The jinn have interested me for quite awhile, are they aliens? Maybe, it depends on what we think extraterrestrials are, coming from another demission
I think would qualify
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The Chief Characteristics of the Jinn's are:
1. In the normal state they are not visible to ordinary human sight.
2. They are, however, capable of materializing and appearing in the physical world. And they can alternately make themselves visible or invisible at
will.
3. They can change shape, and appear in any sort of guise, large or small.
4. They are able also to appear in the guise of animals.
5. They are inveterate liars and deceivers, and delight in bamboozling and misleading mankind with all manner of nonsense. (See the average
Spiritualist s�ance for examples of their activities, and also the usual "communications" from UFO entities in close-encounter cases.)
6. They are addicted to the abduction or kidnapping of humans. (The Scotsman Robert Kirk, who wrote "The Secret Commonwealth" in 1691, evidently
"knew more than was good for his health," and was killed by them.)
7. They delight in tempting humans into sexual intercourse and liaisons with them, and Arabic literature abounds with accounts of this kind of contact
by mankind with both the "goodies" and the "baddies" among the Jinn's. There are also even a considerable number of accounts of encounters
between the "goodies" and famous Muslim saints.
In official Islam - and this cannot be overemphasized -- the existence of the Jinn's has always been completely accepted, even legally, and even to
this day, in Islamic jurisprudence. The full consequences implied by their existence were worked out long ago. Their legal status, in all respects,
was discussed and fixed, and the possible relations between them and mankind -- especially in relation to questions of marriage and property! -- were
seriously examined by jurists, as the greatest and most authoritative Western source, the Encyclopedia of Islam, confirms. Stories of sexual commerce
between Jinn's and mankind have been of perennial interest to Arab readers, and it is important at this point to mention that in Chinese literature
there is also a considerable tradition of this sort which awaits examination by Ufologists. The great Arabic literary catalogue known as the Fihrist,
compiled in the year 373 of the Muslim Calendar ( = A.D. 995) by Muhammad bin Ishaq bin Abi Ya'qub al-Nadim al-Warraq al-Baghdadi, lists no less than
sixteen works dealing with this theme. (Compare also the European occultists' records of sexual contact between men and female Sylphs, as well as the
copious medieval Christian records relating to Incubi and Succabae. Thanks to Gordon Creighton and Flying Saucer Review Vol. 29, No. 5
EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND THE QUORAN (THE KORAN)