The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies (10 page)

THE QUR'AN-AL-HIJR (STONE LAND, ROCK CITY) 15.26-40

[15.26] And indeed, we created man from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud.

[15.27] And the djinn race, we created aforetime from the smokeless flame of fire.

[15.28] And remember when your Lord said to the angels: "I am going to create a man (Adam) from sounding clay from mud moulded into shape;

[15.29] So, when I have fashioned him completely and breathed into him the soul which I created for him, then fall down prostrating yourselves unto him."

[15.30] So, the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together. Except Iblis (Satan),-he refused to be among the pros- trators.

[15.31] Allah said: "0 Iblis! What is your reason for not being among the prostrators?

[15.32] Iblis said: I am not the one to prostrate myself to a human being, whom you created from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud.

[15.33] Allah said: Then, get out from here, for verily, you are rajim.'

[15.34] And verily, the curse shall be upon you till the Day of Resurrection.

[15.35] Iblis said: 0 my Lord! Give me then respite till the day the dead will be resurrected.

[15.36] Allah said: Then, verily, you are of those reprieved, Till the Day of the time appointed.

[15.37] Iblis (Satan) said: 0 my Lord! because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for mankind on the earth, and I shall mislead them all.

[15.38] Accept you are chosen among them.

[15.39] Allah said: This is the Way which will lead straight to me.

[15.40] Certainly, you shall have no authority over my chosen ones, except those who follow you of the ghawin.2

Additional References to Djinn in the Qur'an

THE QUR'AN-AL-ANAAM (CATTLE AND LIVESTOCK) 6.ioo, 112, 128, 130

[6.100] And they make the djinn associates with Allah, while He created them, and they falsely attribute to Him sons and daughters without knowledge; glory be to Him, and highly exalted is He above what they ascribe.

[6.112] And thus did we make for every prophet an enemy, the shaitans3
from among men and djinn, some of them suggesting to others varnished falsehood to deceive, and had your Lord pleased they would not have done it, therefore leave them and that which they forge.

[6.128] And on the day when he shall gather them all together: 0 assembly of djinn! You took away a great part of mankind. And their friends from among the men shall say: Our Lord! Some of us profited by others and we have reached our appointed term which Thou didst appoint for us. He shall say: The fire is your abode, to abide in it, except as Allah is pleased;
surely your Lord is wise, knowing.

[6.130] "0 ye assembly of Jinns and men! came there not unto you messengers from amongst you, setting forth unto you My signs, 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. So against themselves will they bear witness that they rejected Faith."

Yet, they join the djinn as partners in worship with Allah, though He has created them (the djinn), and they attribute falsely without knowledge sons and daughters to Him. Be He glorified and exalted above all that they attribute to him. He is the originator of the heavens and the earth. How can he have children when He has no wife? He created all things and he is the all-knower of everything. Such is Allah, your Lord! So worship Him Alone, and he is the wakil4
over all things.

Comments: This chapter centers on the fall of Iblis from the grace of God. He is allowed to influence men who have strayed away from the right path, but not allowed to touch those who are chosen. Here we see that some djinn did not teach the worship of God to their children, and that some djinn have corrupted human beings. The evil djinn have assigned devils, evil men, or djinn to attack the prophets.

THE QUR'AN-AL-ARAF (THE HEIGHTS) 7.38, P79

[7.38] He will say: Enter into fire among the nations that have passed away before you from among djinn and men; whenever a nation shall enter, it shall curse its sister, until when they have all come up with one another into it; the last of them shall say with regard to the foremost of them: Our Lord! These led us astray therefore give them a double chastisement of the fire. He
will say: Every one shall have double but you do not know.

