MUHAMMAD ‘ĪSĀ DĀWŪD’S
INTERVIEW WITH A MUSLIM JINNI
(A SHORT SYNOPSIS)
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Translated from the Indonesian language
By
MUHAMMAD AMIN ABDUL-SAMAD
A SHORT SYNOPSIS OF
MUHAMMAD ‘ISĀ DĀWŪD’S INTERVIEW WITH
A MUSLIM JINNI
Title of the Book: H...iwār S.ah.afī ma‘a Jinnī Muslim (A Press
Interview with a Muslim Jinni)
Jeddah: Dār al-Funūn lil- T.ibā‘ah wa ‘l-Nashr wa ‘l-Ta’līf, 1992
Author: Muhammad ‘Isā Dāwūd
Introduction
This is a summary of the contents of an interview with a Muslim jinni
(demon) claimed to be conducted by an Egyptian journalist Muhammad
‘Isā Dāwūd. It was published in a book written in Arabic, translated
into Indonesian (and Malay) entitled Dialog dengan Jin Muslim. Since
it deals with the unseen, the veracity of the dialogue is beyond the
scope of this writing. However, some statements are supported with
Qur’anic verses and h.adīths of the Prophet that may give credits to
the interviewed jinni. I include footnotes and appendices as
commentary to the statements of the writer
For those who are interested in knowing—without necessarily
believing—what the jinni is talking about himself and his world, the
information in this writing will be valuable.
My gratitude and appreciation is rendered to Sr Diana A Rahman, an
Australian who is currently the Vice President of the Canberra Islamic
Centre, for her kind proofreading. May Allah reward her for this noble
deed, amin!
Canberra, 8 March, 2005
M. Amin Abdul-Samad
About the Author:
Muhammad ‘Isā Dāwūd was born at al-Ismailiyah in 1957 and obtained his
Licence (B.A.) degree in the Department of Oriental Languages and
Studies at Cairo University. He is an editor to the Akhbār al-Yawm
nespaper
About the Interviewed Jinni (Unseen Being):
His name is Ibn Kanjūr. He claims to be originally from Bombay in
India. He is 180 years old corresponding to between 15 and 17 years
old of human beings. His father called Hūd was 950 years old. His
great grandfather died when he tried to listen to the angels’
conversation in heaven, and shooting stars were thrown at him.
How old are the jinn?
They can live for thousands years. Some of them live for 4 thousand, 5
thousand, 6 thousand, even 7 thousand years, but very rarely.
Unfortunately, Ibn Kanjūr did not tell us the approximate jinn
population of this earth. As they had been here on the earth before
human beings, and have lived much longer, they must have filled this
globe with their kind. Fortunately, they are created differently from
us, and live differently, so that, in general, we do not disturb each
other.
Where do the jinn live?
They live everywhere. Since the globe consists of only 28 % land, but
72 % water, most of their cities and central governments are on water,
in deep oceans and in rivers. They also live in deserts (and are
called “ghouls”), in isolated places, in caves, in mountains, in
valleys, in jungles, on roofs of houses, in rooms, in bathrooms as
well as ditches (gutters).
Iblīs.
Iblīs has five children who act as his representatives. As enemies of
Allah their names and duties are as follows:
1. Thabr: He, his troops and children come to people who are being
afflicted with disaster or are having problems to make them angry with
Allah and have hostile attitudes towards Him. In order to protect
ourselves from his temptation we should say, as Ibn Kanjur told the
author, A‘ūdhu billāhi minash shayt.ān Thabr ar-rajīm wa junūdihi wa
abnā’ihi meaning “I Ask Allah’s protection from the devil Thabr the
accursed and his troops and children.”
2. Dāsim. He, his troops and children create hatred between a husband
and his wife in order to end up with divorce. To protect ourselves
from his temptation, we should say, A‘ūdhu billāhi minash shayt.ān
Dāsim ar-rajīm wa junūdihi wa abnā’ihi meaning “I Ask Allah’s
protection from the the devil Dāsim the accursed and his troops and
children.”
3. A‘war. He, his troops and children make women looked more beautiful
when they go out in the street to tempt people to commit adultery with
them. To protect ourselves from his temptation, we should say, A‘ūdhu
billāhi minash shayt.ān A‘war ar-rajīm wa junūdihi wa abnā’ihi meaning
“I Ask Allah’s protection from The devil A‘war the accursed and his
troops and children.” The word a‘war in Arabic means “one-eyed.”
4. Maswath. He, his troops and children come to people to make and
spread lies. To protect ourselves from his temptation, we should say,
A‘ūdhu billāhi minash shayt.ān Maswat ar-rajīm wa junūdihi wa abnā’ihi
meaning “I Ask Allah’s protection from the devil Maswath the accursed
and his troops and children.”
5. Zalnabur. He, his troops and children come to the markets to create
dissension, quarreling and fighting among people. To protect ourselves
from his temptation, we should say, A‘ūdhu billāhi minash shayt.ān
Zalnabur ar-rajīm wa junūdihi wa abnā’ihi meaning “I Ask Allah’s
protection from the devil Zalnabur the accursed and his troops and
children.”
The Civilization of the Jinn
The Jews, the Christians and the Muslims among the jinn go to their
respective place of worship: the temples, the churches and the mosques
respectively. They also live in the houses of people with their
respective religious followers. Christian jinn live in the houses of
Christians, etc.
The jinn who live in the house of the author is: Muhammad and his wife
Zubaydah and their children Sa‘īd and Marjān. They joined him in
eating and say alhamdu lillah after eating, then stayed on the roofs.
