JINN WIKIA

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Iblis

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َ َ‫ بَل‬balasa, "he despaired") or Shayṭān (Arabic: ‫;شيطان‬

Iblīs (Arabic: ‫إبليس‬, from the Arabic verbal root ‫س‬
Hebrew: ‫שטָן‬ ָּׂ sâtan, "enemy" or "adversary"; Greek: ὁ σατανᾶς or σατάν, ho satanas or satan) also
known as Abu-l-marrat 'father of bitterness' was the son of Tarnus, the son of Sumas, the son of Jann.
Iblis is a jinni who refused to honor Adam. The primary characteristic of the Devil, is that he has no
power other than the power to cast evil suggestions into the chests of humans, and jinn, although the
Qur'an does mention appointing jinn to assist those who are far from God in a general context. "We
made the evil ones friends (only) to those without faith."

According to Arabian lore al-Harith (‫ )الحارث‬was a young jinni taken prisoner by the angels and raised by
them; he went on to become one of their chiefs. After the creation of Adam, God commanded his angels
to honor him but El-Harith refused and became a sheytan or devil, and he became the father of the
sheytans.

What the Prophet said of Iblees, in the following tradition, applies to the evil Jinn over whom he
presides: - His chief abode [among men] is the bath; his chief places of resort are the markets, and the
junctures of roads; his food is whatever is killed without the name of God being pronounced over it; his
drink, whatever is intoxicating; his muëddin, the mizmár (a musical pipe; i.e. any musical instrument); his
kur-án, poetry; his written character, the marks made in geomancy; his speech, falsehood; his snares are
women. Iblis lives in a huge palace on the surface of the water with a court and thousands of devil
guards.

An alternative name for the main deity in the tentatively Indo-European pantheon of the Yazidi, Melek
Taus (Peacock King), is Shaitan. However, rather than being Satanic, Yazidism is better understood as a
remnant of a pagan Middle Eastern Indo-European religion, and/or a ghulat Sufi movement founded by
Shaykh Adi. The connection with Satan, originally made by Muslim outsiders, attracted the interest of
19th century European travelers and esoteric writers.
Characteristics

He had seven hairs on his chin and was blind in his right eye. His eye was put out by the prophet Idris (or
Enoch), who was a tailor. Shaitan once came to him with an egg in his hand and told him that God had
shaped the world like an egg. Idris was enraged by this blasphemous talk and answered, ‘No, God made
the world like the eye of this needle, look here.’ When Shaitan looked at the needle the prophet thrust it
into his eye.

An old scribe told Westermarck that Shaitan had a penis on the inner side of his right thigh and a vulva
on the inner side of his left, and that to produce off spring he needed only to close his thighs, and this he
did all day long, which explained why there were so many shayatin in the world. Other scribes told
Westermarck that Shaitan has a wife named Shaitana.

The Saliva of Iblis

When the angels were preparing the soil for making the body of Adam, Iblis enviously observed the
scene. He maliciously spat on the soil. The portion of the soil on which shaytan had spat was used to
fashion Adam's navel. From this soil was also created the dog. It is for this reason that the Angels of
Rahmat do not enter a home wherein there is a dog.

Relatives

Up the chain we find Iblis’ uncle Shalol (‫ )شلول‬and his son al-Maṭran Shalolia (‫)شلوليا‬.

Who is Iblis ’ mother? It is said his mother is called Um Alkor ( ‫)ام الكور‬. The other important female jinni is
his lover Hanīsh (‫)هنيش‬.

Finally, we have the gatekeeper of his palace Sinjab (‫)سنجاب‬.

Children of Iblis
It is said that he laid 30 eggs: 10 in the west, 10 in the east and 10 in the middle of the earth. From every
egg emerged a race of devils, like ghilan (ghouls), 'aqarib (scorpions), qatarib (night birds), jann (snakes),
and those with various other names. Each of them is an enemy to mankind. He is sometimes known as
Abu Mirrah (Father of Bile).

As Adam had three sons, Habil or Abel, Qabil or Qabil Cain, and Shis or Seth, so Satan had nine: Zu-l-
baisun, who with his host occupies bazars, and all the wickedness done there is his work; Wassin, ruler
over grief and anxiety; Awan, the companion of kings; Haffan, patron of wine-bibbers; Marra,
superintendent of music and dancing; Laqis, lord of the worshippers of fire; Mazbut, master of news,
who causes people to circulate malicious and false reports; Dasim, lord of mansions, who causes hatred
between man and wife. When people return from their journeys he prevents them from thanking God
for their safety, and causes wars and contentions. Some say that he is the lord of the table-cloth
(dastarkhwan), and does not allow people to say the Bismillah or grace when they sit down to meals,
and after eating he causes them to forget to return thanks (shukr, ihsan). Last of the nine is Dalhan,
whose abode is in places of ablution and prayer, where he defeats the object of the pious by throwing
difficulties in the way of the performance of their duties. These nine sons of the undaunted, the infernal
Satan, are the mortal enemies of the race of Adam. They never allow them to do a good action, but
exert all their influence in causing them to sin. He has nine children added to his family for every one
born among men.

Iblis has many children. The most famous of them are of course the seven jinn kings. There are other
prominent sons such as Halal (‫ )هالل‬and Balal (‫)بالل‬. Sons with minor influence include the following:

Hafaf (‫)هفاف‬: Specializes in inflicting harm and terror among the people.

Zalenbor (‫)زلنبور‬: Encourages deception in all forms of business trade.

Wellha (‫)ولها‬: Causes negative thoughts during prayers.

Theber (‫)ثبر‬: All kinds of maladies and afflictions

A‘war (‫)اعور‬: Sexual desire and fornication

Dasem (‫)داسم‬: Conflict in households

Maṭrash (‫)مطرش‬: Spreading false news

Dahhar (‫)دهار‬: Nightmares

Tamrīḥ (‫)تمريح‬: Distraction from spiritual practices

Maqlaṣ (‫)مقالص‬: Encourages gambling then sows conflict between them

Aqbaḍ (‫)اقبض‬: Plants vortexes in the East, West, and center of the Earth that spawns Jinn that have
animosity toward mankind.

Iblis most powerful son is Danhesh (‫ )دنهش‬and his eldest son is Saroch (‫)ساروخ‬.