Part 10

There are many real fact incidents of Jinn’s penetration into human bodies which are countless; therefore, whoever denies this fact clashes with the real world which invalidates bis opinion.””

The statements of Scholars

(1). We have already mentioned the statements of the scholars of Tafsir (interpretation) of the Qur’an, such as: al-Tabari, al-Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, al-Alusi.

(2). The statement of al-Ash‘ari in “Articles of Ahl as-Sunna” that Jinn enter the human body, as Allah 3@ has said: {Those who practise usury will not rise from the grave except as someone driven mad by Satan’s touch)”

(3). Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal said: “I said to my father: ‘Some people claim that Jinn do not enter the body of humans.’ So he replied: ‘O my son, they lie; it is a Jinn who speaks through a human (when he

(4). Shaikh al-Islam, Ibn Taymiyyah said: “The existence of Jinn is confirmed by the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and the full agreement of the Ancestors of our Ummah. Likewise, the entrance of Jinn inside the bodies of humans is confirmed by the scholars of Ahl alSunna; it is a visible and noticeable fact for whoever should reflect upon it. A Jinn enters the body of the stricken (possessed) person, speaks words unknown to the person he possesses, who is quite unaware of it; unaware even of the blows he receives which would likely kill a camel.

’ Rudud ‘ala abateel (2/135). ? Risalat al-Jinn (6). 3 Risalat al-Jinn (8).

Allah 4 said: (as someone driven mad by Satan’s touch), and the Prophet # said: “Satan circulates in the bodies of the offspring of Adam like the blood” and other texts emphasize this”’.

(5). Ibn al-Qayyim said: “There are two different types of epilepsy (Sar’): one from evil terrestrial spirits, and the other from vicious (other) types.”

(6). Ibn Hazm said: “It has been confirmed that Satan touches (possesses) a person — by the Will of Allah — as said in the Qur’an; he influences him with his dark habits, and the ‘smoke’ rising to his brain, as every stricken person informs others of his/her experience, with no contradiction among them. So Allah 3 causes him to be left in a mental disorder, as we witness, and this is exactly how it is described in the Qur’an.”?

The position of doctors with regards to Sar’

‘ Mukhtasar al-Fatawa al-masriya (584).

2 AL-tib al-nabawi (51).

> Al-fasl fi al-milal wa al-nihal (5/14).

4 ‘dahri’: an adherent of the Dahriyah school, a materialistic, atheistic doctrine in Islam; atheist, freethinker.

> Akam al-marjan (109).

(2). Doctor Bell said, in his book ‘Analysis of Unusual Cases in the Treatment of Ailing Minds’: “We have a lot to discover especially that related to spiritual epilepsy (spiritual possession), as it represents a factual cause to many psychological and neural illnesses. It has appeared that spiritual possession is even more complex than inially thought. The personality of a spiritually possessed person is actually made up of different influential aspects, which continue to affect his/her body and soul until he or she completely collapses. Yet, when the exorcists, excercing some spiritual power, manage astonishingly to chase away those evil spirits from the sick, they are scoffed off and ridiculed by some doctors...”?

(3). Dr. James Haysslen said in his book about spiritual possession: “It is an extraordinary effect by which an external conscious spirit influences the mind of of a person and his/her body; and so it is impossible to deny the occurance spiritual possession.”

(4). According to Dr. Carl Wickland, insanity may occur when an evil spirit possesses. a sick person’s body and causes his mental disturbance.”

(5). Among those who confirmed the existence of epilepsy caused by spirits are Dr. Barroz and Dr. Alexis Carrel, They stated that medicine has been unable to cure this phenomenon.

(6). Dr. Ahmed As-Sabahi ‘Awad Allah said: “The mental epilepsy or the spiritual possession is the act of the evil terrestrial spirits; its treatment is by the confrontation of the high, good. and blessed spirits to those evil spirits, to remove its effects, oppose its acts an abolish them through the method of the pious people.”*

Medical Diagnosis of Epilepsy

(1). Dr. Bell said: “The spirits which possess humans reach some vital areas in a human body, such as the brain.”

' The World of Jinn and Angels (83). ? The World of Jinn and Angels (83). * The World of Jinn and Angels (83). * Healing with the Qur’an (98).

(2). Dr. Ahmad al-Sabahi ‘Awad Allah said: “Epilepsy is, generally, a sudden disturbance and disorder that takes place in the amber side of the brain. Its function and its fits come in two forms:

a) fits of muscle contraction (spasms) which originate in the movement centre of the brain, due to physiological changes, whereby the stricken (person) loses consciousness. He/she should be treated by normal doctors (psychiatrists).

b) mental fits or contractions, originating in the centre of the senses, in the form of different degrees of sensitivity. Its principle symptom would be a mental change whereby, the sick person would not lose his/her sensitivity completely. This type of fit by possession (by Jinn) is the one which could be healed only through supplication and pleading to Allah 3%, as doctors would not be able to cure it.'