At the evening they also joined him the meal and stayed in the room.
At night some of them sleep on the chairs, others on the carpet.
Sometimes they went to Masjid al-H...arām in Makkah and the Prophet’s
Mosque in Madīnah and then return home with the speed of lightening.
Muslim jinn pray for their hosts. Some of them wake the host for the
fajr prayer. The jinn who accompany people (qarīn) also pray for their
hosts.
Statues are very attractive to the jinn. These statues have reflection
or vapour that is attractive to them like the aroma of delicious food
to men. Dolls do not attract them for unknown reason. Dolls’
reflections diminish after being touched by children.
The devil occupies vacant bed if Allah’s name is not mentioned. In a
h.adīth on the authority of Jābir the Prophet said: “The first room is
for himself, the second for his guest and the third for the devil
(satan)” (Reported by Muslim). What the Prophet means is the
unnecessary redundant extra room will be left to be occupied by satan.
Some jinn live in the private parts and the wombs of indecent women.
They like places of entertainment, especially where alcohol is served.
Ibn Kanjur said that his father took him once as a child to Iblīs in
order to be blessed by him. He said that Iblīs looked very ugly and
can change his appearance with anything. His tail is between 4 and 6
cm long, his tall is between 140 and 160 cm, but he can make himself
tall until 10 meters. He has a very big palace with millions of
servants and guards of devils, and he has other palaces in other
places.
The jinn have good sense of smell and like fragrance. Babies of one to
two yeas old can see the jinn in its original form.
Iblīs’ throne is in the ocean. Lost ships and planes were covered with
special light or surrounded with thousands of devils. They live in
Bermuda Triangle.
What people used to claim to have seen aliens are not really alien.
Ibn Kanjur had traveled more than one hundred times in outer space and
has found no alien.
If a Muslim encounters a jinni (s)he should read āyatul kursī and
surah al-S.āffāt (chapter 37) verse 1-10, and the jinni will run away
and will never return.
If a Muslim crossing or passing by the Bermuda Triangle reads the
Qur’an, Iblīs and his army will not be able to harm him.
The Bermuda Triangle is the triangle in a pyramid form, between
Florida on the top, Bermuda Island on the right, and Puerto Rico
Island on the left. The pilot reporting to be lost in this area stated
that the sky turned gray, and the instruments of their planes
malfunctioned. He was actually entering the world of the jinn. The
four searching planes were themselves lost and vanished.
Another triangle is Formosa triangle in the form of an upside down
pyramid: Taiwan on the left, Gilbert island on the right, and Wake
island at the bottom. These areas are the favorite places of devils.
The jinn also like meeting places of cold and hot water where Iblīs
has also his kingdom and his assistants. This reminds us of the
Prophet who prohibits people from sitting in a place where half is
with sunshine and the other half is under the shade, as this place
gives power to Iblīs. We know that the meeting of cold and hot air
could create power we call storm.
Marriage and Married Life in the Jinn’s World
The age of maturity among the jinn is between 170-180 years and
200-250 years. Pregnancy period is 15 months containing between 7 and
8 babies, and sometimes 15 babies. The nursing period is as long as
human age. The babies sleep very long without any noise. Then they go
to school and universities and become medical doctors, technicians,
journalists, etc, like human beings.
Mixed marriage between a human being and a jinni is impossible except
if the jinni makes himself visible as human. Pregnancy is impossible
as sperms and wombs of humans and jinn are different. Therefore, the
story saying the Princess Bilqis’s mother was a jinni is not true.
Categories of Jinn
The skin of the jinn have different colours: red, white, black,
yellow, and any colour known by men, the colours of the spectrum. Some
jinn have wings and fly. Others are like snakes and dogs. Some can
change their forms from one form to another.
There is a group of jinn who are like black dogs with white circles on
top of their eyes. They are the most dangerous jinn. According to a
h.adīth from the Prophet, he ordered to kill them.
Black cats could also be jinn transforming their forms. Cats with
other colours could also be jinn. Cats in history were adored as well
as hated. They were associated with evilness and witches and some were
burned alive.
Can the jinni make himself visible?
Some jinn are never able to make themselves visible. Others like
‘Ifrīt has a tremendous power to do so. A kind of devil called Mārid
can also make himself visible with difficulty. When a jinni becomes
visible he is vulnerable, can be caught and killed by citing ayatul
kursi.
In order to become visible the body of the jinni has to go through a
transformation process, and to return to his original form he has to
suffer and the process takes long time.
Some jinn are afraid of humans, as man can complain to their leader.
When this happens the jinni will be severely punished. Jinn’s law,
said Ibn Kanjur, is stricter than human law.
Do the jinn have religions, and if so, what are they?
Among the jinn there are Jewish, Christians, Buddhists and Communists.
There are some Muslim jinn, but their numbers are few, like a drop of
water compared to the ocean. Like humans where Muslims fight
Communists (like in Afghanistan), Muslim jinn also fight Communists
jinn. When there was no non-Muslim jinni, the Muslim jinn assisted the
mujahidin in Afghanistan against Soviet Union’s invasion. Some of them
wore green clothes. Some people thought that they were angels.
Qarīn
Qarīn is a kind of jinn who always accompanies man Every human being
has a qarīn for a male, and qarīnah for a female. The qarīn and
qarīnah are a special kind of weak jinn who have no sexual desire, and
therefore they never married.
