# The clip: Omar Suleiman on jinn possession, the riba verse and disobedience

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/2/
- Date: 2020-11-21 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: There is no jinn possession in Islam (reply to Sh Omar Suleiman's video) | Mufti Abu Layth (2:41–6:34)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aPj1fuMN24&t=161s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/

**Topics:** Jinn possession; Views on contemporary scholars

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** In the clip Omar Suleiman says jinn possession is real and affirmed by the riba verse, that most imams have seen supernatural cases, and that disobedience, especially leaving prayer and riba, removes Allah's protection and invites possession.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth plays the clip. In it Omar Suleiman says that when things go wrong people blame something external, but that possession by a jinn does exist and Allah affirms it in the Quran, describing those who consume riba as standing on the Day of Judgement as one beaten by the shayatin; he adds that everyone deals with the qarin that whispers constantly and is in a way possessed to an extent, citing the hadith that Satan flows through the son of Adam like blood, which one keeps under control by trusting Allah. He calls for a middle ground between denying everything one has not seen and exaggerating: any imam of a masjid has seen things from people that are definitely supernatural, there is also a lot of shady business, and someone who felt sleepy reading the Quran was not possessed since a truly possessed person feels pain when the Quran is read; he says jinn can sometimes speak through people. The easiest way to become possessed, he says, is to disobey Allah, especially by leaving the prayer or by major sins such as riba, which removes Allah's protection, offends the angels so that they leave, and brings the shayatin around. Mufti closes the clip saying this was Suleiman's explanation.

## Sources and names cited

- Omar Suleiman
- Quran 2:275 (those who consume riba stand as one struck by Satan): https://quran.com/2/275
- report: satan flows through the son of adam like blood
- qarin
- riba
- jinn
- shaytan

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:41–6:34)

[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

[3:17] by allah saying that allah again is acknowledging that there are some people that can actually be possessed by the jinn and in a way all of us have to deal with al-qareen as we said we all have to deal with the one that's constantly whispering in us and in a way we're all possessed to an extent because the prophet saws says flows through the blood this hadith the way that or flows through his veins the way that blood flows through his veins meaning you you're always dealing with this to an extent however again you you're keeping it under control by keeping your trust in allah doing the things so how do you control protection

[3:55] in your life and so on so let's take a look now it's important for us to find a middle ground here that cannot be explained except by these things things that are supernatural right and again i'm not talking about the the fake stuff i'm talking about things that are real any imam if any masjid actually has had people come into his office and has seen things from people that are that are definitely supernatural and definitely uh people that are dealing with jinn and of course you talk to people most imams have seen this by the way you know that actually try to extract jinn from people in accordance with the quran and the sunnah and underlying in accordance with the quran and sunnah because there's a lot of shady business that takes place there too

[4:33] and they've seen a lot of things so it's important for us to not deny everything that we've never actually dealt with or seen and at the same time not to exaggerate right i once had someone tell me that i think i'm possessed by a jinn i said why she said because when i read quran i get sleepy i'm like listen to his actual explanation right that you know you get sleeping you get tired as you read quran right because if a person was truly possessed they would actually feel pain when they read quran so yes sometimes jin can possess people and in fact sometimes jinn can actually speak through human beings right subhanallah it's a very frightening experience and you can and people have experienced that um and the

[5:13] easiest way to get possessed the easiest way to bring that into your life is to disobey allah subhanahu ta'ala because when you disobey allah particularly when you do something major like leave off the prayer there in the mouth frequently associated a person leaving off prayer with jin possession why because you remove the protection of allah basically most of the world or if you do the major sins and particularly allah mentioned for example one of the most disgusting sins which is ribba which is usually and i can tell you that most of them literally dealt with anyone that had that issue except that they were dealing with a major sin that they were that they were you know not never dealt with a person possessed

[5:53] who does come to the masjid brought them and said my cousin my brother my sister so on so forth is possessed by jinn or someone that sells haram or so on so forth so that's the easiest way to have that happen to you is to allow the protection of allah to be removed from you by doing those those things and remember that when you do things that offend the angels they leave you and when the angels leave you the shayateen come around so if you're surrounding yourself by shayateen constantly and doing things that that cause the angels to leave you then what do you expect is going to happen to you i don't know right people so you just had an explanation there by

[6:30] sheikh omar suleiman about the jinn now you know before we just go into a an actual the actual response to there is no such thing as jin possession just to look at what he said he said he based his thing on saying that look we should be balanced okay but you know this thing there is no balance in this thing by the way this is either on or off it doesn't work it's like saying look you know you shouldn't really switch it on you shouldn't switch it off you should be balanced

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 6aPj1fuMN24/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6apj1fumn24/s/2/

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