In Islamic belief, every person is accompanied from birth by a Qareen — a personal jinn companion — and a recording angel. The Qareen knows every weakness, desire, and secret of its assigned human. The Prophet Muhammad stated that even he had a Qareen, but that his had submitted to Islam.
Has no fixed appearance. It mirrors the human it accompanies. May rarely be perceived in dreams as a shadowed version of oneself.
Intimately knows the human's soul and whispers toward their specific weaknesses. Can cause recurring negative thoughts and persistent temptation. Speaks in the voice of the human themselves.
Weaknesses
- mantraRecitation of Surah Al-Nas (Quran 114) — the surah explicitly about whispering companions
Wards
- mantraMorning and evening dhikr (remembrance of God)
- ritualAblution (wudu) — the Qareen cannot approach the purified person
Djinn
The class of supernatural beings created from smokeless fire in Islamic cosmology — a parallel civilization to humanity, capable of belief or unbelief, with their own prophets, society, and judgment before God.
Shaitan
A class of corrupted djinn who follow Iblis and dedicate themselves to leading humans astray — distinct from Iblis himself, the Shayatin are a species of evil djinn who whisper doubts and temptations into the minds of the living.
Jann
The weakest class of djinn in Islamic tradition, associated with desert winds and taking the form of snakes or whirlwinds, dwelling in empty wilderness and posing little threat to those who know the proper invocations.
Sila
The master shapeshifters among the djinn — female trickster beings of great power who can assume any form with perfect fidelity and are regarded as the most treacherous class because their disguises are impossible to detect.
Nasnas
A half-human djinn creature of Arab folklore — possessing only half a face, one arm, one leg, and half a torso — descended from the union of a shaitan and a human, moving by leaping and highly dangerous to encounter.
Community Record
- [1]Sahih Muslim. Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj. c. 875 CE. Sahih Muslim. Hadith 2814 — the Qareen of the Prophetliterary
- [2]The Jinn in Islamic Belief. Dols, Michael W. 1992. Majnun: The Madman in Medieval Islamic Society. Oxford University Press.academic