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah the Prophet said that every human
being is accompanied by a qarīn (a jinni accompanying man), When one
of his companions asked him, “Even you, O Messenger of Allah?”, he
answered, “Even me, but the jinni who accompanies me aslama (“has
become Muslim”, Qadi ‘Iyād.’s reading), aslamu (“I am save from him”,
al-Khat.t.ābī’s reading.
In another h.adīth the Prophet says that one can control his qarīn
like a traveler controlling his camel.
According to Ibn Kanjur the qarīn of the author is called ‘Abdul Hadi.
He is staying on his right side.
The author related that he had a discussion about Islam with his
friend, a lady called Sahar. After the discussion she embraced Islam.
Her qarīn who heard the discussion converted also to Islam and changed
her name from Izis to Fatimah, and was so happy that she cried out of
happiness, and moved from her left side to her right side
Not only human beings have qarīns, but also the jinn themselves. They
are a special kind of jinn; they are lighter and called Red Jinn, and
cannot be seen by ordinary jinn, except in if they are under the
influence of black magic (like humans, jinn also practice black magic,
they have also magicians and sorcerers), or drink water with black
magic, then they can see their qarīns.
A jinni can appear like another jinni. Like humans, a jinni can also
be possessed by the devil. When Ibn Kanjur, the converted jinni, tried
to cure a possessed jinni, his qarīn appeared in the form of six
different jinn, speaking in different languages. When Ibn Kanjur tried
to talk to them, one answered in Urdu, another in Arabic, and the
others in other different languages.
The appearance of Virgin Mary’s apparition on the top of a church was
common among the Christian Egyptians, especially in the 60s. According
to Ibn Kanjur, this was the work a jinni who mastered medical science.
He said that medical doctors among the jinn were more knowledgeable
and more advanced in their fields than human medical doctors. They
were active in propagating Christianity that had been abandoned by Ibn
Kanjur.
There is no doubt among Muslims of not only the existence of jinn, but
also of their power of reason. Like humans, they are accountable of
what they do in this earth. Like humans, some are good and others are
bad, and they will be rewarded or punish in the Hereafter according to
their deeds in this world. Allah says in the Qur’ān,
وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنْسِ
لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ
بِهَا
وَلَهُمْ آَذَانٌ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا أُولَئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ
هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ (الأعراف٧: ١٧٩).
“Many of the jinn and men We have made for Hell. They have heart
wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears
wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle—nay, more misguided: for
they are heedless (of the warning).” (al-A‘rāf [7]:179).
We have also in the Qur’ān chapter 72 surah al-Jinn (the Jinn)
speaking about this hidden creatures, as well as chapter 76 called
surah al-Insān (Man) speaking about human beings. In surah al-Nās
(chapter 114) it is mentioned that the evil whisperers are among jinn
and human beings. In surah al-Rah.mān (chapter 55) Allah mentions the
creation of jinn and man, reminding them of His blessings on them,
followed with the rhetorical question فَبِأَيِّّ آلآءِ رَبِّكُمَا
تُكَذِّباَن “Then which of the blessings of your Lord will you both
(jinn and men) deny?” thirty-three times.
Ibn Kanjur said that in India [he was originally from Bombay, India]
the jinn have what they called “Holy Fire”. Young people who venerated
cows jumped into it in order to free themselves from the “dirty” life.
Then a devil appeared in the form of the young man, saying, “Now, I am
in the sate of bliss and happiness.”
Jinn servants and slaves
Prophet-King Solomon enslaved a group of jinn. There were even jinn
among his army.
Black Magic and Its Types
Speaking about black magic , Ibn Kanjur said: “It is an illusion,
imagination, but could be dangerous and could kill.” He has treated
tens of black magic cases. There was a man who was bewitched,
controlled by jinn. His hands became paralyzed for seven years. He
went abroad for treatment, but unsuccessful. Eventually, he died
strangled when one the jinn came out of his body.
Among the kinds of black magic are:
a. that causes hatred between husband wife, ending with divorce and
the black magic that causes her to meet another man
b. that stops man’s activity, in business, for example, so that he
became bankrupt, or that caused a woman have difficulty in finding her
mate
c. that causes pain in human body which cannot be treated with
medicine, such as pain in body and paralyses in limbs and swollen
liver.
d. that enters the woman’s womb, stopping the flow of her egg, and her
husband’s sperms so that she becomes infertile and could lead to
cancer
e. that enters the girls’ womb to prevent her from marrying by
inflicting disease in her face to delay the coming of a future
husband.
Being possessed by devil is among the dangerous black magic. There are
two symptoms of it: (1) sudden isolation (2) sudden change in a part
or the whole face, such as red and black colour, and sudden attack on
people, occasional nightmare; having the feeling of falling down from
a high place that scares him and feeling the pain.
