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A Jinn is a supernatural spirit below the level of angels and devils.I have see the word Jinn occasionally spoken of. Please explain what Jinn is.
Yes .. they can be righteous or not in the same way as humans.So, where would Djinn be in relation to demons? Do Djinn have free will?
Would you say that Djinn are closer to human or angel?
It means hidden being, and it refers to the class of creation that occupies the unseen world connected to us.
By definition it includes Angels, but this got lost in history overtime, despite Quran being clear that Iblis was once an Angel and was only one of the Angels who didn't prostrate to Adam and disobeyed God because he was of the Jinn.. meaning he wanted representatives of God to be among his species and not a human.
The Quran shows those deemed gods would be Angels, but those they are connected to are not only not gods they aren't Angels eithers, they are Jinn, and particularly the offspring of Iblis and his tribe were being called upon. The Arabs hence were worshiping the Devil and jinn under him, nothing to do with sons or daughters of God as they claimed.
The so called intercessors had no proof from either scripture form or any miracles from their soothsaying leaders, and so Quran says really most humans worshiped Jinn, and not Angels.
God's Angels of course the chosen from Angels, and those are the ones we have to believe in, like Human Messengers being chosen, we have to believe in their protection from God.
A huge proof of this is Quran says they make Angels into daughters of God but elsewhere said they attributed lineage to the Jinn.
So put it together, and it's obvious, everywhere Jinn and Angels are talked about, Angels are the saints of Jinn, and God chooses from Angels (subgroup) his close drawn Angels.
It's only the chosen Angels who can't fall and are guaranteed guidance.
Curious.... Is the spectrum of supernaturallity a line between human and Angel/demon?
As far as I know, jinn and angels are separate creation.If I understand this right, G-d created the Djinn (or is it Jinn??) first?
OK, I had to google Iblis because that's not a name I know as a Jew.
If I understand this right, G-d created the Djinn (or is it Jinn??) first?
And from among their number G-d took the good Djinn and elevated them to Angels
and the evil Djinn became demons and the ones in-between, who are most like
us, stayed Djinn with I imagine their own society and culture? Or are all Djinn in one
camp or the other now?
That is interesting, and AFAIK even Kabbalah doesn't mention how exactly the
Angels were created. It's only known they were created first. 'Heaven then Earth'.
No, not that....Iblis caused a rift and argument in the high council (Angels).
No, not that..
Iblees is a jinn who worshipped with the angels. They are both created from non-matter, and that is where what they have in common stops.
Jinn are similar to humans in as much as they have free-will.
Just as humans can be extremely pious, so can jinn.
Iblees was extremely pious, and worshipped along with the angels.
However, when G-d created humans, he asked the angels to all bow down to Adam. They all did .. EXCEPT Iblees .. he was not an angel and claimed that he was superior to mankind so he wasn't going to obey.
In other words his pride caused his downfall, and he asked for a reprieve [ granted ], but vowed to G-d that he would oppose mankind and cause their destruction through envy.
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..and G-d decreed regular remembrance of G-d would save them from the destruction that satan was orchestrating
i.e. taking mankind to hell along with satan
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Most Christians think that lucifer/ibless was/is an angel.
The Qur'an says otherwise.
Furthermore, it makes a lot of sense.
If angels were not the perfect "sons of G-d", then why should we have any reason to believe what they say?
Hence, maybe angel Gabriel made "mistakes" etc. etc.
I'm afraid that it doesn't make sense to me, no.Iblis was an Angel, but he wasn't one of his chosen ones. I hope that makes sense..
Jinn and angels are both invisible to humans.Why doesn't Quran talk about creation of Angels? Whenever it mentions Angels, it talks about creation of Jinn. This should suffice that Angels are subgroup of Jinn.
Jinn and angels are both invisible to humans.
There exist amongst all three, those that read the Qur'an.
Yeah but when it emphasizes on Angels for example in Surah Hjir, it then goes into creation of Jinn. It doesn't talk about creation of Angels. It's obvious to me why.