Patients at the Doorsteps of Charlatans, Sorcerers, and Religious Pretenders
With the astonishing scientific progress achieved by humanity and its ability to explain many phenomena scientifically, based on the scientific experimental method, science has come to encompass all areas of life. However, the scourge of regression and a return to superstition may attract many people, perhaps due to the false temptations promoted by religious pretenders and charlatans, claiming that they can harness the jinn to discover the causes of illness, treat it, and fulfill the desires of anyone who knocks on their door seeking to eliminate their ailment, or in the hope of gaining wealth or gaining a position of power. Unfortunately, among these patients are politicians, party leaders, and artists, both male and female, in addition to the working classes in Arab societies.
Given my graduate studies in mental health and psychotherapy, I was compelled to open this black box that stood in the way of my studies and the myths that have become so widespread that they claim to be able to diagnose and treat all illnesses with the help of jinn or red mercury in just a few hours. I have researched extensively and met with many of them, and God is my witness that I have never seen or felt a jinn in the many sessions I attended to determine the truth of their claims. They are nothing but charlatans seeking to swindle for money and quick enrichment.
Hearing patients' complaints, we find that they are limited to things like, "My husband is tied up and cannot have sexual intercourse with me," "There is a jinn sexually intercourse with me," "Someone has done evil to me and buried him in a graveyard, after which my condition has worsened," "I see my husband like a monkey," and many other similar issues that are diagnosed as mental illnesses and should be treated by doctors and psychotherapists.
And when I opened a dialogue based on science and the divine religions, the response also made you think that there are two sciences, apparent science studied by the people of knowledge and hidden science that God has chosen for whomever He wishes from among His servants to fulfill the needs of the people and that these charlatans are among them. We must not object so that we do not become possessed by Satan and lose our minds. The scientific and religious response says yes there are jinn that God subjugated to Solomon, but who brought him the throne of Bilqis, the jinn or someone who had knowledge from the Book that surpassed the jinn? And after Solomon, have you heard or seen that a jinn helped a human in anything? The final word is no, otherwise we would have been able to solve our Arab problems and liberate Palestine and the Golan Heights with the help of the jinn, or we would have been able to become wealthy countries with the help of the jinn and the red mercury found in the bodies of the pharaohs, which is considered the seal of Solomon or the magic lantern, as we heard about them having supernatural abilities. Have you heard that someone threw his staff and it became a living snake after Moses, or someone who had the ability by God's command to revive the dead after Jesus, peace be upon him? They are prophets and we are human beings and do not… Humans can achieve the miracles of the prophets.
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