among them, they are people to whom devils have attached themselves, just as they attach themselves to their brethren. When they attend gatherings of whistling and clapping, the state seizes them; they grow more frenzied and bellow, as a possessed person does. They utter words that neither they nor those present understand. It is their devils speaking through their tongues while their reason is absent, just as a jinn speaks through the tongue of a possessed person.

They have counterparts among the idol worshippers of India, and others in the Maghrib, each of whom is called al-Musallī. These people in the Maghrib are of the same kind as the Zutt, who have no share of good. If someone has a possessed person or someone similarly afflicted in his household, he gives them something. They then come and play frame drums and musical instruments for them. They burn things and kindle a great, blazing fire, placing large pieces of iron in it until they become hotter than glowing embers. They set up spears with sharp points; then one of them climbs up and sits on the spearheads before the people. He takes that heated iron and passes it over his hands, and performs other such feats.

People see stones being thrown without seeing who throws them. This is the work of their devils, who lift them onto the spear and are themselves the ones in direct contact with the fire. Those people may be unaware of this, like a possessed person who is beaten severely yet feels nothing, because the blows fall upon the jinn. Such is the condition of those who experience satanic states. Thus, the more closely a man resembles the jinn and devils, the stronger his state becomes. This state comes upon them only in the presence of Satan’s caller to prayer and his Quran: his caller to prayer is the pipe, and his Quran is singing.