What are the Jinn? 

Legend has it that a jinn cannot be without its tonic

Gin and jinn are pronounced the same way. Both are spirits in a bottle.

As a Muslim i am so happy to see someone that put so much effort to search and understand something so deeply connected to our culture and religion and treating our views on it with so much respect, this video is just top notch.

Stories about the jin always give me the chills

There's this famous story my mom keeps telling about a group of women in Kuwait who's job is to bang on drums, not sure what the right term is, but one day these women were invited by a family to make some noise in their wedding, the women ofcourse accepted the offer and went there, they noticed that the groom and the bride wore different kind of clothing, it was colorful and very out of this world but the women didn't care about it and thought this was a tradition, and things got weirder as they celebrated for hours past midnight when the family started hopping as they were dancing, and what they saw was not feet but hoofs, the women quickly fled out of the house in a frightening way as an old man approached them outside and asked them "what are you doing inside that ruined house" the women turned around and noticed the house was abandoned long ago, the old man told them about the jinn that lived there and how they were causing a lot of noise. Sorry for the bad vocabulary, I hope I made the story clear.

Jinn: I shall grant you 3 wishes Me: I wish for a world without lawyers Jinn: Done, you have no more wishes Me: But you said 3 Jinn: Sue me.

am just so proud of you for your pronunciation for Arabic, specially with the Ghul most foreigners could never say this pronounce of the "g", this shows you doing great job with your researches and although everything else about the video is historically correct it's not just some stupid foreign based shallow knowledge on the middle east mythology or religion nah you actually do the work with precision and that's a Quality content for me.

In Pakistan we have heard so many stories of Jinns and how to avoid them. Jinns are said to be prevalent in Sweet shops (Mithai shops) and Milk shops. I was also taught to always throw out bones from food like chicken etc because they are one of the favourite foods of Jinns. I have also heard and keep hearing to not stand under a tree at the time of maghrib because of non believing mischevious Jinns. One more thing I can remember is to stand in corridors and hallways during maghrib prayer time as Jinns also use them and sometimes they get angry that someone is standing in the way and they hit them. There are many more stories that everyone hears all the time

Years ago when I was teaching in Saudi Arabia, a friend and I drove deep into the desert. The full moon enchanted us to get lost in an ancient riverbed. Hours later, we finally spotted our car. A group of bedouins were circling our campfire. We shouted "salam aleikum" three times, but nobody answered. Feeling uneasy, we got closer. The men turned into rocks and bushes...a desert mirage! Later, my Saudi students mooted it was no mirage; we probably had met a band of afreet or jinns, and my boys weren't joking.

The Chinese word 精 is pronounced exactly the same as Jinn and means pretty much the same. It could mean spirit, energy, soul, essence, etc. When combined with other words, 精 could also mean alluring (evil or enchanting) spirit/ghost.

I can't overstate just how cool I find the idea of religious jinn, particularly the idea of Christian and Jewish jinn! Lots of great info here, amazing stuff!

Fantastic! Folklore cannot, and should not, be disregarded. Listening to your stories reminds me that at certain point in time we were all sitting in front of a bonfire, listening to stories (i.e. the explanations of things...) Thanks so much for your stories!

Fun fact: If you watched Clash of the Titans, in the desert, the weird creatures that saved them from the giant scorpions were actually "Jins" and they spoke classical Arabic.

Surat an-Jinn is one of my favorite things about the Quran - it's an entire sura talking about the religious status of non-human intelligences. This feels so relevant to our modern age, as we develop things like AI.

Thanks so much for a great video - learnt a lot!!

I must say I love the accuracy of your pronunciation of the Arabic words 😊

I used to go on Reddit and read stories of American soldiers encounters with Jinn while roaming the desert of Iraq

My Berber North African grandmother told me that Jinns prefer dirty unclean areas. They often like to reside near a body of water, ponds, creeks and rivers. They like to move around at night and they are very very active at dusk. They can turn into humans or animals . She said if you see a frog with the markings on its back resembles the shape of 2 arabic letters together “lam” & “alif” ( لا ), run forest run ! 😂

Beautifully researched , and great presentation.

