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dear mr burhan

assalamo alaikum

yesterdeay i read your answer khaleej times weekend about ghostly tales, you have answered very well in detail. pls. let me know about daakan, khabiz etc.  are they existing?  your answer will be appreciated and may Allah bless you and your team.

A sister

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Answer:

Ghosts, daakan, khabiz

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Q-1: yesterdeay i read your answer khaleej times weekend about ghostly tales,you have answered very well in detail.

It may be that some well-meaning brother or sister sent one of our articles to the Khaleej Times newspaper. Whatever written of Truth and benefit in the answer is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. May Allah Subhanah generously reward the person who sent the answer, in this world and the Hereafter.

Q-2: pls. let me know about daakan, khabiz etc.  are they existing?

Allah Subhanah declares in the Glorious Quran about the creation of Angels, Jinn and Men.

Ghosts, Daakan, Khabiz, etc. are nothing but whims, fantasies, imaginations, and conjectures of people who, in their ignorance, give each of these self-created names their own self-invented and imaginative characteristics. There is absolutely no reality or things in creation called Daakan or Khabiz, etc.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan