THE JINN CONT'D

THE JINN WERE CREATED FROM A SMOKELESS FIRE, BUT THEY NO LONGER HAVE THEIR FIERY NATURE. THEY HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM IT BY EATING, DRINKING, PROCREATION AND REPRODUCTION JUST AS THE SONS OF ADAM HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED FROM THEIR EARTHLY ELEMENT IN THEE SAME WAY.

THE ONE WHO WAS CREATED FROM SMOKELESS FIRE WAS THE FATHER OF THE JINN IN THE WAY THAT ADAM, THE FATHER OF MEN, WAS CREATED FROM EARTH. AS FAR AS ALL OTHER JINN ARE CONCERNED, OTHER THAN THEIR FOREFATHER, THEY ARE NOT CREATED FROM ACTUAL SMOKELESS FIRE JUST AS NONE OF THE CHILDREN OF ADAM ARE CREATED FROM ACTUAL EARTH.

THE PROPHET (SAW) SAID THAT HE FELT ON THE 'COOLNESS' OF THE SPITTLE OF THE SHAYTAN WHO APPEARED TO HIM WHILE WAS PRAYING AND HE (SAW) THROTTLED HIM (THE SHAYTAN).

IMAM AHMAD IBN HANBAL RELATES FROM ABU SA'ID AL-KHUDRI THAT THE MESSENGER OF ALLAAH (SAW) GOT UP TO PRAY THE MORNING PRAYER AND I WAS PRAYING BEHING HIM. HE (SAW) RECITED AND BECAME CONFUSED IN HIS (SAW) RECITATION. WHEN HE (SAW) FINISHED THE PRAYER, HE (SAW) SAID; "IF YOU COULD HAVE ONLY SEEN ME GRABBING IBLIS (he is the shaytan and he was of the jinn) AND HOW I KEPT ON THROTTLING HIM UNTIL I FELT THE 'COOLNESS' OF HIS SPITTLE BETWEEN MY THUMB AND INDEX FINGER."

THE JINN EAT AND DRINK AND THEY CHEW AND SWALLOW AS IN THE HADITH OF UMAYYA IBN MAKHSHI TRANSMITTED BY ABU DA'WUD. HE SAID THE SHAYTAN CONTINUED TO EAT WITH HIM AND THEN HE (UMAYYA) MENTIONED THE NAME OF ALLAAH SAYING (bis mi allaah) AND HE (THE SHAYTAN) VOMITED WHAT WAS IN HIS BELLY.

IN SAHIH AL-BUKHARI A HADITH RELATED BY ABU HURAYRAH, THE PROPHET (SAW) COMMANDED HIM TO BRING HIM (SAW) SOME STONES WITH WHICH TO CLEAN HIMSELF WITH AFTER USING THE TOILET. HE (SAW) SAID, "DO NOT BRING BONES OR DUNG". WHEN ABU HURAYRAH ASKED THE MESSENGER OF ALLAAH (SAW) LATER THE REASON FOR THIS, HE (SAW) SAID, "THEY ARE THE FOOD OF THE JINN".

THE PROPHET (SAW) INFORMED US THAT SHAYTAN EATS WITH HIS LEFT HAND AND DE (SAW) COMMANDED US TO DO THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. IMAAM MUSLIM TRANSMITS FROM IBN UMAR THAT THE PROPHET (SAW) SAID; "WHEN ONE OF YOU EATS AND DRINKS, HE SHOULD DO IT WITH HIS RIGHT HAND. THE SHAYTAN EATS AND DRINKS WITH HIS LEFT HAND".