Jinn, Friend or Foe of the Eastern World? - Arabia - Extra Mythology
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Genie, Jinn, or Jinny, are these beings friends or foes to humanity? We hear stories in books like 1001 Nights Arabian Nights. They serve and grant wishes to humans but also twist people's minds toward sinister ends. Join us as we get to the bottom of this Islamic mythology.
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I don’t recall details, but in one story we have our protagonist, his friends, and a Jinn.
The Jinn tells our protagonist that he and all his friends are doomed to a terrible fate. The Jinn offers 3 wishes with the rule that one of the protagonist’s wishes cannot be to save himself from his terrible fate.
Our protagonist’s first wish is to save himself from his terrible fate. The Jinn says he has wasted his first wish. The second wish is to save his friends, the Jinn can grant this. The third wish is to save himself from his terrible fate. At first the Jinn is confused, but the protagonist explains that the Jinn said “one” of his wishes can’t be to save himself, and this was two wishes to save himself.
Because the Jinn is bound to his word he has no choice but to release our protagonist on this technicality.
@@azealot7112 He: You underestimate my B I G B R A I N moves
Why is this video not listed?
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"I am the Jinn that opposed Solomon, you jostled my Jar, prepare to die!"
I see what you did there
@@tonuahmed4227what did He Do Please Explain
@@rock2600Let me ask you question, have you ever seen “The Princess Bride?”
I need to make a correction: 1001 nights is NOT originally Arabian . the original book had been written in middle Persian and later it has been translated to Arabic. Somewhere on the course of history we lost the original book and the Arabic translation remained.
fake ,
Where’s your source?
The solution is simple: In my bed, surrounded by friends and family, after a long, happy and prosperous life
So what’s a “long happy?”
@@ferretyluv He forgot a coma there.
@@NicoBabyman1 obv
Simple to describe, but a lifetime to achieve.
Heard this one while playingMetro Exodus:
A man is lost in the deep desert. He finds a bottle with a djinn in it.
“Please, I want to go home!”
The djinn smiles and takes his hand.
“Ok, friend, we will walk there together!”
The man is exasperated.
“No, no, I need to get there fast!”
The genie laughs.
“Ok then….we run!”
The Fisherman: Jinn, I want a big house.
The Jinn: Dude, would I live in this jar if I can afford a house?
New housing trend, bottle
“PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!!… itty bitty living space.”
@@deadlydingus1138 wonder if super advanced alien civilizations found how to do that
The Fisherman: "Bummer, got the Seinfeld Jinn..."
@@minestar2247 Hmmm, like, some sort of "bigger on the inside" technology? 🤔
As in Islam, the idea of spiritual entities converting to one's own religion can be found in Buddhism. According to lore Buddha preached to Devas and Asura, spiritual entities who, like humans, are subject to the cycle of life, and resemble the Islamic notion of Jinn, who are also ontological placed among humans in regard to eschatological destiny.
Not to mention, how every culture has some sort of their own Djinns despite no direct/indirect contact with each other.
Japanese, Polynesian, South American, Norse, etc
All has some sort of Djinn revolved among their story
When the jinn offered to let the fisherman choose how he would die, at first I thought the fisherman would reply something like what Tyrion Lannister did when the hill tribesmen caught him.
"Killed by a jealous husband at the age of a hundred and ten."
Fisherman: I want to be rich
Jinn: If I give you a fish you will eat for a day, if I teach you to fish you will eat for a lifetime.
Fisherman: Dang, not a granted that I wished for but very usefull
That’s pretty much what happens here. Except in this case, he doesn’t just eat for a lifetime, but ends up becoming very wealthy and well respected.
One of my favourite details about the djinn s that they're morally equivalent to humans in every way.
Any given individual could be benefolent or malignant, trustworthy or deceptive, faithless or a devoted member of the faith. And jusf like a human, they could and would change.
And so, the roles they fill in stories can be just as varied as our own, in ways not as often seen in folklore.
Interesting that the 1940 movie "The Thief of Baghdad" followed this version of the Genie story very closely.
