"I'm scared of jinn..."

**- Qatada -** · 11-26-2007

Question: Ever since I learned that the Jinn can possess people, I have been scared. I cannot sleep at night. They say that if you pray, you will not be scared. I pray, but I am very scared. What can I do?

Answered by Sheikh Khâlid Husayn

I have read your letter with deep concern and have felt the fears that you are suffering from.

You should know that the Jinn are a creation of Allah, but they are of a lesser grade than human beings. Sheikh Abû Bakr al-Jazâ’irî said: “Even the Muslim Jinn are lower in dignity and honor than human beings. Allah says: “We have honoured the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favours, above a great part of Our Creation.” [Sûrah al-Isrâ’: 70]

Such honor was never mentioned for the Jinn in Qur’an or Sunnah. Hence, humans are more honorable than the Jinn. The Jinn know this fact and feel inferior in front of people. That is why when people seek refuge with them, it makes them they feel so proud and arrogant.

You should know that the Jinn fear humans, particularly people with strong faith in Allah. It was related that the Jinn were frightened of `Umar and Abû Hurayrah.

Ibn Abî al-Dunyâ related that Mujâhid said: “While I was praying one night, somebody from among the Jinn, resembling a boy, stood in front of me and when I tried to grab him he jumped over the wall and I heard the noise of his fall. Then he never approached me again.” Then he said: “They (the Jinn) fear you as you fear them. But they fear you more than you fear them. If someone is approached by one of the Jinn, he should not fear him. Otherwise, they will pounce on him. But, if he confronts them, they will flee.” [Wiqâyah al-Insân min al-Jinn wa al-Shaytân page 33]

You should not fear the Jinn. Allah says: “It is only the Satan that suggested to you the fear of his votaries: be ye not afraid of them, but fear me if ye have faith” [Sûrah Âl-`Imrân: 175]

In order to get rid of your fear of the Jinn, I advise you to employ the following procedures:

1. Seek help from Allah and frequently seek refuge with him from Satan and his helpers from among the Jinn.

2. Be steadfast in praying on time.

3. Always read the prescribed remembrances of the morning and the evening, the remembrance before sleeping, and the other well-known remembrances.

4. Read or at lest listen to Sûrah al-Baqarah in full at least once every three days.

5. Read Âyah al-Kursî daily and particularly before going to bed. This is sure protection from the Jinn.

6. You have to abide strictly by Islamic teachings by doing what is permitted and avoiding what is sinful.

7. Offer sincere supplications to Allah to remove from you such unfounded fears and to protect you from evil and provide you with all manner of good.

And Allah knows best.

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**krypton6** · 01-15-2008

I apologize regarding my a bit confusing text (god part).

**Souljette** · 01-15-2008

Salamualikum, No offense but bro krypton6...i'm completely baffled by the things you are saying..apparantly you haven't seen someone possessed or you wouldn't say these things...I have lost an aunt and baby cuzin because of this possession...one of the pillars of Islam is believing in jinns and angels and everything that Allah (S.W.T) has created..you say that you don't believe anything that is not proven by science....Allah(S.W.T) created science and science is explained in the Quran long time before scientists figured it out...One thing about is Islam is being open-minded to analyse things ...if it was one story about jinn possession then you not believing it is understandable b ut when many people in different parts of the world talk about jinn possession how can you just shrug it off like it was a bad cough or something..specially when its sooo close to home..when people are talkin about being possessed and telling their stories..i would think the same if it didn't happen so close to home..Allahu alaam.

**piXie** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by krypton6

Because I have never heard of seen any of it, none of it has bin recorded, and none of it has bin proven.

Its been recorded n proven in the Qur'an and in the Hadith. That should be enough for us if we believe in Allah.

I dont believe that a human evil enough to be able to use magic exists today.

Brother, If there was no magic today then Allah and His Messenger

would not have told us to read the Qul every morning and evening:

Surah Al Ikhlaas, Surah Al Falaq, and Surah An-Naas.

These intructions have been given to us, the Ummah of Rasool Allah

for all times. The Quran and Hadith have been left to us to abide by for all times.

Every morning and evening in Surah Al Falaq, verse 4 we read, "wa min sharrin nafaasaati fil uqad"

"from the evil of the witches who BLOW into the knots."

That is magic, and magic exists today. If it didn't exist today, that verse wouldn't be relevant anymore, and not needed. Now how can a verse of the Qur'an not be needed? The Quran is a complete guide for us, an instruction manual, to protect us and give us success, can u imagine its verses expiring and going out of date? If we believe that magic can't exist today and that people are good, then automatically we are believing this verse has expired.

