Hamza Yusuf – Jins

			The word gin comes from an Arabic root meaning to conceal the English word genius from the Arabic
root sapient creatures created a smokeless fire the jinn share freewill with humans and thus the
capacity for goodness and evil Iblees often mistaken to be a fallen angel belongs to the jinn
species, he became the adversary to humanity after Adams creation expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
According to Dino Razi, the jinn inhabited the earth before human and created great disruption and
violent shedding blood. So incorruption Iblees was sent down from the divine, to subdue them. And
then upon his return to the highest assembly, he found that Allah had chosen a new vice chairman,
		

			named Adam to be placed on Earth. So he was actually very proud of what he'd done. because he'd come
down to earth, He subdued all of the rebellion, and then he was very proud.
		

			You're getting replaced. So it's kind of like the, you know, these managers who do all this work,
and they brought the company around, and then the board fires them and brings in the new hotshot
manager, and they go crazy. So he, he basically,
		

			you know, just refused to bow down and, and then blames God for His lot in life.
		

			The,
		

			when the, when the angel saw this, they were actually making a PS, which is why they said, without
knowledge of what Adam was going to do, they knew that he had freewill. And so they asked, Are you
putting another group that are going to do the same thing this previous group did so corruption,
and, and, and murder and, and do all these things, and I lost it, I know what you don't know. And
then he said to Adam, tell them the names.
		

			And when the angels saw that Adam had been given this knowledge that they didn't have than they
recognized his superiority. So
		

			it please, refused
		

			to do that. And so the jinn have a natural animosity generally towards people. Now, if you look, in
most cultures, there is a jinn
		

			mythology in almost every culture on the planet has some sense of,
		

			if you look, especially Aboriginal people, they're very much connected to that I lived in, in the
Sahara, and jinn tend to inhabit desert areas. And there are many, many stories that I heard from
people that I trust, have their own experience with gin in the desert and things. So
		

			I think that there are people that have had experiences, we tend to ignore a lot of these things
that happen to people like alien abduction, alien abduction is classic in stuff because the jinn do
pop up, you know, people get taken by jinn and and they do things to them. And so these type
stories, and you have a lot of people that have had these experience all over the world of these
type things, so allow them I mean, I don't know, but it's definitely consistent with what they say,
		

			in tafsir, and things that in fact ob calm, which is
		

			their capital
		

			hoerauf of the province, in Arabic, superstition is hora, hora, fathur superstitious beliefs. But
the problem was, as I said, if she knew who hoffa was, and she said, No, and he said, Harada was a
man who was kidnapped by the jinns was like alien abduction. He was kidnapped by the jinn taken top
pot, and he saw all these wondrous things that happened with them. And then when he came back, he
told people about it, and they laughed at him
		

			and said, that was ridiculous and absurd. And so that became a diesel hora.
		

			Like, that's just hot off the talk. In other words, it's superstition. So the gin, you know, people
don't believe in them. That's fine. not believing in something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
		

			As a lot of people don't believe in God. So
		

			yeah, I mean, I read about, I read about that I think a lot of is definitely exaggerated. You know,
I mean, commercial airlines, there's never been an accident in the Bermuda Triangle in the history
of commercial airline. So, I mean, alone. There is a weird thing that all the sea snakes migrate
down there, which is strange, but I mean, I don't you know, there's a lot of things on the planet
that are just weird.
		

			You know, there are there are very strange things on the planet.
		

			I've had very I've had a couple of very strange experiences. I had an experience in the desert. That
was very strange. And I had experience in a New York subway with another person as a friend of mine
as an eyewitness to this. And you know, it's kind of Ripley's Believe it or not, but I did have that
experience. I'm sure some of you have had strange experiences. Other people, maybe they haven't some
people just deny their own what they're seeing, because they just, you know,
		

			they don't have a way of
		

			assimilating what's happening to them. So
		

			what's that?
		

			Yeah.
		

			I don't know. It's interesting.
		

			So, I mean, swift was a genius.
		

			He was Irish too, and the Irish know a lot about the gin.
		

			gin, like, j n. Gi.
		

			I'm Iris.
		

			I had a friend of mine. He was from Bangladesh.
		

			His dad was really funny. He's like, he said, Jen, it's from gin. You drink it, you'll see gin. And
he said, and technologies from Jin, why do you think they call it engine? You know, he had this
whole thing.
		

			Anyway, the jinn, you know, we believe in them as in the Quran, you can't deny them.
		

			That they're, they're creatures, and they're there, they're around, you know, they tend they don't
live generally with us, they tend to live in isolated areas, like somewhere like, you know, green,
Greenland or, or Sahara Desert places, big open places, they like big open places.
		

			And that's where they tend to live, so.
		

