Is it jinn, or is it illnessStep 1 of 8

Before you read on

Some of what people attribute to affliction is also what a treatable and sometimes urgent illness looks like. Get seen today, not next week, for any of these. Hearing or seeing what others do not, especially if it is new or in more than one sense at once. Not sleeping for several nights with energy that feels raised rather than drained. Not eating or drinking. Confusion that comes and goes, or a sudden change in someone who was well yesterday. Fits, collapse or loss of consciousness. Any new symptom after a head injury, a fever, a new medicine, or in pregnancy or after birth. Any thought of ending your life or of harming someone else, which is an emergency now. And if you have been told to stop a medicine so that the treatment can work, please speak to your doctor before you stop, because stopping suddenly is dangerous by itself whatever the cause turns out to be.

Lesson 1 of 6

The word that arrives first

Somebody in your family said it out loud. It is the eye. It is sihr. There is something on him.

You may have said it yourself, or you may have flinched at it. Either way, it is now the sentence in the room, and every decision about what happens next is being made around it.

This course is not going to laugh at that sentence. Two of the three things named in it are affirmed in Bukhari and Muslim, and you will see the reports in lesson three with their numbers. What this course is going to do is separate the sentence into its parts, because some of those parts can be settled and some cannot.