Iqbal Latif

Jinn?

I was watching the first episode of "I Dream of Jeanie" and was amazed. She actually spoke Persian with a very heavy English or rather American accent. Wow! They even got it right to the point of it being Middle Persian. Of course later it got munged to mix Arabic and Turkish and whatever came along.

But the pilot was great. Now that is my kind of Jinn or Djinn whatever you want Raoul. I take her the way she was any day of the year!

He came without his Djinns- but some FBI Djinnies followed him!

When Iran's president accused the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly last year of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, American diplomats were not caught flat-footed by the tirade.

Even before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad finished his incendiary rant, U.S. diplomats marched out of the cavernous U.N. hall in protest and were ready with a written statement condemning his comments.

It was as if the U.S. knew exactly what Ahmadinejad intended to say.

While the diplomats inside the United Nations are often making headlines, FBI agents are chasing spies around the city. Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to approve wiretaps. And the CIA is searching for foreigners who might be persuaded to commit treason.

All this makes for a frenzied few weeks, especially for the FBI's Manhattan field office. The FBI's counterintelligence unit there is responsible for monitoring foreign diplomats in the city.

It's one of the most sophisticated intelligence-gathering operations in the U.S. and involves one of the FBI's most extensive electronic surveillance programs, according to former U.S. intelligence officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

It's hardly a secret to foreign intelligence officers, who are skilled at evading surveillance.

The Iranians, for example, are known to rent multiple rooms in hotels around the city and sometimes cancel and re-book at the last moment to conceal who's staying where. In one instance, a former FBI official recalled, the Iranians crammed perhaps a dozen people into one room, leaving U.S. officials to conclude that at least one Iranian official was sleeping in the bathroom, probably in the bathtub.

It's not just the Iranians in New York. Former intelligence officials said the Israelis operate unilaterally in New York, often creating confusion.

The walkout hinted at one of the well-known but seldom spoken truths about the United Nations: The international organization, which was founded in the name of peace and security, is also a hotbed of spying and clandestine operations, where someone might very well be listening to your conversations and monitoring your emails — or perhaps reading your speeches in advance.

The start of the General Assembly each year is the Super Bowl of the U.N. spy games.

Reported by APP

Jinn; جن‎ ǧinn, singular جني ǧinnī ; Variant spelling djinn!!

spelling djinn-The "j" in English sounds like "dj" in French pronounciation, you take off the "d" so that only "j" would sound!like djibouti djokovic

Jinn (Arabic: جن‎ ǧinn, singular جني ǧinnī ; Variant spelling djinn) AlSaud 

The origins of Djins in the Psyche of Khamenei : The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights

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Djinns and genies are institutionalised in the book. The Quranic phrase, "A'oo Thu Billahi min Ash Shaitan Arrajim" (meaning: O God, I seek refuge in You, from Shaitan the rejected) is a protection against djinn, it is always recited when beginning of the recitation of the Koran.Surah Falaq, Surah Naas and Surah Baqarrah (especially Ayat al-Qursi in Baqarrah) are specifically intended to prepare the prayerful to be safe from supernatural harm. Additional protection comes from reciting four "Quls", an Arabic word that means "say", known as Surah Falaq, Surah Naas, Surah Ikhlaas, and Surah Kafiroon. Other measures include reading at least 50 ayats (verses) of the Koran to protect against djinn.

Iqbal:

It is 'jinn' in English and not 'djinn.'  :-)  I wonder how you pronounce djinn, is it like 'the jinn?'

The origins of Djinns in the 'Psyche of Khamenei :'

Probably Bedside stories from his Mom!

From the "The Thousand and One Nights" as we have them today are the creation of more than a thousand years of evolution, growth and accumulation. The original tale, in which Shahrazad tells stories to the envious king so that he will not put her to death, comes from a Sanskrit original produced in India, probably in the first centuries AD.

“In the royal palace there were windows that overlooked Shahriyar’s garden, and as Shah Zaman was looking a door opened and out came 20 slave girls and 20 slaves, in the middle of whom was Shahriyar’s very beautiful wife. They came to a fountain where they took off their clothes and the women sat with the men. ‘Mas’ud,’ the queen called, at which a black slave came up to her and, after they had embraced each other, he lay with her, while the other slaves lay with the slave girls and they spent their time kissing, embracing, fornicating and drinking wine until the end of the day.”

