The Origin of Jinn And History of Jinns (Aladdin's Complete story)

[Discription of jinns according to historic books]

 Most of us are familiar with the term Genie. It's a pretty simple concept, you find the magical lamb, you rub the lamp, and then the weird cryptic spirit comes out and tells you they will grant you three wishes. Sounds too good to be true. And that's because it is most of the time you will either end up dead or in a worse situation than before. Modern-day genies can be rather unhelpful outrageous strange characters, but even they pale in comparison to the original stories and legends. The westernized term genie comes from the Arabic word, jinn, ancient spirits and demons who bring a whole new meaning to the phrase Be careful what you wish for.

Legends of jinns are most commonly associated with Islamic myths and stories even older in the Arabian Peninsula. However, entities, similar to the jinn appear all throughout the world. In Islamic tradition, the term jinn is used as a collective to refer to any group of supernatural creatures. It can also be used to refer to a specific creature. For example, you may have a piece of work, about the jinn, or you may have a group of miscellaneous demons and spirits that are referred to as Jin. or Jin communities like demons, they can be evil, but in some stories jinn is benevolent, they are summoned and bound by a sorcerer, not too different from the stories of Genie. Before Islamic belief, a group of Middle Eastern scholars described jinns as evil spirits who reside in the desert and unclean places, they would disguise themselves to passers-by as animals. Others believe that Jinn was closer to deities and as a result, they were worshiped. When Islam became the religion of choice, these deities may have been perceived as having pagan influences, and thus they played a much smaller role in everyday life. Despite once being seen as deities, they will never be considered immortal, or invincible. There are notions of armed men being able to kill a Jinn. They are however mostly just theories as jinns could not only shapeshift but also turn invisible. So, good luck trying to kill something you can't even see jinns also consider the spreaders of disease and mental illness, They can possess one's mind and body. As we move into Scripture, the overall stature of the jinn changes in the story of Solomon, jinn was the spirit of nature, similar to the previous pagan deities, Solomon was gifted the power to talk to animals and spirits, and thus he was able to reign in the unreal unruly jinns and command them to help build the 

the first temple in ancient Jerusalem in the Quran itself that Jinn mentioned the grand total of 29 times, most of this occurs in the 72nd chapter, titled al-jinn or the jinn. To maintain the notion of there being only one true God, the jinn shifts from deities to lesser spirits who in terms of hierarchy with God, are roughly level with humans, meaning they are subject to his judgment in death. They exist somewhere in between our realm, and the spectral realm. In one hadith the jinns are divided into three distinct groups. Jinn flies through the jinn who could take the shape of dogs and snakes and Jinns who travel in the same way as humans. Scholars have interpreted the Quran the use of jinns to mean one of two things, an entity or being that exists in a plane, invisible to humans, therefore we can categorize angels and demons as jinns, but not every  Jinn is an angel or demon. You then have a description that paints them in a light, similar to humans. Jinn was created from smokeless fire and inhabited the earth before Adam, and the first humans. They were faster and stronger, but they still lived like humans in many ways, they still had to eat, sleep and drink, and when they died, they would be sent to heaven or hell, depending on their actions. They will also be divided into separate tribes, with each one being created from a different mixture of fire wars between light and dark, angelic and demonic Jinn occurred quite often. It even became common to explain violent storms as warring tribes of jinn, invisible to the human eye, these storms represented the chaos and the aftermath of these battles. This conflict can also be explained by taking a look at another traditional story, which tells us why the jinn may have disappeared. The angels were created on Wednesday, the jinn, on a Thursday and 1000 years later so humans on a Friday. These three races coexisted peacefully until corruption, violence, and greed overcame the jinn, the warnings of God were ignored, and he was given no choice but to send the angels to purge the jinn. most of them subsequently died, and the Few jinns that did survive were exiled from earth these traditions involving jinns spread across more than just Arabia, reaching, Turkey, North Africa, and even the Balkans in Morocco exorcisms were performed for those who were thought to be possessed by a jinn, however, they couldn't just possess any, they will target people whom they considered vulnerable, often referred to as a tired soul, someone who was unhappy mentally unstable or just depressed, hence the association with jinn and mental illness. Another widespread belief is that the jinn lives underground where they plot and scheme against humanity. The surface, only to spread illness and cause harm to those who mistreat others. This extends to the possession and kidnapping of children. In this case, that exists as a moral lesson or reminder  

So how did we go from Jin to Genie? The most obvious example being the genie in Disney's Aladdin, who is far from an evil spirit. This and many other tales are inspired by the Arabic text 1001 Nights a collection of myths and folktales from the eighth to the 14th century. For many of these tales, their source of origin is unknown, but there are numerous influences from Arabic, Persian, and Greek to Indian Turkish and Chinese. so it's an amalgamation of cultures from basically everywhere. In English, it's also commonly referred to as the Arabian Nights. Here the Jinn make an appearance in several different stories. The most noticeable being Aladdin, and the wonderful lamp. In this story, Aladdin isn't too different from the Disney variation, the young mischievous misguided lad who is found in the streets of a Chinese city by a sorcerer who claims to be the brother of Aladdin's father, so his long lost uncle, and no before you ask this man is not called Jafar. He claims to be most the Mustafa the tailor. He convinces Aladin and his mother that he only wants to help, but first, he needs a favor, of course, inside a cave, there is the most wonderful oil lamp in all the lamps that if Aladdin can retrieve it he promises they will never be poor again. The cave however is magically booby-trapped and dangerous enough that Mustafa himself would never dare to enter, but he does give an Aladin, a magical ring for protection. Once inside to no one's surprise, Mustafa double-crosses Aladdin and leaves him trapped inside the cave in despair of the situation that Aladdin begins to rub his hand. In doing so, he accidentally rubs the ring, and to his surprise, out pops the Jinn or Genie. Aladdin returns home to his mother with a magical ring, a jin, and a wonderful lamp. His mother decides maybe they should sell them to afford food, and as she begins wiping it down, out pops a second jinn, much more powerful than the first. With help from this jinn, Aladdin becomes extremely rich Mary's the Sultan's daughter hearing of Aladdin's meteoric rise and most of them makes his return, knowing only the lamp could have caused this much good form to he tricks and that his wife into giving him a lamp, and his first command, or wish is to take the palace and everything inside of it back to his home. When Aladdin returns he does the only thing he can. He summons the first genie from the ring. He tells him that he cannot undo the magic of the second jinn, but he can send him to the palace. Once there, he kills Mustafa and returns his palace to its rightful place. 

This isn't how the story ends though Mustafa's older brother vows to avenge his death. He transforms himself into an elderly woman, and owns his way inside of Aladdin's palace, by convincing his wife he has magical powers. The  Jinn in the lamp sees through this disguise and alerts Aladdin of the imposter who was then killed. Now we get the happy ending where Aladdin eventually becomes Sultan and lives a happy evil sorcerer a free life. When it comes to modern fiction Jinn and Genie, have been interpreted in a variety of ways. Some are indeed lesser gods, and others are magical entities summon through the use of dark magic and witchcraft. One trope that is certainly stuck is being granted Three Wishes when you summon the genie. Now, these wishes have a habit of going sideways, and I'm sure fans of the Wishmaster franchise will be more than familiar with a tricky jinn. The genie has appeared in stories for 1000s of years, and it's always interesting to see ideas from different cultures merge together and create new stories, whether it's a race of invisible spirits and war entities that live underground and punish humans, a boy in his magical lamp, or just classic Robin Williams, you can't really go wrong with a story of a jinn unless you're the one making the three wishes. Because in that case, I wish you the best of luck. As always, I've been your host the introvert scholar 

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