Recordings › Jinn Possessions: Myth and Reality in Islam by Sh. Akram Nadwi & Mufti Abu Layth · 20 Sep 2017 › Segment 1 of 25
What are the jinn and what can Shaytan actually do to people?
sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice dalil daleel adillah adilla evidence djinn jinnat jinni shaytaan iblis iblees shayateen shayatin satan devil koran quraan al-quran wahy wahi wahee khalifah caliph khulafa khilafah khilafat caliphate khilafa sheikh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs wali walee awliya awliyahWhat the jinn are, Shaytan's enmity, and his only power: whispering
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machinesummary, machine-writtenJinn exist and Shaytan is a clear enemy, but his only power is to whisper, as human misleaders do, and Allah gave people the fitra and reason to resist. Any claim about the jinn must be met by asking for its proof in the Quran and Sunnah and weighing its consequences; an unexplained illness is not proof of a jinn.
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The guest opens with the story of the jinn: every believer accepts from the Quran that jinn exist. Allah created angels, who always obey and can do no evil, and after a long time created the jinn, hidden from human sight and made from fire, who can do good or bad; then he created the human being, better than them and placed as khalifa on the earth. Shaytan, the leader of the jinn, became jealous, and the Quran makes clear that he and all his followers are a clear enemy who will do everything to misguide us. But, the guest says, Allah has stated that Shaytan has no power other than whispering, a power shared by human beings: newspapers, writers, speakers and even Muslims mislead people by whispering and teaching, and the Quran speaks of devils of both jinn and men; the only difference is that the jinn are unseen. Against this Allah gave people the fitra, their faculties and above all reason, the most noble thing a human has, so that nobody who thinks properly can be misguided. He draws a rule from the Quran: whenever anyone teaches you anything, ask for the proof and consider the consequences, illustrating with moon-sighting disputes that divide the believers. Applied to the jinn, the proof is the Quran and the Sunnah, and experience is not enough: that doctors cannot explain a condition does not make it a jinn, and the claim that a shaykh 'took out a jinn' has no proof that what came out was a jinn.
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[Music] you now coming to the story of the gin what exactly happening is in Islam every you know B or I believe their gene exists that's in the Quran no doubt about that and what we know the order from the Quran is that a lot of metallic created angels an undersized creation who do
good but the neighbor can do any any evil so Quran said that there over last hot Allah and they never disobey to the always obedient you know to us what a career that people like that who always obey Him they never disobey but among time just there are who can improve them so they can be even better than others so that they can do they can there are just were better than other and just but the neighbor can do an evil then Allah so hot Allah created after long long time we don't know the right type occur the gin again basically missed people who are hidden so it is a name you know in relation to human being we can't see them but this years so you know from
generations we have so many rules from the agenda to news also guard and hiding to say tagine are the creation were hidden from us we could not see them Allah clear them from the fire that's in the Quran you know so many times to tell a clear them from the fire and they are they have got both things they can do good they also can do something bad then I lost how to create a human being better than them so you might be better better than them it's very clear from the Quran and analyst of how Allah made the human being as a ha'la'tha and in charge of this this earth tutors also in the Quran Shaitaan the leader of Jin
he became jealous so this jealousy also mentioned the Quran he became jealous and he determined that now he's going to miss his very Quran makes very clear he is your color clear enemy Adamo be Shaytan it releases our clear enemy and he and his all his followers you know karate yoga Rock'em Vava kabila habil all his family all his supporters they they basically are jealous of us there are clear clear enemy so there he has you know made very clear that he will do all his best
to misguide us to stop us from being guided you know to basically do anything possible that what he but he can do you know he will do - unless what I said no you don't have any power you know other than whispering - whispering is the power Allah has given to like no whispering they say this is a power which Allah has given to everybody meaning like human being you know like in media you know they the misguide newspapers misc are the people you know many good many writers they be scared the people many speakers misguide the people even many Muslim mislead the people you know the convict dismiss guiding by whispering by teaching
anybody can do to Shaytan are together the same thing what he does he just said you know run in the in the vein of the people and he misguides to further ample if you're walking on the path a woman comes Shaitan will whisper look at her but if you don't look you lower your eye he'd not go to open your eyes in order to force you you only whispers look at directing even human being that many of your thoughts also look at that thing look at this thing people do the same thing to watch a ton has got deported publicly share by human being that white poor are actually calls not only general Shaitan also human being shared in seventeen both are Shaitan so they are a
human being who whisper teach there a jinn would whisper and teach the only difference it Jean we don't see them human being we can see but this whispering and teaching goes all the time people keep doing this is the power Allah has given but to stop with people for our being misguided what Allah has done has given us the true nature Fattah true fitra people understand the fitra it really helped him a lot then allah has given us those abilities you know faculties I and although they help us to understand together not proper knowledge and then on the topic that has given us the mind the reasoning the reason that most noble thing that a human being have
been given this this that nothing more noble for human being then having the intellect reason another reason if people use data Fattah their faculties and their reasoning properly nobody can be scared no newspaper can misguide new media can misguide you know Shaytan Calmes God nobody can get me scared I just think properly and the way basically the less morally made very clear is that to whenever it is in the Quran whenever somebody teaches you something just you need to to love to TC ask the person very shy human being ask the person the proof if Shaytan tells us do this thing
ask the proof what the food is good for me first thing you have to ask the proof second thing is what is the consequences any action any statement whenever you learn from someone you need to know these two teeth first thing with what in the proof second thing what is the consequence sometime there could be proved but the consequences will tell you know don't do this thing not you know not necessarily every two hours sound right you should do because consequence said you know not right for example now you can see in the north day all the people are fighting about moon sighting everybody think they have got revelation from in from heaven if they're proof is so strong and this
under but it what they don't understand they can see with their eyes what the consequence consequences after argument with the vision amount of society division with the believers you know will moon sighting is something where Muslims should have one opinion a new penis we divide them it basically there's some problem with that you know honey if I just have his own opinion but I did not follow these people first this is two things we need to understand whenever people make any statement any action anything any behavior any ple teaching you need to ask first thing you have to ask the proof second thing it what is the consequences and that Quran always keep saying look
the consequences you cannot always say what is the proof bring the proof how to burhanakum you know bring the proof what your argument the proof and the second till consequences these two things if people keep learning them they become wise that was wisdom basically means that what reasoning means use the your reason properly so when people say anything about gene the first thing is to ask the proof and proof is the Quran and the Sunnah it is not enough that you can experience something there could be certain phenomenon in this world which I cannot explain but if I cannot explain something I have no author
to explain it with the ignores you know if could be possible there's somebody had a behavior he goes to doctors doctors say we don't know what it is we can't prescribe the medicine we don't think it we have never noticed it me explain something then you come to an anomaly synovial guardian tell me really what is the proof since because if somebody cannot explain something how it immunity gene it could vary unless we people don't know there are many fairness in this world we don't know we can't explain if you can't explain something how can it mean that it is gene you know you knew that I prefer that to what happen in our society actually is it since somebody cannot
people say you know this person has got something doctors don't know it must be Jim how can we must begin it could be any less which people don't know I don't know the people selected for Apple people will say that in the time here at mullet Allah used take out a gene from the people you know you could who could have taken out something from the people but what is the proof that what he took out to the gym that no proof for that so this is what you need what we need to understand properly that you know in anything when people make a claim the first question really is what is the proof and the second thing as medically you know about that we need to learn the consequence of anything what will happen
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