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- noun Plural form of
jinn .
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Examples
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In Islam the existence of jinns is taken very seriously and is fully accepted, even legally and even to this day, in Islamic jurisprudence.
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I know 'jinns' exist; but all those stories back then of close encounters with them, I believe, were just imaginary.
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The argument is that since jinns are not composed of water they cannot be living things.
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The famous Islamic cosmographer and Persian physician who lived in the thirteenth century, Zakariya ibn Muhammad ibn Mahmud Abu Yahya al-Qazwini, states that jinns “are aerial animals, with transparent bodies which can assume various forms.”
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Similarly, jinns have also evolved from the elementary substrate “smokeless fire” to sophisticated plasma-based life forms.
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Gordon Creighton and Chris Line, as far back as 1989, have argued that UFOs are in reality jinns in different issues of the “Flying Saucer Review”.
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The concept of evolution has to be taken into account in studying not only humans but also the jinns.
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Just like humans, individual jinns also die and are therefore not immortal.
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This time Anand's journey takes him back to Moghul times, as he encounters powerful sorcerers, spoiled princes, noble warriors and evil jinns.
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Book summary 2010
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We should therefore not judge all jinns by the few that we most often meet.
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