The Ruling on Seeking the Help of Muslim Jinn in Treating the Possessed
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to seek the help of Muslim jinn in treating a possessed person? Does the Shaykh hold that this is permissible?
Answer:
It is not permissible to seek the help of the jinn in any case, because there is no evidence for this from the Book or the Sunnah. The jinn are a hidden people whom we do not know, and they claim to be Muslims in order to deceive people. Therefore, it is not permissible to rely on them. Shaykh al-Islam did not have a clear statement on this matter; it was not a general statement. We read it and did not find that he arrived at a clear statement on this matter; rather, he only reported what was said about the issue.
Even if Shaykh al-Islam or another scholar issued a fatwa permitting the seeking of help from the jinn, what is his evidence? It is amazing to seek the evidence for his ruling. A mere fatwa without evidence is not accepted from anyone except the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for he does not speak from desire. As for the scholar, he exercises independent legal reasoning and may err or be correct. We know his correctness by the evidence, and we know his error by the absence of evidence. If he does not mention evidence, we do not accept his statement.
The standard is the Book and the Sunnah. And if we return to the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-An'am 6:128] Al Imran, and if [Al-An'am 6:128]. Then the verse contains a prohibition on humans seeking the aid of the jinn, in general, and it did not specify, there is no acquisition in it, so the one who distinguishes by the evidence, with the saying of Allah the Exalted: and that it was for men [An-Nur 24:31] from the jinn, so they answered with arrogance, this did not distinguish between a believer and a disbeliever from the jinn, so the one who distinguishes by the evidence, and let it be the Shaykh al-Islam, and we do not know its correctness except by the evidence.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to seek the help of Muslim jinn in treating a possessed person? Does the Shaykh hold that this is permissible?
Answer:
It is not permissible to seek the help of the jinn in any case, because there is no evidence for this from the Book or the Sunnah. The jinn are a hidden people whom we do not know, and they claim to be Muslims in order to deceive people. Therefore, it is not permissible to rely on them. Shaykh al-Islam did not have a clear statement on this matter; it was not a general statement. We read it and did not find that he arrived at a clear statement on this matter; rather, he only reported what was said about the issue.
Even if Shaykh al-Islam or another scholar issued a fatwa permitting the seeking of help from the jinn, what is his evidence? It is amazing to seek the evidence for his ruling. A mere fatwa without evidence is not accepted from anyone except the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for he does not speak from desire. As for the scholar, he exercises independent legal reasoning and may err or be correct. We know his correctness by the evidence, and we know his error by the absence of evidence. If he does not mention evidence, we do not accept his statement.
The standard is the Book and the Sunnah. And if we return to the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And [mention, O Muhammad], the Day when He will gather them together [and say], "O company of jinn, you have [misled] many of mankind." And their allies among mankind
وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ جَمِيعًا يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ قَدِ اسْتَكْثَرْتُم مِّنَ الْإِنسِ وَقَالَ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُم مِّنَ الْإِنسِsome of us made use of others, and we have [now] reached our term, which you appointed for us
اسْتَمْتَعَ بَعْضُنَا بِبَعْضٍ وَبَلَغْنَا أَجَلَنَا الَّذِي أَجَّلْتَ لَنَاAnd tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
مِنَ الرِّجَالِ أَوِ
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [31] — alfawzan.live (1:02:16)
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