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Were There Jinn Prophets？
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9/9/2024
Were There Jinn Prophets？
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So, since the jinn were before us, and since they inhabited the earth before us, it brings
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about a question.
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Did they have messengers and prophets amongst them?
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Did they have people that were sent to them from amongst them that called them to Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala?
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Now recognize, Allah tells us in the Qur'an, and this is established,
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وَمَا كُنَّا مُعَذِّبِينَ حَتَّى نَبَعَثَ رَسُولَهَا
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That we never punish a people until we send a messenger to them.
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So that's whether they're human beings or whether they're jinn, we will not punish a
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people until we send a messenger to them.
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From consensus, our messengers as human beings were also their messengers.
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Okay, so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is a messenger not just to mankind, he's a
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messenger to the jinn.
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And Musa alayhi wa sallam, clearly in the verses in Surat al-Ahqaf and Surat al-Jinn,
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Musa alayhi wa sallam was also a messenger to the jinn as well as human beings.
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And so all of the prophets and all of the messengers from human beings were also messengers
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to the jinn.
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And also the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam is definitely the best of the messengers and
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he's the last of the messengers.
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So even if there were to be jinn messengers, none of them would be after the Prophet salallahu
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alayhi wa sallam.
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So that's something that's established.
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This is consensus.
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Now the discussion and the technicalities, are there jinn prophets or messengers that
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were sent before Adam alayhi wa sallam was created or even afterwards so that they could
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properly learn their religion and so on and so forth.
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The argument on one side, which is no, is that Allah subh'anaHu wa ta-a'la says,
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وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًۭ نُوحِي إِلَيْهِمْ
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So when Allah subh'anaHu wa ta-a'la says, إِلَّا رِجَالًۭ We have not sent before you except
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for men that we give revelation to من أهل القرآن, from the people of a town, then
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that is a proof for some to say that every prophet, every messenger that was sent in
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the past was a man, a human being.
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Now the response to that is رِجَالٌ مِنَ الْإِنسِ يَعُوذُونَ بِرِجَالٍ مِنَ الْجِنِّ
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Allah subh'anaHu wa ta-a'la says in Surat al-Jinn that there are men from amongst human
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beings from amongst mankind that seek refuge in men from amongst the jinn.
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So Allah has established that from a linguistic perspective there are رِجَالٌ مِنَ
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الْجِنِّ as well, there are men amongst jinn as well.
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Also the next ayah that makes this discussion fruitful is when Allah says يَا مَعْشَرَ
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الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ رُسُلٌ مِنْكُمْ
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O assembly of jinn and man, hasn't there come to you messengers from amongst yourselves?
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Now linguistically speaking يَا مَعْشَرَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ
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when Allah says jinn and human beings, then He says haven't there been messengers amongst
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you linguistically speaking, that means من أحد الجنسين, which means that it could
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be from either species.
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So if Allah just sent messengers from amongst man, it still suffices in this ayah.
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Then you have another discussion, another ayah which is added where Allah SWT says
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وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا وَإِبْرَاهِيمًا وَجَعَلْنَا فِي ذُرِّيَتِهِمَا
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أَنْ نُبُوَّتَ وَالْكِتَابِ
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That we have sent Nuh and Ibrahim and we made from their offspring prophets and books.
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So obviously the jinn are not from the offspring of Nuh or Ibrahim, and Nuh is the first messenger
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amongst mankind.
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So then again it makes this discussion, sometimes it leans towards one opinion which is that
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no they can't have messengers, then on the other side they have evidence as well.
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The point is that there is really no concrete opinion here as to whether they had Rusul
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in the true sense of the word, messengers and prophets or not.
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I mean this discussion is covered in detail by Imam Ibn Kathir rahimahullah mentioning
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opinions here and opinions there, and they all pretty much quote the evidences that I've
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already mentioned here.
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However, it is established that Allah has sent messengers in the sense of النذر,
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that were sent to warn and to teach, that did not necessarily have to be prophets of
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God or messengers of God.
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That's something that's well established and that's something that Allah mentions for example
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in Surah Yasin, a group of messengers, the Rusul in Surah Yasin that Allah is talking
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about are not Rusul, they are not messengers in the sense of theologically being messengers
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of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, rather they were warners and callers to their people and
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Allah has definitely sent a نذر amongst them, He sent warners and callers and messengers
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in that sense and He continues to do so amongst them because again it is the justice of Allah
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subhanahu wa ta'ala that He would not punish any group of people until a messenger reached
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them whether they were human beings or even if they were jinns.
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