my intention in what has been previously mentioned is only to affirm what the sharīʿah has established regarding matters of the unseen, and to refute those who deny them. However, on the other hand, I strongly denounce those who exploit this belief and make summoning and conversing with jinn a profession for treating the insane and those afflicted with epilepsy. They employ methods beyond merely reciting the Quran, which Allāh has not authorized, such as severe beating that may sometimes result in the death of the afflicted, as has occurred here in Oman and in Egypt, becoming the talk of newspapers and gatherings. In the past, those who would recite over the possessed were few and righteous individuals, but today they number in the hundreds, including some immodestly dressed women. The matter has shifted from being a legitimate means typically undertaken by doctors to other methods and means unknown to both sharīʿah and medicine. In my view, it is a form of deception and whispers inspired by Satan to his enemy, mankind, as in the verse: * "And thus We have made for every prophet an enemy—devils from mankind and jinn, inspiring to one another decorative speech in delusion" *. It is a form of seeking refuge with the jinn, which the polytheists practiced in the pre-Islamic period, as mentioned in the verse: * "And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn, so they only increased them in burden" *. Whoever seeks their help to break a spell—as they claim—or to identify the jinn possessing a human, whether it is male or female, Muslim or disbeliever, and believes the one assisting him, and then those present also believe, they all fall under the warning of the saying of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Whoever goes to a fortune-teller or a soothsayer and believes what he says, has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muḥammad." In another ḥadīth: "...his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights." (1)