 الحمد لله رب العالم صلى الله عليه وسلم على السيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محال وعلى لبيته الطيبين الطاهرين لا سيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لتراب مقدمه الفداء قال الله في محكم كتابه الكريم اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وخلق الجن من مارج من نار صدق الله العالي والعظيم the first of your loudest salawat in honor of the greatest man to walk this earth الحبيب المصطفة محمد the second in honor of the greatest lady to walk this earth الحوراء البتولة فاطمة and the third with your loudest voices in honor of our Imam صاحب العصري والزمان the first in question from chapter 55 of the holy Quran discusses the origin of something that up until the message of Islam revealed it remains unseen or of the world of the unseen and ayah 15 comes by saying الله سبحانه وتعالى has created a specimen or a species by the name of جان from the flames of fire and inshallah tonight will be discussing this particular aspect of the world of the unseen first firstly because of many people that have come and asked questions regarding the jinn many people have questions in the back of their minds regarding the jinn many aspects that people have questioned over the years and no one's clarified can they or can they not or do they or do they not in many aspects of their life so inshallah tonight we'll be discussing in particular steps and particular stages aspects in which we've handpicked and we've been asked about to clarify it inshallah first and foremost to ourselves and hopefully we'll have a better understanding of the creation of Allah that dwells on this planet amongst us and inshallah first we'll look at their origin their name population what names are given to different kinds of jinn what are their predecessors who are the original fathers let's say then we'll like to look at their particular aspect of Sharia as in do they have prophets like us what kind of makeup do they have their physical qualities and after that we'd like to look at particular encounters between the prophet of Islam and the jinn particular imams and the jinn and we'll look at what we can learn from these particular incidents that apply to our life and after it we'd like to answer two very important questions after we've discussed the origin of these species that live amongst us and on earth we'd like to ask two important questions that are on the minds of many people that discuss the species known as jinn on this planet one of which does jinn or do the jinn have knowledge above that of our knowledge as in many people think to themselves that the jinn whenever they mention they think to themselves that they have knowledge and power much higher than we do and inshallah we'll discuss the aspect of knowledge and secondly and most importantly to conclude the lecture for tonight we'd like to answer the question can or cannot the jinn possess a human being because the question that comes up whenever jinn is mentioned or the particular characteristics and traits of someone you'll find very fearful very scared to discuss a topic such as jinn because the first thing that pops into their mind is that the jinn can possess us and inshallah we'd like to discuss this in more detail and answer the question can jinn possess humans or can't they and inshallah we'll look at logical questions and we'll answer them and we'll look at Quranic verses and by that we'll answer this question also and we'll look into the world of hadith to see is there anything that eludes to the fact that jinn can or can't possess us so inshallah to start this very important topic i'd like to say and very broad topic also because there's many aspects that we can discuss but i've chosen a handful of topics to look at during the time restraints that we have tonight so please help me in starting tonight's topic by reciting jinn is and if we look at it it's descendants of a creature by the name of jahn just as bani adem are the descendants of adem in the same manner the traditions tell us that jinn are offsprings and the main jinn that was created is known as jahn just as we know that the shayateen are offsprings of iblis meaning he's the father of shayateen before we begin to analyze that yes there is a father figure there is a first creation and there are offsprings and we find jinn are always associated with that which is hidden or unseen and that's why when we look at other aspects within linguistics we find something that is hidden or unseen also referred to or have a derivative of the root word of jinn as an example someone that or as we would like to refer to it as not have his complete brain functions we call him if he doesn't have his full functions and we refer to him as majnun meaning that his presence or the presence of his brain is no longer there or no longer functioning another example is when we have an infant that's still in the womb of his mother we often refer to him as jinn because he's veiled as traditions in three different darknesses so we find the root word of jinn meaning and giving the example of being sacred being veiled being unseen and that's what