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Experiencing Jinn ‫الشريف مختار‬

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I would like to share with the readers, a foolishness

I went through a few years ago, which, nonetheless,
enabled me to gain a better insight into some of the
ways our fellow creatures -- the jinns -- operate.
The experience needs to be narrated to a wider
audience because, I believe, by sharing it with
others, a number of such important conclusions
could be drawn that might help many people in
appreciating how Satan from amongst jinns
operate. It is important to know more about them
because we humans are attempted to be led astray
by this other existence (jinns), which along with
their counterparts amongst men, those of them who
are engaged in the struggle to promote evil, have
been described by the Qur’an as Satan1[1].

It was a few years ago when I was informed by one

of my students that he was in contact with a jinn.
He asked me if there was anything wrong in
contacting a jinn for reasons which were not un-
Islamic. My immediate response was that there
wasn’t anything objectionable, since the Qur’an tells
us that, like in the case of humans, there were both
good and evil individuals amongst the jinn as well.2
[2]
The next time I met my student, I was offered to
avail the possibility of getting in touch with a pious
jinn myself. I was reluctant to begin with, but on
second thought, I got convinced by the argument
that if the jinn, as reported, was a pious one, then
getting in touch with him would probably be no
different from the possibility of making another
good friend. I must admit that the suggestion of
getting in touch with a Jinn started making me feel

1[1]
“Who suggests evil thoughts to the hearts of men, from among the jinns and men” Qur’an (114: 5-
6)
2[2]
“For some of us (jinns) are upright and some are otherwise: Surely we follow different ways.”
(72:11)
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excited, and, perhaps, the excitement influenced my

decision.

And thus I started contacting the jinn, who, I was

informed, was named Usman. I was asked to recite
a few verses of the Qur’an, whenever I needed to
get in touch with him, and then ask Usman Sahib to
appear, and he would appear before my son, who
was fourteen years old then. My son would have his
eyes shut and would tell us that he could see a
bearded, old man who was responding to all the
questions that were put across to him. Thus, I didn’t
used to listen to the jinn directly. My son was the
medium. My son wouldn’t need to mention my
questions to Usman Sahib, who would just know
himself what was being mentioned. Of course, my
son would mention to us what Usman Sahib was
saying, since we wouldn’t hear him directly.

One of the immediate things that Usman Sahib

demanded from me was to place a praying mat on
some corner of the house for him, so that he could
pray to the Almighty whenever he felt like. This
initial demand immediately earned him a lot of
respect from me, and I felt reassured that I had not
taken an incorrect decision.

During the initial stages of this contact, we used to

call him many times each day and talk about all
kinds of imaginable topics. The answers we would
get would sometimes be vague, sometimes clear
and understandable, and sometimes too far fetched
to be acceptable. I asked him once, for instance,
whether there were prophets amongst jinns as well,
to which he responded in the affirmative. I asked
him if they too had already received their last
prophet, as we humans had, he again responded in
the positive, but clarified that their last prophet died
only five hundred years ago. He also gave his
opinion that even though the finality of prophethood
was an established part of our (human) creed, we
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should not be too sensitive about it. He mentioned

that the Ahmadis were also good people and that
they too should be accepted as good religious souls.

We used to ask Usman Sahib to go to different

places in Lahore, in Pakistan, and even abroad, and
each time we so demanded from him, My son would
tell us in no time that he was right there at the
intended place. For instance, one of our relatives
lived in Gujranwala, and we would ask Usman Sahib
to take My son along there to find out what was
happening, and My son, who otherwise knew the
place well, would inform us that he had already
reached the place in his vision. It was quite a
mystery for me to imagine how a jinn could reach
distant places in no time. But then I would convince
myself by recalling the Qur’anic mention of the fact
that jinns could travel far and wide without much
difficulty.3[3]

