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Rooh is not allowed to wander, absolutely right. Ever heard of "Alam-e-Barzakh" ?
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Lol…Jinn are Portugese? I will never visit Portugal.
Actually I think you mean Poltergeist.
So what is our concept of Barzakh, the intermediate state? Does Islam state that once a human soul leaves the body then it can’t return to the material world? If this is true, then the concept of ghosts or bhooth is false. Alot of people claim they experience or see or feel spirits or worse even communicate with them. But somehow this all seems against God’s Laws according to the Holy Qu’ran. Then another explaination will be that Jinn are just playing tricks. I don’t know God says Jinn exist parallel to us but I’ve never experienced them and don’t want to.
As for urban legends, there is an ancient place in England called the Ramm Inn. Supposedly it’s a place where human sacrifice, witchcraft and paganism were practiced. Human remains were found there and numerous visitors have experienced strange events there. I can’t say I believe any of it but I wouldn’t want to spend the night there.
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Why would someone want to give lift to a woman whose feet are backwards in the first place?
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It’s Poltergeist (means loud ghost in German) not Portuguese. 
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May be this applies to only Muslim spirits. I was told from elders that Muslims’ spirits don’t wander but non-Muslims’ do.
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^ in that case it wud be better to be a non-muslim right???
atleats ur rooh can be free after u r dead…
more of a reward than a punishment… 
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I've watched this show in Sci Fi channel called 'Ghost Hunters' and they claim that the souls are in a state of unrest, that they have some unfinished business on Earth. That's why they can't leave according to these experts. The souls are attached to certain places because of the specific events related to their death. Some don't know that they're dead. So people who feel that their homes or place of work are haunted call the team to investigate. They walk around in the dark with this "EMS" equipment to read the electromagnetic charge in the air. They also look for cold spots where the spirits exist.
Anyways this show has recently been blasted as a fraud by somebody who worked on it. One guy on the show, Derek something acts as a medium and communicates with the spirits through his spirit connection named Sam. It shows how ghost crazy the English are. They have such a history of 'haunted castles' and so much folklore related to the ancient places and battles. The show is entertaining only because they're trying so hard to prove that spirits exist.
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Jinns: A living being, created by Allah (God). They live the parallel world to humans. Humans are visible to them all the time, they are not visible to humans.
Goblins (bonay): The living beings, they are naughty & usually create some kind of trouble for humans.
Pari (Fairy) : Imaginory creature. No existence found
Mu'akkal: Dead souls (usually weak souls), can be controlled once the person dies. Most the people who do "Jadoo / Toona" have some kind of Mu'akkal. There are three basic kinds, depending upon how one has been controlled. The more control one has over a Mu'akkal the more things it can do for you. (This is against the Islamic teachings). Once the person dies who controls Mu'akkals can be serious trouble as he looses all the controls over the Mu'akkal with his death.
Ghosts/Churails : The disturbed souls. No one has control over them but they appear from time to time trying to finish the un-finished business. Some of them are harmless some are harmful, depening upon how the lived the life & what is their un-finished business.
Give you two examples (one is personal).
1) In 1934 a Pathan visited a doctor in Delhi with a rotten hand for help. Doctor realized that the wound has gone bad and Pathan needed the amputation. Pathan heavy heartily agreed for it but asked the doctor to keep the hand in safe place because once human dies he must be burried with all his body parts so he would like to have his hand back when he dies. Doctors said "OK" and kept the hand in the surgical jar. In 1944 his clinic was burnt so was the Pathan's hand. Eighteen years later in 1962, when doctor was sitting in his clinic at night he saw that Pathan walking in his clinic in the lab area checking each surgical jar. Doctor called that Pathan but was ignored. That ghost appeared every evening & checked the jars but each evening left sadly not finding his hand.
Doctor went to a guy asking for a solution. Doctor was told to get a hand from a deceased and place it in a surgical jar a clinic & see what happens. He did that & saw that Pathan appearing checing jars, finding hand & getting happy. Strangefully Pathan took that hand & doctor never found that hand again. Pathan's ghost never re-appreaed.
2) This the personal one, I saw that woman (ghost myself).
My aunty (pupho) bought some land few years ago & constructed a house. The construction style is orthodox with a courtyard in the middle & rooms around it. There is a corner room from the right side of entrance. No one initially had occupancy of that room & they used it as a store room with all boxes etc. Later my counsin started using that room and he partially occupied the room (he wasn't sleeping it). After few days he realized that half of his stuff goes missing and then re-appears. He blamed himself for it but one evening when he was alone at home. He saw a young girl in that corner room walking. He thought it was his sister so he called her but she vanished. He immediately told the family & they starting probing the matter. What they found out was an interesting story.
