Part 7

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whether by an expression or an act; and the more he is disobedient to Allah, the better he is served by the devils. We used to hear, when we were young, how a famous sorcerer used to have his sorcery carried out by the devils only on the condition that he wore the Qur’an on his feet as a shoe, and even walked into the toilet with it. The devils even used to serve him at home. This is pure polytheism, and the sorcerer knew it; but the sad thing is that there are some sorcerers who commit acts of polytheism without being aware of it. The expressions and encrypted characters that they prepare are acts of polytheism and disbelief in Allah 4. Because they are written in unrecognisable characters, and may even include some words from the Qur’an, ignorant person tend to believe that sorcerers only use the Qur’an.

I have examined many of those expressions, however none of them were free from polytheism. So the sorcerer who uses those expressions becomes a polytheist, even if he does not know it. You might see him performing salah and fasting although he is a polytheist. May Allah protect us from their evil and wrong-doing. They are the ones who have lost both this world and the Hereafter; that is indeed a manifest loss.

Do Jinn inhabit people’s houses?

It is often said that a certain place or house is inhabited by Jinn; coud that be true?

This maybe true or maybe false:

The truthful side of it is that it is a possibility, and that it does indeed take place in the real world, as mentioned in Islamic sources. Earlier we mentioned the Hadith of the Ansari youth who returned to his house to find a Jinn disguised in the form of a snake, and this long version of the Hadith is in Sahih Muslim.

Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qurashi said: It is narrated by alHassan ibn Jahwar ibn Abi Ilyas, that Abu ‘Abbad ibn Ishaq ibn Muhammad ibn Talhah narrated from Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas who said: ‘Once, while I was in a place far from my house, a messenger came to

me from my wife to say that she requested me to come home. I was displeased by her request, but I went and said: “What is it?’ She said: ‘It is this snake (and she pointed to it); I used to see it in the countryside when I was alone there. But I have not seen it for a while, until now. It.is the same snake: I recognise it by its eyes’.

So Sa‘d made a speech in which after praising Allah 3%, he said: “You have harmed me, and I swear by Allah that if I see you again, I will kill you’. Thereupon, the snake slipped under the door and went out'.

Ibn ‘Uqay! said: “We used to have a house in Adhafar — which is an area of Baghdad — and whenever people stayed there, they were found dead the next morning. Once, a man who was a mugri’ (learner of the Qur’an) rented the house; so we anticipated the outcome, but the following day he was fine. The neighbours were astonished, so they asked him about it. He replied: “Last night, I performed salah at ‘Isha’, and read the Qur’an; then a young man emerged from the well in the house and greeted me. I was scared, but he said: “Do not worry, but teach me the Qur’an.” My anxiety left me and I regained composure. Then I said: ‘What is the story about this house?’ to which he replied: ‘We are Muslim Jinn; we read and perform salah, but this house has only been rented by wrongdoers; they gather to drink wine, so we suffocate them’. I said: ‘But I am scared of you at night; could you turn up only during the daytime?’ He replied: ‘Yes’. So he used to come out of the well during the day, and I got used to him”.

The false side of the allegations concerning the Jinn is in those invalid rumours, often circulated by people for their own personal interests. Here is a real story related in its true context by Shaikh Yasin Ahmad al-‘Id: “A man died in a village, leaving a beautiful, secluded mansion; it was very large, with many rooms, all beautifully decorated; it had a fountain built in the middle, with different, multicoloured statues that had water spouting out from their mouths.

The man had no child to inherit from him, so the mansion was left empty; but his relatives decided to sell it. They were hoping to raise a fortune from its sale; but as soon as it was put for sale, a rumour circulated that the house was inhabited by demons. The news spread

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far and wide, and became a daily topic of discussion. Anyone who wanted to discover the truth went to the house at night, yet returned convinced that the house was really inhabited by demons.