The "evil" people of our times are the ones who are addicted to life, in the past there was no life to addict yourself to so the evil people of the past were trully evil people who's intentions were to harm people as much as possible

Brother the people who are addicted to life are the people who don't want to return to Allah. If you look back into history and go through the verses of the Qur'an, you will find that people like that existed before too. They were addicted to life. Many of them knew that if they return to Allah they would be screwed for all the evil they had done. They performed magic, which Allah has put on this world as a test. They knew that the one to perform this dark art would never go to heaven. But they went by their desires and didn't care, they sold their souls to the shaytaan, do u think they were eager to return to Allah after that? Ofcourse not, they wanted to live forever. And people like that exist today too. How can they not?

Have all the people started fearing Allah today? Do all the people love one another today? Do they control their desires and anger and jealousy's today? No they don't brother, many people when they get angry they want to harm. Many people when they get jealous they desire the person they are jealous of be destroyed.There are many people NOWADAYS, uneducated and immoral, who don't fear Allah, who have sold their souls for the duniya, and will do anything to satisfy their desires and emotions. So what will stop them from using Magic? Tis cool, they say!

And if Jinns still exist (which they do because the shaytaan still exists and he is a jinn) what garantee or proof can we give that magic does not exist?

Magic exists today, the evil eye exists today, the Jinns exist today, the Shaytaans exist today, just because we haven't see it, doesn't mean they don't exist today!

n If we believe that people are not evil enough to use this magic, n get the Jinns to assist them, then we are being very innocent and just don't know what goes on in the world.

and harm God as much as possible which is why the satans helped them.

No one is able to harm God. Allah says If we do wrong, we only harm ourselves.

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by krypton6

Possessed? I dont believe in jins being able to posses a person! It trully quite simply is ridiculous, its equal to being afraid a fish, only a fish is seeable and a jin is not making the jin-phobia even more ridiculous.

...welcome brother...to my group...lol

**Mikayeel** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by truemuslim

...welcome brother...to my group...lol

oooh noo! not u aswell truemuslim.... u dnt believe in it either??

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by krypton6

Sorry for my language but there is no better word to describe my opinion regarding jins being able to posses humans than the word; Bull****!

I have NEVER EVER heard of a person who has bin taken down by a jin. People who claim to have bin possesed by jins are what I call 'crazy'.

May I ask how you remove the jin from a possesed body?

lol yeah.. so u are just born and a jinnn gets in ur body and and makes u do all haram...then leaves right when u about to die then u go to hell..

kinda like those ppl who others think got jin in them so they take the person...make em lie down...one person steps on there belly FULL WIEGHT and push.. and the other person chokes them...and FINALLY they GET THE JINN OUT!!...of course they get the person out too...

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by Hamada

oooh noo! not u aswell truemuslim.... u dnt believe in it either??

i believe it... i just dont believe they can take someones body... unless of course it comes and i see it.

after all there can be a jinn talking to u right now...me...hahahahha MUAHAHAHHA

see hamada.. i a jinn talkin to u. not a muslim one either... i a jin a jin muahahahhahaha... so what shud i do wit this body...?

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

y'all are scared now aintu

**Mikayeel** · 01-15-2008

Originally Posted by truemuslim

i believe it... i just dont believe they can take someones body... unless of course it comes and i see it.

after all there can be a jinn talking to u right now...me...hahahahha MUAHAHAHHA

see hamada.. i a jinn talkin to u. not a muslim one either... i a jin a jin muahahahhahaha... so what shud i do wit this body...?

loooool

oke lissen, here is a guy possed by a jihn look at it... something like that i have seen in real life

(and this is not an act) its real.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5C-V...ature=related( everyone who gets scared be aware!!!!)

salam

**------** · 01-15-2008

Aren't Muslims supposed to believe in the Unseen?

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

...hm...nice vid...k... so..if i do believe it can posses...which i never really denied much... i wouldnt fear it... it aint even scary...its just...hmm...whats that word...normal...u kno those ghost hunters? yah...a chair fell..so they called the cops and alll.. saying there a ghost...im like ...wth they talkin bout? oh did i mention it was outside?...i kno..

**truemuslim** · 01-15-2008

i believe the 'unseen' and i 'belive' they posess... i just dunt believe its scary a single bit... what i think IS scary is 'Saw'... or final destination... *shivering* (fo real i am... its cold)

**Souljette** · 01-15-2008

Lol..sis that's your point of view...i'm not scared of them either but everyone has their own fear...which they have to overcome..and its normal to have fear of sumthng..and to help people overcome we tell them to read surahs and everything..therez a solution for everything in the quran mashallah

**krypton6** · 01-15-2008