My write-up “Is Physical Intimacy Possible Between A Human And Jinn?” Published in this Weekly has lit a spark of doubt in some minds and a few have raised some queries. One gentleman asked me, “have you ‘seen’ a Jinn?”. I jokingly replied, hundreds are around me, who knows you are not the one?
Anyway, I would like to make it clear that if you don’t believe what I said or what I say, noone forces you to believe what you don’t want to believe. In 2002 A. D. I penned a book on this very subject which was published with the title “Knotty Mysteries”.
Multiple things are wrapped in mysteries. There are many realities beyond human comprehension. Man has been making gusses at such incomprehensible matters. Where he could not reach, what he could not determine and what he could not answer, there he resorted to proverbial conclusion of “Grapes Are Sour”!
What actually is the reality of a Jinn or a ghost?
Nothing can be claimed with certitude. Some people believe that a ghost means a supposed apparition of a dead person or animal. It dramatically appears in a nebulous image and is disembodied spirit. Some are of the opinion that Jinn has the power to appear in human and animal forms. There are also instances where a man was sure that ghosts haunt about.
But some doctors firmly deny that any Jinn can captivate a human, though they believe in their existence and say it a part of their faith. While some categorically dismiss their existence.
It was 1987, when I and Dr. Mansoor Sahib (Presently HOD of Urdu Department in Kashmir University) jointly interviewed a prominent and leading Psychiatrist (HOD Psychiatry at that time) named Dr. Abdul Ahad Beg (who departed us in his young age. May Allah bestow His Special Favours upon him). He strongly denied that a human is possessed by a Jinn. Nevertheless, he didn’t deny existence of Jinn. He was a God-fearing man.
While replying to one of our questions, Dr. Beg said, “fear complex is a dangerous thing. Fear is a self imposed situation. It gets developed from the very childhood and parents are squarely responsible for such unpleasant feelings. It is they who creat such fears into the minds of their children, as a consequence the whole life of a child is marred by fright. Actually, parents dodge their children by diverting attention towards unseen and terrifying things. Such stupid tricks generally result in serious psychiatric problem. At times, this results neurosis. The victim talks rubbish, irrelevant and vulgar; or at times, talks to himself or herself, so the people presume them possessed by a Jinn. This is absolutely an absurd assertion. Jinns and ghosts have no reality in terms of possession.”
When we asked Dr. Beg, If the existence of Jinn is just a hallucination or superstition, and human being possessed by any evil spirit is not true, how then a human being suffering from such a trouble, does amazing things? How does he get extraordinary strength, as we generally witness such things in such a victim/patient?
He replied in detail and said, “in normal conditions the manifestation of human reaction and treatment is, infact, the evolutionary state of his animal instinct. There remains always a tension between Ed, Ego and Super Ego within a man. Each of the three tries to overpower each other.”
But there are strong reasons to believe that Psychiatry is a different issue and possession of Jinn a separate problem.
In the third week of July 1999, a report broadcast from “Sheherbeen” programme, Radio Kashmir, Srinagar revealed the mysterious incidents of fire in which only the clothes of a particular house would burn. That had caused panic in the house and the owner of the house and his family fled.
I also remember a news broadcast from All India Radio, New Delhi and carried by leading dailies in 2001 A. D. telling about the sensational event of Anand Sarkar Junior when he with his magical powers made Taj Mahal disappear in presence of a large number of people.
People interested in the “genii world”, claim demons live in cavities and near springs. Towns and graveyards are said habitat of Satans. Ghosts dwell in places where waste blood is stagnant. Some Jinns called ‘Zwabeh’ are present in gaseous substances like air. Big devils are near fire. Some fiends called ‘Tawaqeef’ opt usually for womanish form and love to stay near poplar trees, orchards, mountains and deserted places.
On 28th of July, 1996, a news was published in an English daily “Kashmir Times” with the caption “Paradise In The Mountains”. It may sound interesting to reproduce that news here:
“Recently, a tourist named Lotus visited the Ladakh region.” Telling about his experiences Lotus said, “by the way, the Nimboo hills have a beautiful lake that is worshipped by the local people. The lake is a window to the world as one can see just anything in it. No two persons can see the same thing.” He added, “for the sake of skeptics, this author can swear by such strange ‘seeing’. I could see in it, apart from many other places, my own village and a few monasteries outside Ladakh, which I had never visited”.
Another story from the very ‘Kashmir Times’
Dateline: 22-6-1996.
Heading: Fear Stalks Sainik Colony Family’
The news ran:
“Unbelievable but true, the family members of Capt. D. N. Sharma, residing in the city’s Sainik Colony area, are reeling under the impact of what they believe is witchcraft. The family members have not slept for the last two days and the people continued to throng their house in Sector G to see the mystery. Terrorized and confused 11 year old Nitin, the younger son of the ex-defence personnel Sharma, was the first member of the family who observed his clothes torn. He showed them to his father, his elder brother and his sister. They did not believe. They scolded the boy and told him that the clothes had probably been torn out by a mouse. It was the beginning of the unfortunate event in the family. According to the family members, the process started two days ago but its effect was observed increasingly yesterday morning. By now, the invisible shadow has torn almost all the clothes, bed sheets, sofa sets, pillows, mats and everything found in the house. ”
It was June 2000 AD. A little girl in Baramulla, Kashmir, discharged stones from her nostrils, ears and mouth. The news appeared in the Daily ‘Greater Kashmir’. Doctors proved of no avail. Faith-healers proved helpless. One and a half month passed, during which the girl paased almost 10 kgs of stones of varying sizes.
Then again July 2, a bottom story appeared in the same daily, revealing that the said 11 year old girl has now completely recovered. Her parents told the correspondent of ‘Greater Kashmir’, who visited them, that it was a blessing from Almighty Allah that a renowned ‘Peer’ from North Kashmir visited Baramulla and he gave them a ‘Tawiz’ (talisman) for their daughter which finally cured her.
What I narrated above, are not invented ideas but true stories. True, there are many questions which have no answers.