People avoided buying the house. The inheritors dreaded the consequences, especially when a man offered only the quarter of the selling price. But just before the sale was concluded, a brave young man heard about the rumours of the house, and since he did not care about Jinn and was not afraid of demons, he approached the inheritors and offered to clear the house of any demon for a particular sum of money. They agreed and handed him half the sum.

At night, the young man took a gun with him in case he needed it, and headed for the house. He rested for some time, then extinguished the lamp and went to sleep. After a while, he felt a hand pulling his cover away. He grabbed hold of the hand powerfully, and said: ‘Who is pulling the cover?’ He heard a voice say: “I am a demon, and IJ need the cover or else I will have to wear your body.” So the young man let go of the cover, and heard the demon fall, hitting the back of his head. He leapt forward, stood on the chest of the demon, and pointed the gun at his head, saying: “Tell me who are you?” The demon was terrified and replied: “Leave me alone, and 1 will tell you the truth about my case.”

The young man said: “You may talk, demon!’ He answered: “I am not a demon or a devil. J am a human like you; I differ from you only in the blackness of my skin and my unpleasant appearance.” The young man let go of him, and went to turn on the lamp, only to see a black, naked servant. He said to him: “Tell me, servant, what is the reason for your being here?’ He replied: “It was necessity that forced me to come here; I am a poor man, with no income, but with a large family to look after. I asked a man to find me a job in order to make a living, so he ordered me to come here every night and pretend to be a demon, to frighten people away. He told me to keep it a secret.” When the young man heard his story, he took him to the inheritors of the house to relate the story to them. Thereupon, they discovered that the man who had employed the servant was in fact the same one who had offered to buy the house at a much reduced price!!

‘ ‘Arafun and Dajalun (Fortune-tellers and Charlatans) (84).

How to chase Jinn away from a house?

If you are convinced that there are Jinn in a house, chase them away by the following means:

(1). Go to the house with two other people and say many times over three days:

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unashedikum bilahdi al-lathi akathahu alaykum Sulaimanu antakhraju wa tah-halu wa tar-halu min baitinah. Wa nashidukum Allaha an-takraju wala tukthu ahadah.

“T earnestly appeal to you, with the pledge exacted on you by Sulayman (the Prophet Solomon) ##i, to leave this house. I adjure you by Allah, to leave and not harm anyone”. You repeat this appeal for three days.

(2). If you still feel that something is in the house, then fill a container with some water, put your finger inside, put your mouth over it, and say:

Bissmillahi am-saina billahi al-lathi lasa minhu shayun mumtayniah, wa-bi'izthati lahi al-lati la-tiramu wa la tudamu, wa

sultani illahi al-manei'e na-tajib, wa bi assma-ehi al husna kulliha ah-ithun min al-abbalisa, wa min sharri shaiatini al insi wal jinni wa min sharri kulhi mualanin aw-mussir, wa-min sharri ma-yakhruju bil-layli wa ma yakmunu bin hari wayakmunu billayli wa yakhruju bin-hari wa sharri ma khalaqah wa zaraha wa bara'a wa min sharri ibleesah wa junudihi wa min sharri kulhi dabatin anta akhithun binahsiyatiha inna rabbi ala-siratin mustagim. Audhu bimastaza bihi ibraheemu wa moosa wa eesa wa muhammadun min sharri ma khalaqah wa zara'a wa bara'a wa min sharri ibleesah wa junudihi wa min sharri mayabri.

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samawati wal-’ardhi wa ma baynahuma wa rabbul-masharidi, ‘inna zayyannas-sama’ad-dunya bizinatinil-kawakibi, wa hifzan

min kulli shaytanin marid, la yasmma*‘ Gna ’ilal-mala’il-a‘la, wa yuqdafina min kulli janibin, duhdran wa lahum ‘ adabun wasib, ill man khatifal-khatfata fa ’atba‘ ahu shihabun thaqib.)

“Bismillah. We start the evening in the care of Allah 4; He 3 has power over everything...”