How to Know if a Person is Being Possessed by Jinn
In order to know if a person is being possessed by jinn, according to
Ibn Kanjur, read the following Qur’anic verses in our right palm:
1. سورة إبراهيم: ٤٢–٥٢ (وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللَّهَ غَافِلًا عَمَّا
يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيهِ
الْأَبْصَارُ. مُهْطِعِينَ مُقْنِعِي رُءُوسِهِمْ لَا يَرْتَدُّ
إِلَيْهِمْ طَرْفُهُمْ وَأَفْئِدَتُهُمْ هَوَاءٌ. وَأَنْذِرِ النَّاسَ
يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمُ الْعَذَابُ فَيَقُولُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا رَبَّنَا
أَخِّرْنَا إِلَى أَجَلٍ قَرِيبٍ نُجِبْ دَعْوَتَكَ وَنَتَّبِعِ
الرُّسُلَ أَوَلَمْ تَكُونُوا أَقْسَمْتُمْ مِنْ قَبْلُ مَا لَكُمْ مِنْ
زَوَالٍ. وَسَكَنْتُمْ فِي مَسَاكِنِ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ
وَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمْ كَيْفَ فَعَلْنَا بِهِمْ وَضَرَبْنَا لَكُمُ
الْأَمْثَالَ. وَقَدْ مَكَرُوا مَكْرَهُمْ وَعِنْدَ اللَّهِ مَكْرُهُمْ
وَإِنْ كَانَ مَكْرُهُمْ لِتَزُولَ مِنْهُ الْجِبَالُ. فَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ
اللَّهَ مُخْلِفَ وَعْدِهِ رُسُلَهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ ذُو
انْتِقَامٍ. يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الْأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَوَاتُ
وَبَرَزُوا لِلَّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ. وَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ
يَوْمَئِذٍ مُقَرَّنِينَ فِي الْأَصْفَادِ. سَرَابِيلُهُمْ مِنْ
قَطِرَانٍ وَتَغْشَى وُجُوهَهُمُ النَّارُ. لِيَجْزِيَ اللَّهُ كُلَّ
نَفْسٍ مَا كَسَبَتْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَرِيعُ الْحِسَابِ. هَذَا بَلَاغٌ
لِلنَّاسِ وَلِيُنْذَرُوا بِهِ وَلِيَعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا هُوَ إِلَهٌ
وَاحِدٌ وَلِيَذَّكَّرَ أُولُو الْأَلْبَابِ)
2. سورة المؤمنون: ٩٧ – ١١٨ (وَقُلْ رَبِّ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ هَمَزَاتِ
الشَّيَاطِينِ. وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ رَبِّ أَنْ يَحْضُرُونِ. حَتَّى إِذَا
جَاءَ أَحَدَهُمُ الْمَوْتُ قَالَ رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِ. لَعَلِّي أَعْمَلُ
صَالِحًا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ كَلَّا إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَائِلُهَا
وَمِنْ وَرَائِهِمْ بَرْزَخٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ. فَإِذَا نُفِخَ
فِي الصُّورِ فَلَا أَنْسَابَ بَيْنَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَلَا
يَتَسَاءَلُونَ. فَمَنْ ثَقُلَتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ
الْمُفْلِحُونَ. وَمَنْ خَفَّتْ مَوَازِينُهُ فَأُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ
خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ فِي جَهَنَّمَ خَالِدُونَ. تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ
النَّارُ وَهُمْ فِيهَا كَالِحُونَ. أَلَمْ تَكُنْ آَيَاتِي تُتْلَى
عَلَيْكُمْ فَكُنْتُمْ بِهَا تُكَذِّبُونَ. قَالُوا رَبَّنَا غَلَبَتْ
عَلَيْنَا شِقْوَتُنَا وَكُنَّا قَوْمًا ضَالِّينَ. رَبَّنَا أَخْرِجْنَا
مِنْهَا فَإِنْ عُدْنَا فَإِنَّا ظَالِمُونَ. قَالَ اخْسَئُوا فِيهَا
وَلَا تُكَلِّمُونِ. إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَرِيقٌ مِنْ عِبَادِي يَقُولُونَ
رَبَّنَا آَمَنَّا فَاغْفِرْ لَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ
الرَّاحِمِينَ. فَاتَّخَذْتُمُوهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا حَتَّى أَنْسَوْكُمْ
ذِكْرِي وَكُنْتُمْ مِنْهُمْ تَضْحَكُونَ. إِنِّي جَزَيْتُهُمُ الْيَوْمَ
بِمَا صَبَرُوا أَنَّهُمْ هُمُ الْفَائِزُونَ. قَالَ كَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِي
الْأَرْضِ عَدَدَ سِنِينَ. قَالُوا لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍ
فَاسْأَلِ الْعَادِّينَ. قَالَ إِنْ لَبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا لَوْ
أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ. أَفَحَسِبْتُمْ أَنَّمَا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ
عَبَثًا وَأَنَّكُمْ إِلَيْنَا لَا تُرْجَعُونَ. فَتَعَالَى اللَّهُ
الْمَلِكُ الْحَقُّ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْكَرِيمِ.
وَمَنْ يَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آَخَرَ لَا بُرْهَانَ لَهُ بِهِ
فَإِنَّمَا حِسَابُهُ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِ إِنَّهُ لَا يُفْلِحُ
الْكَافِرُونَ. وَقُلْ رَبِّ اغْفِرْ وَارْحَمْ وَأَنْتَ خَيْرُ
الرَّاحِمِينَ)
3. سورة الفلق: (قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ. مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ.
وَمِنْ شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ. وَمِنْ شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي
الْعُقَدِ. وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ.
4. سورة الناس: قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ. مَلِكِ النَّاسِ. إِلَهِ
النَّاسِ. مِنْ شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ. الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي
صُدُورِ النَّاسِ. مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ.
While reading these verses put your right palm closely under your
mouth, so that your breath or a small part of your saliva hits your
right palm. After reading these verses put your right palm in front of
the patient and ask him to look at it. If the patient:
a. cannot see your palm, or
b. his eyes become dazzled
c. your palm look very red or very black, or
d. he sees many crosses in your palm, or
e. he is suddenly attacked by severe headache, or
f. suddenly a symptom of abnormality appears,
then the person is being inflicted with black magic or being possessed
by jinn or both.
