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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

Hello, I am a Shia Ismaili Muslim but never had much interest about my religion. Sometimes i often get a feeling like someone is in the room with me or is trying to talk with me(like spirits) but this scares me. My fiance told me to read the Quran but i dont know where to start, i dont want to get rid of the voices but i want to understand what they want. Please help me.

 

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Answer:

 

Whisper of jinns shaytaan

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Other than the human beings which Allah Subhanah created from clay, there are two other beings created by the Lord which are invisible to the human eye:

1. The Angels, whom Allah Subhanah created from ‘Noor’ or light.
2. The Jinns, whom Allah Subhanah created from ‘a smokeless flame of fire’.

 

Unless one is an appointed Prophet of Allah Subhanah, the Angels of Allah Subhanah do not contact, or correspond, or talk, or guide, or say anything to the human being! 

 

The creation of the ‘Jinns’, like the human beings, are also involved in a test and trial by Allah Subhanah, and amongst them some are believers and some are disbelievers.  The believing Jinns neither try to interfere with the human race, nor contact them, nor bother them; but the disbelievers amongst the Jinns or the ‘Shayaateen’ amongst them do try to whisper some evil into the hearts or man, and Allah and His Messenger (saws) have guided the believers to constantly seek the refuge of Allah from such evil whispering.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 114 Surah An-Naas verses 1-6:

1        Say: ‘I seek refuge with the Lord and Cherisher of Mankind

2        The King (or Ruler) of mankind

3        The Allah of nankind

4        From the mischief of the Whisperer (of Evil) who withdraws (after his whisper)

5        (The same) who whispers into the hearts of mankind

6        Among Jinns and among Men.

 

Thus beloved sister, since it cannot be the Angels, and it is not the believers amongst the Jinns who are trying to talk to or correspond with you, nothing the ‘Shayateen’ amongst the Jinns have or wish to say could be beneficial to you; in fact, whatever the ‘Shayateen’ wishes to whisper would bring nothing but evil….therefore one should remain constant in seeking protection in Allah from all such evil whispering of the evil whisperers by reciting the 113^th Surah Al-Falaq and the 114^th Surah An-Naas of the Glorious Quran.

 

Your Question: i dont want to get rid of the voices but i want to understand what they want. Please help me.

Beloved Sister in Islam, instead of trying or striving to understand what the evil whisperer amongst the Shayateen have to say, it would be prudence and guidance and far far more beneficial for one to sincerely strive to understand what the All-Knowing, All-Wise Lord Creator has declared in His Book of Guidance, the Al-Quran; for it is only the striving one does in accordance with the guidance of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Last and Final Messenger (saws) which undoubtedly can and will bring salvation to those who unconditionally submit their will to the Will of their Lord Creator.

 

If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),   one can be assured of never ever being misled;   but if one believes, obeys and follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of being led astray.  

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan