That sounds like an interesting place that I would enjoy checking out.
Very good to know, I don't really know too much about jinns. There is a TV show that I enjoy called Supernatural, and jinns are some of the recurring characters in the show. These jinns are blue, strong fast and able to disguise themselves, clever, and never say much unless in disguise. If they make physical contact, that can cause you to hallucinate, and they use that distraction in order to capture people. Once captured, they inject you with some sort of knockout drug that places you in a dream state so you don't even realize that you're being held captive and you don't know how long it's been, and while all this is happening the jinn is slowly feeding off you by draining your life force.
But that's just a TV show that entertains me, and I'm absolutely sure that has almost nothing to do with the actual beliefs of Muslims. There's plenty in the show that has to do with Christianity too, and none of it is meant to be terribly accurate. Angels are mostly awful, demons are pure evil, and monsters come from Purgatory then go back there when they're killed. Oh, and God was absent for a long time because he stopped caring about people very much, but he pretended to be a prophet for awhile and he enjoys playing guitar. And God has a sister who was introduced in the most recent season, while Lucifer is Gabriel's evil brother. It's a highly entertaining amalgam of drastically altered lore, but it's not intended to help people be well informed on actual extant beliefs.
Now that I'm describing some of the specifics of the show, I'm realizing just how much violence it would precipitate if it were shown on TV in a Muslim-majority country. But in North America, Christians either ignore it, aren't aware of it, or enjoy it for the purpose of entertainment. And I quite enjoy it.
Sounds like your dad's a smart guy.
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