A Mobile Message About the Jinn, Salt, and Experimentation
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A mobile message has spread in which they claim that the jinn carry negative ions and salt carries positive ions.
The Shaykh:
This is vulgar and defective talk. They claim that the jinn carry such things and salt carries such things. This is all a lie. These people sprinkle salt on the house, saying that it drives away the jinn. They want to justify this action. Yes.
The questioner:
And he says, may Allah preserve you: What if they claim that it has succeeded through experimentation?
The Shaykh:
No, no, it is not correct, and it has not succeeded through experimentation; they are lying. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the interpretation of the saying of the Exalted
The Shaykh:
And we do not follow experimentation; we follow revelation, we follow evidence. Even if experimentation hits the mark once, it misses thousands of times. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A mobile message has spread in which they claim that the jinn carry negative ions and salt carries positive ions.
The Shaykh:
This is vulgar and defective talk. They claim that the jinn carry such things and salt carries such things. This is all a lie. These people sprinkle salt on the house, saying that it drives away the jinn. They want to justify this action. Yes.
The questioner:
And he says, may Allah preserve you: What if they claim that it has succeeded through experimentation?
The Shaykh:
No, no, it is not correct, and it has not succeeded through experimentation; they are lying. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the interpretation of the saying of the Exalted
The Shaykh:
And we do not follow experimentation; we follow revelation, we follow evidence. Even if experimentation hits the mark once, it misses thousands of times. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، الباب الرابع في أن حياة القلب وإشراقه مادة كل خير فيه — islamhouse.com (1:00:48)
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