Does Allah send messengers to the jinn?
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The student: Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Does Allah send messengers to the jinn from among their own kind?
The Shaykh : I mean, is there a messenger among them? Allah the Exalted says:[Yusuf 12:109] The scholars said: "Men do not come from the jinn." But there is a point to consider in this reasoning, because Allah says in Surat al-Jinn: [Al-Jinn 72:6], and in the other verse: Your town is there, and the jinn are there too. But which of you has more right to the earth, the humans or the jinn?
The student: The humans.
Another student: The jinn.
The Shaykh : How can the jinn be more entitled? Have you not seen your house, Mas'ud?
The student: Because, Shaykh, the jinn can inhabit places where humans do not live; that is possible for them, and in the open space.
The Shaykh : And the humans?
The student: No, it is not possible for humans.
The Shaykh : Not possible?
The student: Yes, no, I mean in the open space, but...
The Shaykh : Do you not know that now there are artificial satellites, some four or five months old, with humans on them?
The student: Generally.
The Shaykh : In any case, the humans are undoubtedly more entitled. Therefore, if one of the jinn transgresses and enters your house, you have the right to expel him. Yes.
The student: What is the evidence, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : The evidence is this: The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made the earth for its owner.Sahih Muslim 1610a
The student: What is the evidence that they are more entitled than the jinn?
The Shaykh : This is it. I can till the land, plant, build, and do whatever I wish, and no one opposes me. But if they came and transgressed against your house, dug in it, and you found the roof full of plants and the sitting areas full of palm trees...
The student: What if they said: "We are more entitled to the house"? The jinn?
The Shaykh : In any case, may Allah reward you with good, you would yield to them.
The Shaykh : I mean, is there a messenger among them? Allah the Exalted says:
And We sent not before you [as messengers] except men to whom We revealed
وما أرسلنا من قبلك إلا رجالًا نوحي إليهمBut men to whom We revealed
إلا رجالًا نوحي إليهمAnd there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn
وأنه كان رجال من الإنس يعوذُون برجال من الجنBut men from among the people of the towns
إلا رجالًا من أهل القرىFrom among the people of the towns
من أهل القرىThe student: The humans.
Another student: The jinn.
The Shaykh : How can the jinn be more entitled? Have you not seen your house, Mas'ud?
The student: Because, Shaykh, the jinn can inhabit places where humans do not live; that is possible for them, and in the open space.
The Shaykh : And the humans?
The student: No, it is not possible for humans.
The Shaykh : Not possible?
The student: Yes, no, I mean in the open space, but...
The Shaykh : Do you not know that now there are artificial satellites, some four or five months old, with humans on them?
The student: Generally.
The Shaykh : In any case, the humans are undoubtedly more entitled. Therefore, if one of the jinn transgresses and enters your house, you have the right to expel him. Yes.
The student: What is the evidence, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : The evidence is this: The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made the earth for its owner.
He who wrongly took a span of land, Allah shall make him carry around his neck seven earths.
من اقتطَع من الأرض شبرًا ظلمًا طوّقَه الله به يوم القيامة من سبع أرضينThe student: What is the evidence that they are more entitled than the jinn?
The Shaykh : This is it. I can till the land, plant, build, and do whatever I wish, and no one opposes me. But if they came and transgressed against your house, dug in it, and you found the roof full of plants and the sitting areas full of palm trees...
The student: What if they said: "We are more entitled to the house"? The jinn?
The Shaykh : In any case, may Allah reward you with good, you would yield to them.