3-Endless Bliss Third Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

companion from genies, who is kâfir. But angels protect human
beings against their harm. It is written in Ashbâh that there
have not been any prophets from genies. Imâm-i Muqâtil
communicates that no prophet had come to genies before
Hadrat Muhammad.
It is written in the second part of Ashbâh and in its
explanation called Hamawî, “The first man was created from
soil. Bodies of all men are made up of earthen substances. But
men are flesh and bones. They are not soil. So is the case with
genies. Though they are made from fire, they are not fire or air.”
It is written in Tadhkira-i Qurtubî, “A genie’s death is its
getting lost on the ground. Old ones do not die without getting
young again. When they are about to die, they turn back to their
childhood and then get lost on the ground. There are three
groups of genies. One group is like the wind and the air.
Another group is like the insects and the tiny animals on the
ground. The third group is charged with commands and
worship. They will be called to account and there will be torment
for them.”
Sayyid ’Umar said, “A genie girl came to me. She wanted to
marry me. I asked Shamsaddin Hanafî what to do. He said it
was not permissible according to the Hanafî Madhhab. I told her
so. She took me to their house under the ground. She told her
elders what had happened. Her elders said, ‘We respect
Sayyed Shamsaddîn’s answer highly. But a genie’s marrying a
human being is permitted in the Shafi’î Madhhab. We are not
Hanafî; we are Shâfi’î.’ ”
Men’s multiplying is through semen. And genies’ multiplying
is through gas (air). That is, gas being transferred from the male
genie to the female genie, the young gets born by the female
genie. This means to say that a man’s marriage to a genie is
imaginary. There is not a real marriage. But most savants said
that there is a real marriage, that a ghusl (ritual washing) is
necessary, and that Belqis was born from intercourse between
a man and a genie. [The genie gets married by disguising itself
in a human form.]
Man can see genies and satans when he is awake and in his
dream; for, they can take any shape. Disguising themselves in
very lovely appearances they cause nocturnal emission. Most
prophets ‘alaihimussalâm’ and Awliyâ saw Satan and spoke to
him. No matter in what guise, if the person who sees a genie
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