In the Name of Allāh, the Ever Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy
The Existence of Jinn and Their Interaction with Humans
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:
The existence of jinn is an established matter based upon the Qurʾān, the Sunnah, and the consensus (ijmāʿ) of the Salaf of this Ummah and its Imāms. Likewise, the matter of jinn entering the human body is also established by consensus according to Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamāʿah. Allāh says:
Those who consume ribā will not stand except as one stands who is beaten by Shayṭān into madness. Sūrat al-Baqarah, 2:275.
In the Ṣaḥīḥ, it is narrated from the Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) that he said:
إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَجْرِي مِنِ ابْنِ آدَمَ مَجْرَى الدَّمِ
“Indeed, Shayṭān flows through the human body as blood flows.”
ʿAbdullāh, the son of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, said: “I asked my father, ‘Some people say that Shayṭān does not enter the body of one afflicted (with possession), is that so?’ He replied, ‘My son, they are lying. This one (the afflicted person) speaks through his tongue.'”
“… There is no one among the Muslim Imāms who denies that jinn can enter the bodies of humans and others. If someone denies this or claims that the religion declares it false, then he has lied in the name of the Sharīʿah. There is no evidence in the Sharīʿah that negates this.”
Reference: Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā
Translated by Abū Dilāra Naief al-ʿAydarūs.
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