Jinn in the Quran

By: Harun Yahya

From: http://www.harunyahya.com/generalknowledge6.php

1- Jinn are created to worship God like humans:

I only created jinn and man to worship Me. (Surat adh-Dhariyat, 56)

2- Jinn are created out of fire:

We created the jinn before out of the fire of a searing wind. (Surat al-Hijr, 27)

3- Jinn can never bring the like of the Quran:

Say: 'If both men and jinn banded together to produce the like of this Qur'an, they could never produce anything like it, even if they backed each other up.' (Surat al-Isra, 88)

4- Jinn have limited power:

Company of jinn and men, if you are able to pierce through the confines of the heavens and earth, pierce through them.You will not pierce through except with a clear authority. So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny? He will pursue you with a piercing flame and fiery smoke, and you will not be helped. (Surat ar-Rahman, 33-35)

5- Satan or Iblis is one of the Jinn:

When We said to the angels, 'Prostrate yourselves to Adam,' they prostrated with the exception of Iblis. He was one of the jinn and wantonly deviated from his Lord's command. Do you take him and his offspring as protectors apart from Me when they are your enemy? How evil is the exchange the wrongdoers make! (Surat al-Kahf, 50)

6- Good Jinn transmit the Quran to their people:

And We diverted a group of jinn towards you to listen to the Qur'an. When they were in earshot of it they said, 'Be quiet and listen.' When it was over they went back to their people, warning them. They said, 'Our people, we have heard a Book which was sent down after Musa, confirming what came before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight path. Our people, respond to Allah's caller and believe in Him. He will forgive you some of your wrong actions and save you from a painful punishment. Those who do not respond to Allah's caller cannot thwart Allah on earth and have no protectors apart from Him. Such people are clearly misguided.' (Surat al-Ahqaf, 29-32)

7- Jinn are warned In the world:

On the Day We gather them all together: 'Company of jinn, you gained many followers among mankind.' And their friends among mankind will say, 'Our Lord, we benefited from one another, and now we have reached the term which You determined for us.' He will say, 'The Fire is your home. You will be in it timelessly, for ever, except as Allah wills. Your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing.' In that way We make the wrongdoers friends of one another because of what they have done. Company of jinn and men! Did not Messengers come to you from among yourselves relating My Signs to you and warning you of the encounter of this Day of yours? They will say, 'We testify against ourselves.' The life of "this world deluded them and they will testify against themselves that they were disbelievers. (Surat al-Anam, 128-130)

8- Jinn at the service of Messenger/King Solomon:

An imp of the jinn said, 'I will bring it to you before you get up from your seat. I am strong and trustworthy enough to do it.' (Surat an-Naml, 39)

And We gave Sulayman power over the wind - a month's journey in the morning and a month in the evening. And We made a fount of molten copper flow out for him. And some of the jinn worked in front of him by his Lord's permission. And if a single one of them deviates at all from Our command, We let him taste the punishment of the Searing Blaze. (Surah Saba, 12)

He (Sulayman) said (to Hoopoe), 'We will soon see if you have told the truth or are a liar. Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them and then withdraw from them a little and see how they respond.'She said, 'Council! A noble letter has been delivered to me. (Surat an-Naml, 27-29)

And the satans, every builder and diver, and others of them, yoked together in chains. (Surah Sad, 37-38)

Sulayman's troops, made up of jinn and men and birds, were assembled for him, paraded in tight ranks. (Surat an-Naml, 17)

9- God denies the foolish claims of the disbelievers that there is a kinship between God and the Jinn:

They claim there is a blood-tie between Him and the jinn but the jinn know very well that they will be arraigned. (Surat as-Saffat, 158)

10- Another foolish claim is that they make association between the Jinn and God:
Yet they make the jinn co-partners with Allah when He created them! And they attribute sons and daughters to Him without any knowledge. Glory be to Him! He is far above what they describe! (Surat al-Anam, 100)

11- Some other foolish people worship the Jinn:

They will say, 'Glory be to You! You are our Protector, not them. No, they were worshipping the jinn. They mostly had faith in them.' (Surah Saba, 41)

12- Jinn whisper into the hearts:

… from the evil of the insidious whisperer who whispers in people's breasts and comes from the jinn and from mankind.' (Surat an-Nas, 4-6)

13- Jinn are enemies of the prophets:

In this way We have appointed as enemies to every Prophet satans from both mankind and from the jinn, who inspire each other with delusions by means of specious words - if your Lord had willed, they would not have done it, so abandon them and all they fabricate. (Surat al-Anam, 112)

