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The World of Jinn
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One of the most frequent activities associated with the Jinn, is
fortune telling. Before the advent of the Prophet (saws) fortune-
tellers and soothsayers were wide spread. These people would use
their associates from the Jinn to find out about the future. The
Jinns would go to the lowest heaven and listen to the Angels
conversing amongst themselves about events of the Future which they
heard from Allah. The Jinns would then inform the fortune-tellers.
This is why before the time of the Prophet (saws) many fortune-
tellers were very accurate in their predictions. However, upon the
Prophet's arrival the heavens were guarded intensely by the Angels,
and any Jinn who tried to listen was attacked by meteors (shooting
stars):

"And We have guarded it (the heavens) from every accursed devil,
except one who is able to snatch a hearing and he is pursued by a
brightly burning flame" (Surah Al-Hijr 15:18)

The Prophet (saws) also said: "They (the Jinn) would pass the
information back down until it reaches the lips of a magician or
forrtune-teller Sometimes a meteor would overtake them before they
could pass it on. If they passed it on before being struck, they
would add to it a hundred lies" [9]. Thus, it is clear from this as
to how fortune-tellers get predictions of the future right. It is
also evident as to why they get so many wrong. Men like Nostradamus
[10] are an example, as some of his predictions of the future were
correct whilst many were completely wrong. Unfortunately, the amount
of fortune telling which occurs amongst the Muslims is also
increasing.

By visiting Muslim lands such as Morocco, one is able to see as to
how much inter Jinn-fortune-teller activity there really is. If you
look up at the sky on a clear night in Morocco, you will see the
heavens ablaze with shooting stars! A clear display of the devils
being chased away from the heavens.

Fortune-tellers also operate through the Qareen. The Qareen is the
Jinn companion which is assigned to every human being. It is this
Jinn which whispers to our base desires and constantly tries to
divert us from righteousness. The Prophet (saws) said: "Everyone of
you has been assigned a companion from the Jinn. The companions
asked: Even you O' Messenger of Allah? And the Prophet replied: Even
me, except that Allah has helped me against him and he has submitted.
Now he only tells me to do good" [11]. Because the Qareen is with a
person all his life, it knows all that has happened to the person
from the cradle to the grave. By making contact with the Qareen, the
fortune-teller is thus able to make out that it is he who knows about
the person. He looks in his crystal ball or the palm of a person and
proceeds to amaze him with knowledge which no one else knows[12]. The
severity of going to a fortune-teller is such that the Prophet (saws)
said: "The prayer of one who approaches a fortune-teller and asks him
about anything, will not be accepted for forty days or nights" [13]
and: "Whosoever approaches a fortune-teller and believes in what he
says, has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammed" [14]

The effects of the Jinn are not just limited to fortune-tellers.
Other activities such as oujia boards and seances, which are used to
contact the dead, are manipulated by the Jinn. 'Are you there
Charlie? Speak to us Charlie!!' are the sort of words spoken by
anxious relatives (names are obviously different!) seeking to make
contact with their loved ones. And it is when the Jinn starts to talk
and communicate as 'Charlie', that the people are truly fooled[15].