			But there are jinn that do move amongst people as well. And I mean, you have all this weird stuff,
there's so much weird stuff out there. And there's a lot of people that believe weird things. So,
you know, I don't
		

			you know, a lot of Muslims get very obsessed with the jinn. And I think that's a dangerous thing to
do. We know they exist, the Quran asserts their existence, they certainly do explain a lot of the
weird stuff that goes on in the world that is kind of inexplicable. And I think that's why most
cultures did have some type of reference to poltergeists, or to the little people or whatever they
were, you know, there's, there's a lot of terms for them.
		

			Yeah, that, generally, my understanding is that they have suggestion, you know, their power is the
power of suggestion. But there's definitely I mean, I'm gonna tell you a true story. I'm not making
this up. Because this is this happened to me.
		

			I had a,
		

			I had a, when I worked with a physician, Hashem see that he lives in Australia now for the
Australian people. So they'll confirm this, I had an eyewitness to this, but I worked with him. In
his office, he was a physician. And we had there was a man who came in. And, you know, he was he
seemed perfectly normal guy, but he was convinced that his wife was having a relationship with some,
some invisible creature.
		

			And,
		

			and he would, he told us these stories, you know, and you could write him off as crazy, but he did
not seem crazy to me at all, now.
		

			And he would wake up in the middle of the night, and there was something happening, you know, and,
and he just felt the presence. And now, that same physician, we had another lady who was actually
told that she was having a relationship with an unseen. And the reason she came is that he would
come to her in the night, and they would have physical intimacy, and she would have this huge rash.
When that would happen. That's why she was coming. But she like she told us in all like that was her
story. So that's consistent with what's in the books that people do. And there's there's books at
borders and Barnes and Noble, you can go to these bookstores, about how to have relations with
		

			spirits, how to invoke them, how to cut and what they'll come and what you'll feel and what you'll
experience. I'm not making this stuff up. So there's people out there too.
		

			teaching people how to do that. Now the owner might differ about whether or not they do agree that
Jin can
		

			can have intimacy with humans. But whether or not there's an offspring I mean, he Mamata
		

			did not accept that mom shaft that he did.
		

			So
		

			Mr. Malik just thought even from that said that Mariah would open up a big door of a sad, you know,
because they could claim they were married to Jin and things like that. But in the Chevy men have an
awkward been an intuitive journey is, is, can actually occur.
		

			I mean, there's definitely relationships but again,
		

			you know, a lot of the things that we're given in Islam are to protect us from jinn, there's no
doubt about that. And one of the most important protections from Jin is cleanliness, hygiene.
		

			And so there's definitely a relationship between feces I mean, one of the things when you go into
the bathroom alone in order to become minimal,
		

			hopefully, we'll have that you no matter how busy what Habad to seek refuge from the sabetha, and,
and the Hubby, right, which are the male and female jinn. So that's something that you actually seek
refuge in when you go in. One of the reasons why you cover your head also, is I mean, even in the
Jewish they cover that small part, because that's actually considered the part that needs the
protection is is where the swirl on your, you know, just to keep from,
		

			it's, in fact, the word in Arabic, to be without a hat is has hero verse, which also means to be
unarmed, to be unarmed. And most religious traditions have a very strong encouragement for people to
cover their heads, male and female. So males are encouraged, then it's not an obligation, but
they're encouraged to wear something on their head. Historically, people have always covered their
heads, even the sun just from that aspect of it. But there is a protection in keeping the head
covered. There's a protection in keeping yourself clean. Theses, you know, a
		

			lot of crime scenes and things like that people when they go to these psychopaths to their homes and
stuff. They're filthy, they're covered, and often feces and urine. And so there's, there's
definitely a relationship between that mental illness and the jinn. And obviously, people get opened
up to unseen worlds. I mean, I mentioned a book by Van Doren called the presence of unseen worlds.
He worked for several years, couple decades at Sonoma, Napa state mental institution. And he I read
that book from cover to cover. He began by just arguing that he was a complete materialist when he
went into psychiatry. But by the end of working with these, he became very convinced that there
		

			really are creatures that and he said, some of them were benign, and some of them were malevolent.
And he said, it was very clear to them that auditory hallucinations, he said, some of it was mental
illness. It was just problems in the brain, but he felt others were clearly real, that the people
were not making it up that they were really hearing things that were actually there. So
		

			allow them I mean, at the end of the day, a lot of all I know is that we believe in gin, and gin are
unseen creatures, in terms of how that plays out in the real world. I'm in the same boat that you
are, like I said, there's a lot of weird things out there. There's a lot of people that believe
weird things. I think a lot of it is, you know, explainable. I would argue that if you have people
with mental illness, I would go to try to treat it medically before I'd go to an exorcism or
something like that. Because a lot of hallucinations can be stopped by certain drugs that are very
effective at doing it so and people that have mental illnesses, now we can treat a lot of those
		

			illnesses, with with drugs on the other hand, I think some mental illnesses, definitely, there's
something more going on than meets the eye. Allah Allah knows best.
		

