Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

written by ’Abd-ur-Rahmân bin Nizâm-ad-dîn Ahmad Nûr-addîn
Jâmî (817 [1414 A.D.], Jâm, Iran – 898 [1492], Herat) – reads
as follows: “If a person recites the Âyat-al-kursî as he (or she)
goes to bed, the devil will never be able to approach him (or
her).”
The book ’Aqâm-il-Merjân, by Qâdî Badruddîn Sheblî, [1] is in
Arabic and it is great. It is entirely about genies. At one place it
says: “It is permissible to ask genies about past things. It is not
permissible to ask them about the things that will happen in future.
They know past things by seeing and hearing them. It is not
permissible to do things that cause disbelief in order to rescue
epileptic people or people who have been paralyzed by genies
from genies. Here we are writing the best ten remedies for getting
saved from genies [briefly]:
“1 — Say A’ûdhu-Basmala and recite the Fâtiha Sûra. 2 — Say
A’ûdhu-Basmala and recite the Qul-a’ûdhu Sûra. 3 — Say
A’ûdhu-Basmala and recite the Baqara Sûra. 4 — Say A’ûdhu-
Basmala and recite the Âyatalkursî. 5 — Say A’ûdhu-Basmala
and recite the final âyat of Baqara Sûra. 6 — Say A’ûdhu-
Basmala and recite the Hâ-mîm Mu’min Sûra from the beginning
up to ‘masr,’ and also the Âyatalkursî. 7 — Recite the prayer, “Lâ
ilâha illallâhu wahdahu lâ sharîka lah lahul-mulku wa lahulhamdu
wa huwa ’alâ kulli shay’in qadîr.” 8 — Say (Allah) very
often. 9 — Be with your ritual ablution all the time, never omit
the fard and the sunnat actions. 10 — Avoid looking at nâmahram
women, eating much and being in crowds.” The book
entitled Barakât, after telling about Muhammad Sa’îd, writes that
in order to protect himself from genies, Imâm-i Rabbânî used to
say the prayer, “Lâ hawla walâ quwwata illâ billah-il-
’aliyyil’azîm.” Hadrat Imâm-i Rabbânî advised saying this prayer
for repelling genies in the hundred and seventy-fourth letter of
the first volume of his book entitled Maktûbât. This prayer is
called “kalima-i temjîd.”
Also, in the book entitled Tedhekkur-u-âsâr-ul-wârida by
Shaikh-ul-Islâm Ibni Hajar Hîtamî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’,
there are prayers to protect one from genies. The book exists with
number 1150 at the Reîs-ul-kuttâb Mustafa Efendi section of the
[1] Qâdî Badruddîn Muhammad bin ’Abdullah Sheblî ‘rahmatullâhi
ta’âlha ’alaih’ (d. 769 [1367 A.D.]).
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