Great video, thanks for your time!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="490">8:10</a> not to make any confusion, iblis in islam is 100% jinn, but he was in the presence of angels when god created our father adam because iblis was said to be very righteous before that instance

So if you're being lured in a romantic way to the Moroccan desert it's always important to look at her feet.

I could say that you covered all the aspects of Gin and all information needed about this topic which is really fascinating carry on bro 👏

Salaam Wilaykum! Good stuff bro thank you for this! Learn something new everyday. Alhamdulilloah!

There's another interesting category of Jinn called "Qarin". I'm not sure whether it is a widely accepted concept in other islamic cultures, but it is said that Qarin is a type of Jinn that's accompanying men since birth until the time of their death (quite a similar concept with Daemons in greek mythology). In Islam, It is believed that human soul resides in another realm after death in the spirit world and not wandering around as ghosts. Hence many islamic scholars/spiritual teachers here leaning towards the theory that the presumed dead spirits/ghosts are the Qarins that took the shape of their human counterparts instead of the human spirit themselves.

Jinns are “present” throughout Africa as well, this is a pre-Islamic thing, probably across the world.

Your videos are so open minded, I love it!!

I have to say i absolutely love the background!!!

I am a Muslim and I want to say that this video is very fascinating as well as informative. Keep up the good content. There are many things which I didn't know earlier like the different categories of Jinns but now I know.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="772">12:52</a> I don't think that the reason why the prophet asked his companions to avoid that place is because it was inhabited by Djins. First of all, neither the prophets nor his companions were afraid of Djins. The reason is because those places were inhabited by people who disobeyed God and disbelieved their prophet "Saleh", so God sent his wrath upon them. That is why the only time when they had to go through it, the prophet asked his companions to go in a state of fear and submission to God even and seek refuge from Him as His wrath is still upon places like those.

That is a very accurate presentation! 😳😳 Im impressed!

Your voice is so satisfying to listen to.

So we have lots of different “Cin” storties where I am from(Turkey). But this story I heard I cannot forget. Agriculture is a big part of village life in anatolia and during the summer months people mostly went to reap their crops or water the crops before dawn sometimes even midnight, this meant that you had to walk alone in the dark for 15-20 minutes until you reached the fields. So in this particular story a man who lived with his wife and had no children went outside to go to his fields. While he was walking he heard a wedding noice from the distance and this is very weird considering it was a weekday, but he eventually reached the fields and watered his plants. He took the same road back to his house keep in mind it was still dark outside. He was exhausted and kept stopping in between then suddenly he saw the wedding and “the people” also saw him. They invited him to the wedding saying: “you must feel exhausted, come eat and drink with us” to which he couldn’t say no. He sat down and ate of their food and just watched as they were celebrating and dancing. It was getting late and the sun was rising. He just then realized what was happening, when he looked at their feet, it was reversed so this is when he realized they weren’t humans. When he realized this he fell into sleep. When her wife had alerted the other villagers because her husband hadn’t come home(there are lots of wolfs and bears here) they had all begun to search for him, he was later found in the middle of the fields next to the road he took. He was covered in mud and was in shock. The second story: Hamam’s are Turkish bathhouses and we have specific streets in each city filled with hamam’s. So this one takes place in one of them. One day a man was walking down hamamstreet and he had this sudden urge of going to a hamam. He went inside and bought the ticket from the only worker. then went through the inside door where you get your specific hamam cloth after that he changed and went inside. It was packed inside so he decided first to lay down a bit on the big heated stone in the middle of the hamam. So after a while of staying in there he realized something off with the people in there. Their feet were reversed and this made him wary of his situation, he went and changed back into his clothes and went as fast as possible to the worker of the hamam. He said that there were “cin’s” inside and they were bathing. To which the worker replied how do you know that they are cin’s, he said that their feet were reversed. The worker than said calmly “Look at my feet was it just like this”. It indeed was like that. The man was scared and quickly left the building, he kept running without looking back until he found some people on the next street to show them the building. So he took them to the street, then to the specific building. From the outside it looked normal, but the hamam was closed. Then the people who had followed him said that this building was originally a Hamam but was out of use for a long time. They later called the police and opened the door, they had found a used cloth and bought ticket lying around in the building.

Your channel is wildly underrated. Other channels with similar formats have a million subs, and not even half as captivating.

Extremely interesting!! Thank you!

