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Can jinn really shape shift, become visible and take on the form of a human?
Unlike what some say Jinn are not Humans, they are another creation other than humans endowed with sentience & also like us given free will to be tested. Qur'an says they are made from smokeless raging fire suggesting a plasma like constitution, they also operate at a separate frequency to us in such a way that we are visible to them but they are invisible to us.
They too have several races, one of which is Satan Ibliss's himself.
From Qur'an we can tease out that they were closer to Allah than us, being able to see His countenance which is denied to us humans, probably due to our more earthly (made from clay) constitution.
I do not believe Jinn can shape shift, though they have superior abilities, one of which might include fooling human senses like Pharaoh's magicians could do with their help (inductive reasoning).
Maybe also they have a commandment that they should not directly interact with us, but it seems they can be summoned by Satanists for help at a price (a lot of myths on that in the human lore's).
I read a very interesting book written by an unknown Muslim author, I believe he is from Africa, he delves deeply into this & is available on Amazon, I tweeted about him & used excerpts from his book on my @Twitter feeds - here are links:
https://twitter.com/meNabster/status/883478963854729216https://twitter.com/meNabster/status/883478963854729216https://twitter.com/inabster/status/884139670547951617https://twitter.com/inabster/status/884137318747176961https://twitter.com/inabster/status/878908687041138688From my twitter feed
Jinn, several races of them, with far superior abilities than humans, they are more ethereal than us, plasma beings made from raging smokeless fire, but not Angelic, unlike Angels they have weight whereas Angels who are pure energy are weightless. G-d/Hashem/Allah knows best.
Jinn in Arabic means hidden, they are other beings, but not Angels, Qur'an describes them as elementally made from smokeless fire through scorched winds, unlike humans who elementally were fashioned from a quintessence (proportioned) of clay.
Qur'an refers to these entities living alongside us at a different frequency, as Jinn, we & them are two sentient species endowed with free will in this low life, both are accountable how we use it on JD.
Malevolent among them are what we refer to as demons, Satan is their ruler.
Also this post specifically quoting the above author:
https://twitter.com/inabster/status/915912604132020224I think white race is a fabrication based on Satanic pride, it is argued Jinns are of 3 species/races, that of Satan is equivalent to our "whites" for humans, so there is affinity between Jinns' "whites" & humans' "whites", the affinity of pride.
Finally, never Qur'an says Jinn can shape shift, however it says Mala'ika / Angels can shape shift into humans such as the Angel who appeared to Miriam mother of Issa & the two Angels descended on Babylon Harut & Marut.