Is it permissible for a Muslim to deal with the jinn if it becomes clear to him that they are Muslim?
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The questioner : My Shaykh, I mean, there are some young people who deal with the jinn, and we have been told, or those we trust greatly have told us, that they are among those who dealt with the jinn, and even after that, when confronted with this, he said, "I deal with the Muslim jinn. I seek the help of a Muslim jinn, and Satan has confused him." So what is your opinion of this statement, that he says, "I seek the help of a Muslim jinn"?
The Shaykh : My brother, I say, with great regret, given the heedlessness of Muslims, that today we deal with our own kind, the humans, for months, years, and ages. We deal with them for a long time, and then it turns out in the end that we were all deceived by them. It is like our story: we are talking to him, he talks to us, we sit with him, he sits with us, and so on. How does one know that this one is Muslim when he does not see him, does not mix with him, and does not know if he is upright? And of course, when we say this, we remember the saying of the Lord of all creation in the Noble Qur'an in Surat al-Jinn:[Al-Jinn 72:11] So the jinn are like the humans; among them are the righteous and among them are the wicked. If we, the humans, deal with them and then, after this long, extended experience, we realize that, by Allah, we were deceived by this man or that man, how can we know the jinni whom Allah the Mighty and Majestic described by saying that He sees them and their kind from where you do not see them? Therefore, this is truly ignorance of Islam, and it is something that harms Islam by distorting its beautiful and ripe image.
The questioner : My Shaykh, well, the possibility of dealing, I mean, suppose we do not know this jinn, of course, certainly, but what is the possibility of a Muslim jinn dealing with this human being?
The Shaykh : Dealing with whom?
The questioner : A Muslim jinn dealing with a human being, with people.
The Shaykh : You are saying the Muslim jinn.
The questioner : No, I mean the possibility according to the scholars' statements.
The Shaykh : No, no, when your question is about the possibility of a Muslim cooperating with the jinn in general, without specifying the Muslim jinn, that is possible. But you are still describing the jinn as Muslim.
The questioner : The reason for the question...
The Shaykh : I am not asking you about the reason for the question; the important thing is, do you mean what you are saying?
The questioner : Yes, I mean what I am saying.
The Shaykh : If you mean what you are saying, then I have given you the answer: How do you judge that this one is Muslim when you know nothing about him?
The questioner : My Shaykh, what is your opinion of one who says that a Muslim jinn cannot cooperate with a human being because Allah has forbidden him to deal with humans, and that it is the disbelieving jinn who deals with this human being? What is your opinion of this?
The Shaykh : I cannot say that Allah the Exalted...
The Shaykh : My brother, I say, with great regret, given the heedlessness of Muslims, that today we deal with our own kind, the humans, for months, years, and ages. We deal with them for a long time, and then it turns out in the end that we were all deceived by them. It is like our story: we are talking to him, he talks to us, we sit with him, he sits with us, and so on. How does one know that this one is Muslim when he does not see him, does not mix with him, and does not know if he is upright? And of course, when we say this, we remember the saying of the Lord of all creation in the Noble Qur'an in Surat al-Jinn:
And among us are the righteous, and among us are [others] not so; we were [of] divided ways.
وأنا منا الصالحون ومنا دون ذلك كنا طرائق قدداThe questioner : My Shaykh, well, the possibility of dealing, I mean, suppose we do not know this jinn, of course, certainly, but what is the possibility of a Muslim jinn dealing with this human being?
The Shaykh : Dealing with whom?
The questioner : A Muslim jinn dealing with a human being, with people.
The Shaykh : You are saying the Muslim jinn.
The questioner : No, I mean the possibility according to the scholars' statements.
The Shaykh : No, no, when your question is about the possibility of a Muslim cooperating with the jinn in general, without specifying the Muslim jinn, that is possible. But you are still describing the jinn as Muslim.
The questioner : The reason for the question...
The Shaykh : I am not asking you about the reason for the question; the important thing is, do you mean what you are saying?
The questioner : Yes, I mean what I am saying.
The Shaykh : If you mean what you are saying, then I have given you the answer: How do you judge that this one is Muslim when you know nothing about him?
The questioner : My Shaykh, what is your opinion of one who says that a Muslim jinn cannot cooperate with a human being because Allah has forbidden him to deal with humans, and that it is the disbelieving jinn who deals with this human being? What is your opinion of this?
The Shaykh : I cannot say that Allah the Exalted...
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