You missed major part from the Quran on Jinns...Allah talks about Prophet Sulaiman alaihi salaam was given authority to rule over these creatures

Jinns be like: we live in a society

Great coverage of the subject. Thanks for this

Iblees was not a fallen angel. Angels have no free will. However, he was in the company of the angels, and had high rank. But Allah knew the pride he was hiding inside his heart and exposed it, by ordering him to bow down to Adam. I think some people think this because in the Qur'an, when it mentions the story, the grammar seems to imply that Iblees is an angel, being part of the group which constitutes angels.

I souldn't be watching this at night while about to sleep, alone.

The dark, lightly lit background theme and talking about Jinns.🥶 Clever setup

Great great video.... Thank you for doing this. It was fantastic.

Well done. This is best video for introducing jinns to people.

jin can fall in love with humans and make their love lives miserable from jealousy... maybe thats why ur still single 🤔

By the way, one interesting fact about Jinn or genies is that the word genius is derived from Latin word meaning "guardian deity or spirit", and the Arabic word is pronounced Abqari, the root of this word refers to a valley that was inhabited by Jinn

You doing a really good job by researching islam to tell about jinn. I'm really amazed. Keep up the good work. 👍

wish i'd found this channel sooner. really interesting topics. : )

I really love how we all came from one place, even if none of us know exactly what it is.

This video is really good, great job man! I'm of a bedouin heritage and I remember when I was a kid and we would go camping and when it started to get dark my grandma used to say "Don't wander too far or you might see a ghul." that terrified me tbh lol. As a middle eastern Muslim I assure you we still strongly believe in Jinn, it's because of both religion and culture. We had Jinn stories before Islam and after Islam came. Allah SWT explicitly talked about them in the Quran, so there's no way we would deny it or be skeptic about it.

As Muslim, I must say, it is a very well researched video, very good job and keep it up.

Dude i love you channel

“Smokeless fire” is another way to describe plasma Or electricity!🧐

Wow!! I got chills from listing to you!! I’m from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 and we definitely believe that Jinn exists. My Grandma used to tell us to be carful when we go to an empty place specially if was outside in the desert. In fact they teach us to be careful where to step in and never pour a water or throw trash in an empty place in the desert, because the Jinn kids might be staying there so u don’t want to harm them or they’ll get mad and come after you! And always say the name of god ! Bismillah, or we say peace upon you when we enter an empty place to show them that we came in peace!! Moreover we have a special prayers to say in order to protect us from the evil ones.

I love the vibe you set, so mythical.

I love love your production 💚

I wanted to clarify that the story of the prophet Muhammad passing quickly through Madain Saleh and asking his followers to avoid this location is because it is the place where Qaum Saleh lived(the people whom prophet Saleh was sent to) and they were published by God because of their sins. So the reason of this being "the place is haunted" was never suggested by anyone as far as I know

Magicians use jinn to to perform black magic, and jinns only help them through a binding of a contract. Also known as "selling your soul to the devil." Some rural regions in south Asia consider them as spirits with special power and give offerings to them for luck etc. According to Islamic history, jinns were scared of humans but it was the human who started to give undue reverence to the creatures and took jinns as deities and worshipped them. And the jinns been mischievous began to deceive and played on the misconceptions.

Really great video, well explained

excellent research carried out for the video

one more thing to add is that they live with us but cant see them because they live in a parallel dimension, and can be contacted through supernatural means.

Growing up in the Catholic/ Christian tradition I love learning about subjects like these so much. Great video. Thank you 👍

brilliant video mate. Thank you very much.

When you say jinn predates Islam It's just that Islam didn't start from Muahmmad (saw) it started from Adam

Once when I was deployed to the middle east. We had just arrived at our firing point in the middle of nowhere. While checking my equipment I looked up and saw what looked to me like a "bad guy" in a man dress holding and AK-47 and carrying a briefcase. I smacked my NCO on his shoulder and drew down on the guy, My NCO and I both had this guy in our sights and had flicked off the safety. For whatever reason my eyes got a little blurry just then and I rubbed them. When I looked back I could see that the perceived "bad guy" was one of my buddies who was dressed in a uniform just like mine carrying an M16A2 and an Air Filter from a truck. I yelled WAIT! and then it seems we both snapped out of it. He had seen the same thing I was seeing. I have talked to other veterans who had very similar experiences. We all blamed it on the Jinn. Its probably more likely a mixture of fatigue and your brain finding what you're always looking for on its own.

