The Reality of Jinn in the Qur'an and Sunnah - Dr. Yasir Qadhi

Before we begin, a number of people asked me about, uh, age limits and whatnot. Uh, again, parents, it's up to you. Obviously, this topic is not one of, uh, you know, explicit nature in the sensual sense. It is one that is a little bit possibly scary to those who might so be disinclined or inclined. So that's your decision as parents. It's not something that I can dictate upon you. You know, it's, you know your child better. So it's up to you. I'm not going to intentionally give any horror stories. It's rather an academic talk about the reality in light of the Quran and Sunnah. So really, it's up to you about the age limit. With that, let us begin.

Alhamdulillah. Uh, it is something that I find very interesting that each and every culture in the world, each and every civilization has these notions, myths, superstitions of entities that exist beyond the human world. This is universal. No civilization, primitive or modern, advanced or in the jungle, doesn't matter, exists except that they believe in something beyond this physical world. And they have different names for them. In English, we have the demons and the ghosts and whatnot. And in every culture and civilization, I just came from, uh, Norway, and they have, you know, this thing that comes out of the woods and they will take you and this and that. Now, we call them in English trolls or goblins. But the notion is there that there's something that lives beyond, and they're very scary, and they're harmful, and there's something you cannot control, but they control you. And it is interesting. You go to the Native Indians, they believe this. You go to the Aborigines, they believe this. You go to, even in this day and age, we're living in the 21st century America. Look at Hollywood and how many movies are dedicated to the supernatural, the possessions, to, you know, uh, the exorcist and its, you know, genre. You know, all of this to this day, and this is, you know, we are supposed to be the pinnacle of civilization. But this notion of some entities or some realities living in worlds that are simultaneous to us, but yet not quite our world, right? This is something that is ingrained in all of humanity.

From our perspective, of course, this shows us that the reason why all cultures agree is because it is real, right? From our perspective, we say the reason why each and every civilization believes in spiritual entities, and they are generally speaking spiritual entities, uh, ghosts or demons or ghouls or whatnot, they believe in them because they are real, and these societies experience them. These societies experience them. And there was a very, there, I think I don't know if it's still ongoing or not. There's a number of series on, uh, the, uh, sci-fi channels and and, um, other learning networks and whatnot, in which allegedly they interview live people, you know, about what has happened to them, you know, the haunting of such and such. And and the reality is, now, these are educated people. You listen to them. Many of them say, "I never believed in this stuff. I was raised as a very, you know, modern, very educated person. I never believed this could happen." But then, what are you going to do when, you know, XYZ begins to happen, right? And from our perspective, we look at all of this, we read all of this, and it fits in perfectly with our worldview. And in all honesty, for the believer, for the Mumin, all of these stories of the other nationalities and other groups should actually increase his or her iman. That in reality, this is a sign of our im, of our religion being true. One of the signs of our religion being true. It explains even the supernatural and the paranormal. It explains in complete logic and rationality when you study the characteristics of the Jinn and you see what is happening in other societies and even in our society, everything is explained. So I find this to be very fascinating and interesting.

And also, before we begin, we're still in the introduction. Uh, realize this is a part one. Uh, there will be at some, uh, unspecified time in the future, a part two, which will be definitely more technical, and perhaps, I don't want to use that term, uh, perhaps maturity would be more, uh, you know, discretion is definitely going to be implied, applied there. And it will talk about, part two will talk about black magic and possession, and what that's going to be part two. So part one is really not about that type of stuff. Part one is, we're just talking about the reality of the Jinn in accordance with the Quran and Sunnah.

Now, what exactly does the term Jinn mean? Where does it come from? The Arabic word Jinn comes from a root that implies something that is concealed from the eyes, something that is hidden. And so there are so many words in the Arabic language from this root, all of which imply hiding. For example, a shield in Arabic is called, because you're hiding yourself behind the, uh, shield. An embryo, what is an embryo called in Arabic? Janin. The embryo is called a Janin because it is hidden in the womb of the mother. Um, the verb j, without the, just the verb with the jah, the verb j, without the, not the noun ja, but the verb j, means this, the spreading of the night, the enveloping of the night, so that you can't see anything. In the Quran, Allah says about Ibrahim, when the night j, he saw the, he saw the stars. The meaning of jah here means the darkness enveloped it. He couldn't see, uh, anything. And that is why also Jannah, the noun, is a garden that is enclosed with a wall, you can't see inside it. So Jannah, with a noun, the garden that has been enclosed by a wall, therefore you cannot see inside it. And madness in Arabic is, with a do they say, "Our Prophet (peace be upon him) has Jinn in him?" And Jinn is madness. And from Jinn, we, so a person is mad because his intellect seemingly disappears because the meaning of Jinn always is hidden. Soon, the one whose intellect or whose rationality does not exist, or at least you don't see it, it's disappeared. And this is all of these terms come from the same root, and that is to hide or to be hidden. And that is why the term Jinn is also applied to this entity because it is an entity that is completely hidden from the eyes of men. We do not see them. They are in a world that is beyond our physical world that we, uh, inhabit. And Allah (SWT) mentions Jinn in the Quran, and our Prophet (peace be upon him) talks a little bit about the Jinn. We don't have that many Hadith about the Jinn. And therefore, the fact of the matter is, we have to, uh, take what we can from the Quran and Sunnah that is going to take it as a fact. The rest is folklore and legend, and we don't base our religion on folklore and legend. But there's no harm in narrating certain things that we think we know about the Jinn. There's no harm in narrating things that we believe we know about the Jinn. And I will always differentiate between what is Quran and Sunnah and what is folklore or, or, you know, things that we might assume in our times. That we have to be very clear here. If Allah says it, end of story, we take it as fact. However, if it's something we discover upon ourselves or seems to be a reality, then we will say, "This is a theory. This is a possibility." And Allah (SWT) knows best.

So what does Allah tell us about the Jinn? What does our Prophet (peace be upon him) tell us about the Jinn? Of the things we know about the Jinn is that they were created before men. The Quran is very explicit. The Quran is very explicit that before we existed, the Jinn existed. Before Allah created Adam, He had created the Jinn. Allah says in the Quran, "We created man from a type of hard clay rock that had become rock solid that you could knock on it and would reverberate." [Music] "And the Jan, the plural of Jinn, is Jan, and the Jan, we had created before that from." Now, memorize the Arabic. So that is what is sam. We'll come to it. So this is one adjective that Allah says we created Jinn from a, from a fire that is also the Quran mentions that Allah (SWT) created Jinn from, from maraj of so and maraj. Keep these adjectives. We'll come back to it. So Allah says that we created the Jinn, maraj, and Allah says we created Jinn from. These are the two main adjectives given. Of course, is in both. And sometimes Allah says we created from, sometimes He says from, sometimes He says, "We created Jinn from maraj of." So these are really the main, uh, descriptions. Our Prophet (peace be upon him) exact same phrase in Muslim. Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "The angels have been created from, and the Jinn have been created from maraj of fire. Excuse me. And Adam has been created in a manner that has been clearly described for you." Because the description of the creation of Adam is far more explicit than the description of the creation of the Jinn. We don't have how the Jinn were created. We simply have what they were created from. And of course, of the evidences that the Jinn were created from fire is the well-known incident of Iblis and Adam. What did Iblis say? And scholars point out the first racist was Iblis. The first racist was Iblis because Iblis was the one who thought, "I am better because of where I come from. I am better because of what I have been used to be created by." Right? So he thought he's better simply because he's created from. Now, but the point is, we don't, don't want to go into that tangent. The point is, very clearly says, "You created me from, and you created him from."

So what does maraj mean and what does sam mean? These are the two main adjectives that occur in the Quran about the creation. As for maraj, maraj means to merge or to combine. The two oceans are interweaving and mixing. So means to mix and to weave together, to flow out and to weave as you go forward. So from a mixture of fires, from different types of fires. And Ibn Abbas commented that the maraj of the nar is the corner of the flames that you have all the different colors, the red and the green and the blue and the orange and the yellow. And if you look at the fire or the flame, right? If you have a very large fire, this you cannot see on a match. You can see it on a larger fire. If you have a large fire, the periphery of the fire, it has all of these bizarre colors, very interesting colors. Abbas said that is what they were created from. The, the maraj, the very ending of the, uh, fire. As for the word sam, sam has been understood in two different ways. One meaning is that sam is a smokeless fire. It is the, uh, a fire that is raw heat without any dan, without any smoke. And that is valid because the Jinn don't have smoke. They are created from a fire that doesn't have an. We don't see the smoke. We don't see the ashes coming down, right? So the Jinn have been created from a smokeless fire. Not sam. This is one interpretation. And another interpretation, Abbas said sam is the light of the lightning. This is a different type of light. Not the light of the match. This is the light of the lightning. And in, in reality, this is the same as the first meaning because the lightning, does it have smoke? No, it doesn't have smoke, right? And so the light of lightning is a smokeless light, right?

Now, this is now Quran. Here I'm going to add my own theory. Take it or leave it. And this is not a fact. This is my theory, my understanding of my own understanding of the Quran and Sunnah and my own interactions with this, uh, uh, species. In my humble opinion, uh, it is as if the Jinn have been created from what we call energy, what physicists call energy. They are on the energy spectrum. And this demonstrates when non-Muslim ghost hunters, if you see the documentaries or TLC channel, whatever, right? When they go to a house and they want to see, are there any haunted spirits, what do they do? And these are people that have never studied the Quran and Sunnah. They don't believe in the Quran. But experience has taught them that you can detect on the electromagnetic scale. You can detect on these, they have their counters that have energy readings in them, right? And also, uh, other things prove this as well. Uh, and if you look at the characteristics of the Quran and Sunnah of the Jinn, the, these are the characteristics of energy going at the speed of light, not having a particular form, right? Being able to do, uh, going through walls, as we will talk about in a while. This is energy. Our, our radio waves right now, our internet, our phone waves, they're coming through the walls here. There's a type of energy on the spectrum. And therefore, if you look at the, what exactly is lightning? It's a type of energy, right? So, Allah knows best. This is my, uh, interpretation, my understanding.

And also, uh, not to give you, by the way, I'm not going to give you too many horror stories. I don't want to do that. If you, those of you who came for that, I'm sorry, but that's not the, this is not the campfire Jinn night where we smoke marshmallows and we have the campfire Jinn stories. We'll do that maybe sometime for the young men and women so that they can be really scared, but not right now, inshallah. Um, but in the course of the lecture, I'll give a few stories here and there. So, of the, um, modern things that we know of is that there are unexplained lights that many cameras have captured around the world, and this is a well-known phenomenon. You find it on YouTube all the time, and you look at these things, and sometimes, once in a while, it'll even make local news networks, right? That there was a strange light over, you know, this restaurant, and the camera captured it, and they put it on the local news station. If there's nothing else to show, they might as well show something like this. And you see this, you know, I mean, you, it's in, in this land and in other lands. Uh, and when you look at these things, by and large, what are they? They're orbs of light just floating around here and there, and they just pause here, go there, and then they just go away. And therefore, the camera is capturing a spectrum of energy which is light. It's capturing something like this, and then we as human beings are aghast. What is this? But in reality, it's nothing. It's simply, you know, wandering Jinn, whatever. And it does not realize it's being videotaped or whatnot. And therefore, the, the, the camera captures this. All of this kind of, uh, adds, if you like, uh, credence to the fact that the Jinn are a type of energy. But if you want to stick to the Quran, the Quran says, which in reality is also energy, because what is fire and what is lightning other than a type of energy? But nonetheless, this explains, uh, certain things.

Now, we also know from the Quran indirectly and from the Sahabah directly that the Jinn inhabited the earth before Adam did. They were created before Adam. That's clear. They inhabited the earth before Adam. This is not explicit in the Quran. It is implicit. It's implied. Where is it implied? In the story of the creation of Adam. When Allah said, "I'm going to create a new creation." The Malai said, "Are you going to put in this world an entity that will cause blood to be shed and cause great injustices?" Why would you do this when we are here praising You and worshipping You? And Ibn Abbas and others, they make of this, and they say the Malai knew the reality of men because of the reality of Jinn. How would the Malai know that men will kill one another, that men will cause fasad and fitna in the earth? How would they know that when the Malai have never seen men? Because Allah had already created the Jinn, and the Jinn was the first creation on this earth that shed blood of each other unjustly, and they went to war. Abbas has a long story of a civil war between the Jinn, and had to get involved and and basically curb them and and stop the civil war. And so they realize that the Jinn have that power to disobey Allah. And this is what happens now. Allah says, "I'm creating another creation that also has the power to disobey Me." So the Malai were like, basically, "One is enough. Why would you want another? Why would you create another creation?" And here we are. And Allah said, "I have wisdom that you do not have." Therefore, this means that the Quran is indirect. The Sahabah are explicit that in this world, there were Jinn before, uh, uh, before Adam came down.

The Jinn, uh, don't seem to have a particular shape or form. Classical scholars debated this, and the Sharia is quiet on this point. So the Sharia does not say what is the original form of a Jinn. But in my humble opinion, since the Sharia is silent, I give you my opinion, and this opinion is not just new, it is going back in the past. Scholars have differed. What is the real shape of the Jinn? And the reality is, the question is absurd. To have a real shape, you have to have a physical body. If you don't have a physical body, you don't have a real shape. So when we ask the question, a lot of us ask, "What does a Jinn really look like?" The response, the question is only valid when the entity has physical structure, flesh or blood or three-dimensional or whatnot. You don't ask what does energy look like. Energy doesn't look like anything, right? You don't ask what does energy look like. There is no original structure. Our eyes cannot see the reality of energy. Can we see these waves being bombarded? Can we see the microwave? Can we see? We don't see it. It doesn't register. So in my humble opinion, and this is the position of many classical scholars, there is no original structure of the Jinn. The Jinn can't have an original structure. The Jinn are simply as they are. They are in a world that doesn't have structure. And that's why for our minds, it's difficult to to encompass, to to come across. They don't occupy the three-dimensional world that we live in. They have a totally different parallel universe, quite literally. You know, they are here, yet they're not here. They are in this world, yet they are in a separate world apart from our eyes. So the Jinn don't actually have any, uh, any one shape.

And this also explains culturally another phenomenon. What is that? Every single civilization and culture has a different perception of their demons and ghosts. Every single society and culture has a different shape of the evil things that haunt in the world beyond. Think about it, right? We have our shapes. The Eastern methodologies and religions have theirs. The ancient Nor, again, I'm thinking of Scandinavia as well. If you go there, they have a totally different structure. The Japanese have their own. Every single civilization, which shows what? That there is no one unified structure that these beings appear on. However, one thing about them is all common, and that is that these entities in all cultures are terrifying to look at. Which means they purposely take on forms that terrify because they don't have original forms. They purposely take on forms that terrify. So knowledge is power. Knowledge is power. Knowing that they don't have an original structure and they're simply putting on this because in your cultural memory, this is what should terrify you. Honestly, this should give you power. And that's the whole point of today's lecture, by the way, inshallah, is to minimize this fear. The true Mumin is no more scared of the Jinn than he's scared of a, a snake or a, a scorpion or something like this. And as your iman rises, then even that will become less, right? This is a fact. Take this, inshallah. By the end, we will work on this issue. But knowledge is power. Simply knowing that's not how the Jinn really looks. There is no real look of the Jinn. Simply knowing that this structure that the Jinn is looking at, he or looking like, it's meant to terrify you based on your own cultural knowledge, right? It's not something that the Jinn actually looks like. So in our Western culture, we have the two horns coming out, or so dark red eyes, or whatever. This is like this, right? Uh, in other cultures, it'll have a tail coming out. In other cultures, it'll be like a troll. In other cultures. So each one has its own. But the point is that the Jinn, they're simply playing with you. They're simply wanting to terrify. And imagine, you know, if you're not, as a child, as an adult, imagine if another adult is trying to terrify you in front of you. He puts on one mask and another. Which one is going to make you scared? You would honestly think, "This guy is, you know, what do you think I'm a kid or something?" That's exactly how the Mumin feels when the Jinn, uh, tries to terrify. I hope that Allah (SWT) saves you from ever seeing one, right? But in the, in reality, some people, the Jinn does terrify, either in the dream, which is more common, either in the dream, which is more common, or once in a while, very rarely, in real, uh, life.

Now, uh, Jinn can, there's a difference of opinion who can see the Jinn. One group of scholars says only prophets can see the Jinn. That doesn't seem to be correct at all for many reasons. Of them is the Quran and Sunnah that clearly we see that the Jinn can be shown to men, and of them is human experience that every culture, uh, sees the Jinn. So the majority opinion that humans, all of them, can see the Jinn if and when the Jinn wants to reveal himself to the human. So the Jinn has to desire to reveal himself. You cannot enter the world of the Jinn, but the Jinn can enter your world. You cannot just snap your fingers and be transported into the world of the Jinn. And Allah explicitly says this in the Quran, verse 27, verse 27. "Hel and his tribes can see you from a place that you cannot see them." He has access to your world. You don't have access to his. He can enter your lands or your, not lands, but dimension, if you like. If you want to be philosophical or physics or whatever, he can enter your paradigm of living. You cannot go into theirs. So any Jinn, if he or she wants to, can appear in front of any human, and that is a power that they have that we do not have. And we'll talk about some of the differences between men and Jinn and the differences in power and in intellect.

So there is no original shape of the Jinn. Rather, and this goes back to another point, a lot of cultural legends are actually based upon the Jinn. A lot of things that we hear about stories and whatnot, they actually come from the Jinn. So this notion of the young kids know what I'm talking about, shape shifters, an entity that can go into any shape it wants. This is it wants to. This is very common in many legends, in many civilizations. It's not just in Western culture. It's not just X-Men and that woman that can shape shift or whatever, right? Not that you should watch that, but anyway. So, uh, it's not just in this modern culture. Every civilization has this type of notion of a shape shifter. Where does it come from? It is the Jinn. The Jinn are the real shape shifters. The Jinn can appear in any shape and fashion and form. They can also appear in the form of dead people. And we know this from the Hadith of the Prophet (peace be upon him) when he said, "If you see me in a dream, then know that you have really seen me, because the cannot duplicate my form." What does that mean? They can duplicate anybody else's form. Anybody else's form they can duplicate it, right?

So this leads us to a very important point, and that is that we, and youngsters especially, pay attention to this. We don't believe in ghosts. We believe in Jinn. We don't believe in ghosts. A human ghost. We don't believe in that they will come back and haunt people. No, that doesn't happen. The, the, the soul goes to the other world. The soul does not return to this world. The soul of the human goes to, the soul of the human does not and cannot return to. It cannot come back to the world of the wakeful man. Maybe for the sleeping man, that's another question we're not going to get into it now. But the wakeful state that we're in right now, the souls of the dead never ever come back to. So how then do we explain people, you know, in in seances and in, and, you know, they go to the, the magician or they go to the, uh, the people of the occult, and all of a sudden the shape of the dead man comes up and talks. This is all the Jinn. It's all the Jinn. Never does an actual human soul come back to this world because it's gone. Now, Allah says, "One time you will taste it." That's it. You're going to move on. So therefore, the Jinn can come back and pretend to be human souls, pretend to look in the shape of other people.

We also learn from the s that the Jinn can come and pretend to be human. They can intermingle with humans, and humans won't even know that they're Jinn. We learn this from the s. So many incidents from the s. For example, of the incidents is the night of the assassination of the Prophet (peace be upon him) when the elite of the Quraysh gathered together, and they decided finally, once and for all, we're going to assassinate the Prophet. What happens? There was a knock on the door, and an old man from, you know, from the areas of Najd, from one of the chieftains. He looked like the chieftains of one of the upper tribes, northern tribes, right? And he gave the story that they believed him to be one of the elite. And it turns out that this was Iblis himself, and he was the one who told them the plot of, "Why don't you send one man from every tribe to simultaneously attack so that it's complete chaos and no one person can be blamed?" You know the story of the Hijrah, right? Where did it come from? How did it get to their minds? He pretended to be an old man from that region, right? We also learn, uh, in the battle of, that Allah very explicitly says that Iblis came and pretended to, basically, came in the form of somebody who was to become a Sahabi, Malik. So just because comes in your form doesn't mean you're a bad person. Sura became a Muslim. Sura became a Sahabi at this point in time. Now, if you remember back in two years ago when we did this in the, and all of you fully remember, we have the note-taker here as well, that why were they scared about Ibn Malik? Who can tell me if, who can tell me who can tell us? Who can tell us? Okay. Why were they worried about Ibn Malik and his tribe when they went to Badr? There was an old feud. There was a feud between the people of Qur and the people of, uh, Jushb Malik, right? And they were worried that if they attack the Muslims, the tribe of would come and attack Mecca. So what happened? Pretended to be. It's very explicit in the Quran. It's very explicit in the Quran that Shaitan came to them and said, "Go forth and fight. You will be victorious, and I am a good friend to. I'm not going to harm you guys. I'm going to be your protector. Don't worry." You. And of course, he's pretending to be from the other tribes, Malik's tribe. So, this gave them confidence, and they left Mecca. What does this show? And then when, quote unquote, now when, quote unquote, saw the, saw the other tribe, and he saw the angel Jibril come down, and he saw the, he turned around and began to run away. And Abu Jahl stopped him and said, "Where are you going? You promised you're going to help." And he pushed him so hard that Abu Jahl basically flew in the air, and he goes, "You guys aren't going to win. I'm scared of Allah." And he fled. So Allah mentions the story in the Quran. The point where the shahid is what? That Iblis or a Shaitan. Most likely it is the Iblis here. In fact, the Hadith mentioned it is Iblis in this incident, uh, whereas in the incident of the assassination, it was one Shaitan. But Iblis comes on the day of and runs away. So he comes in the form of a man.

Also, we have the famous Hadith in Bukhari and Sahih Muslim of Abu Hurayrah, that famous Hadith of Abu Hurayrah, that the Prophet appointed him to guard the, uh, treasure or the Zakat that had come, uh, to, to the Prophet. There was a large pile of money, and so the Prophet said to Abu Hurayrah, "Just guard this money for tonight. Make sure that nobody comes from outside the city or anything to take it away." And lo and behold, uh, Abu Hurayrah said, "I was almost about to go asleep when I heard somebody, you know, slinking around and and and moving, and I woke up, and I saw a poor beggar, you know, taking some money and going away. I caught him and I said, 'I'm going to take you to the Prophet. How dare you steal money? How dare you? Have you no shame?'" So the man begged and pleaded, and he said, "I have a large family." And he continued to to keep on speaking until Abu Hurayrah said, "I felt so sorry for the guy that I let him go." Right? The next morning, the Prophet asked him, "How was your visitor last night?" So Jibril informed him, "How was your visitor last night?" So Abu told him the story. So he said, "He's going to come back again. Don't worry." So he's going to come again. So Abu said, "This time I'm going to for sure take him to the Prophet." The next night, he didn't sleep at all. He was awake. Lo and behold, he comes, jumps on him, grabs him, and Shaitan's sweet tongue works its way on and on, begging and pleading throughout the night, until Abu Hurayrah felt so sorry, he actually let him go again because he doesn't know who it is. He still thinks it's a human being. Once again, the Prophet said to him, "And once again, he's going to come again." The third night, Abu Hurayrah makes a promise that I am for sure now not going to let him go. Well, he tries, he tries, he tries, and Abu Hurayrah is adamant. "I'm not, this time you're not going to convince me." Then he said, "Okay, what if I give you some advice? It will benefit you, basically, for as long as you live. It's going to be very beneficial advice for you." So he said, "What is this?" So he said, "Before you go to sleep, recite Ayatul Kursi. It will protect you from Shaitan." So Abu took this advice and let the man go. Now, this time he had to pay a ransom. This was the Hadith. So the Prophet (peace be upon him) when he heard the Hadith, he said, "Those who took the class, what is, what does it mean? The one who does the one who's continuously doing the action. He has told you one truth, but he is a habitual perpetual liar. All the time. He knows nothing." Then he said, "Didn't you realize who was your guest last night?" He called him the guest, because who was it? Because that was Shaitan. Now, this shows us that firstly, read Ayatul Kursi before going to sleep, because straight from the devil's mouth, as they say. He himself has told us, and we don't care what he has said. More importantly, our Prophet has said he's spoken the truth. He's spoken the truth, even though he is a habitual, uh, liar. Uh, so all of these Hadith show us what? That the Jinn can appear in front of the, uh, Jinn, sorry, in front of the men. The Jinn can appear in front of the men, and that it is also possible that they will take on the form of human beings.

And Ibn Taymiyyah mentions that he knows for a fact that so many, uh, now this is especially true in the mystical groups that they think that their Sheikh has holy powers, right? And Ibn Taymiyyah says, "I can tell you so many stories of a group seeing their Sheikh at the same time in multiple times." And he gives a very bizarre story that, "One day I visited a group of students in another city, and they told me that they had called upon me, and I came to them to answer their needs and deeds." And I said, "No, wallahi, I have never come to you. That was a Shaitan pretending to be me in my image and form, coming to you pretending to be me." And of course, he told them that you have to worship Allah alone, you cannot call out others, and whatnot. So the point being, this is even happening, you know, to Ibn Taymiyyah himself, that an entity or a person that you believe is holy, he's coming to you in your dreams. He's coming to you, uh, in your, in your wakeful state. And in reality, this is nothing other than the, uh, or the Jinn himself. So the point of all of this is what? That the Jinn can appear to the human when the human, sorry, when the Jinn wants to appear in front of the human. And even our Prophet (peace be upon him) he mentioned, uh, this as well, that, uh, once he was praying in Salah, and three times he said, "Excuse me," and he took a step back, and then he took another step back, and then he took another step back, saying, and in one version, he's even pushing his hand. Then he took a step forward, and he said, "I, in the name of Allah, I curse you with the curse of Allah." And he took another step forward. He took another step forward. So now he went back to where he was, and they could see him with his hand out like this. Then obviously, when the Salah is over, obviously they say, "Rasulullah, what happened?" So he said, "One of the of the Jinn, we'll talk about this in a while. One of the of the Jinn came to me and attempted to, you know, wave one of the branches of the fire in front of my face to distract me during the Salah, and that's why I said [Music]." Then I sought refuge in Allah, and then I said, and I held on to him by the collar, so much so that I could feel the coolness of his breath or his, or his, you know, uh, saliva coming. I could feel basically, it's an expression in Arabic which means I could feel his body or I could feel how close I was, uh, to him. And I thought, "Let me tie him up so that you can see him the next morning. Let me tie him up to one of the pillars." But then I remembered what my brother said to Allah, "Give me a kingdom that nobody would ever have after me." And so I let the Shaitan or the go. And we'll talk about this issue of Sulayman, uh, in a while, maybe even in the next part two of this class. But Sulayman, as you know, had control over the Jinn. Allah gave him control over the Jinn. And, uh, the Prophet did not want to compete with that because Sulayman wanted something, "Give me something nobody will ever have." So the Prophet (peace be upon him) thought to himself, "If I tie the Jinn up, then I would be infringing on the uniqueness of Sulayman." And this is a very beautiful tangent or Hadith here, that the Prophet did not want to hurt or irritate or come across something that of his own brother amongst the prophets. And so out of camaraderie, prophetic camaraderie, if you like, right? Out of, uh, collegial respect, right? The, you know, what I'm talking about here. You, out of respect to your colleagues, like, okay, this is what he wanted for them, even though he could have done it, but he didn't do it because Sulayman wanted something, uh, unique.

Uh, we also learn from one other, uh, Hadith that they are, that they can come in other forms other than humans. We learned this from another Hadith, and that is a famous Hadith that all of you are familiar with, or some of you should be familiar with. Uh, that once a man, uh, in a man, uh, a young man of the Sahaba was newly married, and he was about to, uh, go on an expedition. And so he comes to the Prophet (peace be upon him), armed and ready to go, and he asks permission for one last visit to his beloved wife. You know, honeymoon phase, he wants to one time more be, you know, intimate before going in battle. So the Prophet gives him that. Now, the wife was not expecting him because, uh, he's gone for the battle, and he comes back, and he sees her in her house clothes, out at the door. And of course, this is very big immodesty, like you're in your house clothes and you're not wearing the proper clothes, and you're outside. And he gets so enraged and incensed that he's almost about to strike her, like, "How dare you?" And she says, "Before you do anything, see what's happening inside." So he goes inside, and there is a massive snake on their bed. There's a massive snake on their bed. And so he takes out his sword, and the two of them begin to battle, and the narrator of the Hadith says, "We don't know who killed the other the first, but both of them died." We don't know who killed the other the first, but both of them died. Then the Prophet, when he heard the news, he said that, "There are a group of Jinn that have accepted Islam in Medina." So if one of you comes across a snake, then give him, in one version, three days, and another version, three warnings, before you kill. So, and then after that, you may kill. Now, the point here is that the Jinn appeared in the form of a snake, and the Hadith is Muslim. The Jinn appeared in the form of a snake. Now, this doesn't mean every snake is a Jinn, obviously. What it does mean is that the Jinn can appear in the form of certain animals. And when they choose animals, for some reason that we do not know, uh, many times they appear in the form of, uh, of snakes. Now, by the way, the Hadith of not killing snakes, it doesn't apply to Memphis, Tennessee. Don't worry. Okay? If you see a snake in your house, you may run outside and call somebody to kill it. The Hadith of the Jinn is specific to Medina. Because our Prophet said, "In Medina, there is a group that has accepted Islam." Okay? And the point was that if you were in Medina at that time, you saw a snake, that might be one of your brother Muslims of the Jinn. So you tell the snake, either one version says three days, and the other version says three times. You tell the snake, "Get out of here, or else I will kill you." So if it is a real snake, it won't know what you're saying. You will kill it. If it is a Jinn, then you have given, you have given the warning, and if it's a Jinn, it will leave, uh, before you kill it. The point being, all of these Hadith show what? That the Jinn can appear in front of the humans in forms that the humans can see whenever they want to do so, not when the human wants them to do so. Okay.

Uh, of their characteristics as well is that the Jinn, they marry and they have children. They engage in intercourse outside and inside of marriage, and they have marriage. They do get married and they have children. And this is proven in so many, uh, evidences of them. Is the verse in the Quran, "Will you take and his children, his progeny, as protectors instead of Me?" So Allah called, or Allah mentioned that Iblis has, and literally means his progeny after him. And also of the evidences that the Jinn engage in intimacy is the famous ayah in that, "Neither men nor Jinn have been intimate with these." Which means that the Jinn have the capacity to be intimate. The Jinn have the capacity for this. But they, these entities in Jannah, or the, have not been touched either by the men or the Jinn. They also eat and they drink. They also eat and they drink. And we learned this from so many, uh, Hadith as well of them. Is, well, you guys give me a Hadith. How do we know the Jinn eat and drink? Give me anything. There's so many evidences. Excellent. Excellent. What did the Prophet (peace be upon him) say? What did he say? Very good. "Don't eat with your left hand because eats with his left hand." Okay. It was in the test. Okay. Alhamdulillah. Exactly. So the bone is going to be the food of your brother Jinn. So they have food. They eat with their left hand. Also the famous Hadith of Bukhari, that when you enter the house and you don't say, the Jinn says, "Come here, there's free food to eat." Right? So your meal becomes Jinn meal. Your meal becomes Jinn drive-thru. They come through and they take your food if you don't say. So all of this clearly demonstrates that the Jinn need to eat. They need sustenance, just like we need sustenance. And in fact, we can also say that every created being in this manner needs some type of sustenance. Only Allah is Aliy, only Allah is Aliy. Every other created object needs something. What that is will be related to what it is. So the Jinn needs something of their entities or whatever. We need something coming from the earth, so on and so forth.

Also, of the characteristics of the Jinn is that we learn, uh, and this is a very, uh, simple story of Sulayman, and yet it is so profound, that the story of Sulayman when he wanted to bring the throne from the Queen of Sheba. And we know that Sulayman was given power over the Jinn. Uh, when he wanted to, uh, be given the throne from the Queen of Sheba, what did he say? That, "Who will bring me her throne before she manages to come to me?" Now, Sulayman is in his temple, his Masjid of Jerusalem, which was considered to be the most magnificent structure ever built by men up until that point in time. But it wasn't built by men, it was built by Jinn. But it was considered to be a magnificent structure, tall, towering walls, what we would call minarets as well, massive slabs that humanly were not possible to do. This was a structure that was simply dazzling beyond recognition. And the Queen of Sheba had a throne that she was proud of. And perhaps it was a magnificent throne, but it didn't compete with the Sulayman temple. Perhaps it was a magnificent throne that now, the fact that the hoopoe, or the hoopoe, who has seen the palace of Sulayman, still considers her throne to be magnificent, clearly shows it was a magnificent throne. Clear, right? So the hoopoe, the hoopoe has already seen the palace of Sulayman. You guys understand the story? Am I sure? Yes. The hoopoe says, the hoopoe says after coming back late, that "I came across a group that was worshipping the sun. They have a, a Malika or, or a queen, and she has a magnificent throne." The fact that this bird, who is well aware of Sulayman's magnificence, can still describe her throne as being magnificent demonstrates that truly her throne was an amazing, stupendous throne. So Sulayman wants to show who has Allah (SWT) protecting him and who has no one. So he says to his entire army of birds and Jinn and men and animals and tigers and lions, all of the animals are there, right? Imagine this is literally out of what we call a movie, but because that's because movies are based on this, right? That he's surveying his entire armies, tens of thousands of men, the Jinn are over there, the animals and the birds, and everything is there. And he says, says, "Who will bring me her throne?" So the first entity to stand up was an of the Jinn. And we'll talk about in a while, but basically one type of Jinn. Now, pause here before we go on. The fact that this story is being mentioned in the Quran, and that it's taking place in the time of when all of the Jinn are under his control, and that this Jinn boasts of this feat, indicates that this is the world record that is Jinnly possible. You following me? Yes. The world Jinn record goes to this. That this is the pinnacle of what is Jinnly possible. You cannot go beyond this because the fact that he's boasting, and it's only one.

And it is at a time when all of the jin are subservient to this. This is not your average standard jin. This is like the shahin bahad. This is the the gold weight champion, right? The super jin, okay? And again, all of this to demonstrate. Look, the fact that Allah mentions it as well in the Quran, it clearly demonstrates this is not your average run-of-the-mill jin. This is something that is above and beyond. And he's boasting.

Now, a number of things to derive from this. And this story, really, it summarizes pretty much most of the characteristics of the jin. The story, it summarizes most of the characteristics of the jin. So, the jin is asking iman for permission to be released from servitude to him because Allah had placed the jin's servitude to him. So, the jin is saying, "Let me out of your service. Set me free."

Now, pause here. The whole, uh, mythology of throwing a genie in the bottle. The English word "genie" is from "jin," right? You know this. You should know this. The English word "genie" is from the Arabic word "jin." The whole notion of throwing a genie in the bottle and locking the genie up. The whole notion of a flying carpet. All of this originates from and the times of that the evil jin were basically chained up or thrown into something like that. Something that originates from this time frame. So, an iman would sit on a carpet and the carpet would fly, or Allah would cause the wind to pick it up and go one month's journey back and forth. All of this originates from that.

So, the jin is saying, "Release me from servitude, from bondage. Set me free and let me go and bring the throne. I promise you, I'm strong and trustworthy." So, he wants freedom, and he's promising to come back because once he's left, left that, then it's like releasing a wild dog. How do you know he's going to come back? So, he's promising him, "I promise you, I'll be trustworthy." You see the point here, right?

Another thing we learn is that the speed of travel is in Jerusalem. The Queen of Sheba is in Yemen. The city is what? Sabbah. The city is Sabah. To this day, it is a famous city, right? And the distance between them is the entire Arabian Peninsula. By plane, in our times, it will take around two to two and a half hours. By plane, even in a jet, it will take you around 45 minutes to to 70 minutes. Even in a the fastest jet that we know. What is the jin saying? "Before you can stand up, before you can stand up, I will have the the chair in front of you. I'll have the throne in front of you." Which means what? He will traverse the entire peninsula and bring the chair back in milliseconds. Milliseconds. Now, that is exactly how fast energy and light will travel. Speed of light. Exactly. It's the speed of light. That's exactly what it is. He'll be able to come and back.

Also, so we learn from this the speed of the jin. We also learn from this the physical strength of the jin. On average, jinn are stronger than humans. The average jin is stronger than the average human. And this hadith kind of sets the max limit. One can imagine or visualize that this throne, again, we don't know, but we can assume how large is a throne going to be? As large as this room, maybe, right? As large or massive as as going up as high as this room and will be a massive structure, perhaps it would take 40, 50, 60 men to pick it up, maybe even more. And the jin is basically saying, "I will bring it back single-handedly." What does that show? The average jin is stronger than the average man. That doesn't mean every jin is stronger than every man. Like we say, the average man is stronger than the average woman. There are some women, what can we say, right? And may Allah protect all of you from being married to them. But there are some women, they are stronger than men in every sense of the term. Okay. But the average rule is what? That the average man is stronger than the average woman. Okay. Similarly, the average jin is physically stronger. Is he all-powerful? No. Only Allah is all-powerful. Can the jin lift everything? No. The fact that this is being given and this throne is a humanly conceivable weight. Perhaps 50 men, 70 men, it's not like the world. It's not like heaven and hell. This is a created object which is realistically speaking large, but large to us humans. It's not massively large. So, one jin is saying, "I can pick it up."

Another thing that we see from this story is that the jin has the speed to travel, has the strength to lift it up. And this is to me the most interesting and bizarre and Einsteinian, and that is the jin has the capacity or the power to transform matter into energy. E=MC² comes into play here. To has the power to transform matter into energy and take that energy at the speed of light and then re-bring it back to the way that it was. This is like Star Trek, right? Transformer. "Beam me up, Scotty." This is this is what that is, right? Because obviously the jin is going to bring this throne not in a physical manner, pick it up and bombard out of the palaces of the Queen of Sheba and you will see a big throne flying in the air all the way to Jerusalem and people are wondering. No, it will disappear there and appear over there, which is from our world. What? Teleporting. Exactly. Yes. The seven-year-old knows it's teleporting. Exactly what it is. Exactly what it is. From our perspective, it's teleporting. That one thing basically transforms and then disappears. But obviously, and it is really amazing that we are living at a time when we understand how that is possible, even though it's not humanly possible. You understand this point, right? 50 years ago, 100 years ago, this would have been bizarre. Like, how, what? Now, thanks to Mr. Einstein, it's actually very understandable that it is conceivable that energy is transferred to matter. Matter is transferred. We don't have the power to do that at will, but clearly some of the jin do. Maybe not all of them, but some of the jin do that they can take something. And this also explains another phenomenon that we observe culturally, and that is that the jin are able to bring physical things into your house or take it out of your house without you actually seeing something moving in your house, right? Something might just appear out of nowhere. You find the, we'll talk about this when we do the the class. You might find something in your house and you're like, "How did that get there?" Nobody came to this room, right? And it's clearly locked, or doors are here, and yet all of a sudden it's under your bed. There's a something laid out there, or it's, you know, in the depths of your closet, and you know nobody has been there other than you and your family, and obviously they're not going to put it there for themselves. So, how did it get there? Clearly, the jin have the capacity to transform something that's physical into something that's immaterial, energy, and then retransform it back. And that is something that is very, uh, bizarre for us, but for the jin, it is human characteristics.

Now, uh, one final thing that we learned from this story before we move on to other topics, and that is that the jin, we learned this also from the story of ofl as well. These are some physical characteristics of the jin. As for intellectual characteristics, as for intellectual or emotional characteristics, clearly the jin are very different than us. And Allah has blessed us with more wisdom and intelligence than the jin. So, the jin have more physical capabilities than us. They're faster. They're stronger. They're invisible to us. And they can transform energy and matter back and forth. All of this is great and fine and dandy. But we have more wisdom than them. And wisdom trumps physical power. Wisdom trumps physical power. And that is why the manual labor amongst us gets paid $89 an hour, whereas the guy in the Wall Street office gets paid his entire year's wage in a day, or the CEOs in a second, as you know I'm talking about here, right? Brains over bronze. This is the reality of humans. And we know this, and it's how Allah created us. And that is why, even though was created from nar and Adam was created from, Allah blessed Adam over him intellectually. We are at the top. And so we win. Doesn't matter how fast they can go. Doesn't matter how quick they can dance. We have the brains over them. And so Allah subhana wa ta'ala told to prostrate to Adam, not the other way around.

And this also shows us another point, and that is that from the very beginning, El was jealous of us. El was jealous of us because he knew that Adam had been blessed over him. And his jealousy caused him to become blind with rage and anger. And this led him to always want to. Now, what happens when you're jealous of somebody? And may Allah protect me from jealousy. It's one of the most petty and one of the most ridiculous emotions to have for the intelligent person. Allah knows what to give you and what to give somebody else. Thank Allah you have what you have, and Allah has given other people what he has given them. But El got jealous. What happens when you get jealous? You want to show that you're better. So, if somebody has a lot of money or whatnot, when he's in your presence, and your heart is burning with jealousy, you act so petty and childish and you mention, "Oh yes, I bought this brand new car the other day." And casually mention, "Oh, I invested $50,000." What are you trying to do? Show off. Pretend you're better. Why? Because you have an inferiority complex. So, El and his progeny have an inferiority complex to us. To be psychological about it, El and his progeny, they always feel they need to prove themselves. And in this proving themselves, in this wanting to be better than the other, this is where they take advantage of some amongst us, and some amongst us take advantage of them. And that is the intersection of magic, which we talk about later on. That is the intersection of magic. That is going to be part two of of this class.

Now, uh, getting back to the list of their characteristics. They marry, they eat, they drink, they have speed, they, uh, they they have, they can lift heavy things, they can transfer matter into energy. They also eavesdrop on the angels. The evidences for this are again well known to all of you. The Quran is very explicit. Allah says, "We would sit up there in stations of sitting in order to listen." And in Surah Tabarak and in so many other surahs, at least six ayat in the Quran are about eavesdropping of the, uh, of the, of the jin. And this also shows us that the world of the jin and the world of the angels is a similar world. It's a different parallel universe, if you like, that it is the world of energy. It's a different world. The jin and the mala'ikah are inhabiting that type of world. So, they can sense one another and they can hide themselves from one another, like we hide ourselves from one another with a physical barrier. They can hide themselves from one another with their own barriers. So, that's what the jin are doing. They're hiding in a way we will never understand, behind something like I would hide behind you, in this wall, behind this table. If I was scared, I'd hide over here. Physical barrier. So, the jin have their barriers and they would hide behind those barriers so the angels could not see them. Which means the angels, as well, are not infinitely knowledgeable. The angels have their own sense perceptions, and the jin are able to utilize that and listen.

Then what happened? Allah says in the Quran, "With the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), that was closed." With the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the dunya was locked up. With the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), uh, the jin only could go with great difficulty. Before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), no restrictions. Because what does Allah say in that, "We used to sit there all the time, right?" And then whoever tries to do it now, he's going to find a fiery ball basically sent against him, okay? So, the jin also eavesdrop upon the angels. And the jin, uh, will die and be resurrected and face reward or punishment. So, the jin are the jin have to worship Allah. The jin are obliged to be righteous, and those who are righteous will be rewarded. Those who are not will be punished. So, the jin and us share this reality. "I have only created jin and men in order to worship me." So, jin will also get Jannah if they are righteous, and jin will be punished in Jahannam if they are not righteous. And, uh, there are many evidences for this, and I don't need to go into all of the evidences. We need to move on, mashallah. The time has really gone very quickly, uh, and I still have literally more. I haven't even finished half of the material. So much to do, but very quickly, inshallah, then we'll continue this, uh, also in a part two.

Uh, the jin, of the characteristics of the jin is that the evil jin love to inhabit evil places. The filthy jin love to inhabit filthy places. And we learned this from the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that in that these bathrooms, uh, are misransate. These bathrooms are occupied. Because that's one translation of the hadith, right? But that's not what is intended. Because when we say the bathroom is occupied, these bathrooms are inhabited. These bathrooms are, there are things in those bathrooms. So, when you enter the bathroom, make sure that you seek refuge in Allah from when you enter the bathroom, then seek refuge in Allah from.

So, these are some of the characteristics in the Quran and Sunnah of the jin. Of the characteristics that is not in the Quran and Sunnah, but we learn from folklore, from legends, from conversing with the jin. And we cannot be 100% certain. So, I'll always make this distinction of the characteristics we learn from them is that the jinn have much, much, much longer lives than us, maybe even hundreds of years, because for them, time is not the way it is in our time. And of the things we learn from them. So, it's not Quran and Sunnah. Quantity-wise, they are much more than us. Quantity-wise, they are much more than us because they don't occupy physical space. So, a jin can have thousands of children, and the quantity of jin far surpasses the quantity of men. And there is an evidence in the Quran that some have used, even though this is not explicit in this regard. Allah says in the Quran, and one of the ways to translate this verse, which is not the most apparent way, it is not the most obvious way of translation. One of the verses is, "Oh, groups of jin, you have far exceeded groups of men." And this is something that, um, we learn from folklore as well, and from, you know, interacting with, uh, these entities. All of the cultures, they have these things that these beings live for much longer than that of men.

Moving on now. These are all characteristics of the jinn. Moving on. What types of jinn do we have? How many quantities or or or charact or, uh, um, the the types is the best word, really. The species or the types. And the fact of the matter is, this is much of what has been written here is pure folklore. So, I will minimize this very much because, honestly, we really don't know. The hadith tell us one thing. The Quran tells us another thing, and put together, we just get some very basic categories. Of the simplest categories is of the simplest categories is that there are Muslim jinn and non-Muslim jinn. This is very clear. And in fact, there's a very clear verse in the Quran in Surah Jin. Allah says, in the Quran, the jin are speaking, "There are some who are Muslims, and there are some who fall short and are evil." And Allah says also in Surah, "Some of us are good, and some of us are lower than good. We are, and we are not." So, uh, clearly there are some Muslim jinn. And there are non-Muslim jinn. And this is also proven in Surah, the last page of Surah, where Allah mentions in the Quran, uh, and this occurred, if you remember, uh, when the Prophet returned from, and the night before he entered Mecca, bleeding and bloodied and bruised, he stood up into, and Allah blessed him with a miracle that the people of the world might have rejected you, but even the other world will accept. And Allah mentions in the Quran that, uh, what's the beginning? Is that it? Exactly. "And when we caused a group of jin, and when we caused a group of jin to be diverted to go through you or to you, and they heard you recite the Quran." And when they heard it, they told her, "Everybody be quiet. Let's listen to this." And when they listened to you finish, they turned away having accepted Islam, and they went back to their people and they said to their people, "We have heard of a book that has come after MS, affirming what MS said. And oh, my people, accept this new messenger that has come." So, clearly, we find Muslim jinn converting and preaching to their fellow Jewish jinn. Notice, right? So, this also shows us another point. We learn from folklore. We learn from legend. And the Quran gently hints at this. The religions of the jinn are the religions of men. You have Christian jinn, Buddhist jinn, Hindu jinn, and Muslim jinn. The religions of men are adopted by the jinn. And it's not the other way around. We don't adopt their religions, they adopt ours. What does that show, by the way? Intellectually, right? We don't adopt their religions, they adopt ours. By the way, we can also say we don't learn their languages, they learn ours to communicate with us. We do not learn. They have their languages, we don't learn them. They learn our languages to communicate with us. And you will have jinn that speak in human languages. And this is well-documented without getting all freaky on you and all that, but well-documented that, you know, the famous case of, "Should I or should I not?" The one that was made a movie out of, right? Um, no, not The Exorcist was in a different language. Um, Emily Rose, the movie that was made of Emily Rose. It is based on an actual story that from which we have tape recordings to this day, 'cause this is back in the '60s and '70s, where a village girl, illiterate and uneducated, is speaking fluent Latin. Speaking fluent Latin. And this is a phenomenon that psychiatrists actually know about, where a person just learns a language out of nowhere and begins speaking it fluently. Right? The psychiatrists have their own weird and bizarre ways of explaining it. We don't need that weird and bizarre. It's very clear how a seven-year-old girl or eleven-year-old girl can speak fluent Latin. Right? And you come across jinn that, uh, will be speaking in languages that the person that is speaking has never been exposed to. But these are human languages. Human languages. And therefore, uh, this shows us as well intellectually, the jinn are not as high as us, because they have to learn our languages. We don't learn their languages. They have their language. We don't.

So, we said number one, there are Muslim and non-Muslim jinn. Number two, they are different ethnicities and tribes, like we are. So, there might be this jin and Arab jin. I don't know, man. I hope they have one masjid, inshallah, from the unmasked. You know what I'm saying? But, uh, they they have different ethnicities and tribes. How do we know this? Again, very roughly hinted at or very vaguely hinted at in that Allah says the jin say, "They said, 'Oh, our people.'" So, they have that is separate from the other jinn. So, clearly, they have different, uh, ethnicities and different ways of dividing themselves. How they are, what those things are? We have absolutely no idea. That is something that is beyond it is, and we will never, uh, know.

Also, there are certain types of jinn that the Quran and Sunnah mention, and I will only mention the two that the Quran and Sunnah mentions. Otherwise, folklore mentions 101, 15, and I'll leave all of that. The Quran only mentions one special type of jin, and that is, we already mentioned him. And the Sunnah also mentions, by the way, that the Prophet said, uh, in the hadith of walking three steps back, three steps forward, in one version it says, "An of the jin came to me." And what is an of the jin? So, what we can gather from the Quran and Sunnah, the is an especially evil and especially strong jin. It's a type of jin that has strength above and beyond what the other types of jinn have. And it has an evil nature that is above and beyond the evil of the average, which is pretty low bar anyway, and it's going to go lower than that. Okay, we know this because the challenged the Prophet. Imagine how evil you must be to take on the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). And the is the one that is saying to, "I can bring the the the the throne." So, perhaps some have said that an is like what the Westerners would call like a demon type of spirit, and the other jinn are the regular evil spirits. So, in in many cultures, you have this distinction of an especially evil entity and then your regularly evil entities. So, we learn this from the Quran and Sunnah that there's an especially malevolent, especially vile, especially despicable breed of jin, and they are the of the jin. Uh, and they seem to be rare, not that common, uh, and they're not as common as the other jinn.

Now, there's a hadith in Muslim, Imam Ahmed, that scholars have different authenticity, but it basically mentions, uh, in Arabic is, and from this we get the English "ghoul." The English "ghoul" in Arabic is, and so there is a type of jin that is or ghoul, uh, and that is just a jin that is irritating and and causing you hardships and whatnot. These are the only two types that are actually explicitly mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah.

Now, folklore and legend, if you go to any book written about jinn by anybody, you will have, "N is this type, N is this type, and this type." And the fact of the matter is that we don't know. This is simply. But there is one hadith that is very fascinating, but we cannot explain it because it is, how can you explain what you don't know? Hadith is very fascinating, and it is an authentic hadith. Our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "Jinn are of three types." Jinn are of three types. Number one, he said, "Some are snakes and dogs." Number two, "Some are flying around in the air." And number three, "Some are they camp or they live and then they go away." Now, so he categorized jinn into three categories. Scholars have attempted to extrapolate and whatnot. And the fact of the matter is, these are cryptic. But what can we generically say? There's a category of jin that typically appears in the form of animals. This is the first category. And two animals in particular, the jinn love to appear in. But sometimes there are other animals. And the two main animals that the jinn love to appear in are snakes and dogs. The two most common animals that the jinn love to appear in are snakes and dogs. But this does not mean that they never appear in another form. They could have other forms as well. But the two most common, and that's why the Prophet said, "The first category are and snakes and dogs." The second category is, "Some are they are flying around in the skies." And perhaps those types of jinn have almost nothing to do with us. Perhaps, perhaps there are many quantities of jinn that are completely separate and cut off from us. Have nothing to do with us. They are. And again, this is, we will never know. But maybe those are the majority of the jinn. The majority of the jinn have nothing to do with our world. They're living their lives and they're going by. And then the third, the third type of jin is, "They come and they go." This is the one that seems to want to irritate us, want to frighten us, want to come into our lives. This third category. So, the majority of the jinn have nothing to do with us. They're living their lives. And the reason they become animals is to get access to our food, to be able to get to that food, which is a physical food. So, they take on the form of a a snake or a dog, and then they can eat the food of the snakes and dogs, and then that will replenish their jin, and then they'll become the jin again.

Now, other than this, frankly, I didn't want to get into all of the, uh, um, the the folklore of the types of jinn. I want to stick with the Quran and Sunnah in this regard. The final thing that we'll say, inshallah, uh, and and that is, well, very briefly, uh, are the jinn also, uh, do they have their prophets or not? Or you want to make a comment right now if it's Mustafa, you can make a comment. Said in about Ramadan, right? So, is that another class? So, could be an adjective, and not a noun, of the jin, i.e., he especially, I don't want to say the obstinate, right? And IB comments on this hadith, and that's, inshallah, maybe in part two, we'll get to this. Tam comments on this hadith, and he said, "Many people mistakenly think that all of the are chained up in Ramadan." This is not true. Only the of the and the of the are the obstinate or the the the ones that are especially going to harm you. Are they a separate category like the or are they simply the more harmful than other? Allah knows best because the seems to be like a a different species of the jin or a different clan of the jin, and Allah knows best. So, it could be that the of the jin is like the or it could be that the of the jin is simply one of their types of jinn that is especially evil, and Allah knows best. So, these are all of. And the problem comes again, all of this is, uh, one final point before we conclude, and that is, uh, are jinn, are there any prophets of the jinn? Are there any prophets that have been sent as the jinn? And there's a lot of on this issue. The majority of scholars of our tradition have said that there are no jin prophets and messengers. Prophets and messengers are only human. Ibn Abbas held a position that prophets and messengers are human, but the jinn have another entity that we don't have, and that is. So, there's something called a nud for the jin, and this is based on that Allah says, "They went back to their people as warners." And the third opinion, which is Ibn, he said, "No, there are prophets and angels, sorry, prophets and, uh, messengers even amongst the jin." So, Ibn Hassam said, "We have prophets, and the jin have prophets, and we have messengers, and the jin have messengers." But he was resoundly refuted. And the fact of the matter is that all evidences that are explicit point to the first opinion. As for the second opinion, it doesn't contradict the first opinion. You can say that there are nud, that's fine, as long as there's no prophets and messengers. All prophets and messengers are men. And this also demonstrates the superiority of men over jinn. No prophet and messenger has ever gone to the jinn. And what is the evidence for this? Many evidences, but time is limited. We'll just mention one or two. Surah Yusuf, verse 109. Surah, verse 109. "And we have only sent before you men, like human men, that we have inspired them." And the entire Quran is full of stories of the previous prophets, all of whom were men. Not a single whiff of a jin prophet. And also, our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), clearly is saying, "I have been sent to ins and jin." Clearly, he's saying. And that's why we say he's sent to both. And culture tells us, the Quran tells us, there are Jewish jinn, Christian. Now, the Quran didn't tell us that, but we learn from folklore and culture. We learn from folklore and culture that the jinn have religions that are known to us, and nothing beyond our religions. So, the fact that all of their religions are our religions demonstrates what? That they're following our, uh, prophets. And therefore, because of this, we also conclude that the jinn are obliged to believe in the prophets, and they have the same theology as us. They have the same im, but we also learn that their is different. And our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), uh, went to them on the famous incident called. How many times happened? Some say one time, others say two times. Some scholars even say six times there was le. So, it's not necessarily a one-off incident. Majority of scholars say it happened only once. But there are evidence to suggest it happened multiple times. Once in Mecca, once in Medina. What is Jin? It is a night that the Prophet dedicated to the jinn. And Ibn Abbas narrates a number of hadith. And when you put all of the hadith together, they couldn't all have taken place on the same night. So, that's why some scholars have said there are multiple times this happened. That the first time this happened was in the Meccan phase, when Ibn Abbas said that we searched for the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and we couldn't find him anywhere, and we thought that he had been kidnapped or assassinated. We had the worst night of our lives. And then the next morning, he walks into the town, and we embraced him and said, "Where had you been?" So, he said, "One of the jinn came and they told me, and he told me that, uh, I have a group that wants to meet you." And so, he took me to their camp, and he took Mas and a group of Sahaba to the camp of the jinn, and he showed them the remnants of their camp. Now, pause here. This shows that the jinn have their own equivalents. They also have to light their fires. How that is, Allah knows, but he shows them the equivalent. They also have their animals. By the way, there are animals amongst the jinn. This is mentioned in the hadith as well. And this is totally interesting for us here that Allah didn't just create the jinn in that world. That world has its equivalents of our world. So, there are jinnish animals, if that makes sense. Right? And of course, the animals of that world are like the animals of our world. They're not, they're not going to have Jannah. And so, the jinn have their own as well. I always like to joke that they don't have to do wudu to extinguish themselves before they pray. Okay, the jinn have their own as well. What is their? None of our business. The Prophet went with them, and this shows us the superiority of our Prophet that Allah told him what the jinn are supposed to do, even though he's a human. And so, they have their own rulings because obviously they have different, you know, rulings, maybe they have different things, but their is the same.