the jinn are and when we see that the aspect of jinn even though we know that they live on the planet if we did not have prophets that came messages from Allah we would never actually know jinn in the first place because jinn remains in the world of the unseen and it's very rare that you find instances especially in the western society that someone may encounter jinn in the actual form and you find there many different characteristics of jinn many different types of jinn that we can refer to just like there's many types of humankind and there are many jinn and we will discuss a few of them as in one of them if a true essence if you see a jinn in tradition in its true essence in its true form it's referred to as jinny and that's the irony when we find that our siblings or our offspring sometimes get a little naughty and out of control we like to call them jinny in ourselves don't we and we find that's the first aspect if you find him in its original form we like to call him jinny if he lives within the same premises in the same household that jinn is referred to as amir if he bothers the children within the household those jinn are called arwah if the jinn is very troublesome and he harms you from time to time that's why it's referred to as shaitaan very troublesome and then we have the physically elevated jinn known as afreet and that's where the Quran refers to when we're talking with Sulayman when he says bring me or who can bring me the throne of Balqis and the Quran states that afreet on minal jinn isn't it one that's physically elevated and capable said I'll bring you that throne before you stand or sit from your place isn't it and we'll discuss who's in a more elevated rank humans or jinn humans or melaike in just a moment inshallah in the first instance that yes jinn has a presence they have different forms their names are derived we know the original creation and the offsprings now let's look at the shari'a life when someone brings forth the question and the argument do they have different prophets do they have different religions as in their creations they're sane they can think for themselves they can work for themselves the aspect with jinn is that they can live for thousands of years because of their maker and they created from the flames of fire therefore we know that attributed to jinn our long lives and that's why when we have traditions till today that's many of the jinn that were in the 10th of muharram live up until today and we'll get to that inshallah on an ending note for tonight to see how and why and what we can learn from them so in aspect when we look at shari'a Allah our traditions tell us that the jinn have their own separate law just like we have our separate law they have own set of prophets that came and revealed the message of Allah as you know shari'a Allah that we have is occupying of our particular make up of our attributes of our daily lives what we are capable of what we are incapable of likewise the jinn Allah knows his creation who knows that the jinn have particular make up have particular attributes therefore they have their separate law rules and regulations now someone asks is there a prophet of ours that was a prophet for both jinn and inshallah someone comes and says well سليمان had control with jinn and insh among many other things and the argument states in the Quran Allah SWT says he has made jinn at the service of سليمان nor did he say that سليمان is a prophet for the jinn focus on that point and that's why we have the argument stating that the only prophet that was a prophet sent down by Allah that had the shari'a Allah for both humans and for jinn was none other than الحبيب المصطفى محمد and if you look at the beauty of that the guardian of that message and the safe keepers were the أهل البيت and the imams after him and that's why they have or one of the attributes that they have at a higher rank than the others when we have them in ranking with the other prophets of Islam and inshallah we'll discuss that on the 10th night the ranks and the importance of the figures that we have in accordance with أهل البيت so we find that's another aspect that we have to look at so when someone comes and states will they go to the same hell will they go to the same heaven that we do and it's a very important question to ask ourselves now in our traditions the first and foremost it states جين will also go toward hellfire أبوحانيف is of the opinion that جين will not burn in hellfire because they're made from fire and we discussed I believe on the first night the particular instance where بهلول has an argument with أبوحانيف in which he takes a rock and he throws it at أبوحانيف's head أبوحانيف is in pain he takes him toward the courtroom he says well you have to prosecute him أبوحانيف is not necessarily a sane person how do you want me to prosecute someone that's insane or in reference to the topic for tonight I'm a jinnun so أبوحانيف it tells him it doesn't matter he's hurt me you have to prosecute him and أبوحانيف I have three opinions one of which was everything's predestined everything's الله سبحانه وتعالى