Today I'm going to talk about the facts about Jinna in Islam.Who are they, what do they do and what is the mystery behind them. Let me explore it to the ones who doesn't know the reality yet.

A man is always curious about the existence of a world parallel to our own world. It is commonly referred to as the spirit world and almost everyone in the world have some clue of it. Some people take the spirits as either the soul of dead people- or as ghosts. But the reality is totality opposite to this. Islam claims to explain the realm of the unseen. It is from this realm that Islam explains us the existence of the world of Jinna. So lets see, who or what are the Jinna.

Existence: The Jinns are being created with free will, living on earth in a world parallel to mankind. Jinn is an Arabic word which means to hide or conceal. They are physically invisible or hidden from the mankind. The Jinn were created before man. Because they are created from fire, their nature is fiery and thus their relationship with man has been built upon this. Like us, they too are required to worship God and follow Islam. Their purpose in life is exactly same as ours. Jinns can thus be Muslims or non-Muslims. But due to their fiery nature most of them are non-Muslims. Ad the one leading this non-Muslim community is Satan. Consequenlty, these disbelieving Jinns are also called devils. Jinns also become Muslims as in the time of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). As many aspect of their world, Jinns are similar to us. They eat and drink, they marry, have kids and they die too. The life span however is far to greater than us humans. Like us, they will also be subject to a Final Reckoning by God the Most High. They will be present with mankind on the Day of Judgment and will either go to Paradise or Hell.

Abilities: Jinns are distinguished from humans because of their powers and abilities. Allah has given them these powers as a matter of test. If they oppress others with them, then they will be held accountable. By knowing of their powers, we can often make sense of much of the mysteries which go on around us. One of the powers of the Jinn, is that they are able to take on any physical form they like. Thus, they can appear as humans, animals trees and anything else. Thousands of people have sighted strange looking creatures all over the world - and it seems more plausible all the sightings of such creatures may have been Jinns parading in different forms.
The ability to possess and take over the minds and bodies of other creatures is also a power which the Jinn have utilized greatly over the centuries. This however, is something which has been prohibited to them as it is a great oppression to possess another being. Human possession is something which has always brought about great attention. But the true knowledge of this subject is rare. Over the last 3 decades the subject of possession has become very commercialized. During the 70’s, films such as The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby were used to educate people about possession. However, because such institutions (the film industry) were heavily influenced by Christianity, knowledge of the subject was non-existent. Rather then educate people about Jinn possession, films such as The Exorcist just tended to scare the living daylights out of us!
Only through Islam can we understand such a phenomena. We know as Muslims, that Jinns possess people for many reasons. Sometimes it is because the Jinn or its family has been hurt accidentally. It could be because the Jinn has fallen in love with the person. However, most of the time possession occurs because the Jinn is simply malicious and wicked. If a person does become possessed, then the name of God has to be used in expelling the Jinn. If we look at the practice of the Prophet and his companions, we find many invocations to exorcise the Jinn. All of them invoke God to help the possessed person. How contrary this is to many modern-day exorcists. Many exorcists, often invoke the names of others besides God to exorcise the Jinn. When the Jinn does leave, these people believe that their way was successful. However, this is a ploy of the Jinn, as it knows that if it obeys the exorcist, then it has succeeded in making him worship others besides God. The Jinn often returns when the exorcist leaves, as it knows that nothing except the words of God can stop it from oppressing others.
It is not only humans which are possessed, but also animals, trees and other objects. By doing this, the evil Jinn hope to make people worship others besides God. The possession of idols is one way to do this. Not so long ago the world-wide phenomenon of Hindu idols drinking milk, shocked the world. From Bombay to London, Delhi to California, countless idols were lapping up milk. Ganesh the elephant god, Hanuman the monkey god and even Shiva lingam, the male private organ (!), all seemed to guzzle down the milk as if there was no tomorrow! Unfortunately people were taken in by this and many flocked to feed the Hindu gods. This feat was undoubtedly done by the Jinn as a classic attempt to make people worship false gods.

Please do wait for the next coming part of "The facts about Jinna in Islam (Part-2)"