Posted on 06/22/2013 12:58:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Christopher Howse finds that a health leaflet mentions a belief that jinn can cause madnessM.
Christopher Howse8:36PM BST 21 Jun 2013Comments7 Comments Although the pamphlet, called Feeling Stressed, was subtitled “A leaflet for Muslims”, I took a look at it, and found something surprising. One of the questions addressed was: “What if my problem is caused by jinn possession?”
“People can mistake mental illness for jinn possession,” the answer began. “So, even if you feel that you may be possessed, it is important that you see a doctor.”
This is no doubt sound advice, but I was left wondering whether the appearance of jinn (which is the plural of jinni) was more a matter of culture than of religion. Further investigation left me even less sure.
European culture is hardly familiar with jinn. In the first tale of the Arabian Nights, we might remember, a traveller accidentally kills a jinni’s child by tossing a date stone behind him. But the Arabian Nights are about as far as general knowledge goes. In translation, they made a great impression on British culture in the 19th century. Newman was not alone, as an imaginative child, when he “used to wish the Arabian Nights were true”.
So the most famous jinni in the Western world is the Genie of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin. Victorian magic-lantern slides (like the one pictured here) showed Aladdin carried by him through the air. The tale had been incorporated into the One Thousand and One Nights in 1709 by its French redactor, Antoine Galland, in a version he had heard from a Syrian from Aleppo, a Maronite (a Catholic Christian of a Syriac rite).
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I’m worried about this. I’m also worried about the fact that my posts are being autocorrected.
This seems like it could be an Undead Thread, if we wanted one.
Gin. Rummy. It’s all good.
I’ve been possessed by gin.
Autocorrected?
I thought JR preferred bourbon and branch?
Yes. When I type “teh,” it fixes to “the.” Then I have to retype it, and the second time it just gives me nasty little red correction. And when I type vey, it doesn’t know what to do so it just leaves it. Must think I wanted to say, “Oy vey!” except it objects to “Oy.”
It was always a mystery as to who shot JR...
Autocorrect is misnamed. Why does it put, “hedonism,” and, “ballerina,” in the middle of sentences.
Autocorrect is misnamed. Why does it put, “hedonism,” and, “ballerina,” in the middle of sentences.
There you have one of life's mysteries. Maybe it's a programmer joke, like my doctor's computerized record system's defaulting to, "Complaint: Walking Corpse Syndrome."
If the Koran is the perfect word of Allah, completed unaltered and untouched by Mo, then this casts serious doubts on Allah's editing skills, to say the very least...
Consistency is the bugaboo of small minds, somebody said.
“I’ve been possessed by gin”
Me too. I switched to vodka and all was well in my world.
A little more expensive...but hey! I’m worth it.
a true believing christian, who has the Holy Spirit indwelling them, cannot be possessed by demons/evil spirits/jinn.
Are we moving here for July?
How did I know that I would not be the first poster reporting gin possession. Or possession by gin, whichever comes first.
The Blue Jinn! C'mon, who remembers this blast from the past...
I guess not ... nobody liked it but me.
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