It would be useful to narrate an experience of

Usman Sahib to show that if I was convinced by the
authenticity of the visions that my son was viewing,
there was some reason for it. One day, my family
and some other relatives got together in our place.
We got in touch with Usman Sahib. On inquiring, he
informed that he knew French. One of my visiting
relatives, who knew French a bit, asked him a
question in French. The reply mumbled by my son
on behalf of Usman Sahib was ridiculed by the
relative, because whatever was uttered was at least
not French. Being hitherto impressed by Usman
Sahib’s apparent piety, I was upset at my relative’s
behaviour. I asked Usman Sahib to mention the
meanings of the statement that was communicated
to him in French, and he gave the correct meanings.
It was surprising for my relative as well, because it
was well known that my son had no idea of French.
In another incident in the same sitting, we asked

3[3]
The Qur’an, for instance says, “ [Jinns said:] We sought to pry into the secrets of the heavens, but
found it full of fierce guards and shooting flames.” (72:8)
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Usman Sahib to call up the vision of somebody we

all knew. That somebody was called up and my son
could see him.4[4] We asked him what was the
medical problem with the gentleman, and his
answer was spot on.

It wouldn’t be out of place to mention another

rather weird piece of information passed on to us by
Usman Sahib. He informed us that my grandfather,
about whom we as yet knew that he had died in a
bomb blast in Singapore in the Second World War,
was, after all, not dead. The fact that no body could
actually confirm deaths of people who were
targeted by a bomb in a building, led us to consider
the possibility Usman Sahib had thrown across as at
least probable. Usman Sahib also informed us that
my grandfather was still living in the jungles of
Kelantan, a northern state of Malaysia. As one might
predict, we immediately demanded that my son be
shown my grandfather. Thus my son had the vision
of his great grand father. He informed us that he
could see an old man with a white flowing beard,
who, despite his age, was looking remarkably
active. He was seen cutting wood in the forest and
he seemed to be living alone in a nearby cottage. My
son informed us that his great grand father was
called Syed Sahib by the people of the nearby
market, where he would go to sell his wood every
week to make a living. In one of my son’s visits to
this Kelantan’s jungle during the night, he saw Syed
Sahib sitting close to a cabinet. On nudging closer to
him, my son saw him looking with intense
concentration at a group photograph of a family,
which, apart from a husband and a wife, had five
children, of which three were daughters and two
were sons. That was exactly what the composition
of my late father’s family was. Again, my son at that
time had no idea about the details of my father’s
4[4]
It was later explained to us by Usman Sahib that it is possible to call up the vision of an individual,
because each person has a companion amongst the jinn who is called his ‘qarin’. Each person’s ‘qarin’
is the identical copy of the fellow human and calling him up is no different from calling up his human
counterpart.
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family. Thus the mystery of Syed Sahib’s survival

grew thicker.

I still had a nagging feeling that all this Kelantan’s

business and the information that was being thrown
across at us was too far-fetched to be considered
credible. But then there were enough evidences to
support the view that the possibility of it being
possible couldn’t be easily rejected.

Then came, perhaps, the turning point of this, by

now, intriguing experience. I had been wondering
all throughout the period of my contact with Usman
Sahib as to how could it be possible for a jinn to
enable my son to have a live view of events that
were happening elsewhere. I mean: was it
something similar to the live television
transmissions that we are now so used to
witnessing? I made a firm resolve to test this
possibility empirically. Next evening, I asked Usman
Sahib, of course, through my son, to inform us what
a certain gentleman, who was known to us, was
doing at his home. My son didn’t know what was in
my mind. Usman Sahib enabled my son to see the
gentleman sitting in his bedroom and doing
something that my son described to us. I had asked
someone to talk to that gentleman on phone while
my son was on his ‘trip’ to his home. It so happened
that while I knew that the gentleman in question
was talking to somebody on phone, it somehow
escaped the live ‘telecast’ which My son was given
to witness through the courtesy of Usman Sahib.
That inconsistency convinced me that there was
something extremely sinister in this whole viewing
business and that it was something very cleverly
concocted by this jinn of ours, who, I by then got
convinced, had cleverly named himself Usman.

