+27735329189 King Karim Notation: Please excuse the graphics
for this article. Jinn, being an Islamic tradition, were probably almost never
if ever portrayed in paintings or other artwork, and though it is possible that
some modern works exist, we might just as well provide a picture of a cat, dog
or any monster being. Remember the popular television show,
"I Dream of Jeannie"? Of course, that series was based, at least to
some degree, on the classic book, "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp", about
a genie who would spring from a magic lantern and grant wishes to whomever was
lucky enough to posses the lamp. The Genie that most westerners associate with
magic lantern is actually derived from the jinn, or ginn, which are known
throughout the Arabic, as well as the Muslim world. In Egypt, as well as
elsewhere, the modern concept of jinn have their basis in the Islamic faith.
According to the Quran, Allah created man from clay, angles from light, and
jinn from fire. However, there is little doubt that the belief in jinn, who
themselves are believed to predate Adam, also predates the Quran. In the
pre-Islamic era, they constituted the nymphs and satyrs of the desert, and
during the era that the Quran was written, they were revered as a form of gods.
Yet that was probably not much the case in Egypt. Dynastic Egypt had very
established creation
myths, and after the dynastic
period, Egypt seems to have converted directly from their original pagan
religion (modified for the Greeks
and Romans)
into Christianity. This is
not to say that a few people who immigrated into Egypt might not have bought
jinn folklore with them, but there is no real record of this believe in Egypt
prior to the Arab
invasion. However, once Egyptians did embrace the belief in jinn, they held
it firmly. Some traditions surrounding the jinn refer back to a per-Adamite
period when it was believed to have been inhabited by a race of beings that
were much more powerful then ourselves. Differing accounts refer to forty, or
seventy-two per-Adamite kings, each of whom bore the name of Sulyman (Solomon),
who successively governed these people The last of these Sulymans was named
Jann Ibn-Jann (Gann Ibn-Gann). Some think that the jinn derived there name from
him, and indeed many believe that the jinn, a word sometimes used
interchangeably with jinn, were actually an evolutionary forerunner of the
jinn. During this period of time, the jinn built great cities and their kind
covered the earth. They were in God's favor but thy transgressed and offended
Him, and made wickedness abound on earth, whereupon God sent an army of angels
against them and they were forced to flee Efreets
(ifrit, fem. Ifritah) are almost always listed as a separate class, but
then we have the si'la (treacherous spirits of invariable form), Ghul (Ghoul),
Sheitans (Sheytans), who are evil jinn, Jann, who are a weaker, more primeval
race of jinn, and the most malevolent of the jinn called the Marid. In any
particular reference, all of these class are likely not to be mentioned.+27735329189 Email: infoatpowerfuljinn@gmail.com http://jinnrings.blogspot.co.the regions they once inhabited. Other stories maintain that the jinn refused to bow down to Adam, and this is the rebellion which took place. However, tradition also holds that they will remain on earth after the demise of mankind. Various classes of jinn are said to exist, though finding some conformity on this matter is difficult. For example,
