SEANCE OF DECEPTION

In order to ensnare people in their traps of kufr, sometimes the evil jinn at a seance set up an exemplary performance of piety and holiness which deceive not only the simple ones, but even Ulama. The following is an account of a real séance narrated by the Shaafi’ Faqeeh, Shaikh Ahmad Izzuddeen (rahmatullah alayh):
“I knew a man who claimed that with the aid of the jinn he rendered good favours to people. He would help people via a human medium (i.e. a human being in whose body the jinn entered). He contended that he had acquired this power as a consequence of considerable thikr and ibaadat. Someone who claimed to have knowledge of the occult had taught him. I was one day invited by this man to attend a séance where the ‘pious’ jinn would be present.
The deceit practised to ensnare me was that the meeting began with supplications (duas) for maghfirah (forgiveness), and the thikr of La ilaha il lallaah. This fraud is calculated to allay fears and to make one comfortable and believe that the jinn participating are noble spirits. The man sat on a bed. We then started, under direction, to recite prayers of forgiveness, and we engaged in the thikr of La ilaha il lallaah until the man lapsed into a trance. According to his instruction prior to the trance, I laid him on the bed and covered him with a blanket.
Then in a deep voice his jinn friend greeted me. He (the jinn) expressed his happiness at meeting me. He mentioned his love for me. He said that he was neither an angel nor a jinn, but another unique creation which came into existence by Allah’s command of ‘Kun!’ (‘Be!’). He claimed that all the jinn submitted to his instructions. There were only five stages between him and Allah Ta’ala, the fifth one being Jibraeel.
He lauded much praise on me and made amazing promises. Meanwhile I continually supplicated to Allah Ta’ala to protect me from slipping into the trap of evil error. I attended many such meetings where the visiting jinn claimed to be an angel or a jinn or a Sahaabi or from among the Auliya. They would show me great respect and speak with me. Then he would depart, and another one would appear. He too would leave, and another and another would appear.
One claimed to be Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu). Another claimed to be Hasan Basri (rahmatullah alayh), and another one said that he was Abul Hasan Shaazali (rahmatullah alayh).”
(To be continued, Insha’Allah)

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SUMMONING THE SOULS

ONE of the favourable stunts of deception and fraud perpetrated by some people with the aid of evil jinn is supposedly to summon the souls or spirits of dead persons to appear. When the ‘souls’ of the deceased appear, they speak and convey information about the unseen realm. Such a meeting with the ‘spirits’ or ‘souls’ is called a séance.
Sometimes at the séance the ‘dead’ makes a visible appearance and speaks to those present. Sometimes the ‘souls’ of the dead denuded of physical form, speak through a medium who is a human being in a trance. During the trance, it is said that the souls of the dead enter into the body of the person who is in the trance.
All such demonstrations are satanic stunts of deception and fraud. Neither do the deceased persons appear nor their souls. All such displays are the effects of the shayaateen. Every person has a shaitaan called Qareen who constantly accompanies that person. Sometimes after the death of a person, Qareen assumes the appearance of the deceased and appears to people. Sometimes he does not make a visible appearance, but speaks through a medium in a voice which the observer recognizes to be that of the deceased person.
This type of fraud leads people to believe that the dead truly appear on earth. The souls of the dead are either in the abode of Torment (Sijjeen) or in the abode of Bliss (Illiyeen). No human being or devil has the power to summon the deceased from these abodes. Evil jinn assume the forms of the deceased and in this way deceive and mislead people. Never be impressed with this type of seemingly supernatural fraud.

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