has already predestined whatever you do it's not your free will Allah has already predestined you for to do that the second opinion that he has is that everything that exists can be seen and on the third level he had the opinion that Iblis will never burn in hellfire because he's made of hellfire so بهلول disproves all three arguments that he had firstly he says that أبوحانيف says he can feel pain and he says anything that exists can be seen so can أبوحانيف show me pain because if he can't it means according to أبوحانيف pain doesn't exist that's the first level the second level he says well don't blame me because Allah has already predestined for me to throw that at him so if you want to prosecute anyone you should be Allah سبحانه وتعالى and on the third level he says that he has the opinion for that Iblis will never burn in hellfire because he's made of hellfire he says I've picked up clay thrown it at clay meaning that the human is made of clay and when he gets hurt that why is it that Iblis doesn't burn in hellfire so that's the three opinions that he had بهلول disproves it so we believe that yes as a school of thought of Ahl al Bayt Jin burn in hellfire however do they share the same heaven that we do that's when the opinions differ the opinion states and the majority of opinion states something and we read it in the Holy Quran it says a state and a place of sanctuary by the name of and the Jin that will be rewarded go towards in our traditions it also says that the Shi'a and the Ahl al Bayt the followers of Ahl al Bayt that have sins that will be punished in hellfire listen to this carefully the followers of Ahl al Bayt and the righteous people that will be prosecuted in hellfire to cleanse themselves of the sins after they finish from hellfire and are cleansed they go towards العراف and if someone gives them شفاعة intercession they go towards heaven if they do not give them intercession they will stay at so that's in reference to what heaven and hell towards the aspect that we're speaking about tonight which is Jin now the question arises are Jin at a higher status than us or are we at a higher status because someone comes with the argument from the Holy Quran stating that Allah always mentions Jin before he mentions sons of Adam as in we have an example وما خلقت الجن نول إلا ليعبدوني isn't it so he mentions Jin before he mentions humans ins so people come and say that no Allah has made them at a higher rank and the argument states that no and the biggest statement for this is when Allah creates Adam he tells Iblis what about down to Adam now the argument states that Jin are narrated in the Holy Quran before ends for two reasons or two opinions the first opinion states that their numerical value is higher than that of the humans some traditions come forth and state that they are up to six Jin for every human on this planet now you do the calculation before seven billion on this planet how much Jin do we have and that's why it's important to know about the other creatures that dwell within this world with us and know how to occupy ourselves how to deal with them how to segregate them how to be protected how to be veiled so a numerical value is the first opinion the second opinion is that Jin were created before Adam it's up to seven thousand years Jin were created before the creation of Adam and even if you don't look at the seven thousand years we know that Iblis was created before Adam and Iblis in itself was a Jin and Iblis worshipped for six thousand years so look at how long he was created before Adam so the two examples that come forth and tell us that that's why the Jin are always mentioned before humans in the Quran not necessarily because of the superiority now let's look at incurrences between the Holy Prophet and Jin between Imam Ali and Jin between our Imams and Jin what can we learn from it what can we learn from these aspects in which they came together the first I want to narrate is a story that we're all familiar with because when we're discussing Jin the world of the unseen we need to have a firm heart in the belief and we all know Jin exist that's firm enough now we need to know how our Imams interacted with these creatures on the earth and we know the very very famous tradition when Ali Ibn Abi Talib was Khalifa and he says a speech in Masjid Al-Kufwa and the narration states that there was a thought behind as we like to look at it if you want to close in the picture a serpent or a large snake comes from the corner of the Masjid and everyone is scared and everyone goes to try to kill it and Ali Ibn Abi Talib stays and says leave it for it has been ordained to come so everyone's thinking what's going on the serpent comes and the beauty about this tradition and why I narrate this first is that it's not only found within our books no it's within all books in Islamic history that this incident occurs so the serpent comes and it comes towards Ali Ibn Abi Talib's ease and the tradition says it begins hissing and Ali Ibn Abi Talib begins talking with it and it takes itself and leaves the mosque unharmed so the people are very