[7.179] And surely, we have created many of the djinn and
mankind for Hell. They have hearts wherewith they understand
not, they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears
wherewith they hear not the truth. They are like cattle, nay even
more astray; those! They are the heedless ones. Some people
asked Allah's Apostle about the foretellers [fortune tellers]. He
said, "They are nothing." They said, "0 Allahs Apostle! Sometimes they tell us of a thing which turns out to be true." Allah's
Apostle said, "A djinn snatches that true word and pours it into
the ear of his friend the foreteller as one puts something into a
bottle. The foreteller then mixes with that word one hundred
lies. And if an evil whisper comes to you from Shaitan (Satan)
then seek refuge with Allah. Verily, he is all-hearer, all-knower.
And they have invented a kinship between Him and the djinn,
but the djinn know well that they have indeed to appear before. And on the Day when He will gather them together and
say: 0 you assembly of djinn! Many did you mislead of men 0
you assembly of djinn 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.

Comments: The Qur'an is against fortune-telling and the readings
of today's psychics and mediums. Christianity also takes a similar
stance on this topic.

THE QUR'AN-HUD (THE HOLY PROPHET) 11.119

Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed his mercy and
for that did he create them. And the Word of your Lord has
been fulfilled. Surely, I shall fill Hell with djinn and men all together. This is because your Lord would not destroy the populations of towns for their wrongdoing while their people were
unaware.

THE QUR'AN-IBRAHIM (ABRAHAM) 14.22

And Shaitan (Iblis/Satan) will say when the matter has been
decided: Verily, Allah promised you a promise of truth. And I
too promised you, but I betrayed you. I had no authority over
you except that I called you, so you responded to me. So blame
me not, but blame yourselves. I cannot help you, nor can you
help me. I deny your former act in associating me (Satan) as a
partner with Allah. Verily, there is a painful torment for those
who do not believe or worship other gods.

THE QUR'AN-AL-ISRA (IsRA, THE NIGHT JOURNEY, CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL) 17.61-64, 88

[17.61] And when we said to the angels: "Prostrate unto
Adam." They prostrated except Iblis. He said: "Shall I prostrate
to one whom you created from clay?"

[17.62] Iblis said: "See? This one whom You have honored
above me, if You give me respite and keep me alive to the Day
of Resurrection, I will surely seize and mislead his offspring, all
but a few!"

[17.63] (Allah) said: "Go thy way; if any of them follow thee,
verily Hell will be the recompense of you (all)-an ample recompense."

[17.64] "Lead to destruction those whom thou canst among
them, with thy (seductive) voice; make assaults on them with
thy cavalry and thy infantry; mutually share with them wealth and children; and make promises to them." But Satan promises
them nothing but deceit.

[17.88] Say: "If the whole of mankind and djinn were to
gather together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could
not produce the like thereof, even if they backed up each other
with help and support."

THE QUR'AN-AL-KAHF (THE CAVE) 18,50

And when We said to the angels: make obeisance to Adam;
they made obeisance, but Iblis did it not. He was of the djinn,
so he transgressed the commandment of his Lord. What! would
you then take him and his offspring for friends rather than me,
and they are your enemies? Evil is change for the unjust.

THE QUR'AN-AN-NAML (THE ANT) 27.I7, 39

[27.17] And his hosts of the djinn and the men and the birds
were gathered to him, and they were formed into groups.

[27.39] One audacious among the djinn said: I will bring it
to you before you rise up from your place.

Comment: The above passages indicate the djinn formed groups
or clans.

THE QUR'AN-AS-SAJDA (THE ADORATION) 32.13

And if We had pleased we would certainly have given to every soul its guidance, but the word from me was just: I will certainly fill hell with the djinn and men together.

Comment: This is another reference that Hell was not made for
only evil human beings, but for the djinn as well.

THE QUR'AN-SABA (SHEBA) 34.12, 14, 41

[34.12] And we (the djinn) made the wind subservient to Sulayman (Solomon), which made a month's journey in the morning and a months journey in the evening, and we made a fountain of molten copper to flow out for him, and of the djinn there
were those who worked before him by the command of his Lord;
and whoever turned aside from Our command from among
them, We made him taste of the punishment of burning.

[34.14] But when We decreed death for him, naught showed
them his death but a creature of the earth that ate away his staff;
and when it fell down, the djinn came to know plainly that if
they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in
abasing torment.

[34.41] They shall say: Glory be to Thee! Thou art our
Guardian, not they; nay! they worshipped the djinn; most of
them were believers in them.