			I'll give you an example. I know somebody who, there they were having a lot of problems in their
house with noises and and their, their daughter was getting very
		

			troubled and started like having and
		

			no, I gave him some two hours to do about just getting out of the house and things like that. And he
came back to me
		

			A couple months later, and he said that it's completely gone. His daughter was fine. Everything
completely after he started doing those drives. So
		

			Jan will respond to Vicar.
		

			I mean, there's Irma's father, she's gonna kill me for bringing this up. But, you know, her father
was in Los Angeles, and he heard some noise. And you just ignored it. And but then in the morning,
he found a giant boa constrictor, in his in his house. And, and, and he said,
		

			one of these salena
		

			by the Lord of cinema and get out of here, so he was like commanding him if he was a gym, because
the prophets ally sort of mentioned, if you find snakes, because gym tend to gym can shape shift.
And they tend to take, they take, you know, cats and dogs and snakes and different they can take
different animal forms. And that's how you'll see them. If you see them, you won't see them in their
in their form, but they can go into other forms. And so he just said, you know, by the role of
soothing on me, you know, and but he didn't leave, which means he was in a chair, there was a gym,
they'll leave. So the publicizing said, If you come into your house, and there's a snake you should
		

			ask them to be for don't don't just kill it. Just ask it to leave because he said it might be one of
the bleeding gin. And if they need, they'll leave
		

			and just let them leave. And if they don't, they're harmful, then you can kill them. You have
permission to kill them. So
		

			what's that?
		

			But I've been merican Sierra in Minnesota was far.
		

			Superior, Sabrina's
		

			soundboard hungry.
		

			They're gone. I just got rid of
		

			religion. Yeah, well, Ms. Noon is also it means the hidden illness. Because you don't really know a
person's crazy. Until you I mean, sometimes you do.
		

			You know, I had some people a while back. But somebody over my house that was stark raving mad. And
I was really upset about it. And that person ended up
		

			doing really heinous crimes.
		

			But you know, some people you can just see it, you don't need to look very far. And madness, you
know, may Allah preserve all of us, because madness is real. And, I mean, historically, Muslims had
a kind of a lot of benign madness, they have a lot of gender as well. What are college dudes like
here in Morocco? Have you met any Muslims?
		

			See, when I first went to Mali, there were a lot of ministers, there's not now there's more mad
people. Because Muslims used to have measure the more than many measures do this, somebody who is
mad, but they're mad in a very religious sense like that, you know, they're very devotional people
and, and people leave them alone. You know. And in Morocco, there were quite a few when I first went
to Morocco, they're very interesting. I mean, you don't want to spend too much time with them.
Because there's a lot very powerful. mad people have very strong presence. You know, it's very dark.
And you don't want to get into that people that work with mad people. If you've worked in you know,
		

			it's it's a very taxing job is a very hard job to be around mad people. I mean, even being around
neurotic people, you know, people are well, and in our culture. In our planet today. Most people
aren't Well, there's a lot of imbalance on the planet, just humans, they're not well, they're not
doing well, as the human project is not going well. You know, so there's a lot of problems with
people. There's a lot of good people out there, but there are a lot of people that are really
suffering, a lot of suffering out there. And
		

			you know, so there's a lot of mental illness there's a lot of instability. The province I sent him
said that one of the signs of the time was texted and how sad that you'll see a lot of mental
instability share.
		

			Hubby Batman mature told us that the treatment for that is to do liquor but to do balancing because
certain bakers are dangerous for people. You know, liquor is like medicine, if there's over the
counter, and then there's prescription medicine and not all because, you know, people can go mad
doing this. They really can. their spiritual psychosis is very real. And I've seen it happen to
people if you start doing a lot of
		

			Buying names you can really hurt yourself. So but things that will not hurt you are prayer on the
Prophet size him, you can do that as much as you want and it will just benefit you, it will not harm
you.
		

			Step Four will not harm you.
		

			Or law is, you know, if you do a lot of it, you can you can get some pretty intense experiences, but
it's not a harmful but if you do certain Divine Names, they can be very, you know, dangerous to do
on your own. So
		

			that's why the religions about balance, the Prophet did not like excess even in the religion, he did
not like people to do too much. Because you can really lose your balance in doing too much
devotional practice. You don't want to do to middle you want to find that balance. And, and that
balance depends on you. Also, it depends on your environment to do a lot of Vicar in southern
Morocco is not a real problem. If you start doing a lot of Vicar in southern Chicago, you might get
into some serious trouble. You know, because of the the the types of environments that you're living
in one culture supports you there and the other is actually antagonistic to it so it can create the
		

			kind of cognitive dissonance that really can be problematic for people.
		

			Anyway, it's uh, you know, it's a it's a
		

			big topic, big topic.