The word "jinn" comes from the Arabic trilateral root "ja-na-na", which means to hide or to conceal, an apt description for beings that are kept hidden from human vision, existing in a parallel ...

But that’s not at all how things started for genies… What we see in Aladdin doesn’t reflect the pre-Islamic Arabian origins of genies, or “jinn,” and “djinn,” which date back to at ...

Genies (or jinn, as they are better known in the Arabic world) are supernatural beings with roots in ancient Mesopotamian legends. Jinn, however, are not the lamp-dwelling, wish-granting ...

But they exist in a parallel universe. We can’t see them (the word “jinn” itself comes from the Arabic root word which means “hidden from sight”) but they can see us. What they have in ...

Dear Scholars, unfortunately, I do not speak Arabic, and there are not many translated Hadith books in my country. I wish to ask you today about a hadith in which it is related that the Prophet, ...