# Why do popular preachers promote belief in jinn possession?

*Why reply to Omar Suleiman's clip on jinn possession: preachers and the market they serve*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/1/
- Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (0:02–2:41)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=2s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/

**Topics:** Jinn possession; Views on contemporary scholars; Cults, clergy and religious abuse

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth will answer Omar Suleiman's clip as a prime example of preachers promoting superstition; he says they appease the market that buys their commodity.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says he was sent a clip of Omar Suleiman speaking about jinn possession and will use it as the archetypal example, since many others say the same but Suleiman has significant reach, to show that even someone level-headed on many things will push and promote superstitions as part of the faith. He asks why they do this and answers that such people sell a commodity to a market that buys it, so they must to some extent appease that market; he does not know whether Suleiman himself believes it, but says he will appease the market where his material floats and sells. He announces that he will play the clip, a couple of minutes long with explanations and one or two anecdotes, and then respond.

## Sources and names cited

- Omar Suleiman
- jinn

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:02–2:41)

[0:02] all right so taking a look where did i put this video clip let me just see uh right can i see it here nope right is it when things are going wrong so people i was sent a clip by omar he's speaking about jin possession now i'm using that as the the kind of archetypal um example even though many people

[0:40] do speak about this it's not to be fair it's not exclusive to sheikh umar salehman but it's just that because he has a significant reach it's i'm using him as a prime example to show that despite being you know may level-headed on many things yet even people like that will push and circulate and promote superstitions as part of the faith

[1:19] why do they do this and i want to play this clip explaining it and then i'll go just go into it briefly i think we have to question the reason they do this it's much more you know there's so many things interlocked have to remember that these people are part of a like they have a commodity that they're trying to sell there is a market that will buy that commodity what they are selling now they must always to some extent appease the

[1:58] greater market even at times now i don't know whether maybe sheikh umar suleiman himself believes in this stuff maybe he does and maybe he doesn't but he will appease that market because that market is where his stuff will ultimately float and sell and you have to remember that so let's take a look at this clip it's a couple of minutes long um and he goes he gives his explanations and he gives one to anecdotes let's take a look when things are going wrong in our lives we tend to always want to blame something

[2:37] external so we tend to want to say that someone did this to me or someone must have put this on me someone put a spell on me so forth but is there such thing as a jinn actually possessing a human being a human being actually being possessed by a jinn it does exist and allah he affirms this in the quran allah says he says describing the people who engaged in usury and interest that they would stand on the day of judgement just like he does say fair enough overtaken and being beaten on the inside and so on so forth by the shayateen so a person who's possessed by the jinn

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 6aPj1fuMN24/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/1/

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