Genies can be extremely malicious towards humans assuming the form of hideous and terrifying demons or beautiful woman who trap men with their charms.
When controlled by evil sorcerers they can harm those towards whom their attention is directed.
On the other hand they can be extremely benevolent as in the case of Aladdin's lamp genie.
The most famous genies obviously you can find them from tales like Aladdin.
You can find them from 1001 Nights,
The stories from Sarah Sade,
Is that how you pronounce her name?
Sarah Sade?
Sarah Sade?
Not sure.
And there's two kinds of genies in the Arabic theology.
There is the Ifrit which is like a physically larger and powerful genie.
There is also Marid,
Ocean and sea spirits,
The water spirits.
They are the water genies.
There are also genies in Quran and the genies in Quran they live between the two worlds.
They live in a parallel dimension.
They live between this human world and they live between the other world that we don't know yet.
And according to the Islamic tradition,
Genies they are born from smoke coming to being from a smokeless flame.
In Quran there isn't that much information given about the genies.
The scholars they argue are the angels' genies or are they two different types of creatures?
I don't have any opinion about that.
I'm not Christian,
I'm not a Muslim.
I'm very neutral when it comes to this topic.
There's a bit of a difference between genies and angels in the Quran.
The genies they have their own free will and they can do what they want to.
They can make their own choices but they also need to have the responsibility of the choices that they make.
They live in remote places.
They live in mountains,
They live in the clouds,
They live in the waters and lakes and rivers and so on.
Very talented sorcerers and magicians they could control the genies,
They could control them to order the time and the weather.
They could control them to let them know about future events.
They could control them to hear the conversations from distance.
They could order them to give them information that they needed to gain more power.
With rise of Christianity and Islam these sorcerers and magicians who worked with genies they were often persecuted no matter what their intentions were because in Christianity and in Islam these working with supernatural powers was not really appropriate.
So when it came to some of the most famous Arab alchemy some of them could actually sustain their work with the genies because of their powerful patrons.
In Quran there is a story of the fallen genie that is equivalent to the one in the Bible about the fallen angel.
Allah created the first man Adam and he asked angel and the genies to bow him but a genie called Iblis he disobeyed.
God did not approve that kind of behavior so Iblis he was banished from the paradise and he became the first Satan.
Arabic speakers if I'm pronouncing these names wrong I apologize I cannot even speak English today.
Concept of Satan in Islam is different than Satan in Christianity.
When in Christianity Satan is often seen as the embodiment of all evil.
In Islam shaytan is like an umbrella term for like mischievous spirits,
Disobeyed spirits or even disobeying people and there's two ways to approach shaytan.
There is hubris which means pride and arrogance within the human behavior.
Then there is shaytans who are almost fallen angels they influence people by whispering and telling them to do the wrong or right choice in a way they seduce people from their paths.
In a way this whole idea of shaytan in Quran it's very similar than the idea of genies in Arabic folklore of being this kind of guardian spirits of the people because there is legends that each person was born with good and a bad genie.
The other genie whispers to your ear to do the right thing and the bad genie whispers to your other ear to do the wrong thing so it goes quite a long way.