The student who had introduced me to this Jinn,

later confirmed to me that he too knew that these
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creatures had the ability to create images in the

minds of humans which appear very close to reality.

If you kindly bear with me, I would want to narrate,

very briefly, experiences of two other people, which
are important for some of the conclusions that I
would like to draw at the end of this article.

A gentleman who was pursuing a very successful

career in Saudi Arabia, got entangled with a jinn
because of his own fault, in that he invited him, and
when the jinn responded, the troubles of his life
started. He had to leave his job, and was in
considerable mental anxiety and physical pain for
quite sometime on account of what he was going
through because of this invisible existence.

The gentleman met me on several occasions. The

last time I saw him, he looked much relaxed and
apparently ‘out of trouble’. On enquiring as to how
he had a change in fortune, one of the important
reasons he mentioned was that ever since he
started visiting the shrines of some of the sufi
saints, his troubles with jinns had subsided. He
lamented the fact that many people didn’t believe in
the power of those noble men, but he had himself
experienced the effect of their influence on the over
all scheme of things of our existence. To convince
me, he narrated one of his experiences. He said that
in one of his visits to the tomb of a saint, he was
asked by a beggar to help him. He scolded the man
away, and, as he claimed, he approached ‘Baba
Sahib’, the dead saint, in his spiritual
communication with him, and complained to him as
to why he was being disturbed in his shrine by a
beggar when he himself was out of job. However,
later, he said, he felt a little embarrassed on not
having helped the beggar, who, after all, had
demanded a very small amount from him. Very
soon, he confronted the same beggar again, and the
narrator of this story immediately offered him
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money, which the beggar declined to accept,

explaining that ‘Baba Sahib’ had already told him
not to disturb him (the narrator) by begging money
from him. This incident was one of the many
experiences he had gone through in these visits to
the tombs that convinced him of the super- natural
powers of the dead sufi saints and in their strong
influence in the running of the affairs of our world.

Another gentleman, who is nearing his retirement,

narrated to me many of his experiences of his Pir
Sahib, who is able to show all his disciples that the
religious pledge (bai‘at) that he takes from them is
in reality taken by Pir Abdul Qadir Jilani of Baghdad.
He says confidently that it is not just his own
experience but that of all other disciples of his Pir
Sahib that after conducting bai‘at, they are shown in
their vision, with their eyes shut, that they are
actually doing bai‘at at the hands of Piran-e-Pir (the
Pir of the Pirs i.e. Pir Abdul Qadir Jilani). The
disciples are then taken after this experience to
Madina Munawwarah to do Ziarat of Rauza-e-Nabwi
(the grave of the prophet, sallallaaho alaihi
wasallam). I had no problem in tracing the origins
of these visions, given my own experiences of
‘Usman Sahib’.

I would like to conclude from the mention of these

experiences the following points:

1) 1) The Satan from amongst jinns very

cleverly take humans into their confidence
before enticing them to the wrong path. The
request to place praying mat for him by Usman
Sahib in my home was an example of this
clever strategy.
2) 2) They are able to impress humans by
disclosing to them information which is unlikely
to be possessed by any one who has not been
allowed to share it. This ability of jinns owes
itself to the fact that they can read what’s there
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in the minds of the humans who have contacted

them. For instance, the fact that my
grandfather was killed in a bomb blast was in
my mind, wherefrom ‘Usman Sahib’ could have
easily picked it. Likewise was the case of the
information about the medical problem of the
gentleman who was asked to appear.
Interestingly, although he could not answer the
French question, ‘Usman Sahib’ could know its
meanings, because the questioner’s mind was
there for him to read from. Thus, many naïve
humans are lead astray by the fact that they
experience that there are some apparently
extraordinary people who are able to tell them
about such details of their past which could not
normally be known to anyone. This could only
be possible if one were in direct contact with an
‘Usman Sahib’. Obviously, jinns do not know
everything about the unseen. Because of their
mind-reading ability, their information about
the past can be almost perfect, but since they
do not have the same facility for the future,
their predictions there are very likely to be
much less accurate. Indeed, they do have their
limitations. But they know more than us about
certain aspects of this material life, as indeed
we must be knowing more than them about
certain other aspects of it. However, their
‘advantage’ of invisibility gives them the edge,
which helps them in their game of deception.
3) 3) They pick our weaknesses to induce
us into evil ways. Many a times I felt that
‘Usman Sahib’ was setting a trap for me to fall
into by making dubious statements. For
instance, he once declared that a certain place,
owned by one of our relatives, was worthy of
high reverence, because, long time ago, a
prophet was born there. Obviously, it was a
trap meant to entice the target to fall into it. If
the response from our side would have been
positive, he would have jumped at the
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opportunity to make a mountain out of this

