Why would children get possessed? What are the signs?
Q0019: Can jinn posess babies or toddlers? If so are there any signs to look out for? Or if a baby accidentally steps on a jinn wil the jinn take revenge on a baby?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Wa alaykum as salam and jazak Allah khair for your question.
This is no doubt a very important question and will save protect so many Muslim children who fall victim to jinn possession every year because they are weak and vulnerable. They cannot always protect themselves and are naive. Hence it is the responsibility of the parents to protect their children no matter how tiresome or annoying the task my seem.
Before I list them symptoms let me give a true life and very insightful story which I heard myself, first hand from a former patient and a practising brother- so that things make sense and we can related to it...
As a boy of age of 7 or 8 he was playing in the next door neighbours garden, his parents were not practising as they were your typical parents from the Indian subcontinent, so they neither did adkhaar on him nor did they say bismillah when they let him out to play. He was playing outside all day, but then he needed the toilet to do a wee, and his friend of the same age told him to "just do it under the tree, we won't look".
The child was not taught the dua before entering the toilet (which he could have said to protect himself) and he was not taught to say bismillah, so he urinated under the tree. To make matters worse, it was about 15- 20 minutes before Maghrib and his parents did not practice the sunnah of bringing the children home at Maghrib time, closing the door and windows etc.
So as you can see already- the protective adkhaar was missing, the child was outside at Maghrib time and he urinated under a tree without even protecting himself- a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.
The following evening just as Maghrib was approaching the boy began to complain of severe stomach pains, of course his parents could not understand the reason for it, so never thought of calling out the azan, applying ruqya oil on the location of the pain and they failed to read any dua or Quran over him.
In fact their house was full of munkar (Bollywood, music, pictures, haram things, sins disobedience to Allah).
So what was happening was that this boy was being possessed by a jinn that he urinated on by accident. His parents described it saying he could neither sit down nor stand up. This brother, he said it hurt so much like someone was slowly pushing a knife in to his stomach.
After a few minutes it stopped. But the next evening at Maghrib time the boy was sitting there watching TV and it happened again. The pain. So the parents admitted him to a children's hospital that night. He stayed over the whole night at the hospital and the following day the doctors were perplexed as to why they bought a perfectly healthy boy into hospital.
Bloods, urine, faeces and physical- every kind of check failed to bring up anything in the slightest.
What has happened was that the boy was possessed by a female jinn- out of revenge. The possession process was excruciatingly painful and difficult because it was trying to enter by force and as painfully as it could. No amount of medical check can ever detect jinn possession or magic. If anything it will come up as an anomaly, unexplainable factor.
The brother said he grew up not knowing what was wrong with him but was plagued with obsession about sexuality throughout his childhood. He became practising at the age of 18 but he would constantly fall into sin and constantly repent to Allah. He would miss weeks and weeks of salah,
In his early 20's he found out he was possessed after going through severe marital problems. The problems were linked to sexuality- lack of satisfaction with the halal and excitement at doing the haram, severe waswasah of divorce, and that he could be happy with other women he met online that could satisfy his desires. He said it made him careless about the consequences of his actions. In the end he decided to explore ruqya as one of the options to save his marriage because he knew from childhood something was wrong with him.
For more detail about this please see 'Why do jinns make us sin?'
After a few sessions of ruqya, the female jinn was discover and removed from his body, the brother was cured by the will of Allah and is happily married to his wife.
Praises be to Allah
An important lesson that we can derive from this true story is that if we do not protect our children now, they are likely to get possessed and it will have long term consequences on every aspect of their lives. There are many hundreds of Muslim, practising men out there who are suffering from the same problem.
Exposer to pornographic material leads to the pleasure sensory part of their brains to become corrupted so that they only get pleasure from depraved, exaggerated sexual acts rather than the natural halal intimacy.
Sometimes its jinn related other times its not. These brothers need to get help. Whether is medical, physiological or spiritual they need help because its ruining their marriages and the lives of the children.
The greatest achievement of shaytan is to make a good Muslim couple with children get divorced because without the father figure there, the authority is missing. The shepard of the flock is not there so the wolves have a free reign on misguiding and corrupting the children.
