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Jinn are basically the Islamic equivalent of demons. Except, they are not fallen angels or evil spirits of man but rather a being separately created of pure fire. Lucifer, in Islamic lore, wasn’t an angel but a Jinn. Unlike demons, a jinn can be good or bad just like humans as we believe God doesn’t create anything purely evil. Angels are forces purely of good. They have no free will. They only live to serve God. Mankind and Jinn on the other hand have been created to worship God through choice. The Jinn were created first though. And Lucifer was among the most pious of them. So God promoted him to reign over the Angels and made him one with the Archangels in Heaven. It is also important to note here that before the Jinn there was another race of beings known as the B’n. And the good B’n had all died out during the creation of the Jinn and then the evil ones were left behind, preying on each other and devouring each other (think of the Leviathans from Supernatural). The Jinn and Angels were then commanded to destroy the evil B’n left behind. Lucifer was the general of that army of Jinn and Angels along with Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Azriel. After the war, Lucifer was promoted as mentioned above. It was during this time that God created Adam and crowned him as His greatest creation. This made Lucifer jealous. All in Heaven, including Lucifer who was now part of Heaven, was ordered to bow down to the image of Adam but Lucifer refused and was thus stripped of his Grace. He was then named Iblis - the One who causes Despair, and he was entitled Shaytan (Satan), the first of the Shayateen (Devils). Following him, many Jinn also became evil and they too became one of the Shayateen. But these are those who chose to do so. Many Jinn today are still good. And they have their own race that thrives in a dimension of their own within this world. Good ones do not interfere in our matters but the ones influenced by Satan do. They can make deals with people in exchange for their souls (this is where the concept of a genie fulfilling three of one’s wishes come from). The Jinn can also be of many species such as the Daeva (they use their supernatural powers to trick people into thinking they’re gods; all pagan gods are thought to be Daevas deceiving people at the command of Satan; they are very strong); Afrit (they can give you power and wealth in exchange for your soul); the Marid (they can give you knowledge in exchange for your soul: knowledge like the future or past of a certain person or what a person is doing right now, etc; we believe fortune-tellers and diviners use them and thus a Muslim is advised not to even go near such people); the Jain (they resemble dogs and work for the Afrit; think hellhounds); the Ghoul (these prey on dead bodies of people whose funeral rites have not been fulfilled properly by a priest; they consume them and can take the form of the corpse they have eaten); the Vetala (they possess people, torture their souls and drain their life-force at the command of Satan); the Sila (they are reptilian in appearance but can shed their skin to take the form of a human of their choosing; think Shapeshifters); the Kaboos or Al-Jathoom or Al-Khaaniq (they prey on their victims while they’re asleep, trying to strange them or sexually molest them; think Incubus/Succubus) and the Shiqq (these are unintelligent foot soldiers of the Afrit who look like charred corpses akin to hellspawns). Of course, only the Jinn who are of the Shayateen use their powers as described above. We don’t know how the good ones of the above mentioned species use their abilities. Also, not only the Jinn but a human can also become of the Shayateen through certain methods that grant them the skills of black magic, witchcraft and sorcery.
Jinn are basically the Islamic equivalent of demons. Except, they are not fallen angels or evil spirits of man but rather a being separately created of pure fire. Lucifer, in Islamic lore, wasn’t an angel but a Jinn. Unlike demons, a jinn can be good or bad just like humans as we believe God doesn’t create anything purely evil. Angels are forces purely of good. They have no free will. They only live to serve God. Mankind and Jinn on the other hand have been created to worship God through choice. The Jinn were created first though. And Lucifer was among the most pious of them. So God promoted him to reign over the Angels and made him one with the Archangels in Heaven. It is also important to note here that before the Jinn there was another race of beings known as the B’n. And the good B’n had all died out during the creation of the Jinn and then the evil ones were left behind, preying on each other and devouring each other (think of the Leviathans from Supernatural). The Jinn and Angels were then commanded to destroy the evil B’n left behind. Lucifer was the general of that army of Jinn and Angels along with Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Azriel. After the war, Lucifer was promoted as mentioned above. It was during this time that God created Adam and crowned him as His greatest creation. This made Lucifer jealous. All in Heaven, including Lucifer who was now part of Heaven, was ordered to bow down to the image of Adam but Lucifer refused and was thus stripped of his Grace. He was then named Iblis - the One who causes Despair, and he was entitled Shaytan (Satan), the first of the Shayateen (Devils). Following him, many Jinn also became evil and they too became one of the Shayateen. But these are those who chose to do so. Many Jinn today are still good. And they have their own race that thrives in a dimension of their own within this world. Good ones do not interfere in our matters but the ones influenced by Satan do. They can make deals with people in exchange for their souls (this is where the concept of a genie fulfilling three of one’s wishes come from). The Jinn can also be of many species such as the Daeva (they use their supernatural powers to trick people into thinking they’re gods; all pagan gods are thought to be Daevas deceiving people at the command of Satan; they are very strong); Afrit (they can give you power and wealth in exchange for your soul); the Marid (they can give you knowledge in exchange for your soul: knowledge like the future or past of a certain person or what a person is doing right now, etc; we believe fortune-tellers and diviners use them and thus a Muslim is advised not to even go near such people); the Jain (they resemble dogs and work for the Afrit; think hellhounds); the Ghoul (these prey on dead bodies of people whose funeral rites have not been fulfilled properly by a priest; they consume them and can take the form of the corpse they have eaten); the Vetala (they possess people, torture their souls and drain their life-force at the command of Satan); the Sila (they are reptilian in appearance but can shed their skin to take the form of a human of their choosing; think Shapeshifters); the Kaboos or Al-Jathoom or Al-Khaaniq (they prey on their victims while they’re asleep, trying to strange them or sexually molest them; think Incubus/Succubus) and the Shiqq (these are unintelligent foot soldiers of the Afrit who look like charred corpses akin to hellspawns). Of course, only the Jinn who are of the Shayateen use their powers as described above. We don’t know how the good ones of the above mentioned species use their abilities. Also, not only the Jinn but a human can also become of the Shayateen through certain methods that grant them the skills of black magic, witchcraft and sorcery.