Uninterestingly the live action remake of Aladdin veered from the animated version to its own detriment
If you listen closely, you can hear Rex Ingram laughing and doing the performance of the decade as the Genie.
One of my all time favorite movies.
@@jackcrassus168 but also, the animated version veered in and of itself from the original tale in 1001 Nights, to the detriment of the understanding of Jinn anyone had in the west.
I loved "Thief of Baghdad" as a kid. As a grown-up, i appreciate the script's beautiful homage to Middle Eastern poetry and storytelling, but the brownface is such a detractor. I loved Sabu's Jungle Book as well, he was so charming and genuine in his performances
Fun fact, “djinn” is actually plural! Males are called “jinni” while females are “jinniyah”. Might be spelling that wrong, idk
Idk jinni translated to demon…woah
This makes me rethink the meaning of Young Tak's *Jinniyah*
_"Jin jin jin jin jinniyah wanjeon jinniyah~"_
I wonder if this is related to Roman genius/genii
@@TheExalaber maybe…that’s an interesting observation
Considering that the word comes from Arabic (a language that doesn't use the Latin alphabet), it's a matter of who is transcribing the word and what system they are using.
I heard a different tale, where the fisherman and Gin kept on deceiving each other using different stories to get out of Death(the fisherman) and to get out of the jar( lathe Gin). I believe this happened 3 times before the gin actually took him to the lake. Even then there was more to the story.
That sounds a lot like those daredevils stories in Europe, eg jack o lantern
That's the 1001 Arabian Nights version, because that strings a ton of folktales together in a single, loose narrative.
Oh my god i love that i need to read it sounds fun
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Fool me three times it's back to you again
Yes, the story of the fishes is so much more interesting in my opinion and the fisherman doesn't become the cook (or not immediately) because the cook is the first that notices another djinn coming to burn the fish every time he tries to cook them with curses, and then the cook also notices ancient writing on the bones of the fish.
“Hmm, this dirty jar might fetch 10 Dinars at the bazaar”
*Magic smoke pours out and forms into a man*
“This might fetch *12* Dinars!!!”
That's the most accurate thing I've heard anyone say about trying to sell anything at the marketplace
in Islam king Solomon (Solomon) is not just a human king.
but with the permission of the power of Allah he can also talk to animals, command jinn, ride winds, and have unlimited wealth (the richest person in the world).
Man, that king really loved fish.
I learnt of Djinns from the Arabian nights. But it has many many more stories would love some videos dedicated to that.
Oh and at 7:00 at first the Sultan was willing to pay a huge amount for the fish but his wife disapproved and came up with an idea to not pay the fisherman,
The sultan asked him what is the gender of the fish?
(If he mentioned either gender the Sultan could refuse him stating some reason for not being able to eat it)
The fisherman after thinking a lot replied that the fish was a eunuch.
The Sultan now even more impressed paid him even more.
I don't get it, why Sultan made riddle to make excuse & why the fisher said eunuch?
@@marcobuncit7539 my memory is a bit hazy
But well like I said he used to pay handsomely, and his wife didn't like her husband spending the royal treasury in(what she thought were) trivial things.
But the Sultan had already accepted the fish by then and needed a reason to not to take them and so.
After that a coin slipped from the fishermans pouch and he scrambled for it like crazy, the Sultan then got angry saying after all I gave you you're still scrambling for a single coin?
The fisherman replied that to him this wasn't just a coin but a precious token of the Sultan's generosity he couldn't afford to lose even one bit of it. The Sultan and doubly impressed.
This video never showed up on my feed…
Ditto, only found it because of the short.
Same here! It doesn’t even show up on their channel for me still. I only got here by that little short they just released.
Exclusive membership prerelease I guess 😔
It doesn't even show in the channel, only reason I found it was because of the short
Same
Correction on the islamic part:
They are more adjacent to angels than humans as they do infact have supernatural abilities like moving at lightspeed without breaking a sweat and all kinds of other shenanigans. They also exist in the same realm as angles which in islamic terms means they live in a higher dimension kinda like hopping from the third to the fourth dimension from our perspective.
