Jinns & Satan

What are the Jinn?

The Jinn are a world of their own, different from that of the humans or the angels. They do, however, possess some characteristics in common with humans, such as the ability to think and reflect. Similarly, they also have the ability to choose between the path of good and the path of evil in the same manner as humans. They, though, differ from humans in other characteristics, including one very important characteristic: Their origin.

They are called Jinn, because they are obscured from human sight,

“Lo! He sees you he and his tribe, from whence you see him not.” (Al-Araaf 27)

Their Origin

Allah has informed us that the jinn have been created from fire, as He says in the Quran,

“And the jinn did we create aforetime of essential fire” (al-Hijr 27). In surah Al-Rehman (verse 15), He says,

“And the jinn He did create of a smokeless flame of fire.” According to Ibn Abbaas, Ikrimah, Mujaahid, Al-Hasan and others the meaning of marajin-min-nar, is “the extremity of the flame,” and in one narration it is described as the purest and best (of fire).’ An-Nawawi said in his commentary to Sahih Muslim, “The smokeless flame of fire is that mixed with the blackness of the fire.”

In a Hadith recorded by Muslim on the authority of Aisha, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said,

“The angels were created from light, the jinn were created from a smokeless flame of fire and Adam was created from what has been described to you.” [by Allah in the Quran].

When were they created?

 There is no doubt that the jinn were created before mankind, as Allah says,

“Verily, We created man of potter’s clay of dark mud altered. And the Jinn did, We create aforetime of a flameless fire” (Al-Hijr 26-27). 

This verse clearly states that the jinn were created before mankind. Some of the earlier scholars were of the opinion that they were created a thousand years before mankind, but for that statement they have no proof in either the Quran or the Sunnah.

The Names for the Jinn in the Arabic language

Ibn Abdul Barr said, “The jinn, according to the scholars of the language, are of different types:

  

·  If one is mentioning the jinn purely of themselves, they are called jinni.

·  If one is mentioning the jinn that live among mankind, they are called aamar, whose plural is amaar.

·  If one's mentioning the ones that antagonize the young, they are called arwaah.

·  Ifone's mentioning the evil ones that antagonize humans they are called shaitan for the singular [and shayateen for plural].

·  If they cause even more harm and become strong, they are called afreet.

Types of Jinn

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said,

“There are three types of jinn: one that flies through the air, one that are snakes and dogs, and one which stay in places and travel about.”

Satan and the Jinn

Satan, which Allah mentions to us many times in the Quran, is from the world of the jinn. He used to worship Allah at the beginning of his creation. He lived among the angels in the heavens. He entered Paradise. But then he disobeyed Allah when he refused to prostrate to Adam, out of pride, arrogance and envy. Therefore Allah cast him out of from His mercy. Satan, in the Arabic language, is a general term for any arrogant rebel. It is used, in general, for that one specific being because he was so arrogant and rebelled against his Lord.

He is called taaghoot (any false object of worship and submission) in al-Nisaa, verse 76, 

“Those who believe do battle for the cause of Allah; and those who disbelieve do battle for the cause of taaghoot. So fight the minions of the Devil. Lo, the devil’s strategy is weak.” Taaghoot is a word that is well-known to many of the people of the earth, with exactly the same lettering, according to al-Aqaad in his book Iblees. He is called a taaghoot because he has transgressed the limits, rebelled against his Lord and tried to set himself up as a god to be worshipped.

Satan has despaired of any chance of mercy from Allah and for that reason Allah has named him Iblees means he has no good in him. And means despaired ublis and lost. Many of the early scholars have mentioned that his name before he disobeyed his Lord was azaazeel Allah knows best how correct that is.

Satan, the created

The one who studies the Quran and in the hadith knows that Satan is one of Allah’s creation and he has a mind, ability to understand, he moves and so forth... He is not what some of the ignorant have claimed, “an evil spirit that takes the shape of the evil conscience animalistic part of man, who leads the person when it takes the place of the spiritual, good conscious in the heart.“

His Origin

We have already stated that Satan is a jinn. Some modern and past writers have disputed this point. They use as a proof the statement of Allah,

“And when We said unto the angels: Prostrate yourselves before Adam, they fell prostrate, all save Iblees. He demurred through pride, and so became an unbeliever” (al-Baqara 34). [They also quote] other similar verses in which Allah makes an exception from the angels of Iblees. And they argue that if he is being excepted from a group, it must have been that he was a member of that group as this is the customary mode of speech.

In many  of the books of commentaries and books of history we find narrations from many scholars on this point. They mention that Satan was among the angels and that he was the treasurer of paradise or of the lowest heaven. He was the most noble and honorable of the angels and so forth. Ibn Hatheer states in his commentary of the Quran,

These stories have been related from many of the early scholars. Most of them are from Jewish and Christian legends (Ar., Zsraaeeliyaat) which must be investigated more closely. Allah alone knows the truth of most of these types of reports. Many of them are clearly false since they contradict the truth that we possess in our hands [that is, the Quran and the hadith of the Prophet]. Whatever the Quran contains is sufficient and we need not delve into the stories of the earlier peoples. Their reports have not been safe from changes, additions and deletions. They have fabricated many things in their reports. They did not have among them those trustworthy people who safeguarded their scriptures and reports from being contaminated by the extremists and others as this nation (of Islam) has had. This nation has had scholars, experts, leaders, memorizers, preservers and pious people who recorded the hadith and scrutinized them, making clear which of them are authentic, acceptable, weak, rejected, fabricated, false. They were familiar with who the forgers were and who were the unknown narrators who should not be considered fully trustworthy. All of that is due to the position of the Prophet Muhammad and the fact that he is the seal of all the Prophets and leader of mankind. Therefore forgeries and interpolations have not been able to be attributed to him and to be accepted by the scholars.

Concerning their proof that Allah excepted Iblees from the angels, it is not a definitive proof. Such statements may be disjunctive. In fact, this is definitely the case as Allah states that Iblees was one of the jinn. Allah says in the Quran,

“And remember when we said unto the angels: Fall prostrate before Adam, and they fell prostrate, all save Iblees. He was of the Jinn, so he rebelled against his Lord’s command” (al-Kahf 20). Furthermore, it has also been confirmed from an authentic text that the jinn are not the same as the angels or as the humans. The Prophet said, “The angels have been created from light, the jinn from fire and Adam was created from clay.” (This was recorded in Sahih Muslim ).

Al-Hasan al-Basri said, “Iblees was not from the angels even for the blinking of an eye” Ibn Taimiya said, “Verily, Satan was from the angels with respect to his appearance, but not with respect to his origin, and not with respect to him being of the same nature as them.”

Was Satan the origin of the Jinn or was he just one of them?

We do not possess any clear text that states Satan to have been the origin of all the jinn or that states that he was simply one of them. The latter is more apparent from the Quranic statement,

“Except Iblees and he was of the Jinn” (al-Kahf 50). Ibn Taimiya is of the opinion that Satan was the origin of all the jinn in the same way that Adam is the origin of all mankind.

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