amazed at what just occurred as a serpent just talked towards the Khalifa of the time so they begin to ask Ali Ibn Abi Talib can you explain further what exactly just happened and Ali Ibn Abi Talib replies by saying and this is the greatest example that we have saying that the prophet was the prophet for both jinn and for ins and that the imams after him carried this message on he says this was the son of my wasri on the jinn he's come to tell me that his father has passed away and he's asked me what will you have me do would you like to appoint someone new would you like to come and solve this argument and Ali Ibn Abi Talib replies to him to say that you are now my after your father wasri on the jinn and I gave him that authority he left the mosque and the beauty about this is that it's not just narrated in our books and that's what I stated earlier but people always put a blind eye to narrations such as these when discussing the magnanimous nature of knowledge when Ali Ibn Abi Talib is mentioned another tradition also I'm going to first talk about traditions in all books then I want to go into our books and this one's found within the other school of thought and in our books as well namely if you want to look at this particular tradition from our books you go open up or why say and you go to page 54 and it's narrated there saying it's not just from our books from there books of other brothers in religion it states that the prophet of Islam was inside the mosque and there was a jinn alongside him remember not just our books but look at this narration it will drive you insane I guarantee it because we cannot comprehend this in any faculty unless you take out the aspect of time and space that's the only way you can look at it so the jinn as soon as Ali ibn Abi Talib enters he disperses and we'll look at their physicality very very shortly he disperses Ali ibn Abi Talib leaves he reappeeds so the prophet asks him remember not just in our books the prophet asks him he says why is it that you disappeared and as Ali ibn Abi Talib left you reappeed he says what is it tell me he says I am from the jinn that fought against prophet Suleiman he says Allah remember Allah created an angel if it's not a mirror reflection of that man then I'll be Allah he says it's a mirror reflection of that man that just entered and I feed for my life then I disperse and I left I think for that we need a salawat on Muhammad and Ali Muhammad يا علي بعثة مع الانبياء سرن ومعية جاهرة Prophet of Islam you have been revealed with the prophets in secrecy and with me out in the open and when we find that Muhammad gives us a tradition in which he enters outside Imam Al-Baqarah's house and he finds particular people that were veiled leave the Imam's presence so Abu Hamz Al-Thumali comes in towards Imam Baqarah and begins to tell him Imam you have to be careful who you let in and out of your presence the Omeids have a very close eye on you so you have to be careful of who enters and who exits from this domain in which the Imam replies to show you that there is not just lovers and followers of Ahl al-Bayt there are actually Shi'a in the Jinn he says don't worry Abu Hamza these are our Shi'a from the Jinn they have come to ask me about the depths of their religion and I have answered their questions again prophets brings them two together and the person that looks and caters after the message is the Imam of Ahl al-Bayt isn't it the famous story of Arfata Arfata is the name attributed towards a Jinn that came from a particular valley Arfata comes veiled he comes to the Majlis of Rasool Allah in the presence of his companions and he says O Prophet of Allah I have come to seek your assistance and I need someone to come as a judge he says what's the problem he says we used to listen to whispers from time to time and when we listen to these whispers we found that yes finally the message of Allah the message of Allah has come and when we listen to these whispers we believed and from that time we became Muslims and we became believers in your religion however from our tribe from our village we found that people opposed us because we've come into this religion people stopped the water from us the sustenance from us so I've come to you to seek assistance and a judge in which can assist us against these people so the tradition says that the Prophet of Islam firstly says towards Arfata he says can you unmask yourself and this is one of the traditions that we have to give us an insight of what a Jinn actually looks like so the tradition says he unveiled himself he says the tradition that his face took the his eyes took the majority of his face his nose was very minimal on his face and he has very sharp teeth overall something that would be very unpleasing to see and very scary if we want to put it in out terms after he veiled himself he looks towards his side and he says to the first Khalif Abu Bakr he says will you go towards the Jinn and become a judge between them now Abu Bakr says me Jinn what do you mean رسول الله please anything like this so he turns as the tradition says to Omar the second