The only comprehensible differences between Angles and Jinn are that they have a different composition than angles and they possess free will like us while angles physically can't disobey the will of god nor do they have it in them.
So yea Jinn aren't necessarily evil nor are they necessarily good and they aren't some kind of tricksters. They're just like us in that regard.
So basically they're us but extradimensional and with superpowers. They're not even more intelligent than us and they lack any and all creativity.
Matter of fact the whole conflict between Satan and God happened because when God created Adam, he ordered all of existence to kneel before Adam suggesting he's the new king in town or something and Satan (The leader of angles back then) got pissed because he felt like humans are beneath him since they can't do 10% of whatever his powers grant him. Also he took one look at Adam and Eve and told god these guys are undisciplined, suggestive and easy to manipulate and therefor trash. Hence the stunt with the forbidden fruit 😂
This video is still not showing up in there library
The Wishmaster series of movies has an "interesting" take on Djinns. The Djinn will fulfill one wish to each person he meets but in the most cruel way possible.
One of my favourites is a guard trying to stop him and yelling "You have to go through me to get out of here." He got his wish.
How did i miss this when it came out?
Same
A secret posting? Not even on their page
Would you guys ever go into zodiacs for mythology?
Both Eastern and western. Their origins are unclear with long histories.
"PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!!!!!!!
itty bitty living space."
Hey someone had to do it!
Those fish turn out to be rather interesting, if you read the Thousand Nights and a Night. That leads to a whole nother story!
I've read this story and it's a little different from how he's telling it. Those fish spoke when they were being fried. They were like magic fish. It gets confusing from there.
I remember this story! My Dad told it to me when I was a child. It was in a big book of Folktales that we had. 🤩🥰
You made me laugh (and cry a bit) when your graphic for sad food was frozen, dinosaur-shaped, chicken nuggets.
I'm a grown man with no children ...I have those in my freezer right now.
I think genies in fiction are a psychological response to things like idols and masks that are inanimate objects that feel like they have a spirit in them
No, they are just ancient creatures like humans 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Running the risk of repeating myself:
„Dirty, tricksy Djinnises.“ 😏
2:17 When you said "Bazzar" I instantly thought of Fallen London, which I only started playing because of your series about Non-combat gaming
Same! This djinn in a bottle is for sure something the Masters would be interested in.
The movie: three thousand years of longing
where this story is told but the director has taken his creative liberty.
However the movies is amazing with idris elba cast as the Djinn
According to the version I read it was Solomon's Legend seal that was on the jar. Also that story's a bit longer with more dealing with the Kings Adventures afterwards
I would love to see more Jinn stories.
In my homeland like Indonesia, we believe that a mountain and forest is inhabited by djinn long before presence of human.
There's a local story about a villager goes to the mountain for hunting. One day he encoutered Djinn, saying "There's a 3 bodies lying nearby, find them", then the Djinn dissapeared. Confused, the villager told the influencial person in his village, and the next day some villager goes into the mountain to find the bodies. And indeed they found only 2 bodies (All of their identities were unknown, and only skeleton remains, suggesting they died long time ago), the other body was not found.
Regardless, they burying the death in Islamic way as all of the villager is muslim. The Djinn himself might wanted to gave the poor death humans a final respect, but he cannot since just making himself visible in human world is very exshausting, let alone burying the death. So the best thing he could done was asking human for it.
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@haikalmiftah2529 interesting story could you tell me where in indonesia that's from
@@haikalmiftah2529 ditanya tuh dari mana asal ceritanya
There's also a Myth of the creation of Prambanan temple known as Roro Jonggrang temple, where her son gets an Army of djinn to help build The Temple in One night to marry her(due to her having long beauty magic and her son going out his home town for so long)
I used to read this story before going to sleep and I never thought that I’d be one day hearing it in English
The three key takeaways from this story is
1st. humans are the most intellectual beings even if the Djinns have extra ordinary powers they are still not intelligent as compared to humans.
