Others, while wide awake, behold human figures—one of whom claims to be a prophet, a saint, or a pious shaykh—and this has happened to more than one person. (Some witness it beside the grave they are visiting: they see the grave split open, a form emerges, and they assume it is the deceased, whereas it is only a jinni taking on that likeness. Others see a mounted horseman ride out of a grave—or disappear into it—and that too is a devil. Anyone who says he has seen a prophet with his very eyes has seen nothing but an illusion.)

Still others dream that one of the eminent figures—say, Abu Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, may Allah be pleased with him, or someone else—cuts or shaves their hair, or places his cap or cloak upon them. They then awaken to find a cap on their head and their hair actually shaved or trimmed; in truth, it was the jinn who cut or shaved their hair. Such satanic occurrences befall those who abandon the Quran and the Sunnah, and they vary in degree. The jinn that attach themselves to them are of the same ilk and share their creed. Among the jinn are unbelievers, flagrant sinners, and those merely in error. When the human companion is himself an unbeliever, a sinner, or ignorant, the jinn join him in his unbelief, sin, and misguidance, and may even help him when he complies with the sorts of disbelief they prefer—for instance, by adjuring them in the names of the jinn they venerate or others they hold sacred, or by writing the names of Allah, or portions of His words, in filth; or by reversing the Opening chapter, Surat al-Ikhlāṣ, Ayat al-Kursī, or other passages, and writing them that way.