mole.
4) 4) The biggest assault Satan makes is on
the belief in unity of God. That is what ‘Usman
Sahib’ attempted in his ‘prophet’s birthplace
trap’, but, alhamdulillah, failed.
5) 5) Satan has the ability to create images,
which appear real, if one allows oneself to be
deceived by the great deceiver. There is no
reason to be impressed by the kind of
remarkable stuff many people claim to have
viewed in their visions.
6) 6) Satan doesn’t mention everything
wrong. He mixes good with evil so that men get
confused and thus the way is paved for evil to
prevail.
7) 7) The Almighty has, generally speaking,
kept us secured from the direct manipulation of
jinns, unless we foolishly allow them to
interfere in our affairs. I committed that
blunder and paid the penalty, and so did the
gentleman from Saudi Arabia.
8) 8) As soon as one realizes that one is
being influenced by Satan, one should
immediately seek refuge in the Almighty, or
else it is very likely that Satan will win over our
confidence and would take us to the farthest
corners of ignorance.
9) 9) Most of the misplaced confidence of
the people in their beliefs who are misguided
from the straight path of Islam, as is mentioned
in the Qur’an and Sunnah, are the ones who
feel confident through their jinn-inspired
experiences of a world that doesn’t exist but is
made to appear as if it actually does. Most of
the misguided religious people mention their
confidence about their espoused religious
beliefs on the basis of their visions, which are
by and large inspired by Satan. I personally
know Sufis, Ahmadis, Born-Again Christians,
Mormons, who all have definite experiences to
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narrate to prove that their religious views are

correct.5[5] I am sure that many misguided
religious people from other groups also make
similar claims.
10) 10) There is no certain religious source of
knowledge under the sky except the book of
Allah, the Qur’an, and the religious example of
his prophet, the sunnah. Everything else is
subservient to these sources and should only
be accepted if it doesn’t contradict the
guidance contained in them.

May the Almighty secure us from the evil ways of

Satan, the great deceiver.

Q&As on Experiencing Jinns

Question: How did you break relations with him. Did

he bother you after that?

Answer: There was a process of calling him. When I

realized that he was evil, I stopped calling him, and
my communication with him has stopped ever since
then, at least in that form. He probably might have
tried to harm me indirectly (I mean, through the
better known Satanic way) but, alhamdulillah, there
has been no direct disturbance. Probably, he
belonged to a more 'decent' class of jinns.

Question: It seems Usman Sahib was a deceiver.

Have you entertained any pious Jinns?

Answer: As I have mentioned in my article, I

approached Usman Sahib with a hope that he would
turn out to be a pious jinn; however, I found him to
5[5]
While studying in Britain, I used to be visited by a devoted Christian couple. After several visits, I
suggested to them that they should take a copy of the Qur’an and read it carefully, while, I promised, I
will read the Bible carefully. I also asked both of them that they should earnestly pray to their God
during the week that if the Qur’an was His book, He should open their hearts for it. I promised to them
that I would do likewise for the Bible. On the next visit, the lady admitted that when she made an
intention to pray to God as promised, she was visited by the Holy Spirit, who reminded her that she
was not allowed to do what she had promised. Obviously, it was her opinion that the one who
approached her was the Holy Spirit. In view of what I have mentioned in this article, you can well
imagine what the reality of that visitor was.
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be otherwise. There is not doubt that there are

