This, we say, presumes that the man truly ranks among Allah’s friends; even so, the most he can claim is to belong to the broad class of Allah’s allies, comparable to a king-prophet beside a servant-messenger—like Solomon and Joseph in relation to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may peace and blessings be upon them all.

[The disbelief incurred by seeking the aid of the jinn]

Whoever employs the jinn for matters that Allah and His Messenger have prohibited—whether for polytheism, for killing someone whose blood is inviolable, for other forms of aggression short of murder such as causing illness or making a person forget his knowledge, or for lewdness such as procuring someone for an indecent act—has enlisted them in sin and transgression. If he seeks their help in disbelief, he is a disbeliever; if he seeks their help in acts of disobedience, he is a sinner—either an open transgressor (fāsiq) or a sinner who has not yet reached that level of blatant immorality.

Should a person lack thorough knowledge of the sacred law and enlist them in what he imagines to be miraculous favors (karamāt)—using them, for example, to perform the Hajj, to make him fly during an innovated musical audition, to carry him to ʿArafāt without performing the legally mandated pilgrimage, or to transport him from one town to another—he is deluded; the jinn have tricked him.

Many such people do not even realize that these feats come from the jinn; they have simply heard that Allah’s friends are granted extraordinary miracles, and it is not