Contract between the Magician and the Jinn
A contract between a magician and a jinni is possible to make. The
jinni will do whatever the magician wants him to do and vice-versa. If
the contract were revoked the jinni would punish him by blinding his
eyes or kill him, unless he repented.
There was a female magician who was given a condition in the contract
with the jinni that he would have sex with her from inside her womb
every four hours.
Ibn Ikanjur said that he killed a jinni called Marid who live in the
womb of a Muslim woman and claimed to be his wife. He also killed a
jinni called Musawwa who remained inside the chest of a young man and
refused to go out.
Pointing at a TV set, Ibn Kanjur said that David Copperfield had made
contract with the jinni. He can float in the air, lift up by thousands
of jinn. The woman he cut inside a box was actually a female jinni
appearing as a human being, disappeared when the box was being cut
off, and then appeared again uninjured when the box was opened.
The Entering of the Devil into the Human Body
There is a h.adīth that reads as follows:
عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ حُيَيٍّ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ
وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ
يَجْرِي مِنْ الْإِنْسَانِ مَجْرَى الدَّمِ )رواه مسلم)
On the authority of S.afiyyah bint. H...uyay the Prophet (p.b.u.h.)
said: “The decvil runs in the body of the son of Adam like
the running of blood” (Reported by Muslim).
It is like electricity in the electric cable. It can cause the loss of
memory, the willingness to quarrel with people, and even loss of
consciousness. Ibn Kanjur claims to have seen such a thing.
There are types of people who can be easily controlled by jinn:
a. immoral people, those who forget Allah, and those who surrender
themselves to the jinn, like witches.
b. those who are unintentionally hurting the jinn, such as dropping
heavy things without remembering Allah, who are pouring hot water
without remembering Allah, as this hot water could kill a jinni child.
c. women who like to have their make-up and show their beauty to
people, as male jinn like female humans.
d. women who use cutes which prevent water from reaching their fingers
in ablution (wudu’), so that they still remain impure, especially in
their state of major impurity (junub), and after their period. When
they go out the jinn like to enter their bodies. A woman who is pure
from h.adath (impure state) and is wearing a veil, the jinn cannot
enjoy her beauty, even with his sharp eyes, because Allah covers her
face.
e. women who were fully controlled by their emotion, for example when
they are too happy or too sad, are easy targets for the jinn to enter
their body. The Prophet has warned us against being controlled by our
own emotion, especially when one of our beloved ones is passing away,
and women tore their clothes, hurting their heads or bodies. It is
mentioned in the Qur’an, as follows:
إِذْ قَالَ لَهُ قَوْمُهُ لَا تَفْرَحْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَرِحِينَ
(القصص :٧٦)
“Remember when his (Korah’s) people said to him.
’Do not exult (with riches, being ungrateful to Allah).
Verily, Allah likes not those who exult.’”
(Q. 28:76).
APPENDIX 1
Evocation of Spirits
Although our qarīns cannot appear as human beings, he can be called to
be present by someone, and to come in our form, imitating our voice,
and claiming to be our spirit coming fromعَالَمُ اْلبَرْزَخ (lit. “the
barrier world”, between this world and the resurrection day where the
souls of the dead stay waiting for the Judgments day), answering our
questions. They can even imitate our handwriting, for they know us
very well, having been with us for so long, as long as we live
Jaylangkung
In the early 60s, an instrument to communicate the spirits of the dead
was introduced in Indonesia. The procedure looked like ouija table
known in the West. Instead of holding the table in ouija by several
people, jaylangkung is much simpler. Tie a pencil or a pen at a piece
of stick, put a piece of paper under it, hold the stick and say some
magic words, such as “jaylangkung, jaylangkung … etc”. A “spirit” will
come and will write on the paper “answering” your question. A student
asked a question, “Shall I pass the coming examination?”. He got the
answer, “study hard!” It indicated that this “spirit” did not know the
future.
Not everyone who holds the stick will make it move. You have to have a
kind of confidence with it. My sister who was a religious teacher and
skeptic about it, held the stick very long without success. The stick
would not move and write.
The success of the jaylangkung depends also on the place you perform
it. My friend Agil Alaydrus told me in Jeddah that it happened a man
from Indonesia tried in Mecca to call the “spirit” of the Prophet
through the jaylangkung. The man vomited and became sick.
A well-known journalist of al-Ahrām newspaper, Anis Mansour, visited
Indonesia in the 60s. He visted Jakarta, Bandung and the island of
Bali. He said that Bali was not the most beautiful island in the
world, but the strangest one. What he had in mind was the culture and
religion of its people. They are Hindus but eat meat; their religion
is Balinese Hinduism. Then Anis Mansour talked about the jaylangkung
and how it was practiced in Indonesia. He said, perhaps jokingly, that
the world might come from the Arabic language جَاء لِيَكُنْ (jā’
liyakun), meaning “he comes to be [there]”. To me, it sounds like
Chinese jay lang kung. (Anybody knows what does this mean, if any?)
Since the appearance of Anis Mansour’s account in al-Ahram newspaper,
some people in Egypt tried the jaylangkung and succeeded. There was a
person who got a message in hieroglyph writing (ancient Egyptian
writings symbolized in pictures). Another one, a woman calling the
spirit of her dead husband through the jaylangkung. She was sure that
it was the spirit of her husband who sent the message, because he
asked her to take care of their daughter such-and-such, a name known
only to the couple. This was, based on the opinion of Ibn Kanjur, the
converted jinni, the work of a jinni, the qarīn of the dead, or any
other curious jinni.
