Mad/Possessed
- philhoraia
- Sep 12, 2025
- 2 min read
S 15:6 And they have said: The one whom the dhikr has been sent down upon, you are jinni-possessed.
S 26:27 He said: Your messenger who was sent to you is jinni-possessed.
S 37:36 And they say: Are we to leave our gods for a jinni-possessed poet?
S 44:14 Then they have turned away from him and said: One taught, a jinni-possessed man?
S 51:39 But he turned away with his support and said: A magician or a jinni-possessed man.
S 51:52 Thus no messenger came before them but they said: A magician or a jinni-possessed man.
S 52:29 So remind. So you are not by your lord’s grace a soothsayer or a jinni-possessed man.
S 54:9 Nuh’s people accused of lying before them and they accused our slave of lying and said: A jinni-possessed man and he was driven away.
S 68:2 You are not, by your lord’s grace, a jinni-possessed man.
S 68:51 And those who have disbelieved would almost make you slip by their eyesight when they have heard the dhikr and they say: He is jinni-possessed.
S 81:22 And your companion is not jinni-possessed.
Because Allah's boss was called majnun 'mad', 'jinni-possessed', he asserts that messengers were also called that. Three times he says that he is not majnun. Why might Allah feel the need to reassure him? From an article:
Here is the story told by Muhammad's wet-nurse, related in Guillaume's translation of Ibn Ishaq, page 72:
"His [Muhammad's friend's] father said to me, "I am afraid that this child has had a stroke, so take him back to his family before the result appears. ..... She [Muhammad's mother] asked me what happened and gave me no peace until I told her. When she asked if I feared a demon had possessed him, I replied that I did."
Here are additional details from Guillaume's "The Life of Muhammad", page 106.
So I [Muhammad] read it, and he [Gabriel] departed from me. And I awoke from my sleep, and it was though these words were written on my heart. (Tabari: Now none of God's creatures was more hateful to me than an (ecstatic) poet or a man possessed: I could not even look at them. I thought, Woe is me poet or possessed - Never shall Quraysh say this of me! I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself and gain rest. So I went forth to do so and then) when I was midway on the mountain, I heard a voice from heaven saying "O Muhammad! thou are the apostle of God and I am Gabriel."
Also, from Tabari Vol. 9, page 167, note 1151 says:
"The pre-Islamic Arabs believed in the demon of poetry, and they thought that a great poet was directly inspired by demons...."
This is supposedly Jibril who is supposedly an angel yet he speaks from the sky?
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