Topic > Angels and jinn: origins and roles in Islamic faith

According to the Quran, God created both humans and jinn to worship Him (adh-Dhariyat 51:56). The jinn cannot be perceived by the senses and each man is associated with both an angel and a jinn (Ali, 1950). While the angel promotes good deeds and noble ideas, the jinn promotes baser passions (Ali, 1950). Although these lower passions are necessary for life, they can become an obstacle to spiritual progress and therefore a man must control his jinn as the Holy Prophet had done: when asked if he had a jinn associated with him, he replied yes. but that Allah had helped him overcome the jinn so that he submitted to Muhammad and “commands nothing but good to me” (Ghazālī, 2000). In fact, in the Koran (al-Jinn), it is said that some jinn adopted the teachings of Muhammad and therefore it is believed that among the jinn there are righteous individuals (Gulevich, 2004 and Ghazālī,