The legitimacy of the treatment of Sar’ (Exorcism)

(1) We have mentioned the Prophet’s treatment of Sar’.

(2) ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud had treated a possessed man with a recitation from the Qur’an, and the Prophet 4 had approved it.

' “Healing with the Qur’an” (97).

? The last Verses of Surat al-Mu’minun,

3 Al-Haythami said: ‘The Hadith includes Ibn Lahee’ah in its chain of authorities who has some weakness (in his narrations), but his Hadith is sound and the rest of the authorities are authentic.

(3) Al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal had treated Sar’ (possession by Jinn).

The Qadi Abu al-Hussayn ibn the Qadi Abu Ya‘la ibn al-Fira’, the Hanbali scholar, said in his book “Generations of the Companions of Imam Ahmed”: ‘I heard Ahmad ibn ‘Ubaydillah saying: ‘I heard Abu al-Hussayn ‘Ali ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Ali al-‘Akbari who came to us ffom ‘Akbara, in Dhi al-Qa‘da 352 A.H. say: ‘My father narrated to me quoting my grandfather who said: ‘I was in the mosque of Abu Abdillah Ahmad ibn Hanbal when a messenger from al-Mutawakkil (the Caliphate) came to inform Imam Ahmad that there was a maid who suffered from Sar’, and asked him to make a supplication to Allah 3€ for her to regain her good health. Imam Ahmad brought out the wooden sandals he used for Wudu’ (Ablution), handed them to the messenger and said to him: ‘You go to the house of the Emir of the Faithful, sit by the head of the maid and tell him (i.e. the Jinn who possesses her): ‘Imam Ahmad said to you: ‘What is more cherished to you? That you get out from this maid or receive seventy slaps with these sandals’, The messenger went and told the Jinn exactly as Imam Ahmad had instructed him; thereupon the rebel Jinn spoke through the maid, saying: ‘I hear and obey. If Ahmad ordered us not to reside in Iraq, we would leave. He has obeyed Allah; for he who obeys Allah, everything should obey him.’ So he left the maid who became calm, healthy, and later had children, When Imam Ahmad died, the rebel Jinn came back to her; so al-Mutawakkil dispatched his messenger to Abu Bakr al-Maruzi and informed him of the situation. Al-Maruzi took the sandals and went to the maid, but the Jinn spoke to him through her, saying: ‘I will not leave this maid. I will not obey or accept anything from you. Ahmad ibn Hanbal obeyed Allah, and so

we are commanded to obey him”!

(4). Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah had treated. Sar’ many times, as reported by his pupil Ibn al-Qayyim who said: “I was present when our Shaikh once sent a messenger to the possessed person and addressed the spirit inside him, saying: ‘The shaikh told you to get out and leave, for this body is not yours’, and then a few moments later, the stricken person came around. Sometimes, the Shaikh would address the spirit himself, and if the spirit happened to be rebellious, he would chase it out with blows, yet the stricken person would come around, without

! Akam Al-Marjan (115).

feeling any pain. We have witnessed these incidents many times, and the Shaikh often used to read in the ear of the possessed person (Did you suppose that We created you for amusement and that you would not return to Us?)

He once told me that he read the verse in the ear of a possessed person, and the spirit screamed: “Yes”. He said: ‘Then IJ took a stick and hit him on his neck, until my hand was weary. During the hitting, the witnesses thought he was dying because of the blows. The spirit said: ‘I like him.’ I told her: ‘But he does not like you.’ She replied: ‘1 want to go to Hajj with him.’ I told her: ‘He does not want to go to Hajj with you.’ She said: ‘I will leave as a mark of honour to you.’ I said: ‘No, but as obedience to Allah and His Messenger #.’ She said: ‘I am leaving him.’ The possessed person started to look right and left, then said: ‘What has brought me to the Shaikh?’ They asked him: ‘What about all the blows you have received?’ He said: ‘Why would the Shaikh hit me when I have done nothing wrong?’ Indeed, he did not feel any blows at all.”

A question regarding Exorcism

This question and its answer were mentioned by the scholar Badr alDeen Muhammad ibn Abdillah al-Shibli in his book “Akam almarjan”.

Abu al-‘Abbas, Ibn Taymiyya was asked about a man who had been practicing exorcism for a long period of time, because some of his people were inflicted with a gruesome and powerful sorcery, which was rarely encountered. The sorcery affected the stricken person, repeatedly, more than a hundred times, nearly destroying him in many occasions. So the man faced the Jinn with powerful resistance, by showing strong devotion to Allah 4%, constantly supplicating Him, and observing the principles of tawhid, which are the recommendations of Shahadah'; and eventually he managed to overcome them. The stricken person used to see them (Jinn) in his sleep, and also used to hear their talking while he was awake.