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From: paydarfa@cs.unc.edu (Yousef Paydarfar)
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Subject: Re: some questions...
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In article <1991May28.152142.16892@nntp-server.caltech.edu> jnawaz@skat.usc.edu (Jemshed Nawaz) writes:
>	Man is made of clay
>	Angel is made of light
>	Jinn is made of fire (smokeless)
>	
>	Satan/Iblis was/is a Jinn .... it says in the Qur'an that he
>	was of the Jinn. People make this mistake (that Satan is a
			[ some stuff deleted]

thanks for the clarification.  i was wondering if you, or others on the net
could comment some more about the role of Jinn in Islam.  Are there good and
bad Jinns or just bad ones.  I've heard that there are both.  Are Jinns the
same as 'spirits' (as in the spirit of a dead person)?  How much interaction
is there between mortals and Jinns?

khoda-hafez,

yousef

>
>	Jemshed Nawaz


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yousef paydarfar 		           				
dept. of biomedical engineering		   
university of north carolina at chapel hill