APPENDIX 2
The claim that scientists among the jinn, especially in medicine, are
more advanced that human medical doctors, could be right, for the
following reasons: (1) They have been on the earth much earlier than
human beings, and therefore may know more about it than we do; (2)
They live longer, can live hundreds even thousands years, and
therefore have more time to study and make more research before they
die. In the human world, a scholar spends time to study and make
research, and at the same time the moment of death is also
approaching. He might not have time to record all of his knowledge and
findings before his death. Therefore, many of his knowledge and
findings are lost with his death, a big loss for humans. He must be
replaced with another scholar who must start learning from childhood.
(3) They have more facility to move, because of their light bodies.
One of the apparent sophisticated knowledge of the jinn in the field
of medicine is the following story:
The Kuwayt daily newspaper al-Qabas in its supplement published on
Monday 26, March 1979, states that a woman of a Coptic Christian
family suffered from cancer for five years. She lived in Manial at the
outskirt of Cairo. Her name was Mrs. Samya Wadi, age 57. She suddenly
suffered severe headache as a result of pain in her stomach. Her
husband, Mr. Safwat Jiryes took her to the hospital. The doctor told
her that she suffered from cancer and he could not make the operation
as the cancer hided inside a tiny vein in her stomach. She was brought
home. One month later she fell into coma for one month, and the
doctors fed her through glucose injection and by giving her pure
blood. When she awoke, she found herself paralysed. Her husband called
a priest who ordered him to practise certain religious rites, but they
could not help her. During this period the cancer reached her liver,
and the doctors said that she could live only for counted days, and
she would die. A neighbouring Muslim woman who had just returned from
pilgrimage advised her to recite certain verses of the Qur’ān. She did
and felt better. She could sleep after months of staying awake. Her
husband brought her some Qur’ānic tapes for her to listen.
One night in November 1978 Mrs. Samya Wadi asked her husband to bring
her a bottle of the best perfume he could get, eau de cologne (lit.
“water from Cologne”, Koeln in Germany) and to wash her whole body
with it. Then she begged him to turn off the light and leave her
alone, because she wanted to enjoy complete darkness of that night.
The husband thought that this might be her end, that she would soon
die. Therefore, he prayed to God to relieve her from her pain.
In the morning, he knocked at the door, no answer. He knocked again,
and again no answer. He opened the door by force and found his wife in
a very strange condition.. He was shocked to see her. Her upper part
was covered with medical bandage, and her lower part was covered with
white sheet. She was unconscious. He called his children to see their
mother. Neighbours also came to see her. Then he called the doctors.
They came and made some medical tests. They said that she had been
under a highly delicate operation, and recommended to bring her to the
hospital. She was still unconscious. In the hospital the doctors
declared that the cancer had been completely uprooted from her stomach
and her liver, the operation was very successful, and she was cured..
What did really happened to her? After her recovery a correspondence
of al-Qabas met her in Cairo and asked her to tell him the true story.
While trying to stop her tears, she said that at that night, after her
husband left, she felt asleep while reciting some verses of the
Qur’an. At about one o’clock at midnight, she felt she was completely
naked, and some persons whose faces she could not see were around her
bed. She was half-conscious, and yet she felt what was going around
her. She thought that she saw her belly was being opened without pain,
and the hands of the unknown visitors started to deal with her sick
parts and uprooted the illness. She felt bandages and a piece of
cotton was put into her mouth. She went into coma for three days. Her
neighbour Umm Ahmad told her that believing jinn made operations for
people of pure hearts. The end of the story is that the whole family
converted to Islam.
APPENDIX 3
On Saturday, 5th of March 2005, three Indonesian scholars visited the
Indonesian Embassy in Canberra to talk about ruqyah. They were, H.
Budi Ashari, Lc, H. Ahmad Junaidi, Lc., and H. Ahmad Zairofi, Lc.
Ruqyah literally means “protection through ducā (supplication,
prayer)”; technically it means “recitation of Qur’ānic verses and
transmitted ducās and in transmitted way (from the Prophet) for the
purpose of protection and treatment (against devils).”
In a pamphlet Mr. Junaidi stated, after three years of treating
thousands of patients disturbed by devils, he found two motives for
people’s dependant on jinn, namely,
1. Lack of faith, lack of knowledge of the religion of Islam, wrong
way of worship, and the mix up of religious law with tradition. He
cites the following Qur’anic verse,
وَمَنْ يَعْشُ عَنْ ذِكْرِ الرَّحْمَنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُ شَيْطَانًا فَهُوَ
لَهُ قَرِينٌ (الزخرف : ٣٦)
“If anyone withdraws himself from remembrance
of (Allah) Most Gracious We appoint for an evil one
to be an intimate companion to him.”
(Q. 43:36, A.Y. Ali’s translation).
Lack of faith leads to restlessness, worry and sadness. Instead of
returning to Allah one resorts to dukun (indigenous medical
practitioner, shaman, fortune teller), amulets, and visiting places
claimed to possess supernatural qualities. Lack of knowledge of
religion renders a person to fall into Satan’s misguidance by turning
truth into falsehood and vice versa, for example, believing that every
supernatural thing is karāmah (miracle worked by a saint given by
Allah). Many Muslims learn witchcraft thinking that it is karāmah.
Mistakenly they divide it into black and white magics, whereas in fact
it should be divided into white and black witchcrafts. People
practising innovated way of worship are liked by devils who are ready
to serve them, such as reading Surah al-Jinn such-and-such times with
the intention to see the jinn, or any other similar intention. There
are still many rituals and beliefs based on culture contradictory to
Islam are still being practiced, and usually with the assistance of
Satan.
