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http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/shooting_stars.htm Shooting Stars
Used as Missiles to Hit the Jinn
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Muhammad just as his Bedouin contemporaries had a strange belief in shadowy
beings and ghosts that he called Jinn.

These Jinns were made of fire and would stand on top of each other's
shoulders all the way to heaven to eavesdrop to what was being discussed.
But the most amusing part is that the prophet believed that the shooting
stars and the meteors are the missiles thrown at the eavesdropping Jinns.

Q. 72: 8 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/072.qmt.html#072.008#072.008>
"*And (the Jinn who had listened to the Qur'an said): We had sought the
heaven but had found it filled with strong warders and meteors.
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And we used to sit on places (high) therein to listen. But he who listeneth
now findeth a flame in wait for him;"*

*He repeated the same absurd idea again. *

Q. 37: 6/10 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/037.qmt.html#037.006>
*"We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty (in) the stars,
(For beauty) and for guard against all obstinate rebellious evil spirits,
 (So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted
Assembly but be cast away from every side,
Repulsed, for they are under a perpetual penalty,
Except such as snatch away something by stealth, and they are pursued by a
flaming fire, of piercing brightness. *

And

Q. 67: 5 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/067.qmt.html#067.005>
 <http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/067.qmt.html#067.005>*"And we have,
(from of old), adorned the lowest heaven with Lamps, and We have made such
(Lamps) (as) missiles to drive away the Evil Ones, and have prepared for
them the Penalty of the Blazing Fire." *

The universe as was envisioned by Muhammad, obviously belongs to the realm
of fairy tales. The Earth for him was flat were the sun rises from one end
and sets in the muddy waters on the other. In Arabic the word "sama" stands
for both heaven and sky. And for Muhammad, just like his primitive
contemporaries there was no distinction between the two. He described the
heaven (sky) made of seven layers and placed the stars in the lowest layer,
lower than the Moon. Then he envisioned the mythical Jinns as if they were
real beings, standing on each other's shoulders all the way to heaven to
eavesdrop to the discussion of the "Exalted Assembly". He assumed that the
stars are just lamps to adorn the lower heaven that are also used as
missiles to shoot the intruding Jinns. Can any reasonable person today
accept these fables of those primitive people as true?

The shooting stars, despite their names are not stars but meteorites that
glow when enter the atmosphere of the Earth. But Muhammad, could not see the
difference; to him the shooting stars were stars.

As absurd as it may be, today's Muslims still believe in the Jinns. It is
written in Quran and for them the Quran is the word of Allah. How can it be
wrong?

There is also a Hadith that confirms the above story.

Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 54, Number
432<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/054.sbt.html#004.054.432>

*Narrated 'Aisha:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The angels descend, the clouds and mention
this or that matter decreed in the Heaven. The devils listen stealthily to
such a matter, come down to inspire the soothsayers with it, and the latter
would add to it one-hundred lies of their own."*

A similar hadith is reported in *Sahih Bukhari Volume 9, Book 93,
Number 650<http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/093.sbt.html#009.093.650>
*

Ali Sina <http://www.faithfreedom.org/Author/Sina.htm>
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