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Jinn in Islam

Traditionally, Muslims believe that jinn are real beings. The jinn are said to be creatures with free will, made of smokeless fire by God, much in the same way humans were made of soil. In the Qur'an, the jinn are frequently mentioned and even Surat 72: Al-Jinn is entirely about them. In fact, the Prophet Muhammad was said to have been sent as a prophet to both "humans and the jinn."

Related Topics:
Free will - God - Human - Qur'an - Al-Jinn - Prophet Muhammad

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The jinn have communities much like human societies, they eat, marry, die etc. They are invisible to humans, but they can see us. However, sometimes they accidentally or deliberately come into view or into contact with humans.

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Jinn are not to be confused with the Kareen قرين mentioned in the Qur'an in Surat An-Nas and in Islamic mythology. Jinn are beings much like humans, possessing the ability to be good and bad. According to the majority of Islamic scholars, clear evidence exists in the Qur'an that the Devil was never actually an angel, but a jinn, citing the Quranic verse "And when We said to the angels:"Prostrate yourselves unto Adam." So they prostrated themselves except Iblis (The Devil). He was one of the jinn..." Surat Al-Kahf, 18:50. According to Islam, angels are different physical beings made out of light, and unlike the fiery nature of jinn, they are beings of goodness and cannot choose to disobey God, nor do they possess the ability to do evil.

Related Topics:
Kareen - Qur'an - Surat - An-Nas - Islamic mythology

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A Kareen is an evil spirit, intent on tricking people into committing sins. As they are unique to each individual, Kareens would be the ones a psychic would summon after a person's death, such as in a séance, for the soul goes to God and the unruly Kareen would remain on earth and would, conforming to his malevolent nature, impersonate the deceased whose character he's familiar with.

Related Topics:
Sin - Séance - Soul

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In Islam-associated mythology, the jinn were said to be controllable by magically binding them to objects, as Suleiman (Solomon) most famously did; the Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin was such a jinni, bound to an oil lamp.

Related Topics:
Magically - Solomon - Aladdin - Oil lamp

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Jinn do have the ability to possess human beings.

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