of the origin, and one might say with regard to it, for example: the coming of rain, the subjugation of wild beasts, causing another person to fall ill or die, and the like. But as for turning a staff into a living serpent, restoring the dead to life, bringing forth the she-camel from solid rock, the splitting of the moon, and similar phenomena, they will not acknowledge any of these. Yet from many different lines of evidence we know that extraordinary events can occur through the actions of the jinn and through the actions of the angels.

The realities of the jinn are recognized by nearly all peoples—both Muslim and unbeliever. Only the most ignorant deny this, as do those who explain such matters away as mere psychic forces; and this is in addition to what God Himself has told us about them in the scriptures He has revealed. As for the angels, their affair is even more exalted: they are God’s messengers who administer the universe, as the Exalted says,

“by those who arrange every matter” (al-Nazi‘at 79:5),

and He says,

“by those who apportion each command” (adh-Dhariyat 51:4).

God, exalted be He, has spoken in His books of their reports and the categories to which they belong.