Wow....this was really educational. I am from Trinidad and Tobago and we have a folklore character that is similar to one of the jinns you described. Although we have a lot of Muslims the character is actually derived from our French and African influences. She is called a La D'ablesse (translated to "devil woman") and pronounced as " la jah bless". She is a beautiful woman who wears white and a very large hat. She walks with a limp and makes a sound when she walks as she has a cow's hoof in place of one of her feet.

Good one mate

Thank you sir. Quite informative

Exceptional presentation! Very well researched. Your professional & academic overview is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your efforts.

Both of your accents are glorious... your English and also your Arabic pronunciations! 🙌🏾👍🏽

Many thanks, that was an excellent lecture, I learnt a lot in thirty minutes.

I enjoyed this video. Thank you!

Had a dream where my mom tried to hand me a necklace that said love and as i was holding it it turned to arabic letters and changed to the word jinn. I looked at my mom and she turned to the scariest thing ive ever seen basically a sadistic dark shadow looking being with hollow eyes and started choking me and the world opened up they tried to drag me down a portal before i woke up. Scariest shiz ever

You truly do your research and detail!!!thank you for educating me on some of your teachings...

Loved every moment of this video

Everything is spot on! I'm very impressed, I just want to point out the part about Madain Saleh when the Prophet PBAH would pass by it he would do what you mentioned but for a different reason it is because it was a place where a past tribe were tortured for a really bad sin they committed so places like this for example the dead sea are places people should avoid because they're places of torture, I would advise anyone reading this to research about the sin committed because honestly I don't want to give out false information.

I can also add: Jinn can also take on the forms of humans and appear to them. In Islam they are responsible for powers of magicians and soothsayers as well. (they make pacts with the magician or soothsayer for giving them stuff basically). They are also responsible for many pagan religions. Humans can also be a shaytan so, that's a thing too.

Although it's origins may be somewhat rooted in Arabia, the interpretation of Jinns as actual creatures is very common in Islamic societies around the globe, especially in Asia, where more than 60% of the worlds Muslim population lives. Many people accept their presence as a part of the reality (driven by real life experiences), not just a myth full of ambiguity.

I hate demons.

Very comprehensive. Thanks for that.

Thanks for this video, plenty of sources 😊

This video deserves one zillion views. Very informative, good job! Keep it up

I like it thank you for your zen voice! Haha. Without screaming of jumping like most your tubers haha. I will share your page 👍❤

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="900">15:00</a> - the collection of these stories , was one of the most popular TV program in India(Alif-laila) from 2000-10. I remember me , my siblings, and my grandparents used to tune the channel (sab-tv) , 5 min before . Even though I am not muslim , i always felt connected to the show😌

you really surprised me wih the amount of information you just threw on this video... i never expected someone from the west to be familiar with the soufi practises in north Africa.. it was a pleasure to listen to you sir

I'm really enjoying your series. Thanks a lot.

Peace be to you (AsSalama'laikum)! I'm a new subscriber! I greatly appreciate you covering this topic. I also appreciate your calm demeanor! I look forward to watching more of your videos! Peace!😊❤☝🏾️📖🕋

Incredibly insightful.

I just discovered your channel. I watched the movie 3000 Years of Longing last night and it sparked my curiosity of Jinn. Thank you for making such quality videos and your voice is perfect; so calm and relaxing. Wonderful.

Thank you very much for the video. It’s very comprehensive and covered the topic perfectly. Keep up the good work.

I'd be scared shitless to talk about the jinn in a dark candle lit room.

Interesting video 👍 A bit surprised you didn’t even mention “i dream of jeannie” the 60s sitcom 😮😃👍

I love this channel ❤❤❤❤

Play it at 1.25 speed You're welcome

Hey just found your channel yesterday, love it, as someone whom is going to school for a minor in history from the 4th-18th century with a focus on religious histories and death history so love this channel! 💜💜

Props dude you even got the pronunciation right

This was an extremely good review of the jann

Thank you, very well presented and ultra informative!

When your grandma finds out you lit all her good candles, she's gonna be pissed!

His pronunciation is so good