2. Taking a short cut to gain one’s goal. Allah says in the Qur’ān,
(القمر : ٤٩) ِإنَّا كُلَّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقْنَاهُ بِقَدَر
“Verily all thing We created in proportion
and measure.” (Q. 54:49).
Therefore, since Allah has passed His judgment on everything, one
should not rush to get what one wants. It is Allah’s divine decree
that will come to pass, whether we shall eventually get or not what we
want. Many Muslims have forgotten this principle. For example, a poor
person would come to a dukun seeking wealth. A woman who is afraid to
become a spinster would go to a paranormal, hoping to help her in
finding a husband. An employee who wishes to be favoured by his
employer and to get a quick promotion would buy an amulet for
obtaining authority, and a merchant who is short of customers would
seek and keep things that have “magic power” to stimulate sales, such
as a figure or design with mystical properties written in Arabic
script written at the door, and perfume given with magic spells, salt
spread in the yard. A man seeking invulnerability (to bullets, knives,
etc), instant mastery of martial art, the ability to hit from a
distance and to break a manual water pump with bare hand, would come
to the “kyai” (title or reference for a venerated scholar, teacher of
Islam), or join a training that looked like a mere physical exercise,
but in fact it contains something not mentioned to the participants.
Mr Junaidi states further that most of people who are dependable on
jinn suffer from:
1. Inconsistency in establishing prayers. They often miss the prayers
or do them very lately, or on time but without khushūc (humility), and
feel sleepy when they listen to the recitation of the Qur’ān or to the
Friday khut.bah (sermon). Such phenomena had been experienced by a
companion of the Prophet called cUthmān ibn Abī l-cĀs.. A daily
newspaper reporter in Jakarta suffered from headache without any
apparent reason and had cold sweat on Fridays so that he could not
attend the congregational prayer.
2. Family problem, quarrels and lack of intimacy between husband and
wife, blind jealousy, and excessive suspicion occur in the family.
Many of them have no children, and on the brink of divorce. This
occurred to a woman under the age of 40 who came to Mr. Junaidi for
treatment.
3. Failure in economic orientation, business destruction and
irrationality in seeking wealth. As an example, a former manager of a
foreign business living at Krawang, about 40 years old was tempted by
the enticement of a dukun to get billions of rupiahs from an invisible
bank (run by jinn). Instead of getting money from it he became
bankrupt, lost everything, position, house, even his wife asked him
for divorce.
4. Psychological disturbance, such as being upset easily, excessive
suspicion, paranoia, inferiority complex, and kesurupan (being
possessed by a spirit).
5. Experiencing problem in sakratu’l-mawt (the agony of death). A man
of 74 years old, a former master of martial arts was laying at
Pertamina Central Hospital, and had been 12 days at the Intensive Care
Unit, and nobody was allowed to approach him. One of his grandsons
asked Mr. Junaidi for conducting ruqyah for his grandfather. The man
passed away 2 days after the ruqyah.
Among thousands of patients treated by Mr Junaidi, he noticed two main
characteristics:
1. Those who are serious in their effort and certain of the validity
of Islamic way (of treatment). They understand that ruqyah is not only
a means for treatment, but also a part of Islamic faith to save the
belief in tawh.īd (the Oneness of God). A professor of management who
often lost his money in his bag, asked Mr. Junaidi to perform ruqyah
to his house. A woman who suffered from brain concussion by jinn was
cured after doing ruqyah four times on her
2. Those who just wanted to try out the ruqyah. They did not have
sufficient knowledge about it. Some of them thought that, like the
dukuns or magicians who could promise things to be fulfilled quickly
or predict the future, asked Mr. Junaidi the same questions, and
thought that he could see the jinn. Many of them, although they were
positively possessed/disturbed by jinn, could not be patient and did
not want to do what had been suggested to them as treatment, as they
were only trying it out. No wonder, such people could not get any
improvement from ruqyah treatment.
The mass ruqyah was successfully conducted after the speech. The
participants, mostly Indonesians, were asked to lie down and asked
Allah’s forgiveness. Mr. Junaidi who was conducting the ruqyah warned
the jinn (devils) if any (in Indonesian language), inside the bodies
of the participants to get out through their feet, hands or mouths.
Otherwise, after counting one to three, they would be burned with
Qur’ānic verses, which Mr. Junaidi recited loudly. Most of the verses
recited dealt with jinn and protection from black magic. Br. Dawud
Dohri, a converted Hindu, told me that he felt that his hands became
stiff for a moment. One person vomited; the jinni might have come out
through his mouth. Alhamdu lillah I successfully passed this
“screening”.
APPENDIX 4
SATAN
Satan is a name for every rebel. The Qur’ānic commentator Abū ‘Ubaydah
Ma‘mar ibn al-Muthannā says that every predominant rebel among the
jinn, humans or animals is called شَيْطَان (satan). The root of the
term is either
(a) شَطَنَ (shat.ana) meaning “to be far away”, such as the
expressionشَطَنْتُ دَارَه (shat.antu dārahu), meaning “I made myself
far away from his house”. Satan is called so because he is far from
goodness, or he is deep in evilness;
(b) شَاطَ (shāt.a) meaning “to go and perish”, as in the poem of
al-A‘shā وَ قَدْ يَشِيْطُ عَلَى أَرْمَاحِنَا الََبَطَلُ , meaning “It
may happen that the hero went and perished with our lances” (namely,
killed by mistake). Satan is called so, because he will go perish for
his disobedience to Allah.