pious jinns as well, but I have a very strong feeling
that they don't establish communication with men
in the manner I tried. If the Almighty arranges for
them to serve some pious men in some special way,
as was done in the case of Sulaiman, alaihissalaam,
then it is a different case. My experience has taught
me that because they are invisible and because we
know very little about them, there is a great danger
that whenever we will attempt to get in touch with
their unseen world, we will be deceived. Our test of
this life is that we should believe in the unseen
realities of God, divine revelation (wahi) sent to the
prophets, life hereafter, angels etc. The very idea of
making an effort to peep into the unseen world,
although perhaps an outcome of human curiosity, is
extremely dangerous. We should remain within our
human limits of this seen world and learn about the
unseen one only through the Qur'an and sunnah.
The unseen realities discovered by science like x-
rays etc. are different in that they can be fully
explained. What cannot be scientifically explained
through a clear cause and effect relationship should
be considered a no go area, or else Satan will get an
opportunity to lead you astray.

Question: But if they can harm us what would be the

antidote? Many humans are bothered by them so
they resort to Peers to help them get rid of them.
You do not necessarily have to be their 'mureed' for
that.

Answer: According to the Qur'an, the reason why

Satan is allowed to influence us is that we stay
away from remembering the Almighty. "The one
who stays away from remembering al-Rahman, We
appoint a Satan for him who becomes his
companion (qarin)". (43:36) The most effective way
of staying away from Satan therefore is to remain
involved in remembering Allah Almighty through the
Qur'an and other ways. If you have confidence in
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the Almighty's complete control over everything,

then no evil force would be able to affect you,
insha'Allah. The Qur'an assures us that " He (Satan)
does not have power over those who believe and
place their trust in their Lord." (16:99)

Although I don't rule out the possibility of an

outside party being useful in getting rid of the
influences of jinns, I must warn you that it is a very
dangerous business. We don't know who is
genuinely sincere in his efforts and who is doing it
for his ulterior motives. One can be often misled by
appearances in these cases. Since those who are
allegedly thought to possess cures to such ailments
are considered gifted with extraordinary non-
physical abilities, there is every possibility that their
ability is exaggerated, even if they are not doing
anything deliberately wrong. However, if someone
is confident that he/she would take adequate
measures not to be influenced by the ill-effects of
this process, then outside help can also be
considered in the more serious cases. One should
however be extremely careful in avoiding all traces
of shirk or bid'ah (religious innovation) in the entire
process.

Question: If Jinns can possess women who go to

graveyards wearing perfume, then can psychiatry
help them? Sometimes Pirs may help for they might
have the art to do so.

Answer: It is for the psychologists and psychiatrists

to decide whether they can be of any help in these
cases. Probably, they will have to first agree that
there are jinns involved at least in some such cases.
I also feel that the discipline of psychology can help
even without a formal acknowledgement that jinns
are involved in some disorders, because the
involvement of these creatures is only indirect and
invisible, and the harm they cause is something the
experts can observe. If they start working on the
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cure, it can still be effective. It is for instance not

always necessary for a doctor to know what caused
a certain injury to the patient for him to cure it. A
heart specialist would not always know what
domestic problem caused the anxiety in his patients
which was the ultimate cause of the problem. He
can start curing on identifying the apparent
condition of the patient.

Going to a Pir for curing the problem is however a

completely different ball game. There, you have no
known rules. Everything is based on a mysterious
trust in an individual, whose modus operandi and
motivation are both completely unknown. Moreover,
they are very likely to cause religious harm, which
one ought to avoid under all circumstances.
Therefore, one should be very careful in going to
them.