This is no doubt a very important question and will save protect so many Muslim children who fall victim to jinn possession every year because they are weak and vulnerable. They cannot always protect themselves and are naive. Hence it is the responsibility of the parents to protect their children no matter how tiresome or annoying the task my seem.
Before I list them symptoms let me give a true life and very insightful story which I heard myself, first hand from a former patient and a practising brother- so that things make sense and we can related to it...
As a boy of age of 7 or 8 he was playing in the next door neighbours garden, his parents were not practising as they were your typical parents from the Indian subcontinent, so they neither did adkhaar on him nor did they say bismillah when they let him out to play. He was playing outside all day, but then he needed the toilet to do a wee, and his friend of the same age told him to "just do it under the tree, we won't look".
The child was not taught the dua before entering the toilet (which he could have said to protect himself) and he was not taught to say bismillah, so he urinated under the tree. To make matters worse, it was about 15- 20 minutes before Maghrib and his parents did not practice the sunnah of bringing the children home at Maghrib time, closing the door and windows etc.
So as you can see already- the protective adkhaar was missing, the child was outside at Maghrib time and he urinated under a tree without even protecting himself- a recipe for disaster waiting to happen.
The following evening just as Maghrib was approaching the boy began to complain of severe stomach pains, of course his parents could not understand the reason for it, so never thought of calling out the azan, applying ruqya oil on the location of the pain and they failed to read any dua or Quran over him.
In fact their house was full of munkar (Bollywood, music, pictures, haram things, sins disobedience to Allah).
So what was happening was that this boy was being possessed by a jinn that he urinated on by accident. His parents described it saying he could neither sit down nor stand up. This brother, he said it hurt so much like someone was slowly pushing a knife in to his stomach.
After a few minutes it stopped. But the next evening at Maghrib time the boy was sitting there watching TV and it happened again. The pain. So the parents admitted him to a children's hospital that night. He stayed over the whole night at the hospital and the following day the doctors were perplexed as to why they bought a perfectly healthy boy into hospital.
Bloods, urine, faeces and physical- every kind of check failed to bring up anything in the slightest.
What has happened was that the boy was possessed by a female jinn- out of revenge. The possession process was excruciatingly painful and difficult because it was trying to enter by force and as painfully as it could. No amount of medical check can ever detect jinn possession or magic. If anything it will come up as an anomaly, unexplainable factor.
The brother said he grew up not knowing what was wrong with him but was plagued with obsession about sexuality throughout his childhood. He became practising at the age of 18 but he would constantly fall into sin and constantly repent to Allah. He would miss weeks and weeks of salah,
In his early 20's he found out he was possessed after going through severe marital problems. The problems were linked to sexuality- lack of satisfaction with the halal and excitement at doing the haram, severe waswasah of divorce, and that he could be happy with other women he met online that could satisfy his desires. He said it made him careless about the consequences of his actions. In the end he decided to explore ruqya as one of the options to save his marriage because he knew from childhood something was wrong with him.
For more detail about this please see 'Why do jinns make us sin?'
After a few sessions of ruqya, the female jinn was discover and removed from his body, the brother was cured by the will of Allah and is happily married to his wife.
Praises be to Allah
An important lesson that we can derive from this true story is that if we do not protect our children now, they are likely to get possessed and it will have long term consequences on every aspect of their lives. There are many hundreds of Muslim, practising men out there who are suffering from the same problem.
Exposer to pornographic material leads to the pleasure sensory part of their brains to become corrupted so that they only get pleasure from depraved, exaggerated sexual acts rather than the natural halal intimacy.
Sometimes its jinn related other times its not. These brothers need to get help. Whether is medical, physiological or spiritual they need help because its ruining their marriages and the lives of the children.
The greatest achievement of shaytan is to make a good Muslim couple with children get divorced because without the father figure there, the authority is missing. The shepard of the flock is not there so the wolves have a free reign on misguiding and corrupting the children.
Child Possession Symptoms
Please note some of these symptoms are specific while others are general. You may find that you child is suffering from a number of these symptoms but that doesn't necessarily mean he or she is possessed.
