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Qur'anic Minarets - Can Jinns be Subjugated?

Can Jinns be Subjugated?

Tags: Jinn, Personal world, Paradise, Ham-zad, Asaf bin Barkhiya

The universe testifies to the fact and the holy Qur'an contains the bright proof that God, may He be exalted and blessed, has [indeed] granted the children of Adam (May peace be through him) honour and excellence over many of His creatures and existents (17:70); and according to this supremacy He has subjugated a living picture of all the things of the heaven and the earth to His servants (45:13). It is necessary in this regard to carefully reflect with the intellect how the picture of the entire universe (45:13) can be subjugated. Does the spirit and spirituality of the universal paradise appear in every successful personal world because, in the individual resurrection, paradise is brought near (50:31)?
The fact is clear from many Qur'anic verses that there is no such difficult work which cannot be eased by Divine help, and there is no temporarily impossible task which cannot be possible in its time and specific place (94:6; 14:34; 15:21), as it is implied in the Qur'an that nothing is impossible in paradise, neither a bounty nor anything else (50:35). This verse contains powerful knowledge that can respond [to many questions].
A special reason for writing on this subject is that since this humble servant [author of this book] has been introduced widely by his friends and `azizan verbally as well as through writing, I receive diverse and manifold questions. For instance, somebody has asked: what is the easiest method to subjugate jinn? Another person has asked: How can ham-zad (jinn) be subjugated? From another place a telephone query was made: At night time in our house, we can hear a frightening noise; people advise us to abandon this house, what would be your advice? Another person's question was that he was yearning to complete the exercise of a chillah, kindly suggest the most appropriate place for it: should it be a shrine (ziyarat), a cemetery, a zawiyah, a jungle, a mountain or a cave? Although the chain of questions is very long, they and their answers relating to jinns are very interesting and useful. For example, to consider jinn and pari two different creatures is a veil or cover, whereas they are the [two names] of the very same creature. The word pari is Persian, which in Arabic is called jinn. Pari is not a feminine word [as commonly and mistakenly understood]. It implies the meaning of 'flying' because it is derived from the infinitive 'paridan' which means 'to fly'.
It is mentioned in a noble Hadith: "Man kana li'llahi kana'llahu lahu (The one who truly becomes Allah's, Allah also truly becomes his). The most fortunate human being who has attained the rank of Divine proximity, why should not all things of the heaven and the earth be subjugated to him? Let alone jinn and co-born (ham-zad), the entire universe and existents may work as his personal powers or faculties in the personal world of such a friend of God. There is no doubt that at the apex of recognition (ma`rifat), where the Divine sacred light is the hidden treasure of azal and there together with and under it, not only every precious pearl but also the secret of subjugation and control of everything is preserved in the Treasure of treasures.
If you are certain of the [above] reality and you want to benefit from the secrets of recognition (ma`rifat), then by the grace of God Almighty a very great secret is going to be explained here. That is, there is everything within yourself, potentially a kingdom of Sulayman (May peace be through him) is hidden in your personal world, in which the armies of jinns, human beings and birds are sleeping separately. In order to awaken them all and to actualise one's potential spiritual kingdom, there is no need of any chillah. What is needed is common and special Divine remembrance (dhikr), and worship (`ibadat) and specifically supplication (munajat) and that is weeping and shedding tears with utmost humility (giryah-u zari). However, nothing should be without knowledge, because without knowledge and wisdom, all hard work is wasted and every effort fails.
You are well aware of the fact that all the bounties of knowledge and wisdom are found in pairs. Thus, God has two universal houses: The first is the Ka`bah, which is silent and the second is the Imam of the time, who is speaking. God also has two subsidiary houses: one is in a village or in a street and the other is in the heart or mind. Thus, these places are sufficient, approved by God and are miraculous for the purpose of the worship (`ibadat) of the true Worshipped One.
Q: If mountains do not have any specific characteristics for `ibadat and i`tikaf, why did some Prophets go to the mountains to perform i`tikaf there? If caves do not have any specific importance for worship and Divine remembrance, why does the glorious Qur'an praise the People of the Cave?
A:
1. There are certain matters in religion which are specific to only Prophets.
2. It can also be said about the holy Prophet that prior to the appropriate time, he could not propagate Islam by the indication of his open worship (`ibadat), therefore for the sake of hidden `ibadat (worship) he used to go to the cave of Hira.
3. Every parable or allegory in which there is ta'wili wisdom can be coined only by the lords of shari`at, i.e., Prophets. Thus, by using [parables of] mountain and cave, it is said that the mountain is the head and the cave the forehead and by performing i`tikaf in the forehead one attains the recognition of the light of azal.
4. 'Mountain' has more ta'wils as well, but the ultimate ta'wil is the Tur of Intellect, which is in the forehead. Hazrat-i Musa (May peace be through him) used to definitely go to Mount Sinai, but he used to experience the Divine miracles in his own forehead.
5. The People of the Cave had no other means of escape than the cave.
Why do you wish to subjugate a jinn or a co-born (ham-zad)? Do you wish to seek help from them for worldly work? If such is your intention, it is completely impermissible. Do you want to use them for religious purposes? [If 'yes'] When did the holy Prophet permit you to put the burden of religious obligations on the jinns? It is a different matter that by God's command angels assisted the army of Islam in the battle of Badr and it is the good jinns who are angels.
The famous story about Hazrat-i Sulayman (May peace be through him) and his armies of human beings, jinns and birds is a fact, however, it is related to the personal world of particles, about which Hazrat-i Amiru'l- mu'minin, Imam `Ali (May peace be through him) has said:

