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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the ruling on one who says that the jinn do not enter into humans, and that possession is not entry?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. There are those who say that the jinn do not enter into humans and that possession is not entry. Do these people have a connection to philosophy, and is there a difference between possession and entry as they claim?

Answer:
This is ignorance, and there is no difference between possession and entry. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
The devil flows in a man like his blood.ان الشيطان يجري من ابن ادم مجرى الدم
Sunan Abi Dawud 4719Sahih (Al-Albani)
So is this possession and entry? These people, as Allah the Exalted said:
Rather, they have denied that which they encompass not in knowledge andبَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِمَا لَمْ يُحِيطُوا بِعِلْمِهِ وَلَمَّا
[Yunus 10:39]
They denied it because their minds did not grasp it. It is obligatory for the Muslim not to delve into these matters, but rather to affirm what has come in the Book and the Sunnah, and not to add to that. It has come in the Book and the Sunnah that the jinn intermingle with humans and afflict them. And the one who says there is a difference between possession and entry, where did he bring this difference from? From his own mind, or from his imagination, or did the scholars bring it? Rather, they explained possession as the entry of the jinni into the human and his affliction and caressing of him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [686 /1350] ما حكم من يقول إن الجن لا يدخلون في الإنس، وأن المس غير الدخول..؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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