Question: Even though, your conclusion was much

in contrast to the entire text of the narration (and
relieving too!), I cannot help but think that the
entire episode only serves to strengthen the
theology of the sufis. After all, upon discovering the
discrepancy, you tried to stick to your “pre-beliefs”.
If the sufis acquire much knowledge that is reliable,
then you cannot really argue with them over the
fact that they acquire the unreliable as well. They’ll
want consistency in their beliefs as much as you
would like in yours. My only point is: it was your
‘imaan’ prior to your expeditions that got you back
on track.; on the other hand, if a sufi disciple
(nurtured under a different ‘imaan’ claimed to be
“non-shirk”), then he’ll just end up strengthening
his beliefs. How does he know it's Satan? How could
the Christian lady tell it was not the holy spirit?

Answer: You are assuming in your question that all

humans are primarily born idiots, who have no idea
whatsoever as to what is right and what is wrong,
at least in the religious sense. People believe in one
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thing or the other without any good reason,

probably because they are born in a family where
they find an ideology, which they start believing in
or probably they like the beard of the person whose
beliefs they then start admiring. On the contrary,
the Qur'an is very emphatic about its claim that man
is born with a clear conscience and a sound intellect
which enables him to distinguish right from wrong.
Those who follow the wrong path don't do so
because they were cleverly misled by someone
while they were innocent and had no way to know
that they were being deceived. People start
following the wrong path, despite knowing from
inside that it is wrong, because of their weaknesses
and worldly temptations. In case, if there are some
people who are misled despite their good intentions,
the Almighty, hopefully, will excuse them.

I therefore believe that my article doesn't serve to

support the case of Sufis. If a Sufi is a Muslim, he
ought to bring the proofs of his religious claims
from the Qur'an and Sunnah. If he will bring any
proofs for his religious ideas from his own 'spiritual'
experiences which go against these sources, I have
no doubt that the Almighty would inform him that
the source of all such experiences was Satan, the
great deceiver.

Question: I am not really convinced that the Sufis

ever get “in touch” with anything (Satan can harm
man otherwise as well...right?). Either these are
hallucinations, or…they’re money-making ventures.
Give me the name and location of one Sufi today
who does not “run” Sufism but who, rather,
“practices” it.

Answer: How can you claim that Sufis cannot get in

touch with anything like what I have mentioned in
my article? This information can only be passed on
to you with unchallengeable authority by the
Almighty Himself, because no one else has the
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knowledge of all that is hidden. I can't know the

hidden motivations of anyone. How can I decide
whether a person is telling the truth or not when he
is claiming to have gone through some experiences.
For someone who hasn't gone through them to
claim that they don't happen is similar to the claim
of a person who denies the fact that man has
reached the moon because he himself didn't have
the pleasure of landing on it.

Question: Whoever these “things” are, they can, at

best, provide us with some facts about the past. A
similar event though much shorter in duration and
much less serious in commitment occurred while I
was at a friend’s place some four (or more) years
back. They had this famous “witch board” and they
would ask questions about their pasts that only the
inquirer and no one else was aware of. The answers
came by way of a bottle cap moving across the
lined-up alphabets on the board. The past was fine.
I am not sure about others but I remember I
reluctantly asked a question about the future:
“when would my sister get married?” “2000”, it
pointed out. Well… (the answer was incorrect!) My
only point is: while I can trust you for speaking the
truth about your experiences, I cannot agree with
your statement, which is as follows: “Most of the
misguided religious people mention their confidence
about their espoused religions on the basis of their
visions, which are by and large inspired by Satan. I
personally know Sufis, Ahmadis, Born-Again
Christians, Mormons, who all have definite
experiences to narrate to prove that their religious
views are correct.” With all due respect, I wouldn’t
believe these men were being earnest in their
claims beyond the possibility of them getting
hallucinations (perhaps due to their ‘imaan bil
ghayb’ of their revered but ‘ghayb Sufis’).

Answer: I believe that the ' switch-board'

experience of yours and the many similar
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experiences where spirits of the dead are called

have all got to do with jinns. No spirits can come
back to this world. It's the jinns who fool men by
pretending to be spirits. Since people can neither
see spirits nor jinns, they fall into the trap of
believing that what they are witnessing, hearing, or
otherwise experiencing are the spirits of their dead
relatives. I agree with you that they know nothing
about the future. They are able to tell accurate
information about the past because, as I have
mentioned in my article, they can read our minds.