Khalifa he says will you go and be the judge between them Omar says anything but the Jinn or رسول الله give me someone that's handcuffed tell me to hit his head for something he's done I'll do it without a shadow of doubt but Jinn it's not for me رسول الله so he says go and find me there's no one for this except him so they bring forth علي ابن عبي طالب the prophet looks at him and says will you go become the judge so the tradition says that علي ابن عبي طالب goes with and he's accompanied by and a person by the name of and when he goes into a valley علي ابن طالب looks back and says that's it you can go back now I'll take it from here so the tradition states that علي ابن طالب goes in the morning doesn't come back doesn't come back doesn't come back so the people begin to whisper they say they've tricked رسول الله they've taken his companion and killed him in which علي ابن عبي طالب returns and the tradition tells us that meaning what meaning his sword that was by his side was dripping and drenched in blood عرفطة comes he says oh prophet of islam this is علي I've brought him back to you I've done my wajib I'm going now so the prophet looks at علي ابن عبي طالب says can you explain to me what exactly happened he says I went I found that these jinn have yes stopped the water stopped the sustenance from the people that came towards the religion of Islam he says what did you do he says first and foremost I told them that become Muslim and I gave them the حجة this is Islam why do you not become Muslim so they opposed he says what then did you do he says secondly I told them pay the jizya you may live within our society just pay this small tax and they didn't allow it this is on the third level I told them at least be kind live in peace within the jinn that have come towards Islam and they didn't allow that either and after that he says therefore after I've given them those three points I went with them in a battle in which I killed a large quantity and the remainder all came towards the religion of Islam and there's many other traditions that I'd love to have narrated to you but for the time restraints we'd have to quickly run towards the aspect and the concept of possession for tonight which the question that alludes to us is can or can't jinn possess us now the first argument that takes place in a logical perspective is if jinn can possess humans because many a times when we look at the youtube clips we look at particular let's say tv channels that are not from Ahl al-Bayt's ideology we find that there's someone lying down on a bed and you find them in a state in which they're possessed as we can say and we find there's this scholar that's reading and reading and making all different rituals and the person looks like he's possessed by a demon or something of that sort and we find many movies that allude to this over the time many horror movies allude to that someone that's possessed by the devil someone that's possessed by jinn paranormal activity for example the exorcist many other movies that have come forth to analyze the aspect of possession how true is this the first aspect that comes into question if a jinn logically speaking if a jinn can possess you where then does the balance lie about thawab and aqab if a jinn possessed you you can easily come on a day of judgment and say well it wasn't me that did this particular crime come in a court room well it wasn't me that did this particular crime I didn't kill this person I was possessed I didn't do this particular atrocity I was possessed I didn't steal and the list goes on so a logical perspective would tell you that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would never allow a jinn to possess you then how can a jinn affect you now we know when we read صورة الناس أول أعوض برب الناس ملك الناس إله الناس من شرل و سواص الخ الناس whispering can have such an effect on you magnanimous effect it may elude you to seeing that which is good as being bad and that which is bad as being good so it has a major effect and that's why Allah chose to say it in the Holy Quran whispers second it can affect you in a manner in which can remove two husband and wife from one another eludes to them and on the third level it may allow you to make hatred or have hatred towards your heart from the other spouse so these are three effects when the aspect of possession let's look at it in more context the first aspect of possession when you look into detail you find that these people that are always seemingly possessed are more so never male they're always female appearing on the shows and when you look into their lives you find that these females either suffering from a particular death and their nerves are very deteriorated suffering because they're in a state after pregnancy when a woman has given birth you stay with them for 40 days because they're not normal they are very emotionally unstable they have just gone through something of a miracle and their hormones are going upside down so be with them you find that always the people that are arguably possessed on these screens and the people they don't even know what