"And you think that you are a small world, whereas the great world is enfolded in you."

This blessed verse of the King of walayat is the explanation of the two wisdom-filled Qur'anic verses in which it is mentioned that on the day of (every Perfect Man's personal) resurrection, God enfolds the universe. (That is, He makes all the souls and intellects of the heaven and the earth and every creature present in the personal world (21:104; 39:67)). This is the most exalted and sublime place where not only jinns but each and every creature of the universe is subjugated and becomes subservient.
Paradise is based on the expanses of the heavens and the earth (3:133; 51:21). This indicates that the subsistence and survival of paradise depend on the heaven and the earth because it is the Universal Intellect, Universal Soul and Universal Subtle Body. Therefore, as long as paradise subsists, the universe also subsists (11:108). Thus, these are the four elements of paradise: the world of the dense body, the world of the subtle body, the spiritual world and the intellectual world. This means that the great kingdom which the people of paradise have (76:20) includes vicegerency and kingdom over the subtle creatures of the stars, and the jinns i.e., pari men and women and also Flying Saucers. That is, the kings of paradise will rule over all of them and one example of which is the kingdom of Sulayman (May peace be through him).
When according to the command of God and the Prophet by real obedience you truly belong to the Imam (May peace be through him) of the time, the latter (in whom there is everything, 36:12), will also belong to you. At that time, about your own reality, you will see all the marvels and wonders and miracles one by one from the beginning to the end. Each of the jinns of good and evil will demonstrate their amazing and wondrous model of action in front of you, so that you may be sure that the spiritual kingdom of the Sulayman (May peace be through him) of the time is your kingdom. It is important to remember that the word 'jinn' is a special 'code word' of the wise Qur'an. It has therefore many meanings, such as angel, satan, good soul, bad soul, body of similitude, co-born (ham-zad), Flying Saucers, the esotericists (ahl-i batin), etc.
Although every kind of jinns used to work under Hazrat-i Sulayman (May peace be through him)'s rule and among them with respect to spiritual work there was no scarcity of powerful jinns, yet the one who was at the apex of them all was the person with the knowledge of the book of spirituality (27:40), i.e., Asaf bin Barkhiya. Here it should be noted that some jinns are only jinns and similarly, some human beings are only human beings, but the Perfect Human Beings with respect to dense body are human beings and with respect to subtle body become jinns (angels). And Asaf, Hazrat-i Sulayman (May peace be through him)'s minister was such a person.

27 Sha`ban, 1410 AH/25th March, 1990 AD

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