Rory
09-17-07, - 02:09 AM
Hail – Shaaban 24, 1428/ September 06, 2007 – Corn artists and black magicians are employing all sorts of tricks to earn money through cheating weak-minded people. Some corn artists in the northern Hail region of Saudi Arabia are making money by using a red-colored chair for the treatment of mentally deranged people. They try to convince that this chair has a charming effect in curing those affected with Jinn.
The red chair, similar to the electric chair used in the United States for execution, has become a symbol of torture. The corn artist usually straps a mentally sick man to the chair with belts and then beat him severely or suffocating on the pretext that this is essential to drive the Jinn out of his body. In some cases, the victims were subjected to electric shocks. There were reports that such inhuman practices resulted in the death of some victims.
It is noteworthy that such practices are alien to Islam and also they are contrary to the traditions and rules of law in Saudi Arabia's. The Senior Scholars Commission had earlier issued a directive banning such practices of beating, or giving electric shocks that cause physical or mental torture to patients. While scorning for such practices, renowned scholar Muhammad Al Ghazzali asked: Why does the Jinn enter in the body of only Muslims and not in the body of any American or European? Similarly, the modern psychology says that the mentally sick patients should have given proper medical treatment and their diseases are nothing to do with a Jinn.
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The red chair, similar to the electric chair used in the United States for execution, has become a symbol of torture. The corn artist usually straps a mentally sick man to the chair with belts and then beat him severely or suffocating on the pretext that this is essential to drive the Jinn out of his body. In some cases, the victims were subjected to electric shocks. There were reports that such inhuman practices resulted in the death of some victims.
It is noteworthy that such practices are alien to Islam and also they are contrary to the traditions and rules of law in Saudi Arabia's. The Senior Scholars Commission had earlier issued a directive banning such practices of beating, or giving electric shocks that cause physical or mental torture to patients. While scorning for such practices, renowned scholar Muhammad Al Ghazzali asked: Why does the Jinn enter in the body of only Muslims and not in the body of any American or European? Similarly, the modern psychology says that the mentally sick patients should have given proper medical treatment and their diseases are nothing to do with a Jinn.
http://www.islamicnews.org.sa/en/search1.php?misc=search&subaction=showfull&id=946684066&id=1189092814&archive=&cnshow=news&start_from