Suhaib Webb – A Jinn Story With A lesson

Years ago when I was an imam, there

was a young woman who came into my

office. She was around 16 years old, and

she wanted to embrace Islam.

And, of course, I asked her about her

family, and I found out her family were

from Guatemala.

And we began to discuss, Alhamdulillah, a few

things, and eventually she embraced Islam.

And then about a week or two later,

her mother contacted the masjid and she wanted

to visit the masjid and she wanted to

talk to me. So I met her mother

and she spoke Spanish. My Spanish is like

to be honest with you. It's not very

good.

And, we work through it.

And I actually said to her mother, like,

what is it that you want for your

daughter? She's like, I wanted to be a

good person. I wanted to be part of

my family. I wanted to go to college.

I wanted to be successful. I said, that's

what Islam wants. Then her mother became very

happy.

About a week after that, the young woman

called me and said, my mother wants you

to come to our house because there is

a demon in our house.

And I was like, woah. That's not really

me. You know what I mean?

I'm not I'm not into that stuff. So

I went anyways,

and I got to the house, and the

mother explained to me that she had invited

the priest to the home

and that nothing worked. And as a last

resort,

she wanted me to do whatever we could

do

to help with the situation. So I read

the and other things and

as I was reading the Quran, and I

ain't gonna lie, man, I was kinda spooked.

As I was reading the Quran, the mother

goes like this.

And I'm like, oh, man. And then the

mother says, it left.

Whatever was here, it left. When you read

that that beautiful

sounding

book that you're reading. So then I said

to this young woman's mother,

do you believe that the one who caused

that thing to finally leave

is its god and the god of all

things?

And she said yes. And right there on

the stairs of their home, her mother,

Masha'Allah,

Alhamdulillah,

embraced al Islam.

I can't tell you how bad the advice

above is and how

inconsistent that is with prophetic values. Brothers and

sisters, when we embrace

Islam,

you need to love us and our families.

You need to be good to us and

our families.

Allah commands us to be good to our

non Muslim family members unless it's involving shirk.

Means to be consistently their companion.

So I just wanna emphasize

that this kind of

lack of care and love for those who

embrace Islam as well as trying to be

kind and touch the hearts of their families

and destabilizing the relationship between the new Muslim

and his or her family is extremely dangerous.

It is antithetical

to Islam

into the method of the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wasallam.