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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well-known personalities of the jinn

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He cited that the jinn Demeiri races, including the pure jinn who does not eat or sleep or drink in the world or breeding, including races eat and drink and Taatnakh he mentioned no locks them in:

* Or Duwais
* Saali form or Sallop Salap.
* Ogres
* Alqtarb
* Buao
* Aisha Guendicp
* Diaper slave

Categories above to names jinn when people only, and there is no evidence to show the reality of these names, does not mean that their presence really only in the myths of popular stories that are open to ordinary people, like the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp, or genie lamp and generally did not respond to these names mentioned in a trusted source, only the word Satan Login or puck that has been mentioned in the holy books. And linguistically called taking the single and Jana of the collection the want of those who live in homes with people said to Amer, it was among those who are exposed to children and the boys said to the spirit or spirits, if malignant called the devil, if the increased malignancy and evil was the giant, the forces on the work of the business named Lita. And mentioned in the literature Arabic that they perceive in the form of animals and cattle, and some of them imagined a human and that two of the eye does not really material to him, and mentioned to imagine the jinn in the form of a black cat and a black dog, but are mentioned as well as in the literature of the Middle Ages in Europe the image of Satan that he has a beard pointed and two horns and a black head and so on as stated in the modern knowledge Page 357.