It is difficult for even a experienced raqi, who is specialised in diagnosing jinn possession, to correctly diagnose a child because they fidget so much and do erratic things naturally and can't sit still for a long time. I know from personal experience where I've had to send families away saying "I don't know. I can't tell if this child is possessed or not"
So my advice is don't read the symptoms below and become paranoid and start thinking my kid must be possessed. These signs are general and although they can give you an indication of potential possession, I can't emphasize it enough that you must not draw conclusions from them.
The only real way of knowing is by doing ruqya.
If anyone has genuine concern for the child/ren then they should contact a experienced raqi and maybe perform have their child checked.
Please click the link here
1. A child may suddenly develop insomnia or fear of sleeping.
2. Spend excessive time in the toilet.
3. Talking to one self in the mirror.
4. Fear of going upstairs alone.
5. Complains of pains constantly, or moving around.
6. Wakes up in the mornings with head ache
7. Might use vulgar language not in line with the normal personality child.
8. Dreams of snakes, dogs, lions or other animals or people chasing them.
9. Strange erratic misbehavior and causes mischief, especially once they know something is wrong they keep repeating it as though something encourages them to do it.
10. Hates/ scared of the masjid and mistreats the Quran.
11. Complains of pain in the shin or calf muscle or legs and stomach (at night).
12. Seeing jinns.
13. Gritting/ grinding teeth in the sleep.
14. Nightmares of falling from high place (could be sihr)
15. Pupil dilating at times- abnormally big so that the eyes looks black.
16. Intense dislike of listening to Quran.
17. Extreme anger and unusual strength.
18. Obsession with things of sexual nature from very young age- 7 or 8 etc.
19. Claiming to have imaginary friend who has a name- like Charlie, Samantha, Elizabeth, Adam etc if it's an English jinn possessing the child (can be external)
20. Child constantly wanting to go to the garden at night or hates coming back to the house for no apparent reason.
21. Fear of the azan
It is difficult for even a experienced raqi, who is specialised in diagnosing jinn possession, to correctly diagnose a child because they fidget so much and do erratic things naturally and can't sit still for a long time. I know from personal experience where I've had to send families away saying "I don't know. I can't tell if this child is possessed or not"
So my advice is don't read the symptoms below and become paranoid and start thinking my kid must be possessed. These signs are general and although they can give you an indication of potential possession, I can't emphasize it enough that you must not draw conclusions from them.
The only real way of knowing is by doing ruqya.
If anyone has genuine concern for the child/ren then they should contact a experienced raqi and maybe perform have their child checked.
Please click the link here
1. A child may suddenly develop insomnia or fear of sleeping.
2. Spend excessive time in the toilet.
3. Talking to one self in the mirror.
4. Fear of going upstairs alone.
5. Complains of pains constantly, or moving around.
6. Wakes up in the mornings with head ache
7. Might use vulgar language not in line with the normal personality child.
8. Dreams of snakes, dogs, lions or other animals or people chasing them.
9. Strange erratic misbehavior and causes mischief, especially once they know something is wrong they keep repeating it as though something encourages them to do it.
10. Hates/ scared of the masjid and mistreats the Quran.
11. Complains of pain in the shin or calf muscle or legs and stomach (at night).
12. Seeing jinns.
13. Gritting/ grinding teeth in the sleep.
14. Nightmares of falling from high place (could be sihr)
15. Pupil dilating at times- abnormally big so that the eyes looks black.
16. Intense dislike of listening to Quran.
17. Extreme anger and unusual strength.
18. Obsession with things of sexual nature from very young age- 7 or 8 etc.
19. Claiming to have imaginary friend who has a name- like Charlie, Samantha, Elizabeth, Adam etc if it's an English jinn possessing the child (can be external)
20. Child constantly wanting to go to the garden at night or hates coming back to the house for no apparent reason.
21. Fear of the azan
Peace and blessings be upon the final messenger Muhammed (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) his family, companions and everyone who follow him in righteousness.
Kamal
Former Raqi
Kamal
Former Raqi
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