Demonic Possession (An Introduction)

Allah (swt) says in the Holy Quran:
“(All) praise is (due) to Allah, Lord of the
worlds”
(TMQ-1:2)
The word ‘worlds’ refers to the world in which
live, the world above us, i.e. heaven and all
that lies in between. Our world is inhabited by
human beings whereas the angels live in the
heaven. The remaining spiritual entities, such
as the jinnat, demons or evil spirits exist in the
world in-between our world and the heaven.
For those who have a strong faith no proof or
explanation is needed to convince them about
these spiritual entities and for those who lack
faith, no amount of proof would ever be
sufficient.
Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said,
“When the wings of the night spread-or when
evening comes- keep your children in, for the
devils come out at that time. Then when part of
the night has passed, let them go. And close
the doors and mention the name of Allah, for
the Satan does not open a closed door. And tie
up your water skins and mention the name of
Allah and cover your vessels and mention the
name of Allah even if you only put something
over them, and extinguish your lamps”.
(Narrated by Al-Bukhari-3280 and Muslim-2012)
This hadith shows that the evil entities become
active after the sunset. This is because such
entities are forms of dark energies and they
need darkness and also stillness of air in order
to materialize and become fully powerful.
The evil spirits and jinnat inhabit mostly these
places:
Desolate places ruins
Unclean places such as toilets, garbage dumps,
dunghills
Graveyards
Generally, such wandering spirits do not harm
human beings. However, there are times when
they fear encroachment on their territories by
us. At other times they fear being overridden by
us. It is in such cases that they tend to attack
a human being to take revenge. There is no
dearth of cases where the resident spirits try to
ward off people to guard their privacy. In one
such case, people have experienced in a
haunted building- cold spots, strange voices
and inability to ascend a particular stair case
due to some inexplicable force.
In general terms, the word ‘possess’ means to
hold as property or to occupy. However, in our
topic of discussion the word ‘possessed’ means
being under the influence of a spirit. There is
evidence of being possessed and maddened by
evil entities in the Holy Quran.
“Allah (swt) says in the Holy Quran:
Those who eat Riba (usury) wil not stand (on
the Day of Resurrection) except like standing of
a person beaten by Satan, leading him to
madness”. (TMQ-2:275)
When a person is possessed by a spirit it is
likely to drive him to insanity because the spirit
takes his mind totally under his control. If the
spirit is devilish then it can spread evil
through the person who is possessed. In such a
case it is hardly surprising that the one who is
possessed loses his sanity totally.
In the subsequent posts I shall probe into this
topic further and I shall be dealing with its
various facets and also its cure, Inshallah.
Keep Me In Your Prayers,
M. Zeeshan Haider
amel_mzh786@yahoo.in

Posted by Editorial Team on 02:12 in evil, graveyard, jinnat, powerfull, spirit