In the words of Quran and Muslim scholars humans are Ashraf -ul- Makhlooq meaning the most intelligent beings as compared to other creatures.
2nd is that the Djinns have their limitations and cannot create wealth or matter out of thin air but can provide the info to earn it.
3rd they are not as friendly as told by some storytellers.
humans are favored upon *many* creatures and not *all* of them.
Aşrafu l-Maxlúqín means "The most Noble creatures" Which means Humanity is the Master Race above all
But they're still the most intelligent
Oh…first time I heard this happy end. Normally I’ve heard the fisherman throwing the bottle back. Enraging the Jin to vow to destroy all of humanity … next time … without ever entering bottles or other things.
"I choose to have a painless heart attack on the day of the 501st presidential inauguration on the United States" would have been my choice.... I'm not smart enough to get dude back in the bottle
Plebeians : Oh look, a genie, let's make a wish!
Chads : *A'uzubillah Minashaitan Nirajeem!*
You guys do realize that 1 Gold dinar was equal to 12 silver dirhams during the Abbasid Era, right?
Imagine selling that jar for 144 dirhams or 12 dinars, which was probably what a lowly fisherman like our dude would make in an entire year, if not more.
حلقة سندباد كانت أحلى، أو ليس كذلك يا معشر العرب؟ 😏 ههههه
Phenomenal cosmic Powah! itty bitty living space.
Any chance a genie could take the form of a 1960s housewife? Probably only in my dreams...
He meant the show "I dream of Jeanie".
they could posses such a woman. They can fall in love with humans and just like obsessive lovers are crazy, so can jinn. watch out.
Well you will lose your sanity or maybe soul in the prosess but who we are to judge :-)
The best Jinn story involves a NASA astronaut. 😉
Tell us
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I remember that story. It actually go on for much longer.
Does my heart good to know Mr. Fyfe is still at it. And if it weren't for the fact that this is a mythology series, this would've made for an excellent episode of Something True!
What happend here. This never showed up in my feed. I only was directed to thisclip throug a short.
Same here!
Huh, everyone trying to exploit "chose your death" as way to immortality. I think I'd just go for something more mundane, like "death by snu-snu at the age of 101".
Weird that CZcams hid this a video from so many of us. I only saw this through the short
“Oh, so I can choose my death? Ok, I want to die only after 100 years, in a sudden heart attack”.
“What?!”
“Well, you said I’ve could choose my own death, right?”
Thank you for the video.
5:20 jinn arent immortal they just live really really long on average 600-800 years but some live at 1500 or 2000 years. They are also not omnipotent but some of them like the ifreet are very powerful their powers vary depending on the jinn.
Where do they go when they die? Jannah?
Same as humans. If they do good they go to jannah and if they do bad they go to hell. The Quran was made for both humans and jinn and unless a specific part is specified to be only for jinn or only for humans its the same for both.
In Qur'an as far as I know there where only three races that where mentioned jin was one of them.
angels : immortal / no free will.
Jin : immortal / free will.
Humans : mortal / free will.
jinn actually aren't immortal they just have a much longer life span
As far as I remembered, Djinn is mortal. They could die at some point of their life.
great video
it is clear that "whoever does a kindness is repaid well", perhaps the genius before leaving with the wind will have said "I will greet you, before your death", and not to judge the "container" by the "label"
This feels like a long shot, but would you ever consider telling the story of Captain Moroni from the Book of Mormon?
Algorithm hijinks? 209 views after a day?!
(Didn’t show up in my feed either)
youtube algorithm going crazy not suggesting this to anyone :/
Thanks guys
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Glad I’m not the only one to see that this video Disney show up in their feed. I thought I was crazy for a second.
If I was legit given three wishes my first worry is that I have seen, read or listened to too many stories where the wishes happen in a bad way.
This is a revolutionary story bringing younger generations near the Jinni stories! 😎
I wonder what happened to the jinn’s accomplices who were also thrown into the sea. Are they still there to this day?