Comments: This points to the ability of the djinn to turn one substance into another. During the time of King Solomon copper was
highly sought after to make bronze. This passage also tells us of the
djinn servitude to Solomon as punishment and that other powerful djinn enforced this action.

THE QUR'AN-FATIR (THE ANGELS) 35.6

Surely, Shaitan (Satan) is an enemy to you, so take him as an
enemy. He only invites his followers that they may become the
dwellers of the blazing fire.

THE QUR'AN-AS-SAAFFAT (THE RANKS) 37.158

And they assert a relationship between him and the djinn; and
certainly the djinn do know that they shall surely be brought up.

THE QUR'AN-FUSSILAT (THE EXPLANATION) 41.25, 29

[41.25] And We have appointed for them comrades so they
have made fair-seeming to them what is before them and what is
behind them, and the word proved true against them-among
the nations of the djinn and the men that have passed away before them-that they shall surely be losers.

[41.29] And those who disbelieve will say: Our Lord! show
us those who led us astray from among the djinn and the men
that we may trample them under our feet so that they may be of
the lowest.

THE QUR'AN-AZ-ZUKHRUF (ORNAMENTS OF GOLD, LUXURY)
43.62

It is only Shaitan (Satan) that suggests to you the fear of his
supporters and friends so fear them not, but fear me, if you are
believers. And let not Shaitan hinder you, verily, he (Satan or
Iblis) to you is a plain enemy.

THE QUR'AN-AL-AHQAF (THE DUNES) 46.18, 29

[46.18] These are they against whom the word has proved
true among nations of the djinn and the men that have already
passed away before them; surely they are losers.

[46.29] And when We turned towards you a party of the
djinn who listened to the Qur'an; so when they came to it, they
said: Be silent; then when it was finished, they turned back to
their people warning them.

THE QUR'AN-AZ-DHARIYAT (THE WINDS) 51-56

And I (Allah) created not the djinn and humans except they
should worship me alone.

THE QUR'AN-AR-RAHMAN (THE BENEFIT) 55.15, 33, 39, 56, 74

[55.15] And he created the djinn of a flame of fire.

[55.33] 0 assembly of the djinn and the men! If you are able
to pass through the regions of the heavens and the earth, then
pass through; you cannot pass through but with authority.

[55.39] So on that day neither man nor djinni shall be asked
about his sin.

[55.56] In them shall be those who restrained their eyes; before them neither man nor djinni shall have touched them.

[55.74] Man has not touched them before them nor djinn.

THE QUR'AN-AN-NAS (MANKIND) 114.4

From the evil of the whisperer who withdraws. Who whispers in the breasts of mankind, "Of djinn and men?"

Comments: Once again we see how evil, powerful djinn influence
humans by whispering in the ears. This characteristic has been ascribed to many other kinds of spirits throughout history. For example, the ancient Greeks believed in daimones ("divine beings"),
a type of intelligence or attending spirit. The daimones ranged
from good to neutral to bad, and attempted to persuade people to
various actions good and bad. Daimones appear in the works of
numerous Greek philosophers. Socrates said he had a good daimon
(an agathodaimon) who whispered in one ear and a bad daimon
(a kakodaimon) who whispered in the other. Plutarch described
the daimones as living for centuries, and possessing thoughts so
intense in vibration that they could be heard by other spiritual beings and sensitive humans. Spirits whispering in the ear is one of
the most common reported paranormal experiences today.

Hadith

As mentioned earlier, the Sahih al-Bukhari is one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam, collected by the Muslim
scholar Muhammad Ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (810-870). Most Sunni
Muslims consider the Sahih al-Bukhari as the most authentic book
after the Qur'an. The djinn are mentioned in these writings, and
evil djinn are referred to as "devils." Other hadith are quoted as
well, including the Al-Muwatta, Sahih Muslim, and the Sunan AbuDawud.

HADITH-SAHIH BUKHARI 4.533

The Prophet said, "Cover your utensils and tie your water
skins, and close your doors and keep your children close to you
at night, as the djinn spread out at such time and snatch things
away. When you go to bed, put out your lights, for the mischief-doer may drag away the wick of the candle and burn the
dwellers of the house."