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Jinns Are Cool


By Ali Eteraz
Posted on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 03:52:55 PM EST
Tags: jinn, culture, myth (all tags)

A jinn is invisible and made of smoke, and under most interpretations of the Quran, one of the co-creations of humanity. To some extent, the jinn are more popular than Muslims in the popular imaginaire. The Economist has a very interesting article related to the jinn called "Born of Fire: Going In Search Of the Jinn." I have previously written a review about a Sufi writer whose novel is entitled "Master of the Jinn" (which book is partly responsible (only partly) for one of our commentators converting to Islam. I have also previously provided a letter about Jinn wives available in Cairo. When some of you loners need a friend; try a Jinn.

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Jinns Are Cool | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
Jinn are indeed cool(none / 0) (#1)
by Irving on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 04:37:33 PM EST

Jinn are indeed cool :) by the way, Jinn is the plural, Jinni is singular, and thanks for the mention of the book :)

 Ya Haqq!





Camel?(none / 0) (#2)
by center on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 06:45:31 PM EST

Jinn are made of smoke!!

 

Can't help but ask: any brand?





astaghfirullah!(none / 0) (#3)
by shams on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 07:15:17 PM EST
We are made of smokeless flame, not smoke.  ;)

correct, not smoke(none / 0) (#4)
by Asim on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 08:09:18 PM EST

And the Jinn race, We had/Created before, from the fire/Of a scortching wind.

[xv 27, A Yusuf Ali]

And the Jinn did We create aforetime of essential fire.

[xv 27, Pickthall]

 



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correct, not smoke(none / 0) (#5)
by Asim on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 08:10:51 PM EST
And the Jinn race, We had/Created before, from the fire/Of a scortching wind.

[xv 27, A Yusuf Ali]

And the Jinn did We create aforetime of essential fire.

[xv 27, Pickthall]





Huh! What?(none / 0) (#6)
by Hakim on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 09:04:14 PM EST
"Jinns Are Cool"
Uh guys, I beg to differ. Jinn are not cool, I just attended a lecture by Shakiel Hamayun on Jinni and it was very good. Brothers and sisters... all I can say is that Jinn are definately not cool, see for yourself, in an Islamic exorcism [1], [2], [3].

some are..(none / 0) (#7)
by shams on Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 10:20:17 PM EST
good and some are bad.  neither pure light like the angels or pure darkness like afrit. ;)

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I just finished Master of the Jinn(none / 0) (#8)
by Samaha on Fri Jan 05, 2007 at 07:59:11 AM EST

so cool!  I have passed it along to Big A, but since it took me quite a while to get to reading the book she had used up all her Eid money (from both Eids) at Borders Books and now has 4 other books in line ahead, so I will pass it on to Middle A (who had spent most of her money at Toys R Us, and the only book she bought was a how to book on homework - she takes school super seriously).

As for good Jinn and bad Jinn - wow, have I got stories of Jinn - Bosnians love stories of Jinns.  I will have to write about this man whose mother insisted on calling him in Turkey from Sarajevo so he could tell me about his personal Jinn - very cool to actually talk to someone who had Jinn in his presence.

What about evleeyeh (not sure about that spelling), though - no one ever really talks about them.  I even have stories about that. 





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