Djinn Is Lover's Ruin

[gattino]

I deserve an award for that headline.

But anyway...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr ... e-29659199

A court in Dubai has granted a divorce to a man who says his wife is possessed by spirits and refuses to have sex with him, reports suggest.

After persistently denying him sex, the woman finally told her husband to discuss the issue with her parents, the Gulf News daily reports, without naming the couple.

They told the man that his wife was, in fact, possessed by a jinn, and that several religious scholars had unsuccessfully tried to exorcise the spirit, the paper says.

Upon hearing this, the husband lodged a divorce case with the Dubai Sharia Court. His lawyer told a hearing: "The woman and her family cheated my client. They should have been honest and clear about the fact that the wife was possessed by a jinn. He was only told about the jinn after the problem escalated. The woman does not deserve any allowance."

In Arabic mythology, jinns - or genies - are spirits able to take human and animal forms and to exercise supernatural influence over humans.

The court awarded the husband the divorce, but asked him to pay around 40,000 dirhams (almost 11,000 US dollars or 6,800 UK pounds) in maintenance to his ex-wife.

The Dubai Appeal Court later upheld the divorce, but cancelled the alimony. It decided that the woman does not deserve it since she was not honest about the djinn issue, Gulf News says.

 

[Mythopoeika]

A very clever way for a woman to get a divorce in the Arabic world!

 

[gattino]

I'm rather taken with the concept of djinn/genies as it would appear to explain away a lot of the confusion and contradiction about the nature of poltergeists, "earth bound spirits" in seances, hauntings and so on, where the "spirits of the dead" hypothesis raises more questions than it answers.


"They are mentioned frequently in the Quran (the 72nd sura is titled S?rat al-Jinn) and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world in dimensions beyond the visible universe of humans. The Quran says that the jinn are made of a smokeless and "scorching fire",[1] but are also physical in nature, being able to interfere physically with people and objects and likewise be acted upon. The jinn, humans and angels make up the three sapient creations of God. Like human beings, the jinn can be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent and hence have free will like humans and unlike angels.[2] The shaytan jinn are the analogue of demons in Christian tradition, but the jinn are not angels and the Quran draws a clear distinction between the two creations. "

 

[krakenten]

A Muslim is required to believe in the djinni.

The djinni are fire spirits, distinct from angels and humans.

In some traditions, they are none to fond of humans, yet they remain obedient to God.

Religion is very odd.

We are about to get an influx of Yesidi-widely accused of being devil worshippers. Not true, but still....

 

[ramonmercado]

Would Muslims be offended if yuu called a dog Djin Tin Tin?