What Is Your Opinion On What The Jinn Are Or What Is Meant By Them In The Quran? | Mufti Abu Layth

what is your opinion on that the jinn and what the general what is meant by them in the quran yeah but i didn't understand yeah um it's it's difficult it's difficult because um you see because we don't know what the gin means we we are all too often just seeking very simplistic nice ship shaped you know boxed answers but we don't know what this means in the quran the word chin is used to mean different things at different times it just means something that is veiled

that is you know that it's not that it just seems to highlight that there exists something beyond or or in addition to to humans they exist something but it doesn't really explain what that thing is or what these things are and jinn doesn't when it's used in the quran doesn't always mean the jinn as people have understood them so for example the majority you'd be surprised to know like if you read imam novi or imam kurthubi on um

the verse of the quran where he speaks of iblis they say does not mean he's from the jinn they actually believe he was an angel he's a fallen angel which is very biblical in that sense but it's it's what they say the majority of the scholars believe that jin is it releases you know iblis is is a variant of the greek um um diabolus which this devil this this thing is a fallen angel so he's not from the jinn so they say well

what does jin hear in this verse mean then they say no jin here just means something else and they explain it and something it's a different so jin does not mean one particular thing and yeah so it can mean a series of things we just won't know it's hard to explain people say well what do you think do you think they're human beings like they're like these kind of humans that live like us no what makes you think they have to be like that you see what if they are entities that exist within uh within the forces

i'm just saying what if they did in that realm now and you'd be like what does it make sense but yeah i get that but what if they did exist in different at a different plane of existence so let's so for example um let's just say just um [Music] how you'd have uh you see you have i'm not saying this is it but i'm just throwing a spanner in the works that let's say you have the fundamental four forces within um you know within the cosmos so you'll

have gravity you'll have electromagnetism you have the strong nuclear force you have the weak nuclear force but within these forces you then have these uh bosons that exist now the bosons exist within that realm and it's so so for example photons acting uh for that within the um electromagnetism but oh whether gluons or gravitons have been hypothesized but let's say within these realms

that's these forces then according to string theory just to give you an example because you you because you're going by the world around you and this is physics explaining the world around you that let's say within physics you let's say string theory you've got the ten dimensions now arguably in string theory uh gravity is through dimensions this is why it's weak you see because we don't understand why gravity is weak but it's weak because it's coming through dimensions now i'm not saying that gin or gravity but what i'm saying is

within the forces exist fields so for example mass emerges through the higgs field which fundamentally would have the higgs boson but this is what then gives rise to to to mass so within the fields what if these things these entities exist you see what i'm saying is that you are viewing it in a very simplistic kid-like childlike manner it's like a little child trying to understand something complicated

you know explaining to a four-year-old for example if you had to explain to a four-year-old i don't know you had to explain something incredibly complicated or if they had to understand something very complicated but obviously they can't but they would just look at it in a in a simple they would just make like some simple thing and they say well oh this it can be called this and this can be called this and these two are friends like they might say well oh uh you know these forces the nuclear force is a friend of the and you see now this is

the world they're just four-year-olds or five-year-olds now they don't understand it they're just making some weird approximation some approximation for their age so that's what you're doing fundamentally and you're making approximation to your mindset and your mindset is incredibly uh lacking just as everyone's is if you think about it that we and mata fundamentally is like 99 not there it's empty like we're empty like if you think about an atom we're made up of atoms and it's all made

up of empty space it's so counterintuitive it's crazy because if you think of we're fundamentally just empty space but we're not empty space though so it's you see you can't like when i tell you that we are just made up of molecules and made up of atoms which is made up of mainly empty space so they say that let's say the an atom because an atom in it you're going to have the nucleus and then you're going to have like let's say protons or electrons just kind of moving about but let's but that's it but it's all other than that's empty space so they say let's say

the the solar system is an atom and then the nucleus would only be like a tree on earth and the rest is what then it's just empty but yet it's not empty to us so you know that's why la toda

see you can't see it you can't fathom it and but but taking a simple kids version childlike version you can but it's not it's not going to be reality but you know you could say oh tin are like they're like human beings that walk around they made out of fire and they you know that we just can't see them and that's like a child's version of you know it's like jack and the beanstalk kind of version that you you tell you tell children but if it helps people that's fine you know if it helps you to to believe that like you know gina like humans except

they like fiery what's that action figure the the one that kind of walks as fire let's say that's what you think gin look like then fine you know that i mean they don't but that's okay you know if it helps you in your in your world then that's okay you know you can believe it the truth is we just don't know when we come to learn of greater reality and physics we may may never come to understand what gin and these things but maybe we might get closer if you want to understand reality start understanding physics because that is an observation of reality the cosmos

especially astrophysics and understanding that because that's the closest you'll ever get to understanding reality and jin and these things are a part of reality and if that's too complicated which it is then just accept that you this is complicated i can't and i think this is one of the unfortunate things where religion has kind of been pushed away from the from science because people think i don't want to learn about science i want to learn about religion but really it was all one

you know allah says do they not look at the world around them go about the earth and observe why because by observing you'll understand god and you'll understand creation that's that's the answer