Exorcism - Expelling The Jinn
by Albany Buipe This piece is taken from a course material I am preparing for our website ( www.albanycircles.org ). Following a question asked in one of our circles I decided to extract this portion before the course itself starts. Exorcism called Ruqyah in Arabic is the processes in sacking a Jinn possessing a victim, living or non-living, away. Exorcism in the true sense of the art is an approach of da'wah, this time toward a member of another world. However, da'wah in general can be made to the Jinn although they may not be possessing anyone. Ibn Taymiyah proposed that just as humans are warned and threatened through Allah's injunctions the Jinn who attacks humans in whatever way should also be reminded of Allah's laws and that the act of harming others can never be justified. Sometimes prior to the assail the victim harms the Jinn in one of several ways, including splashing hot water on them; kicking them and even killing a confrère, without the intent of so