Is it jinn, or is it illnessStep 1 of 9

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 3 of 6

Start with what is affirmed

Some material written for Muslims about this begins by explaining the belief away in gentle language. This lesson begins the other way round.

What follows is the sound evidence, with collections and numbers, so you can check every line of it yourself. Where a report is weak, this course leaves it out and tells you it left it out. Where scholars disagree, this course says they disagree and does not pick a side, because a course is not a mufti.

Read the whole lesson before you decide what it is doing. The second half is about where the evidence stops, and that half is in your favour too.