# Can a jinn fall in love with someone or break up a marriage? *If jinn exist they are another domain of life: a bacterium does not fall in love with your wife* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/15/ - Date: 2018-04-15 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (58:57–1:01:35) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3537s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/ **Topics:** Jinn, angels and the devil; Jinn possession; Marriage **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** No, in Mufti Abu Layth's view: jinn, if they exist, would be as different from humans as extremophile bacteria, and nobody thinks a bacterium is jealous of their marriage. Relationships end through human behaviour, and people should own that rather than blame the jinn. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that even if the jinn exist they would belong to a domain of life as remote from humans as archaea, so the idea of a jinn falling in love with someone or wrecking a marriage is absurd, and people must take responsibility for their own relationships. **Evidence, his words at 1:00:23:** “they're not the same species or genus they're not even the same domain as us” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeXzvtf9YGA&t=3623s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth describes archaea, perhaps the most ancient form of life: microscopic, single-celled, without nuclei, extremophiles that thrive at 150 degrees or in freezing cold, survive in space and need neither oxygen nor photosynthesis. He says that if one wished to draw parallels for beings created from fire [?], it would be with such life forms, which are nothing like the eukaryotic domain of plants, animals and humans. Then one would hardly say that a bacterium is jealous of one's relationship or that a virus fell in love with one's wife and ruined the marriage; so why assume jinn behave like humans when they are not even of the same domain? People must take responsibility for their own relationships: people fall in and out of relationships, which is human behaviour, not a failure, and the urge to find something to blame comes from a fixed picture of what a relationship ought to be. He then introduces a case study of a very religious exorcist he once interviewed. ## Sources and names cited - jinn - Quran 15:27 (the jinn We created before from scorching fire) [?] (reference uncertain; possibly https://quran.com/15/27) ## Transcript (machine tier, 58:57–1:01:35) [58:26] sense oh it's magic oh my relationship has broken down my relationship has broken up because because of the jinn somebody sent jinn to interfere with us now I've said hmm okay even if even if right we were to consider what the jinn are and this is what I was saying earlier on there would be a different domain so they speak about life breaking off into these domains you have archaea bacteria and Eukarya and from Eukarya comes all animal plants all this kind of stuff yeah archaea actually is one of they probably feel the most ancient form of life on earth which is tiny microscopic [59:06] single-cell doesn't have nuclei and nuclei to it and it is actually what they call an extremal file I'm just giving an example it survives in extreme like wait it could survive in up to 150 degrees in thrives like forget boiling water wouldn't kill it freezing temperatures generally wouldn't kill it it's survived in space it doesn't require oxygen it doesn't require photosynthesis the way other things do it doesn't this is archaea it thrives in hot lava and stuff like somebody could say well allah says all john holliman Cobb luminary salmon [59:44] you know we created them from fire and but if you were to draw parallels of life within I'm not saying they are AK Archaea but you would draw them with things like this these time these things which are extremophiles completely different to you carry on where we get our life kind from plants and animals and humans and so on yet so would you say Oh a bacteria is jealous of my relationship oh that you know my relationship messed up because this gene fell in love with me or fell in love with my wife or fell in love with and it just ruined everything that's like oh this virus was [1:00:23] just flying around and I fell in love with me ruin my whole love life that isn't making so white why do you think gin work like that like oh they work like humans they're not the same species or genus they're not even the same domain as us like so it's important to understand these things we can't just be little we have to take responsibility for relationship messes up it's because of your own doing because the relationship messed up human beings look they mess up at times it's not I'm sorry I'd like to take that word back even messing up isn't the right word people at times fall in and out of [1:01:03] relationships it's a human it's human behavior you know there's nothing you can't measure your success by your relationships as an example because we have a vision that relationship ought to be like this we feel people with we failed and we need somebody to blame it on sometimes there was a case study I don't want to go into and I've highlighted it before where there was a very religious person a rocky an exorcist who many years back I had the opportunity to interview and and visit and and whilst we were speaking his is his gene came came into character came into form and we had this whole dialogue and discussion and I spoke to the jinn ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment LeXzvtf9YGA/s/15. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/lexzvtf9yga/s/15/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.