The term satan (devil, evil one) in the Qur’ān, according to some
Qur’ānic commentators has four connotations:
1. The soothsayer, the priest (الْكَاهِن), as in the verse,
وَإِذَا خَلَوْا إِلَى شَيَاطِينِهِمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا مَعَكُمْ إِنَّمَا
نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِئُونَ (البقرة :١٤)
“… but when they go apart to their devils they declare:
Lo! We are with you; verily we did but mock.”
(Q.2:14, Pickthall’s translation).
It is also said the satans (devils, evil ones) in this verse means the
leaders of infidelity.
2. The tyrant among the jinn and human beings, as in the following verse,
(الأنعام: ١١٢) وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا
شَيَاطِينَ الْإِنْسِ وَالْجِنِّ
“Thus have We appointed unto every Prophet
an adversary—devils of human kind and jinn…”
(Q. 6:112, Pickthall’s translation)
3. The snake (اْلحَيَّة), as in the verse,
طَلْعُهَا كَأَنَّهُ رُءُوسُ الشَّيَاطِينِ (الصافات : ٦٥)
“Its crop is as it were the heads of devils…” (Q. 37:65)
4. Umayyah ibn Khalaf, as in the verse,
لَقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَنِي وَكَانَ
الشَّيْطَانُ لِلْإِنْسَانِ خَذُولًا (الفرقان : ٢٩).
“He verily led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me.
Satan was ever man’s deserter in the hour of need.” (Q. 25:29).
It is also said that the satan meant in this verse is Abū Jahl, and
the man is ‘Uqbah ibn Abī Mu‘īt..
المرجع: أبو الفرج بن الجوزي , ُنزْهَةُ اْلأَعْيُنِ النَّوَاظِرِ فِي
عِلْمِ اْلوُجُوْهِ وَ النَّظَائِر.
بيروت : مؤسسة الرسالة , ١٤٠٥|١٩٨٥، ص ٣٧٤-٣٧٦.
1. It is mentioned in surat al-Jinn “’And we [the jinn] pried into the
(secrets of) heaven; but we found it filled with sterns guards and
flaming fires’”(Qur’an 72:8); see also (Qur’an, al-S.affāt 37:6-10)
where these jinn were chased away by a flaming fire of piercing
brightness.
2. Iblīs was one of the jinn created from smokeless fire. Allah says,
“And He created jinn from fire free of smoke” (Qur’ān, al-Rahmān
55:15). The root meaning of jinn is janna, yajunnu (“to cover”, “to
hide”) or junna yujannu (in passive voice, meaning “to be covered” or
“to be hidden”).
3. This statement is extremely hard to believe. A child of two years
old who is still developing his eyesight can see with sharper eyes
than those of the adult.
4. My friend Agil Alaydrus told me that in the past the government of
Saudi Arabia ordered to kill the back dogs in Makkah, but my friend
told me that the bullet returned to hit the shooter rather than the
dog. Since then, you will see many black dogs in Makkah, especially
outside the pilgrimage season. I have never heard them barking, and I
have never seen their droppings. I was also told that in the past when
entering the Sanctuary was not so restricted as at present, a black
dog followed a person who was apparently a non-Muslim. Are these black
dogs Muslim jinn protecting the Sanctuary Mosque?
5. My friend Agil Alaydrus told me in Makkah a story of a man who
beats a cat that entered his house and stole his food. The next night
“a police man” came to warn him for hitting “someone” and who
complained against him. Ibn Taymiyah was reported to have said that
the jinn like to appear as dogs, snakes or black cats, because black
colour gives power to the jinn. Perhaps it is because black colour
absorbs all colours of the rainbow.
6. In a hadith on the authority of Abu Hurayrah, he caught a jinni in
human form three times, and as he did not want to release him the
jinni taught him to read ayatul kursi before going to sleep, the jinni
(the devil, satan) would not disturb him. When Abu Hurayrah told the
incident to the Prophet, he confirmed that Allah will protect us from
Satan (the devil) if we read it before going to sleep.
7. The term qarīn means “a male companion”, a male who accompanies
someone. It could mean “a husband”, because he is a companion to his
wife. The term qarīnah means a female companion, and therefore could
mean “a wife”.
8. In Indonesia a person can buy a jinni to work for him. One example
is the jinni who worked for the person who bought him. The jinni who
repaired the body of the car could do it easily in the area where it
was difficult for humans to do. The problem was that the repaired area
did not stay permanently. In Indonesia it is called “ketok majik”
(magical pounding) and is done behind a curtain. The jinni that we buy
as a servant can go and steal for us. We can order him to bring
something, but we do not know its source, most probably from stealing.
Moreover, because we do not see him, he does what he likes, and there
must be something for him in return. It is not totally a free service.
As a matter of fact, we do not know who is really serving who. There
has to be mutual benefit, namely, we have to serve him the way he
wants, not the way we want, although we are “the master, the buyer”
and he is “the servant”. Otherwise, he would not obey us. The jinni
might even make fun of us because we do not see him. Therefore, buying
or employing a jinni could be a dangerous deed, and he could turn to
be “an invisible enemy” if we do not answer his demand. To the jinn we
say “to you your world, to us our world, we have nothing in
common--except if you become Muslims, then you become among our
brothers and sisters in faith.”
9. Practicing black magic is one of the grave sins. Even learning it
is prohibited (h.arām) except, according to Abū H...anīfah if the
intention is only to learn in order to fight or avoid it, and with
strong determination not to practice it, then it is makrūh
(reprehensible).
