2. The desire for the blessing to be taken away from another

because the envier wants to possess it. The desire to have a blessing that someone else has, without wanting it to be taken away from that person, is permissible in Islam and is not considered envy. This is especially permissible in two | cases: The Prophet ( ) said: «Do not wish (enviously) to be like anyone except in two cases. The first is a person to whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it righteously; (the second is) one to whom Allah has given wisdom (knowledge of the Qur'an and Sunnah) and he acts according to it and teaches it to others.» (recorded by Bukhari) Z The evil eye may come from humans or from the jinn. Umm | Salamah ( ) said that: «The Prophet ( ) once saw a young girl whose face had become dark and said: Recite over her incantations, for she has (the effect of) the glance (evil eye).» (recorded by Bukhari) This particular glance has been interpreted by some scholars to have been from the jinn.11 Jealousy is also different from envy in that it involves the strong desire to keep what one has and not to share it with others, while envy is the wish to get what one does not have.

A woman, for example, may be jealous if her husband decides to take a second wife and may not want to share him with another. She may be envious if she thinks 10 al-Jawziyyah, I.Q., 2003, Healing with the Medicine of the Prophet, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Darussalam, p. 149. 11 Philips, 1997, p. 109. that another sister has a better husband than she and desires such for herself. H Envy may cause harm, and it is something that humans should seek refuge in Allah ( ) from. There are various supplications that can be used for protection, as well as recitation of the last two Ãyat al-kursi (`the verse of the footstool', chapters of the Qur'an and a Qur'an 2: 255). One who has been afflicted may do ruqyah, which H Z involves using various Qur'anic verses or supplications to bring about a cure, with the help of Allah ( ). Ã A'ishah ( ) narrated: «The Messenger of Allah ordered me to do ruqyah (if there was some effect) from an evil eye.» (recorded by Muslim) She also narrated: «The person who touched others with the evil eye was commanded to perform ablution, and the person whom he touched by the evil eye H would wash with that water.» (recorded by Bukhari and Muslim) Allah ( ) advises humans to seek refuge in Him against the mischief of the envious ones as they practice envy: {Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak from the evil of that which He created, and from the evil of darkness when it settles, and from the evil of the blowers in knots, and from the evil of an envier when he envies.} (Qur'an 113: 1-5) Possession by jinn Ibn Taymiyah wrote: The jinn entering the body of the humans is confirmed by the agreement of the leaders of the people of the Sunnah and the community ( ahl al-sunnah wa al-jama`ah ).

Allah says in the Qur'an, {Those who swallow usury cannot rise up save as he arises whom the devil has prostrated by his touch.} (Qur'an 2: 275) And in the Sah.eeh. it is recorded on the authority of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), «Satan flows in the children of Adam like the flowing of the blood.» (a sound hadith 12 recorded by Abu DaÃwood) S There are other hadiths as well which indicate that the jinn may enter the body of humans. Ya`laà ibn Murrah ( ) said: «I saw Allah's Messenger do three things which no one before or after me saw. I went with him on a trip. On the way we passed by a woman sitting at the roadside with a young boy. She called out: O Messenger of Allah, this boy is afflicted with a trial, and from him we have also been afflicted with a trial.

I do not know how many times per day he is seized by fits. He said: Give him to me. So she lifted him up to the Prophet. He then placed the boy between himself and the middle of the saddle, opened the boy's mouth and blew in it three times, saying: `In the name of Allah; I am the slave of Allah. Get out, enemy of Allah!' Then he gave the boy back to her and said: Meet us on our return at this same place and inform us how he has fared.

We then went. On our return, we found her in the same place with three sheep. When he said to her: How has your son fared? She replied: By the One who sent you with the truth, we have not detected anything (unusual) in his behaviour up to this time...» (a sound hadith recorded by Ah.mad and al-H . aÃkim) Jinn possession is most often associated with epilepsy (as in the above-mentioned hadith), but is also considered a relevant explanation in some cases of insanity. The Arabic word for an insane person is majnoon , which suggests that such a person is possessed by the jinn.

Ibn Taymiyah stated: The existence of the jinn is an established fact, according to the Book [i.e., the Qur'an], the Sunnah and the agreement of the early scholars. Likewise, the penetration of a jinnee into a human body is also an established fact, according to the consensus of 12 Ibn Taymiyah, Majmoo` al-FataÃwaÃ, Vol. 24, p. 276; as quoted in al-Ashqar, 1998, p. 87. leading Sunnee scholars. It is also a fact witnessed and experienced by anyone who reflects on it. The jinnee enters the one seized by fits and causes him to speak incomprehensible words, unknown to himself; if the one seized by fits is struck a 13 blow sufficient to kill a camel, he does not feel it. Signs of jinn possession According to research by Muslim exorcists, the following symptoms have been found in those possessed by jinn: