Arabic Wiki page on Jinn, translated courtesy of Google. Useful info.

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Keep in mind that this is a rough translation. Google translates European languages well. It doesn't do as well with Middle Eastern and Asian languages. This is still a better resource than the American version of this page.

Edit: This is the Sunni perspective on the matter. Shia Muslims feel differently, and I'll post the Farsi version as a contrast. The big difference is the Farsi (Iranian - most of Iran practices Shia Islam) page stresses that the wiki page does not confirm the existence of jinn, where the Arabic page does believe in jinn and even tries to use science to explain their existence. Interesting stuff.

Jinn: (depending on the religions and mythology) are the supernatural creatures which air is able to shape various forms have the minds and understanding of and ability to work hard, and they are otherwise mankind, one said to him "to reap," and said it was called so because they fear does not see, three varieties has the attribution of Hassan Al-Tabari Khushani that the Prophet peace be upon him said (jinn three varieties have wings flying in the air and the class and type of snakes and adorned Izanon).

The Muslims are unanimously agreed that the whole of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him envoy to the jinn and mankind is an envoy to the Almighty God said in his wise book (and revealed this Qur'an to warn you it is reached) Surat al 19. Allah revealed to His Prophet peace be upon him called Surat Al-Jinn.

Why call them fairy

Named Jana Asttaarham from the eyes, they see the people and we can not see them, and this fact is known and the Guide says the Quran: (he see you he and his tribe from where you see them we have made the evil ones, for those who do not believe) Al norms verse 27, he intended that man does not see the jinn image created by the real, but you may see them in other ways Mottagsudain have or are of the mind as it gets for some of those suffering.

believing Jinn

Some people believe the existence of supernatural beings called Jinn, these people believed that supernatural powers to the jinn and the jinn able to see the people and harm them, although non-physical objects jinn and able to shape the form that you want. And the perceived world that we see and we live a strange and wonderful how the world hidden from the eyes, which is not seen from the unseen, who wear hijab in sight of, the same human programmed on exploration and research in the metaphysics of worlds hidden and without ancient and as contained in the holy books, or as told by the storytellers and Quacks and many more, from the jinn and mankind on the trouble they caused them, and it is recognized that human beings are subject to risks and diseases and a few cleared him of life and live without drawbacks, his mind falls prey to the illusion and the jinn. And widened the complaint of mental illness and diseases, epilepsy Some people attributed the most to the world of the jinn and devils, making the people confused and some of them fell prey to illusions and shed charlatans, and that as a result of the prosperity of the Kingdom of fortune-tellers and readers to stop and others, and complacency of people to them for their ignorance, and not behind these ignorant people only loss and evil, There is no disease but with medication, diabetes medication ignorance of science.

Belief that there is a very old Gin, which is known in mythology the world lives in them concealed from the eyes of humans. This is called science (Demonology), and means of fiends (in Greek), and this knowledge as defined by the Encyclopaedia Britannica looking in the study of demons and beliefs about them, as looking in the doctrine of the existence of jinn in the Muslim world. Where the religion of Islam differentiates between the meaning of the jinn and the devil. Valjn not demons as the concept of the Islamic religion but the devils are a special category of jinn and disobey God whispers to people. Denied many of the philosophers and their presence and said the fairy to be in religious books is the evil desires of humans, and malignant forces, and the desires of angels is to be good, they claim.

And denied a range of people and their denial of full and claimed a group of them that is to be the lives of the planets, but this is close to the fantasy, and Muslims would interpret the jinn said, they kind of people Msttren for people in their faith and disbelief, and their own good and evil, said Dr. Mohammed gorgeous in his book in interpretation of Surat Al-Jinn The Jinn are to be angels, angels and Valjn has one world there is no difference between them.

He claimed a group of modernists that the jinn are germs and microbes that infect people diseases revealed by science recently and this is an illusion and a myth is not out of it, Valjn physical presence for the life of discreet mentioned in the divine books, and bacteria is that of the living physical creatures, and spread the idea that the jinn are the transfer of plague in ancient times, some people at the present time do not believe in the existence of the jinn.

But the fact that other than the creation of the jinn and mankind is a world of angels and spirits. And between the jinn and mankind as much as common in terms of Alatsaf in mind and will and in terms of the ability to choose the path of good and evil, and in terms of reference of worship and as defined in the Quran: ((I created the jinn and mankind except to worship)) Almariaat, verse 56, and saying: ( (And the jinn We created before of smokeless fire)) Al-Hijr verse 27. Ford mentioned word jinn and elves, 32 times in the Koran, while Satan is mentioned 87 visits in the Koran, Satan said 11 times in the Qur'an.

In conclusion, the jinn third world non-human beings and angels, and they are creatures of rational and conscious aware of are not symptoms of disease or bacteria, and they are the liars, but they are creating a costly worship and evidence that many of the Torah and the Bible and the Koran, as recognized by a lot of people, because they are news frequently about the prophets and messengers, and the public to acknowledge them and some of them deny that they are also denied they sect of Muslims Kalmatzlp and Jahamis and others, though many of those who see them and hear them do not know they are gone, but they claim they were men of the unseen or space men and so on, and not seeing them is not stranger has been scientifically proven inability of the neighborhoods to see everything, but that bees see ultraviolet light and see the human, and therefore sensitive to the sun in the atmosphere foggy, and a bird owl see the mouse in the darkness of the night Abhiyan, therefore we do not see Jana Some districts see them like a donkey and a dog , it was reported in the books of Muslims In conversations Sunnah by Imam Ahmad in Musnad attribution correctly raised for Jaber as saying: (When you hear the dogs barking and donkeys braying at night, Vtaoma Allah from Satan, they do not see what you can see). And, according to divine books about harness the jinn of the Prophet Solomon, were doing a lot of work needs power, capacity and skills high, and mentioned that the Qur'an in the verse: (and to Solomon the wind Gduha month Ruahha month Oslana an eye diameter and the jinn who works between his hands with the permission of his Lord and Ezg commanded us to make taste for them from the torment of the Blazing Fire), Al Sheba verse 12. According to Ibn Taymiyyah in Majmoo 19/10: (did not violate one of the Muslim communities in the presence of jinn, and that God sent Muhammad to them, and the majority of communities of infidels to prove the jinn, The People of the Book of the Jews and Christians understand is associated with them as an admission of Muslims, and found them denying that, as there is in Muslim denied ...)

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Jinn in Islamic beliefs

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Brings Muslims to recognize and presence has been stated in the Quran {And the jinn We created before from the fire poison} (Al-Hijr: 27) and is found in the Quran Al on behalf of Jinn: Surat Al-Jinn and by some sheikhs specialists reading of the Koran to people touched by the elves to get them out and occurs in the address Genie and Mjadlth. In this and many stories were received and recorded by some well-known sheikhs do not doubt their knowledge, but this door and large can not mention here of the many exaggerations and fantasies in it.
[Edit] Evidence from the Qur'an

* (O jinn and mankind Hath not you messengers from amongst you My revelations, and admonish you to meet this day they say we have seen ourselves and whom the life of this world and have seen for themselves that they were disbelievers) Al Cattle, verse 130.
* (And the jinn We created before from the fire toxins) Al-Hijr verse 27.
* (If we wanted to gave every soul its true guidance, but the right to say to me I will fill Hell with jinn and all the people) Al-Sajdah verse 13.
* (I created the jinn and mankind except to worship) Almariaat, verse 56.
* (O jinn and men that you can're going from the heavens and the earth, pass ye! Not without authority) Al-Rahman, verse 33.
* (Say revealed to me that a group of Jinn listened and said we have heard a wonderful Quran) Surat Al-Jinn, verse 1.
* {From the evil of the sneaking whisperer (4) who whispers in the hearts of people (5) of the people of Paradise (6)} Al people verses 4.5, 6

These verses and other evidence of the existence of the jinn and some of their conditions, not to speak the Qur'an for something that is exists and we know he is home for us and our understanding, although we do not see them Vgmp willed by God, as mentioned in the Holy cause Asttaarham from our eyes by saying: (O Children of Adam does not Evtnnkm of Satan, as directed Obojkm From Paradise to them tends to Bashma Erihma Suathma that he and his tribe see you from where you see them we have made the evil ones, for those who do not believe in) al norms, verse 27.

, And the book of God where everything is, when God Mafrt anything, it is safe there is no God but Allah, Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah is no need for others.
[Edit] Evidence from the Sunnah of the Prophet

* Narrated in Saheeh Muslim from Ibn Masood said: (We were with the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him one night Vvkdnah Valtmsnah in the valleys and coral, and said: Osttir or assassinated, Fbtna preached a night of folk, and when we are if it came by Hira We told you Messenger of God lost you and Tbannak not Nagdk Fbtna preached a night of folk, he said peace be upon him: came to need the jinn so I went with him I read them the Koran, Ibn Masood said: He went to us, peace be upon him, Vorana monuments and the effects of fire ...) Sahih Muslim explain the nuclear 4 / 170.
* It was narrated from Sahih Muslim, Musnad Imam Ahmad that the Prophet Muhammad, he said: (The angels are created from light, and created the jinn from fire, and the creation of Adam, as you describe) Sahih Muslim explain the nuclear 18/123.