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Magic and Jinn Story 1: The Lesson from Sh. Yasir Qadhi's First Ruqya Session
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I'll tell you, my first jokya ever. There was a brand new convert that had come to study in Medina. Literally fresh convert. Like a month or two. Completely jahil about fiqh hadith. He doesn't know anything. He's still learning how to pray. One day his roommate was reading Quran and weird growlings come from his room. And they come in and they find him writhing. Clearly he's possessed and whatnot. And so his roommates start reading Quran over him. And one of them was a friend of mine and he knows that I'm studying with the Sheikh. So I get a phone call in my apartment. He's like, sheikh, you gotta come over. You gotta come over quickly. There's somebody that, you know we need you for is the ruqya session. What not. And of course, I'm, you know, just a graduate student. I'm excited. Okay. Get into my, you know, ghostbusters mode. Yeah. Who are you going to call? That's it? Yeah. So he calls up yq, he's like, come on, I need you here. We got somebody riding on the floor. Come do ruqya. And I'm taking a class with the Sheikh. I'm like, yeah, I can handle this. Don't worry. Zero experience, plenty of book knowledge at the time. Put the thob on, you know, just drive to the dormitory. They were in the dormitory and so the. The brother is lying down, you know, and I spent like, you know, two hours the whole time there. So remember many incidents happened there. Of the things is that when I first started reading Quran, subhanallah again with my own eyes, it's a very thin brother just wearing a thob. I could see the jinn moving up and down his body. His body is rippling as if there's like an alien entity going up and down. And I would put my hand on his chest and I'd see it like fluttering away. And I put my hand there and it goes back up and goes here. And I put my hand here and it goes. So I'm literally watching his body. You can't make your body ripple, you know, you can't have just ripples coming up and down the body this way. And I'm seeing with my eyes that rippling taking place. And I'm beginning to panic quite a lot in this regard. Okay. Because this is really bizarre. We spent the whole afternoon there. So one of the brothers, Mashallah, he gifted us some lunch, you know, because we're there. He went to get some lunch. So we're all sitting down to Eat lunch. And the brother is, you know, sitting in the corner. He's just sitting by himself. And we're all eating. We say, akhi, join. Like the brother, not the jinn, brother join. And he's like, it's okay, I'm not hungry. So we're eating and one of our brothers drops accidentally. You know, it's like everybody eats from a common plate. So one of our brothers just drops a morsel. It just drops from his hand and he leaves it there and he goes in for round two instantaneously. I saw from my corner of my eye, the brother just darted like a snake. You could imagine a snake with his left hand grabbed that morsel and gobbled it down in a very unnatural manner. How so? Why so? What's happening? What did our prophet say? Hadith is a sahib Bukhari. When a morsel drops from one of you, pick it up, wipe away any dust and eat it. And do not leave it for Shaitaan. This is a hadith. This brother could not have known of this hadith. The reason why the brother could not eat our food is we all said bismillah. So he's saying, I'm not hungry. But he was starving. The jinn was starving. So the one lukmah that falls down and he doesn't pick it up, he's just like, I'm not gonna touch that. It fell on the carpet. I'm gonna go in for round two. That morsel was jumped on immediately and swallowed with the left hand. Again, this is a new convert. Not knowing anything. I saw with my own eyes, just darting out and gobbling it down like that. And this is reinforcing our iman that the prophet is speaking the truth, that we are alhamdulillah, people of the correct faith. Again, many things can be said here. Bit of a funny story is also a bit freaky as well. This kid is an 18 year old kid, has no clue of any Sheikh, any alim. Again, he's a brand new convert. So I began testing him. I said, look, if you don't leave this guy, I'm gonna call my teacher, mention him by name. Said, no, no, don't call him. Don't call him, okay? I said, I'm gonna call Sheikh Shankrithi. The jinn went wild. No, don't, don't. I said, I'm not gonna mention them. I said, I'm gonna call Sheikh Spring. Let's just say I said, I'm gonna call that sheikh. He started laughing, goes, no big deal if you call him. No Big deal. Then I said, I'm gonna call Sheikh Ibn. I had studied with the Sheikh. He's one of my teachers. And he had just passed away a few months ago. Shaykh IBN Uthaymin, Right. And when I said that, he started cackling with laughter. And he looked at me, he clicked his head like this, and he spoke in that horsey voice you hear in these horror movies. And by the way, a lot of these horror movies, they're based on the cumulative experiences of men. So there is an element of truth in these horror movies. Not that I'm telling you to go watch them, but I'm saying this is the experience of men that is translated into these scripts and whatnot. He spoke in this raspy, joking voice, the eyes cocked up. You can see the arrogance. And he speaks. Are you gonna bring him back from the dead? Like, literally? And I just froze because this kid had no clue who Ibn Uthaymin was. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna bring Sheikh Al Tayyid Aliz. And he just laughed at me. And. And I realized this is an entity that's serious, that is not human. This is an entity from another world. So that was my first experience, which was relatively tame compared to other stuff. So bottom line, it's not a joke. It's a real world out.