Question: Is
having fear of the Jinn considered from natural fear or not?
Sheikh Rabee’ ibn
Haadi al-Madkhali, may Allaah preserve him, says: “Fearing the jinn; if it is the fear
of the heart where he believes that the jinns can benefit or harm
him then this is shirk.”
وَأَنَّهُ كَانَرِجَالٌ مِّنَ الْإِنسِ يَعُوذُونَ بِرِجَالٍ
مِّنَ الْجِنِّ فَزَادُوهُمْ رَهَقًا
“And
verily, there were men among mankind who took shelter with the masculine among
the jinns, but they (jinns)
increased them (mankind) in sin & disbelief.”
(Al-Jinn
72:6)
The majority of
time fearing from the jinn is the fear of the heart where he believes
that they can benefit or harm when in fact no one possesses this ability except
Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى, not jinn nor man. And know that
if the entire world was to gather together to benefit you, they wouldn’t be
able to do so at all unless Allaah سُبحانه وتعالى wrote it for you. And if they gathered to harm you,
they wouldn’t be able to except if Allaah wrote it upon you as the Prophet, صلى
الله عليه وسلم, said. The
true believer doesn’t fear anything except Allaah.