As for the other part of your question, I would

request you not to speculate unnecessarily in
matters which you are not fully aware of.

Question: Do you honestly believe in the claim of

“Usman Sahib” on a different last messenger for the
jinns than for the humans? Because if you do, would
you accept on a different Qur’an (or whatever
scripture) as well?

Answer: As soon as I realized that the 'person' I got

in touch with was Satan, I ignored everything that
he had mentioned to me. To me, whatever he
mentioned doesn't deserve to consume even a
single second of a believer's time. na'udhu billahi
minhu.

Question: Please, kindly, point out the inferences in

the Qur’an where it is mentioned that such
experiences are one way of seriously diverting men
from the right path owing to their own attitudes, I
shall gladly accept your rather sympathetic view of
the Sufi breed. But so far, I cannot accept. The
primary reason being that even the men who came
to proclaim Christianhood for themselves (the holy
spirit and all) are clearly asked in the Qur’an to
bring forth an answer for their divergence for
contaminating the teachings of unity by Jesus
Christ. I am asking this in view of the Christian
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teachings today which are nothing short of Sufism.

Where have the Christians responded with claims of
such “expeditions”? Was such an answer provided?
When the Jews are asked questions, their false
‘hujjats’ are addressed with a great and perfect
rebuttal. If these ‘expeditions’ were experienced by
the ones who claimed to be Christians, they should
have come forward with this like-minded excuse.
And if they did, it must be in the Qur’an,
somewhere? If I hold the wrong approach, please
do correct me.

Answer: I have already mentioned that my article in

no way is an attempt to defend the cause of Sufism.
However, I don't want to earn sins unnecessarily by
claiming that Sufis are liars. When the gentleman
nearing retirement came to me telling me about his
experiences, I told him that I believed every word
of the apparent form of his experience, however, I
had serious differences with him on the
interpretation of their reality. I had no reason to
claim that what he was describing to me was a
deliberate lie and that he was trying to deceive me.

My understanding is that once the Qur'an has

clarified that Satan can deceive men through its
manipulations and evil whispering, it is itself
enough evidence to believe that the deception can
take various forms. I mean, he does influence our
thought process, doesn't he? Likewise, it is possible
for it to enter our minds through dreams. He does
form pictures in our minds even when we are day
dreaming. However, if you are demanding a mention
of it in the Qur'an, then consider the following
passage:

"(Moses) asked: ' O Sameri, what was the matter' ?

He said: ' I saw what they did not see. I picked up a
handful of dust from the messenger's tracks and
threw it in, for the idea seemed attractive to me.'
Moses said: ' Go hence! All your life you are
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(cursed) to say: Do not touch me and a threat hangs

over you which you will not be able to escape.'" (20:
95-97)

The above passage is informing us the Sameri, the

great criminal who initiated the process of shirk in
Bani Isra'il, didn't present any logical or scriptural
arguments to justify his crime, instead he presented
a ' spiritual experience'. Musa, alaihissalaam, didn't
entertain it as a valid reason. He just pronounced
the verdict of punishment on him.

Question: Also, please provide me with reference of

the verse that talks of the following: “…as is
mentioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah are the ones
who feel confident through their jinn-inspired
experiences of a world that doesn’t exist but is
made to appear as if it actually does.”

Answer: To my understanding, the following is one

of the verses that suggests the understanding that I
have mentioned in the above-quoted passage: "That
is how we have made for each prophet opponents,
the devils among men and jinns, who instruct one
another in gilded talk of deceit. But if your Lord had
pleased they would not have done this. So leave
them alone to the lies they fabricate." (6:112) One
can imagine the gilded talk of deceit originating
from the devils among men, but in what form would
they emerge from the devils among jinns? My
understanding is that it could take different forms,
including whispering of evil ideas in hearts and
experiencing of such visions as I have mentioned in
my article.