14- They become intimate companions to their followers:

We have assigned close comrades to them who have made what is before them and behind them seem good to them. And the statement about the nations, both of jinn and men, who passed away before them has proved true of them as well. Certainly they were lost. (Surah Fussilat, 25)
15- Jinn on the day of rising or Judgement:

When heaven is split apart and goes red like dregs of oil. So which of your Lord's blessings do you both then deny? That Day no man or jinn will be asked about his sin. (Surat ar-Rahman, 37-39)

16- Disbelieving Jinn will enter hell:

'Had We so willed We could have given guidance to everyone, but now My Words are shown to be true: that I shall fill up Hell entirely with jinn and human beings. (Surat as-Sajda, 13)

We created many of the jinn and mankind for Hell. They have hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they do not see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people are like cattle. No, they are even worse! They are the unaware. (Surat al-A'raf, 179)

He will say, 'Enter the Fire together with the nations of jinn and men who have passed away before you.' Each time a nation enters, it will curse its sister nation, until, when they are all gathered together in it, the last of them will say to the first, 'Our Lord, those are the ones who misguided us, so give them a double punishment in the Fire.' He will say, 'Each will receive double. But you do not know it.' (Surat al-A'raf, 38)

SURAT AL-JINN IN THE QUR'ANSay: 'It has been revealed to me that a band of the jinn listened and said, "We have heard a most amazing Recitation. It leads to right guidance so we believe in it and will not associate anyone with our Lord. He - exalted be the Majesty of our Lord ! -has neither wife nor son. The fools among us have uttered a vile slander against Allah. We did not think it possible for either man or jinn to tell a lie against Allah. Certain men from among mankind used to seek refuge with certain men from among the jinn but they increased them in wickedness. They thought - as you also think - that Allah would never raise up anyone. We tried, as usual, to travel to heaven in search of news but found it filled with fierce guards and flaming fires. We used to sit there on special seats to listen in. But anyone listening now finds a fiery flaming fire in wait for him. We have no idea whether evil is intended for those on the earth, or whether their Lord intends them to be rightly guided. Among us there are some who are righteous and some who are other than that. We follow many different paths. We realised we would never thwart Allah on earth and would never thwart Him by flight, and when we heard the guidance, we believed in it. Anyone who believes in his Lord need fear neither belittlement nor tyranny. Some of us are Muslims and some are deviators. Those who have become Muslim are those who sought right guidance; the deviators will be firewood for Hellfire."' If only they were to go straight on the Path, We would give them abundant water to drink so that We could test them by it. Whoever turns aside from the remembrance of his Lord, He will introduce him to an arduous punishment. All the places of worhsip belong to Allah so do not call on anyone else besides Allah. When the servant of Allah stands calling on Him, they almost swarm all over him. Say: 'I call only upon my Lord and do not associate anyone else with Him.' Say: 'I possess no power to do you harm or to guide you right.' Say: 'No one can protect me from Allah and I will never find any refuge apart from Him -only in transmitting from Allah and His Messages. As for him who disobeys Allah and His Messenger, he will have the Fire of Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever and ever.' So that when they see what they were promised, they will know who has less support and smaller numbers. Say: 'I do not know whether what you are promised is close or whether my Lord will appoint a longer time before it.' He is the Knower of the Unseen, and does not divulge His Unseen to anyone -except a Messenger with whom He is well pleased, and then He posts sentinels before him and behind him, so that He may know that they have indeed transmitted the Messages of their Lord. He encompasses what is in their hands and has counted the exact number of everything. (Surat al-Jinn, 1-28)

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Blogger comment:
The Jinn are in most part unseen beings that like angels can make themselves seen. While angels are created from light Jinn are created from fire. Satan is one of the jinn as well his offspring.

Some of the Jinn followed the prophets. Muhammad (PBUH) was sent to both humans and Jinn. Some people over the ages were able to contact with Jinn and are used by to help them in magic spells and know the future. In large part they may get part of the future right but in large part they do not get it right and they lie to humans.

Some people get possessed by Jinn that make the in terrible health both physically and mentally, Jesus (PBUH) was used to bring them out of humans that are possessed with.

Before the most great event of the prophet Muhammad message the heavens were blocked to them were they usually get the news of the future likely from angels as God transmit that to them.

In the end of time that we likely live in now there will be fight in heaven between the Jinn or sons of darkness and Angels or sons of light since the salvation of humans that will come by God to man will make Satan and his army very furious and will try to block Jesus Second Coming in anyway even to go and fight God and his angels.