Few hundered years ago there was a temple "Mander" few (hundred or couple of hundreds) yards from the place where the house was built. The woman was raped & murdered (or sacrified in the name of some hindu peer). Later on the goblins took that place as their residence too. So basically they found that they had goblins as well as a female ghost living in that corner room. Goblins were seen by my uncle & aunty too but no one else.
Almost half of the family has seen that female ghost in that room. The woman was really pretty with long (knee length) hair. When I saw her, she was wearing red sari like dress.
Anyway matter was forwarded to someone who came in the house & stayed a night in that room. Nothing strange was observed after that. But once the house in the back was built, the same thing started happening to the adjecent house so the eventually ended up with my pupho for the solution. That ghost & goblins are now gone from the place.
My advice is that if u see anything un-usual and that is not disturbing your life on regular basis, stay away from it. Taking a panga with super-naturals or a human that controls them is putting your life at risk.
Keep in mind that Jinns can annoy really bad if they are disturbed. Their males do fall in love with pretty human females & vice versa. They have the same religions like us. There are Muslim, hindu, sikh & christian Jinns. Some of the muslim Jinns are even Hafiz-e-Quran.
There is a mosque in the inner city of Lahore (In shah-almi area if I am not wrong). If you make a mistake while reciting Quran u will hear a voice correcting you. Its a Hafiz-e-Quran Jinn living in that mosque since its built.
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Growing up, I was told that Jinns had a sweet tooth for mithais and stuff. Apparently during religious observations like Ramzan or Eid, mithai shop owners would report huge sweets sales. So everyone was like “Who else could buy bulk loads of gulab jamun and chuchum overnight but Jinns!” Did I mention that they were also known to be disguised as humans when buying sweets?
So it might just be some ridiculous notion started out by competing mithai stores like S.M sweets or Darbaar-e-Shireen near Bhadurabad Chowrangi Karachi (shoutout 
) or they could be real. All I know is that if you see someone carrying boxes/crates full of mithais and whatnots, start running away.
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all superstitious stuff....
have faith in Allah and dont be scared of such imaginary creatures....
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^ Maybe because they didn’t know??? 
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Keep in mind that Jinns can annoy really bad if they are disturbed. Their males do fall in love with pretty human females & vice versa. They have the same religions like us. There are Muslim, hindu, sikh & christian Jinns. Some of the muslim Jinns are even Hafiz-e-Quran.
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I have also heard that alims who contacted some jinns found them to be from the era of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as jinns live a long life..
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cool!!!..can we summon these jinns to religion forum and solve our problems once and for all…
hadith narrators, from the prophet’s time (who cares if their name is zakoota or nastoor?)…is all we need in these wicked times:)
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Are you an alim who can summon them? 
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good idea, let me try that 
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^^ take blitz with u too...
i hope uss pey jinn charr jaye :)
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^ do you mean he is a handsome guy? and you want some sorta churrail (female-jin) to have him instead?
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Yet they were able to tell others after dying that she had feet backwards. Go figure!
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I have never actually seen a ghost/goblin.churail and what not but growing up I heard ALOT of stories of churails and supernatural creatures from both sides of the family. My dadi used tot ell us stories about the backward footed hairy “Parrley” and my nani used tot ell the story of teh Shaal.
Ofcourse, there was the most famous legend of teh Billi Bala when I was little. Apparently, the woman killed a cat and fed it to her mother-in-law and became half cat and half human as a punishment. I wonder who made up that story
The weirdest thing though that happened to me or about me is that my brother and my sister claim that they have seen a ghost of a girl in my nani ammi’s house who looks exactly like me! When my brother went to sleep in that room he said that he woke up in the middle of the night and saw this girl walking around in the room. She was dressed in the clothes I was dressed in that day. He said he called out my name, she didnt say anything and then when he tried to touch her she vanished. He said that her hair was done the same exact way as I do my hair!
A few days after that, my sister claimed the same thing. She said that she saw a ghost who was dressed like me and again the whole hair thing. Now there’s a door to the bathroom from that room as well. And that night I was sleeping in the same room. The lock ont eh door is a kundi, which can be closed from the room. So it was locked when we went to bed that night. My sis said that that ghost opened the kundi. My sis thought it was me but when she looked to her side I was sleeping next to her. She thought she was imagning stuff but she saw that the kundi was actually open!
So apparently there’s a ghost out there who likes to dress like me and do her hair like me
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and who can't go past doors without having to unlock kundis..