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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books History of Islam The Worshipping of Jinn and Angels Besides the abovementioned sects, some people of Arabia used to worship Jinn and angels. `Abdullah ibn al-Zuba`ri, a tribal chief in Mecca, used to say, “We are the worshippers of the angels; the Jews worship Ezra, and the Christians worship the Christ!

Now ask Muhammad: Would we go to hell when we worship so many beloved ones?”[^153] Banu-Malih, a branch of the Khuza`ah tribe, used to worship Jinn.[^154] It is said that the first people who started worshipping jinn were a group of Yemenis; then it was the Banu-Hanifah tribe; then it was spread among the Arabs.[^155] In the words of interpreters, some people believed that God has married the Jinn and the angels are the offspring of such a marriage.[^156] In the Holy Qur'an, God has condemned the worshipping of Jinn and angels and the wrong assumptions about them: And they made the jinn associates with Allah, while He created them, and they falsely attributed to Him, and highly exalted is He above what they ascribe to Him.

(6:100) And on the day when He will gather them all together, and then He will say to the angels: Did these worship you? They shall say: Glory be to Thee! Thou art our Guardian, not they; nay! The worshippers become abashed. (34:41) It also becomes clear through the answers offered by the angels that they are not satisfied with people who worship them. (34:41) It is evident that this question is not asking for any information; neither does it unveil any ambiguity.

This is because God is All-knowing. God intends that the angels reveal the truth so that their worshippers become abased. However, the jinn were content in this respect. Thus, the worshipping of these two sets of invisible creatures on the part of some worshippers was not unlike the dualism-bided sect, because the worshipper considered the jinn as the source of light, benevolence and abundance.

When entering a valley at night, some Arabs used to say, “I ask the protection of the chief of the ignorant ones in order to be safe against those ignorant ones who live in this land.”[^157] By chanting such slogans, they believed the jinn would protect them for the truth of this claim comes from the Holy Qur'an: And persons from among men used to seek refuge with persons from among jinn, so they increased them in wrongdoing.