Probably,because it would be really really bad if they were released
They are. But note that Solomon did *not* catch every single jinn, so technically speaking, there are jinn out there roaming the land freely.
@@Burn_Angel from what i heard, they live in places with few people, and then, those who follow satan go on missions to corrupt humanity
Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Show a man a magical lake and he's set for life
I just watched an anime about this called magi:adventure of Sinbad
Wonderful
I'm half Jinn on my mothers side.
At least you are aware lol
Suleman is a prophet in islam
and on of hus power is to control the jinn
but the jinn have there on city and civilization
Assalamu alaikum everyone, An Arab Muslim here.
Jinn are sort of creatures that has more powers or abilities than us, they can see humans, and they and us are the 2 testable or questionable creatures cause we and them are the only 2 of Allah's creation having free will.
Unlike most people think jinn aren't necessarily more powerful than us. They can be rid of by a simple "zikr" mentioning of Allah or praying to Allah
Also several stories for the Sahaba "companions of the messanger peace be upon all of them" that the catch or beat a jinn. So they aren't all that powerful. But they have superior abilities to us
Ten thousand YEEEEAAAAAARS…will give you such a crick in the neck!
Can you do more of 1001 nights stories
And an absolute beast in my 2003 summoned skull beat down deck
thanks
Why does this video not show up in notifications or in the channel's list of videos?
The day I finally make my Arabic calligraphy look good y’all post this! :D
what a tale!
Shadow banned genie mythology? Sign me up
Why did this not show on my feed
In the version of 1001 Nights that I read when I was younger, a jinni shows up in the framestory to be cuckolded by his human lover/wife(?). This becoming one of the examples of unfaithful women that led to the king's distrust of women and decision to execute each of his wives after the wedding night. (Eventhough the king and his brother had themselves slept with the unfaithful woman while the jinni was away.) (Previously the king had first discovered his own wife to be unfaithful, and then visiting his brother to handle the grief, he witnessed his sister-in-law being unfaithful to his brother.) Were it not for the cleverness of Scheherazade, and her ability to remember so many stories within stories that you just had to know the ending of, the kingdom would have completely run out of women and created a demographic crisis like no other.
is this a repost or something I saw your short and click the link and watch this three days ago
Can you do a series about the second opium war or boxer rebellion
Which tale of the Arabian Nights is this from?
There's another (much longer) version of this story where the fish the jinn helped the fisherman catch turned out to be enchanted people
Goddamn it, why did I expect that slide into the Factor sponsorship almost word for word in my head?
This is why you should always be specific with your wishes
Its will smith!
Heresy! Only the Robin Williams Genie is the true Genie
This video doesnt even show up on your channel
7:54 is he staring at the genie's junk in awe?
I would totally use that how do you want to die to my advantage... something like: atomic decay toward the tail end of the heat death of the universe after an extremely happy, adventurous and fulfilled life
Just so you know this video isn’t showing up on your channels
PANR has tuned in.
You teach us so much more than ANYTHING school history does to us. THANKS!!!
Always remember kids: be specific with what you wish for
Why is this video not listed?
Cool
Solaiman or Solomon is one of the prophets of Islam and he took the throne after his father Dawood or David died. From the miracles that Allah (god) gave him was the knowledge of the animals, birds, insects and jinns languages as he had big army of all these creatures beside humans. In Islamic religion he died leaning on his stick no one knew he died even the jinn themselves until a termite ate the base of his stick and he fell on the ground. Another fact : he married the queen of Sabaa(a place in yemen) after convencing her about Islam and she accepted it as he showed her a miracle that her throne was in his kingdom in less than one second (in less than a blink) after he ordered one of the strongest jinn whom was a muslim too and has more faith between his all jinn pals to get her thrown this jinn showed up and told Solomon that he can get him her throne in less than a blink
Was the djinn’s name Ammet? That’d be pretty cool
Actually they're not made of air and the fire we have but instead of a fire that's flameless.
Which allows them to escape the earth easily.