The final point that we conclude with this, inshallah, protection from the jinn. And we'll talk more about this in part two, but I cannot give you part one without this, right? Protection from the jinn. And realize, the whole goal, we're winding up here. Listen to this carefully, my dear brothers and sisters. The purpose of this lecture was knowledge is power. Knowing who the jinn are, knowing their characteristics. Wallah, the more you know, the less you fear. The jinn have no power over you unless Allah has willed it. The jinn can only harm arm you in a manner that is physical, but it is beyond your physical understanding. The jinn are not super powerful. The jinn have limited strength, limited knowledge. The only thing that really messes up the equation, you can't see them. If you could see the jinn, you would fear them like you fear a predator. That's all. They have similar physical powers, not infinite physical powers. They're faster than you, a little bit stronger than you, but you have the advantage of the brains, and you have the most important advantage, and that is Islam.

So, how do you protect yourself from the jinn? Firstly, following the commandments of Islam to the max, following the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Many examples: eating, you say Bismillah. Jinn will not eat with you. Drinking, drink with your right hand. You know, um, making, uh, duas to Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Secondly, extra, especially is the most powerful way to protect yourself against the jinn. When we read the Quran, when we enter the bathroom, male and female jinn, when we are angry, what did the Prophet say? Say, because the jin is making you angry, right? When we have a bad dream, what did the Prophet say? Turn around and say, okay. So, all of these are seeking refuge in Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Another thing to protect yourself against the jinn is extra lots of Subhanallah. Alhamdulillah. Our Prophet said, "At night, when every person goes to sleep, ties three knots on him, and Shaitan says, 'May you have a long sleep and don't wake up for Fajr sleep until the sun comes up.'" Right? So, if the person, the Prophet said, wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is broken. So, as soon as you wake up, you're supposed to say, "Bismillah, Alhamdulillah." And that's it. It's the dua of waking up. What is the dua of waking up? Alhamdulillah. Not, okay. I thought you said no. Not unless you have food right there and you, okay. So, the dua of waking up, you praise Allah, or you say Bismillah. So, when you say Allah, what happens? One of the, one of the knots is broken up. Also, in a beautiful hadith, listen to this, that, um, a lady was on a camel or on a horse, or was it a man? I forgot. Another Sahabi, a Sahabi, I forgot. I think it was a lady, but I'm not sure. And the horse or the camel, it reared upwards, and this lady or man, I forgot, said, "Basically, may Iblis be cursed. Why is he irritating my animal?" So, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "Don't say Iblis. Don't say, 'May, may Iblis be cursed.' Rather, say Bismillah." Because when you say Iblis, you make Iblis feel very important, and he becomes bigger than a house. He swells up in pride that you blame me. Excuse me. Sorry. And when you say Bismillah, you make him feel so insignificant, he becomes smaller than an ant. So, to say, "Oh, this Shaitan did it." And this is especially Pakistani, Indian people here, it's in our culture, right? We need to calm down because when we ascribe things to Shaitan, what happens? Feels proud. Yeah, that was me. Good. Now, by the way, this is in in context here. I mean, obviously, if you do it, I shouldn't have said that because now I have to give all of these caveats and whatnot. You're not supposed to ascribe some type of power to Shaitan over you or your animal or your house or what, or something like that. But you may ascribe a past sin or a past issue. "Oh, Shaitan made me do that." That's something in the, nothing right now that you're giving him power. But you may excuse yourself. You know, "Shaitan misguided me when I was younger. Alhamdulillah, Allah guided me." As long as that get you to stage number two, and you try to excuse yourself, like the brothers of Yusuf said, the Yusuf and his brothers, what did he say? That, "Oh, that was Shaitan. Not that wasn't you guys." Like he's trying to excuse his brothers, right? So, in some contexts, then it's useful. But never in the present for right here and now that, you know, caused this. No, you say, like the hadith says, you say Bismillah, and Shaitan will feel so insignificant, he will become smaller than an ant. So, so we had number one, following the commandments. Number two is, number three, uh, number four, or you can say three, a, it depends. Or four, especially one when you leave the house. That is especially important that our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "If somebody says when he leaves the house, you all know this. What's after this?" This is a long dua. If you don't know it, then look it up in any book of dua. So, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, "Whoever says this dua when he leaves his house, one Shaitan says to the other, 'How can you get at a man who has been guided and taken care of and protected? How can you get to this man? He's now basically been forced, force shield around him.'" So, especially this. Another thing that protects against is the Adhan. The Adhan. So, we should give Adhan in our houses as much as possible. We should love to hear the Adhan because Shaitan is disrespectful to the Adhan. Shaitan tries to be sacrilegious when the Adhan is heard. Shaitan makes the most sacrilegious noise imaginable, and he's trying to make fun of the Adhan. And this shows us the evil nature of Shaitan that he wants to drown the sound of the Adhan out. So, we love to give the Adhan. And the final point that we'll mention is Quran, Quran, Quran. Nothing protects against the jinn like the Quran. Nothing protects against the jinn like the Quran. That, uh, we learned this straight from the mouth of himself. He told Abu, "Recite," and our Prophet would recite. And, uh, our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that Shaitan can never enter a house where the Baqarah is recited. So, Baqarah is recited, right? So, all of this shows us that the Quran is of the most important ways to protect ourselves from the jinn.

And therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, the jinn is not something to be feared any more than you fear of physical harm. The jinn is not anything that you should be scared of supernaturally. Only Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is, uh, the one that you are truly scared of. And the more scared you are of the jinn, the more power the jinn has over you. Listen to me carefully. The more terrified you are of the jinn, the more you are handing over your power to the jinn. And the more that you are brave against the jinn, automatically you will make the jinn weaker. Automatically. You simply tell the jinn, if you are sure that there's, and by the way, I have to point out here, subhan Allah, 99% of the time, if you hear some scraping noise or you see or you you hear some whatnot, it's your fridge that needs to be fixed or something, you know? Like, 99% of the time it's the wind blowing or something. And I speak from experience as somebody calls me up, this, look, the jinn have something better to do than scratch their nails on your walls. Okay? They have something better to do than steal your pencil. And where did my pencil go? The jinn must have taken it. No, maybe it's your kid. Maybe you yourself forgot it. I'm telling you, wallah, the majority of time it's your imagination. It's something you have not. But once in a very blue moon, and may Allah protect me and you, something genuinely happens that you can sense or you can feel. And yes, there is a feeling that there is an entity that is evil here. That's very rare. Very, very rare. And many people live their lives and it never happens. And may Allah make you and me amongst them. But sometimes you feel that, or you actually, and it is true, I, and there are people that you see an entity wanting to terrify you. This is very, very, very rare. And in my many years of doing this, I don't think anybody has come to me with the story of a wakeful entity coming in sleep. Yes, that's much more common. In sleep, the jinn will terrify you. But a wakeful entity, like somebody when you are awake, excuse me, and then some entity coming to terrify you. I have never met somebody, uh, like that. I have heard from others and researched and whatnot. I have never met anybody that has told me that when I'm awake, this entity has come with goblin and this. That's that's horror movies. That's so rare. It does happen, one in a billion, but it's very rare. What is more common? Dreams. What is more common? Irritation in other methods, whisperings and whatnot. This is more common. We'll talk about that. And then the issue of, we'll talk about that in part two. But in part one, if you feel that there is some evil entity harming you or whatnot, what do you do? You control your fear and you tell, you say, for example, you know, "You cannot harm me unless Allah has willed. I believe in Allah. I am Abdullah." So, when the Prophet was was performing exorcism, we'll talk about that in part two, um, that he actually said, "Everything is linked to Allah. I am the slave of Allah. Get out of here, oh enemy of Allah." So, whatever you do, link it to Allah. Don't say yourself or don't say the jinn. Yourself and the jinn. Nothing. Link it to Allah. Allah will protect me against you. Right? Get out of here in the name of Allah. For example, this is what you would say if that were to ever happen. Otherwise, inshallah, inshallah, I can assure you this is so rare that the vast majority of people live their lives and they never see anything like this. And that is because the jinn have better things to do than come and scare you like a goblin. They have their lives, believe it or not. They have to earn a sustenance as well. They have to feed their families. Think about it, right? They have better things to do than go turn your light switch on and off, you know, in the middle of the night. You know, once in a while that might happen to somebody, but I mean, usually it's your kid coming in or whatever. You know what I'm saying? So, uh, alhamdulillah, learning the Quran and Sunnah will calm us down, will empower us, will make us less and less scared. And the perfection is not to be scared of these entities at all because they cannot hear your thoughts. They cannot read your minds. They are physical creations of Allah that have certain different characteristics than you. That's all it is. They are physical creations. They are creations of Allah. They have certain things that you don't have. Because of this, they might have an advantage over you in some areas, but overall you have the advantage over them in brains and in. And if you have these two combined, uh, then inshallah, that can never harm you. Uh, we have some time for Q&A and inshallah, we will have a part two sometime soon. Allah knows when, and that will be for adults only, and, huh, at night time in the camp, we will light the fire, right? But that will be no kids allowed to that one. Yes, Dr. Bashar, go ahead. Just a couple of questions. One of them regarding the physicality of the jinn and how their probably energy and how would the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) be able to tie somebody up and to the to the pillar of the masjid or Abu wrestle with someone and catch him if they don't have a, I mean, they can turn themselves into energy and fly away. You can't really tie him up. The other thing is the encounter with the jinn. You said the casual and the rare encounter. But there also the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and every one of you has what is the issue and how do you deal? Okay. So, the issue of the physicality of the jinn. As for wrestling with the jinn. So, when the jinn takes the form of a human, it has to downgrade its powers, and it is physical at that point in time. And there are a hadith, not a hadith, sorry, a narration of there is a narration that I did not quote today of a Sahabi wrestling with a jinn and overpowering the jinn in a physical form when the jinn was a human, and the Sahabi didn't know it was a jinn. Turns out it's a jinn. So, he wrestles with him and then and then beats him, uh, in a physical form. When the jinn becomes a human, the limitations become human, and Allah knows best. Maybe they can't just instantaneously become a jin again. Maybe it takes some effort. We don't know. So, that is why Abu Hurairah could physically grapple with him. And if a jinn enters into a body, it's not easy for the jinn to leave that body. It's not that simple. And this is the issue of possession, which that's going to be the rated R stuff in the next lecture, right? Not for now. Uh, that if the jinn enters the body, it's not easy. It's actually very difficult to get the jinn out. So, I'm talking about E=MC². It's pretty clear it's not that easy. And the was talking about the maxima. That's the.

first thing. The second thing about how the pro was doing it. That's how could the proess tie up a jin? Obviously not with something physical. He was thinking about another method of maybe through the angels. We don't know. and going to be beyond our scope.