This was translated into Middle Persian (that is the language of Sasanian Iran, c.220-650 AD) Though in the Islamic world, the Arabian Nights have never been highly valued these things belong to Jahiliah, the time of darkness, before the coming of Muhammad, and are therefore by definition worthless.

The Arabian Nights and its stories Ali Baba; Aladdin, The Goldsmith and the Kashmiri Singing Girl, Harun al-Rashid and the Three Slave Girls, or The Island of Waq Waq, where women grow on trees like fruit; incorrect oriental reveries of opium dens, sloe-eyed maidens and caverns gleaming with treasure: unruly Djins, monsters and marvels, hashish and opium, copious wine-drinking and, above all, limitless imagination never found approval with the puritans; the Taliban, never added the Arabian Nights to their somewhat brusque list of permitted texts but Djinns do find currency with Khamenei..

The premise of The Thousand and One Nights: the king of Persia, Shahriyar, finds out that his new bride has betrayed him and executes her. He then begins to marry a sequence of virgins and, irreparably bitter about the initial betrayal, after one night of marriage, executes each of the new brides. The king's vizier finally can find no more virgins. His own daughter, Scheherazade, offers herself. Reluctantly, the vizier agrees and Scheherazade marries the king. Astutely, on the first night of her marriage, she begins to tell the king a story but does not end it. Possessed by the unconcluded narrative, he keeps her alive until the succeeding night, on which she begins a new story that she also does not end, and so on, for one thousand and one nights, at least.

Life is not determined by consciousness not Djinns!!

Mullah infighting is culmination of the thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Political Islam, like every other philosophy, has ignored the evolution of thinking to the modern world; its fixation with medievalism has now expedited the process of dialectical materialism, the seeds of its own destruction are now germinating and new free thoughts are sprouting.

Almost 30 years ago, the late astronomer Carl Sagan wrote “we are creatures of the cosmos… we are star stuff.” This is not merely a bit of poetic license. The death throes of large stars are the workshops where the heavier elements (e.g., carbon and iron) that make up our bodies were once made. There is nothing in us, except possibly a few hydrogen atoms in the water in our tissues, that was not once in a star. Mr. Sagan eloquently captured this idea once and for all with his memorable turn of phrase.

Flux and change is what evolution is all about. Nature arrayed against us to wash us out, extinction is a cycle that repeat itself with reprisals and settle its scores with status quo. Stagnation breeds self destruction, anything that refuses change with time is bound to eliminate. Seeds of destruction are new sprouts and offshoots of new progress, as Sagan highlighted ''we are star stuff , from throes of death of stars heavier elements like carbon and oxygen came into existence,'' without death we would have had no life, no beginning and consequently no end!

''We are star stuff; but only when these primordial atoms are networked properly in what we term as our brain is how our consciousness evolves.

The hydrogen fusing into 'He' in the core of the sun producing 30m degrees C is not interested in judging how one day this fusion will help Sun become a white dwarf, without networked elements life cannot exist cellularity signals life, networking of cellularity in a complex and profound fashion signals consciousness.

Without networking life is bereft of consciousness. It is the death material from other earlier dead stars that now form constituent members of our brain; through complex neural networked connections we have advanced our consciousness and understanding of where are we heading.

In a short spurt of evolution where 65 m years in the past this same primeval stuff was part of the walking dinosaurs watching its death from wayward asteroid, now as networked stuff defines are future though bleak it may be.

Life forms without consciousness are primitive; ignorant of posing questions that shall define our ultimate extinction as singularity. Knowing our end is so important and so vital to our existence and our efficiency. Let's die and pass out quietly without much fuss, our heritage should only be some questions that may hopefully become part of the cognisant folklore of mankind until it finally fades away, that is what Carl Sagan taught me. ''

We have come a long way now to determine the fate of our future. Defining Iranian revolution and conflict from purely philosophical and scientific angle is an outstanding approach, it is mentally very stimulating to read these pages.

How insane is Ahmadinejad?

''Mullah infighting reminds me of the bankruptcy of wisdom that stems from stagnation of intellect.''

Lunatic and insane what Iranian President had recently highlighted in a speech:

“We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”

These were the words of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who ruled Iran from 1979 to 1989, and there is no reason to suppose that his disciple Ahmadinejad feels any differently.