Below are some common symptoms of jinn possession. If you are experiencing some of these symptoms it doesn’t necessarily mean you are afflicted , this is just a guide of signs and symptoms. To be 100% its best to arrange a ruqya session with a raqi who is known and only uses methods that are strictly according to the Quran and Sunnah.
Whilst sleeping
• Nightmares that reoccur
• Seeing weird dreams
• Waking up scared
• Frequent night terrors
• Sleep walking, without realizing it
• Anguish and sleeplessness (insomnia)
• Disturbed sleep
• Seeing line like weird images
• Gritting your teeth.
• Screaming, crying, laughing and suffering during sleep
• To see oneself in a cemetery or a dump in a frightening way
• To have erotic, wet dreams
• To see strange persons e.g. too tall or too short
• To see always the same person or the same animal in one’s dream
• To see oneself among the dead people
• To see oneself falling from a very high place or cliffs
While you are awake (conscious):
• Nervous exhaustion and mental breakdown
• Serious headache with no definite cause or cure
• Depression and breathing difficulties
• The feeling that you hate your house, wife/husband, family or children
• Pain in specific parts of your body which doesn’t respond to a cure
• Uncontrolled anger
• Evil odours such as smells similar to decomposing flesh, and it comes and goes capriciously
• Tiredness of mind
• Having bad, creepy feelings
• Laziness and/or being unfocused
• Tickle in your whole body or parts of it without any specific reason
• Extreme forgetfulness
• Don’t feel like praying or reading The Noble Qur’an
• Smoking and drinking too much
• Heavy weight on the shoulders
• Serious digestion problems (stomach cramps, constipation, etc.)
• Asthmatic attacks
• Cramps and epilepsy
• A feeling that someone is following you
• Tendency for crying or laughing without a reason
• Rapid heart beat without exertion
• Barren women without medical complications
• Witchery made to separate a husband man from his wife
• In general, cases of failed marriages, or having no luck in work
• Heavy female bleeding or nose bleeds
• Feeling angry or hostile
• Sight affected e.g. flashes, strange staring, etc
• Paralysis of a body part
• Fainting spells
• Bloated abdomen
• Changed complexion
• Mood swings
• Trouble concentrating
• Feeling irritable or tense
• Wanting to be alone
• Thoughts of suicide
• Joint pain
• Depression
• Mental distraction
• Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood
• Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
• Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
• Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed, including sex
• Decreased energy, fatigue, being “slowed down”
• Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
• Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
• Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
• Thoughts of death or suicide, suicide attempts
• Restlessness, irritability
• Talking to yourself or not speaking
• Anxiety increases at nightfall or dawn
• Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain
• Turning away from remembering Allah e.g. salaat, invocations, etc.
These experiences can be related to someone possessed by a jinn or Shaytaan
• Strong repulsion when hearing The Noble Qur’an or Aathaan (call for prayers).
• A compulsive desire to curse Allah
• A revulsion against Islam and The Noble Qur’an
• Victim speaks or understands unknown languages without ever studying the language being spoken or heard
• Victim clearly knows things that are distant or hidden
• Victim can predict future events (sometimes through dreams)
• Victim has an intense hatred for holy things
• Victim shows a physical strength far above his age or normal condition
• Looking right and left and then closing the eyes
• Episodes of losing consciousness and/or epileptic attacks, especially when The Noble Qur’an is recited for the possessed person
• Frequent nightmares during sleep
• Tendency to avoid people accompanied by abnormal behavior
• Depression
• Powerful mood swings from negative emotional outbursts to profound depression (Spirits can provoke the possessed person to uncharacteristic behaviors like aggression, violence etc. If a trait like that already exists in a person it will be intensified by the spirit)
• Spirits frequently persuade the possessed to commit suicide or murder
• Spirits have a powerful influence on the psyche, provoking mental
1. illnesses, many mental illnesses are caused by the presence of a jinn in a person
• Spirits can influence behavior and lead people to dependence on alcohol and drugs
• The Jinn who possess him might speak when The Noble Qur’an is recited for the possessed person
• Deep feelings of bitterness and hatred toward those for whom one has no reason to feel that way
• Any compulsive temptation, which forces you to thoughts or behaviors, which you truly do not want to think or do
• Compulsive desires to libel people even if it means lying
• Terrifying feelings of guilt and worthlessness even after repenting
• Physical symptoms that appear suddenly or pass quickly with no apparent medical or physiological basis
• Deep depression and despondency
• Terrifying seizures of panic and abnormal fear
• Madness, as stated in the The Noble Qur’an (interpretation of the meaning):
“Those who devour usury will not stand except as stands on whom Satan by his touch hath driven to madness” [The Noble Qur’an 2:275
2. Feeling a heaviness on the shoulders and/ or head or head ache when standing up for salah.
• Feeling a movement (actual movement or like a pulse) or a pain (can be moving pain) or burning (part of the body becoming hot) or pins and needles, numbness, shaking, fear, anxiety when listening to the Quran with ear phones with a loud volume.
3. Dislike of reading or listening to Quran, urge to turn it off, or agintated and irritated or angry (opposite of tranquility)
4. Aniexty or fear of going to the masjid or feeling uncomfortable in the masjid or getting head aches or during islamic lectures etc.
5. Dislike of azan.
6. Insomnia (either can’t sleep to very late and just before fajr feeling very tired, or broken sleep)
7. Nightmares- Some jinns are black dogs, snakes and lions, rats, carnivorous animals and give birth to the same type of jinns. Others are flying jinns so u see men flying in the dream, others are earth bound ones but are very ugly so they chase you. Some take pleasure by causing a person to have a wet dream. These nightmares will be quite frequent ie. Always seeing one self being chased by a black dog, or a lion, snake or a ugly man. Seeing a lion caged up. Seeing a tall bold headed man. Seeing snakes around you or trying enter the house etc. Every case is different. 8. Anxiety- Fear of sleeping and fear of dying for no reason. Sometimes at night other times at maghrib time
9. Urges or thoughts to jump off bridge or commit suicide or go to the park at maghrib time or at night alone!
10. Hearing voices in the head, sometimes a clear distinct voice.
11. Prefering to keep one self away from family and like to alone.
12. Prefer not to have showers or keep one self clean.
13. Uncontrollable or irrational anger.
14. Obscene thoughts during salah- pornographic or even kufr things like throwing the Quran.
15. Urge to push people or babies down the stairs.
You will know as soon as you read these signs if they apply to you or not. No need to concentrate and force your self to believe these things apply to you. Sihr is almost always accompanied by a jinn possession, so the aboce signs will apply to sihr too. The only way to find out for sure is to listen to the sihr verses (2:102, 10:81-82, 20:68-71) with ear phone an a loud volume. If you feel any of the feelings like head ache or pain etc its best to get in touch with a raqi (muslim exorcist) to double check your situation.