SHIRK, BIDDAH & STUPIDITY

There are a few intellectuals and religious scholars (Aalims) who wrongly consider conjurors and
magicians as having control over Jinns who help them in their magical works. The magicians perform
many tricks; they lift things or any girl up in the air, virtually without any support. Sometimes a magician
raises his hand in the air and fetches sweets or money. The intellectuals, impressed by the tricks have
mentioned in their books that these things happen with the help of Jinn or Shaitan which is absurd and
without any proof. I am more surprised that a few Muslim intellectuals and religious preachers also
subscribe to this view of Jinn or Shaitan doing these tricks or magic; rather they (the magicians) take the
help of big mirrors, sheets of glasses and boxes having many bottoms and invisible screens and wires in
order to create virtual hallucinations.

Indias greatest magician, PC Sarkar has himself acknowledged that he doesnt know any spell nor does
he has any control over any super natural power. Once he made Taj Mahal vanish in front of the people.
On the stage he serves the head of a boy or a girl and then joins it with the body. All these tricks were
performed by the tricks of his hands and not at all with the help of Jinn or Shaitan.

Those who bring sweets or money in front of the people instantly actually befool them. It is a trick and
no Jinn or Shaitan helps them. Those who claim that Jinn or Shaitan is under their control are liars,
frauds and cheaters. Those who believe them are stupid. The power to control Jinn was only given to
Prophet Sulaiman (A.S.) by Allah and to none.

It can be observed that those who perform such tricks even accept small amounts from the people. Had
they had supernatural powers and also control over Jinns they would easily have got huge amount of
money with the help of Jinns and could have lived a life of luxury. Where was the need to demand
money from the spectators?

It is noteworthy that if such magicians had Jinns in their control, then why do they not find out an
abducted child or hand over thieves, murderers and culprits to the government? Why do not they
punish the enemies of Muslim by bringing them in their front with the help of Jinns?

A few Muslim religious scholars and intellectuals have written in their books that quite often some
people see their dead relatives and hear the voice of relatives, male and female. They believe that it is
the Jinn who take the form of the dead relatives to appear as such and it even speaks in the voice of the
deceased. Actually it never happens when the so called jinn appear in front of a group of people or
many people together listen to the voice of a deceased person. Only a lonely individual sees his
deceased relative and hears his voice.

All these claims by the scholars are utterly wrong and baseless. In fact, the lone individual; who claims to
have seen the face of his/her deceased relative or have heard the voice of the dead man/woman is a liar
or is suffering from a mental illness. I have already explained in my book that such a person is suffering
from VISUAL HALLUCINATION, which is a kind of mental illness or AUDITORY HALLUCINATION, which too
is a mental disease which leads the patient to see his/her dead relative and hear his/her voice.
Sometimes the patient of these illnesses visualize that his neighbor will kill him or he is being abused.
The general public thinks that jinn or Shaitan appears taking the form of a dead relative and talks in the
voice of the deceased. Such belief is not proved either by the Glorious Quran or the Authentic
Ahadeeth, nor does the medical science accept it as true.
There is not a single verse of the Glorious Quran which proves that a Jinn can possess a
man/woman/child so as to make them mad. There is no Authentic Ahadeeth to prove that Prophet
Muhammad (saw) had ever got rid of any possessed person of jinn. Wrong interpretation of the Glorious
Quran, wrong conclusions of Ahadeeth, fabricated Ahadeeth, ijtihadi errors and old views of the
forefathers (aslaf) etc are used to propagate the aforesaid wrong beliefs.

When the religious scholars could not prove their beliefs of jinn possessing humans by the Quran and
Authentic Ahadeeth, they took the help of the Bible which says that Jesus (A.S.) ordered bad spirits to
come out of a person and these spirits left that persons body and entered into the bodies of pigs, which
were eventually drowned in a river.

We Muslims cannot follow the Bible when we have the Quran to follow. There have been made several
changes in the Bible and other heavenly books. The priests have been altering the contents of the Bible
from time to time according to their whims.

No doubt, Jesus (A.S.) had the power to give sight to a blind person and cure a sick person having
leprosy and other diseases by the will of Allah. During his time, about 2000 years ago, people considered
mad persons to be possessed by jinn. Such belief is rampant even today. Just imagine what would have
been the scenario 2000 years ago when Jesus (A.S.) cured a mad person by the will of Allah, people
thought that jinn or bad spirit has been expelled from the mad person.

As mentioned earlier, the belief of jinn having power to possess a person, and make him/her mad is a
misleading belief which weakens EEMAN of a true Muslim. This belief leads to Shirk and Biddah and
people become superstitious by believing in the powers of some other creatures forgetting that every
good or bad occurs due to the will of Allah. Instead of seeking refuge in Allah, people, even Muslims,
tend to believe in the power of Aamils, soothsayers, etc. Most of the books about Jinn possessing
persons or magic, whether written by old or new scholars are filled with Shirk and Biddah, which must
be avoided and rejected.

Due to these beliefs, thousands throng to the Mazars or graves to cure themselves or relatives of jinn
possession, where only Shirk is performed and yet they, who are actually mentally ill do not get cured.
In India, many people visit the temples of gods or goddesses to expel the jinn from a mental patient.

It is incumbent upon us Muslims to propagate the correct beliefs which are proved by the Glorious
Quran and Authentic Ahadeeth. Our religious scholars who keep mum in spite of Shirk being practiced
in front of their eyes should speak out the truth or else they shall face the wrath of Almighty Allah. They
should abandon their worldly considerations and muster enough courage to speak the truth. I appeal to
all my readers to try their level best to end Shirk and Biddah arising out of wrong belief of Jinn
possessing humans. They should spread the teachings of the Quran and the Ahadeeth to all and sundry.