The uh other question you asked was the so when I talked about the interaction I meant with the eyes. I should have clarified gins do not just appear in front of us at random day and night. And we all know this from our own experiences. Every culture knows this. No matter what the culture is in the world, seeing a demon or something is the exception and not the rule. Correct? That's what I'm trying to say. We're not talking about the effects of the on us in waswas. That's a whole different topic which we might get into even in part three because part two is about and and right the the issue actually I've given auda two years ago three years ago about seeking protection from here at MIC. So the issue of shaitan's waswas and I didn't talk about today that is a whole different topic of what is the role of shaitan why did Allah create shaitan how do we protect ourselves against particularly shaitan that is a subtopic of what I did today I didn't shed too much light on that maybe we will in the future inshallah sisters any questions yes I have heard that you have a somewhere This is what the brother is is a you have a this is this is aan that when every one of us is born a shaitan is a sign to misguide us.

So that is the another thing is in the Quran it's mentioned the throne of no the Quran does not mention the throne ofl anywhere it's mentioned in hadith literature thatl is so arrogant that he wanted to compete with Allah so if Allah has a throne made his own throne in the water this is a hadith it's in the water somewhere that he has a throne over some body of water, but we don't know where and obviously it doesn't make any sense to try to narrow it down to the Bermuda Triangle or something like this. We we let it go, inshallah.

Yes. Go ahead. Um like animals, are they um like for example during night at night time you know uh when a dog just starts barking and whatnot are they able to you know sense the the jin and uh if you know when a jin enters or you know is is in a dog form for example or snake form is there a way to tell that that animal in fact so the second question first is there a way to tell that a particular animal is a jin or an animal at any given time. No, not immediately. No, that the jin outwardly will look like that animal at the time. And that is why our prophet explicitly said speak to that entity and tell it to get out of the house. So if it is a jin, it will understand you because it's a jin. Uh and if it's not a jin, it will not understand you. So there's no easy way of telling. Uh that is the case. However, I don't want to tell any weird stories or what not, but if the animal starts acting more than just like an animal, let me just leave it like that. Okay? Maybe like kind of like that type of stuff. Okay? Yeah. So, if the animal has certain powers that clearly animals are not typically having, then you can imagine it's not an animal. Okay. And your other question was what? If there if a dog for example, can the animals see the jin? It appears that certain animals can see the jin better than we can. Yes. It appears this way from folklore. It appears that certain animals in particular dogs and cats might be able to perceive the gins in a manner that we are not able to perceive. Okay.

Yes, brother. Mustafa and then you must add his hand first. Mustafa and then you. Well, of the prophet. Um, so what does exactly what does exactly that mean? Have you seen the six sense? Where do they get these from? Think about it. Think about it. What did I tell you? If you understood the joke I'm saying the hadith translates the shaitan does not open a closed door. That's the hadith. Shaitan does not open a closed door. And if you look at the folklore the famous movie that came out the had this one of the rules was the demon is not going to open the ghost is not going to open the closed door. Where do they get this from? These are things that as we they simply it's real and humanity kind of figures it out and our Quran and Sunnah proves it in different ways and so it merges together. So the meaning here is that quite literally when you close the door and you mention the name of Allah subhana wa ta'ala, the will not be able to enter it. It will be a barrier against them quite literally. Right? But the point is and that is why even when you go to sleep at night the prophet said cover up your food. There's a the hadith like don't just same thing. Don't just leave it like that. Cover up your food and say bismillah over it. So if you have a cup of water at night you shouldn't just leave it outside if you're going to drink in the next morning. You just put anything on top and just say bismillah cover it up because their barriers are different than our barriers. And our prophet has told us once you close the door and you say bismillah once you put something on the food you say bismillah in a manner we will never understand it will never they will never and let me give you another of these myths um in the Scandinavian countries they believe in these zombies and and Dracula and whatnot again one of the rules is what you have to give permission for it to come into your house if you don't give permission it's not going to come into your house and there are horror movies based upon this as well okay that is trying to trick you to get into that. And again, this hadith that shaitan cannot open the door once it has been shut means once you have shut it off and you are you're following the sunnah then it will not be able to open uh open up and therefore you are supposed to close your doors at night and you're supposed to say the name of Allah and over food as well and will not have access to it.

with this it says so are kids especially vulnerable kids are especially vulnerable at one particular time that around time for around 40 50 minutes we should bring the kids in authentic hadith of the prophetam that that's when the are let go and so they like to irritate and tease and and whatnot uh because they are I mean this Animalistic, isn't it? You want to tease a young kid. That's what they are. They are. So during this time, we bring them in and lock the or shut the doors. Then once the time has passed by 20, 30 minutes, if they want to play outside or whatnot, uh then they are allowed to do that.

Yes, brother. Go ahead. You know, in this day and time with information technology and YouTube and TV and Discovery Channel and all of this, I think all of us maybe have seen this and probably asked the question and some have this uh ancient aliens and ancient astronauts and you get into the stories of in the Bible and the Nephilim and all of this type of stuff and the videos and the evidences of craft and UFOs and ETSs and we can laugh if we want, but if we look into it, there seems to be something There we as Muslims, how are we to maybe view this? Is this a possibly a creation of Allahh which we have no knowledge of? Do we associate this with the jin? Is there anything that we can can can look at in the Quran in the sunnah that maybe possibly will answer this phenomenon?

So the brother asks a very good question and that is what is our position about alternative life forms i.e. aliens. Do Muslims believe in aliens or not? And the fact of the matter is that this isn't a funny question. It's a very serious question. But we don't call them aliens. Has Allah created other beings or are we the only creation of Allah? That is the question. And the response is we will never know for sure in this world and most likely in the next we won't care. But some scholars including Ibia have opined that Allahel has created other life forms and that this goes back to the perfection of Allah being means the one who continues to create. So the notion that the only creation is us and after we're gone there will be no other creation. It seems to suggest as if that Allah is not really creating perpetually continuously and Tamia felt that this diminishes the majesty of Allah that he felt that Allah subhana wa ta'ala has been constantly creating and will constantly continue to create to no end and that what we know is only our world that in our world Allah began in this manner and there's going to be this is our portion there are others as well before us and after us are they simultaneous to us Ibam didn't talk about that is talking about the issue of Allah always creating but there's no negation of the fact that other worlds could be simultaneous to us or other creations could be simultaneous and there are many evidences that might possibly suggest this. So please don't misquote me. Don't tweet saying there's aliens. Please careful keep my reputation and others. I'm saying there is some evidence to suggest that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has created other creations whether they are before us or after us or the same time as us. The Quran does not mention anything. But the Quran might possibly suggest. Is that clear? That there are other creations. It might possibly not suggest that either. What are some of the evidences? Number one, he has created things you will never know. You don't know about. So you will never know. Which means this is not something you can see. He has created things you don't know about. And we continue to discover new species every day. That's not what Allah is talking about. Something else. Number two that Allah says in the Quran that uh Allah has created all of the heavens and the earth and he has scattered throughout all of them creatures not just on the earth. The samawat and the samawat as we talked about infir uh the samawat is not just our heavens. It is beyond our heavens. And Allah says he has scattered creatures in all of them. And if he wants to, he can gather all of them up at once or he can gather the two of them together. Now you can understand this verse to mean the day of judgment which is the majority interpretation or you can understand it to mean Allah has created all different creatures and if he wanted to he could cause them to meet. Both are linguistically possible. There are other evidences as well. I'll just jump straight to the one I think is the strongest evidence to suggest that there might be other creations of Allah and Allah knows best where Allah subhana wa ta'ala says we have honored the children of Adam and we have carried them in the land and in the seas. In our times we add in the heirs and we have given them many things and we have preferred them humans over many other things that we have created which means we have preferred some over them as well. Do you understand? We occupy a high rank according to this verse but not the highest. You could interpret this again. You could all of this is right which means now in the world that we inhabit who is at the top of the pyramid I mean in the creation it's us. Who bowed down to us? The angels the jin. So then we are at the top in this of the creation. Right? Yet Allah says in Isra that we have honored the children of Adam over many other things we have created not all. So again these these are all gray areas. So to to summarize and with this we conclude we went way over time. The Quran does not explicitly claim that there are other life forms or before or after us. But a number of famous theologians, Iben Tamia has an entire section dedicated to it. And one famous non-Muslim scholar by the name of John Hoover, J O N H O O V E R has written an entire paper if you have I think it's even on PDF Google now. Just Google it. It's called the perpetuity of creation in the thought of Iben Tamia. It's in English. It's in fancy schmancy academic English, but it's in English and you just Google it by John Hoover. The perpetuity of creation and the thought of Ibamia. It's an entire paper where he combi compiles what IB said in his evidences in simple well not simple English but in English and basically this is the summary of it that he says it beffits the majesty of Allah to have created and to continue to create and we are but one of Allah's infinite creations. Does that answer your question or confuse you even more? Confuse you even more with that. In it is we will figure out when to do part two, but that's going to be a little bit more advanced. I'm happy that you're here for part one.