they're doing they say no cut this kill this particular bird throw blood here other person says well recite this put this under your bed they have no idea what they're doing in the first place and you find the one common thing that they all do is recite verses from the holy Quran because when a person is arguably what they think as being in a state of possession which is not possession this state in which their nerves have become broken down to such a level that they begin to rethink are they or are they not themselves and they go to people that tell them that yes you're possessed the only thing that these people all have been common and recite is the holy Quran what does the holy Quran state it is when Allah has mentioned that it gives your heart and your body salvation and serenity you are at a state of ease and comfort whenever Allah is mentioned and that's why you find these people that go towards these people that pay big dollars to recite verses from the holy Quran on them not knowing what they're doing in the first place they come again and again and the person recites again from the holy Quran therefore the traditions tell us do you know what if you have nerves that have broken down go and eat and nutrition that will strengthen your nerves such as Za'faran one of the strongest for your nerves Qara' strongest for your nerves Lahan a cauliflower strengthens the nerves and the Al-Baid give you how to veil the Jinn I'm trying to conclude as fast as I can things that you can do to veil yourself to protect yourself writing and having as a position in your houses and in your premises number one number two we discussed a person that occupies in the same premises he says as soon as you get two pigeons inside the house not outside don't misquote me inside the house get two and that will draw away the Jinn get two roosters outside draws away the Jinn and the repetition of reciting the words بسم الله and the words of the holy Quran drives them insane drives them insane get them away and that's the beauty when our Ahle Al-Baid tell us time and time again wherever you do anything say بسم الله you go out say بسم الله if there's a Jinn there if you're about to throw hot water outside when you say بسم الله it alerts the Jinn sort of like when you're out in the roads and a car just horns to you alluding you that you know what I'm coming make sure that you just get out of the way if you're going to hunt a Jinn because the Jinn takes different forms such as pigs such as dogs such as snakes so when you're hunting when you say بسم الله it says if it's a Jinn it will disappear you won't see it anymore because there's traditions that allude to us that if you kill a Jinn Jinn will come and they may have an effect on your family because you've just killed one of this that's why you should say بسم الله in all your actions to avail you not only from any Jinn and even from شياطين this goes for so that's one aspect and I'm trying to paraphrase as much as I can and I want to allude to the fact بسم الله أقوم بخطأ هل كان there always there not any Jinn because we know that there's Jinn that's Muslims there's Jinn that follow the school of thought of Ahle el-Beit yes they were when Imam was migrating from Mecca towards Medina we find as an ocean state أقوامون من الجن come towards Imam and tell him let us finish them for you let us finish them for you لهم لك. ومعلمهم أن هذا ليس بطاقة جن. أعلم أن يمكنك أن يقول هذا بطاقة ، أعلم ماذا أنه هو ، لماذا الله قد تفكيرها وماذا تفكيرها حتى الوقت الوقت. لذلك لا يوجد محتوى for your assistance. سأخبر من هنا. وذلك why we find even till today there's narrations by our Olamat stating that they've recited on pulpits where they can't see anyone in the crowd yet they heave a car. And when they get down and ask the owner who is it that was crying I did see no one. When I was reciting the Majlis the reply would come stating that these are jinn that were there on the 10th of Muharram. They cried for aspects that you've stated that were true. Stuff that you've stated that didn't occur or have been twisted they didn't cry because they know truly and surely what's happened on the 10th of Muharram. So we pray to Allah on that instance and getting signals. We pray to Allah on that instance that we may gain from this knowledge and veil ourselves first and foremost. And insha Allah will have gained this little bit of insight into people that dwell or jinn that dwell this earth and live amongst us. And how to think around them. How to think with them. How to act and react. And how to veil ourselves. And insha Allah this will be beneficial for us. Especially in the aspect that knowing that there's no such thing within our books as possession. Nor in the Qur'an nor in the hadiths. However it's only a money making game that people have alluded to. To make their bank balances a lot higher. So we pray to Allah on that night on this night to elevate us in knowledge. To allow us to apply the knowledge that he's given us. To allow us to die on the path of Ahl al-Bayt. And to allow us to fight alongside Imam صاحب العصر والزمان. With الصورة المباركة الفاتحة.