Decoding Jinns

So one of my latest obsessions are Jinns (genies), so like any other child of the revolution age I accessed the great encyclopaedia that be Google to learn more. While browsing Google in the hope of finding some thing relevant I stumbled upon a few Islam bashing websites who rejected Islam simply because of its inherent belief in the concept of Jinns. Needless to say this pissed me off hence this blog.

The websites seemed to believe that Islam forces its followers to believe in childish concepts of fairies and genies, beings we can not see and therefore must not exist. Though no one stopped to think for a minute that regardless of the religion you believe in you have the concept of a God who no one can see and satan who is invisible as well. Perhaps the Christian school of thought behind these websites believed that they did in fact meet with god when he revealed himself to the world in the form of Jesus. Well why would god come down for a short period of time to hang out with a bunch of peasants who were brutalised by the Romans? If indeed Jesus was god in a human body would he still not be powerful enough to unleash hell upon the paganistic Roman empire? and why would he deny us the benefit of his teachings in this day and age where we have progressed to such a point that people often reject long held religious beliefs as being out dated? Surely if there is a time for god to manifest himself in human form it is today.

Further in the debate the website seemed to suggest that Islam's belief in Jinns and its challenge to test certain hypothesis is completely ridiculous as we can not see the Jinns therefore have no way of authenticating such accounts therefore the Quran is a badly written lie. I ask you this what is the Trinity? can you explain it to me? no Christian has yet been able to reconcile this concept of three gods, further how can you justify the Bible being the ultimate book of verse when you yourselves are not sure of it authenticity. There is the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Book of Revelations, the list goes on The exact composition of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations. So how can we verify its authenticity?

Man has always been some what cautious to accept what he can not see, yet all the major religions in the world believe in a god that one can not see much less phantom. Perhaps it is fear that keeps us from accepting that there may be creatures or beings out there we can not see, for if there exist such creatures can you imagine what havoc they may unleash in our world?

Yet all of us have a concept of god; Christians believe in the Trinity, Hindus in idols and Muslims in Allah.. other than the Hindus who seem to fashion their gods from clay and sand none of us can see our god when we pray to him so why should the existence of genies, ghost, fairies, ghouls and monsters be so far fetched? We were put to bed with stories about genies, magic lamps, fairies and ghosts so why do we reject them as being unworldly? why is it that we credit people and they're creative imagination with coming up with such exotic creatures perhaps there was a time when fairies, genies, etc were seen regularly walking the forests and served as inspiration. Why is it that we find fairies in plays written by Shakespeare and other notable writers? Were they mad or simply high perhaps they're just creative but the question still exists what served as inspiration for these creatures? surely there must have been some worldly beast that pointed them towards neverland.

Islam speaks of creating Jinns from smokeless fire and angels from light and I've heard many a Christian wish upon a star or claiming that they saw an angel.. umm ok I've never saw an angel and you were half drunk when you did see one how do I know it was an authentic sighting? or even if they exist? It is blind faith and it is this very concept that keeps us tethered to religion.



Next week more on Jinns and their world...