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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.[6:100]
Yet they make the Jinns equals with God, though God did create the Jinns;
and they falsely, having no knowledge, attribute to Him sons and daughters. Praise
and glory be to Him! (for He is) above what they attribute to Him!
* v.100 : Jinns: who are they? In xviii. 50 we are told that Iblis was one of the Jinns, and it is suggestedthat that was why he disobeyed the Command of God. But in that passage and other similar passages, we are told that God commanded the angels to bow down to Adam, and they obeyed except Iblis. That implies that Iblis had been of the company of angels. In many passages Jinns and men are spoken of together. In lv. 14-15, man is stated to have been created from clay, while Jinns from a flame of fire. The root meaning of janna, yajinnu, is "to be covered or hidden," and janna yajunnu, in the active voice, "to cover or hide," as in vi. 76. Some people say that jinn therefore means the hidden qualities or capacities in man; others that it means wild or jungle folk hidden in the hills or forests. I do not wish to be dogmatic, but I think, from a collation and study of the Quranic passages, that the meaning is simply "a spirit," or an invisible or hidden force. In fok-lore stories and romances like the Arabian Nights they become personified into fantastic forms, but with them we are not concerned here.