worship without being seen. Wa-Allahu-A’lam (and the whole truth is with Allah). (A Fatwa by Al-Jibreen, Signed by him.)
9. A Human with Jinn Ancestors? This Is Not True
Question:
Some tribes are widely believed to have the ability to trace footsteps and identify who they are. This ability is claimed to be the result of intermarriage between one of their forefathers and one of the Jinn.
What is the validity of this claim?
Answer:
This is not true. How can a human be conceived by a human and a Jinni, who is a spirit and does not have a body even though it can take various shapes?!
As for those with the ability to trace footsteps, on the one hand, they are endowed with powerful intuition and a high level of intelligence as well as experience. On the other hand, Allah has distinguished things from each other, for example in terms of looks, height, colour, weight, length, width, etc. Every day you see hundreds of people, no two of whom are exactly the same. Footsteps are among the things that distinguish people from each other. It is for these two reasons that the people of that tribe are skilled at tracing footsteps. Wa-Allahu-A’ lam (and the whole truth is with Allah). (A Fatwa by Al-Jibreen, Signed by him.)
By Khaled al-Jeraisy
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