What is the ruling of making the Sharee‘ah-approved Ruqyah whereby the person making Ruqyah uses the Jinn so they can tell him about the condition of the patient, given that that person is known to be ...

Assalaamu alaykum. A person who treats magic told a relative of mine that he has been possessed by a jinn. So he gave my relative some water for Ruqyah (healing through Quranic recitation and ...

In Islamic doctrine, the story of mankind begins with an act of rebellion by a jinn when the devil, later known as Iblis, refuses to prostrate himself towards the image of Adam. As punishment, the ...

Introduction -- The poetics of the invisible : Muslim imagination and the jinn -- Correspondences between jinn and humans -- Beings of light and of fire -- Divination, revelation, and the jinn -- ...

Genies (or jinn, as they are better known in the Arabic world) are supernatural beings with roots in ancient Mesopotamian legends. Jinn, however, are not the lamp-dwelling, wish-granting benevolent ...

It may be common for psychiatric patients who are Muslim to attribute their hallucinations or other symptoms to "jinn," the invisible, devilish creatures in Islamic mythology, researchers in the ...