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               Introduction                          by explaining the reasons for the
               Based  on  religious  texts,  apart   inadequacy of the beliefs of the
               from  the  material  world  and       unbelievers,     describe     the
               organic creatures, there are also     foremost uniVerse, and creatures
               Faramatian realms and parts of        such as angels and Jinn's as two
               the  uniVerse  and  its  creatures,   examples  of  the  entities  of  the
               which are beyond the scope of         uniVerse of the unseen.
               our perceived five senses.               Now,  the  question  remains
                  From  the  beginning  of           that considering the existence of
               Islam,  the  infidels,  because  of   the  invisible  existence  of  the
               lack  of  wisdom  and  wisdom,        name  of  the  genius,  what
               cried  to  the  Prophet  of  God      features   and    attributes   to
               why  they  cannot  see  him  as       distinguish between the true and
               eyes  with  his  eyes,  uncanny       legendary meaning of this being
               realms and their creatures, and       can    be    seen    from     the
               for  the  same  reason,  by           perspective  of  the  Quran  and
               refusing  these  matters,  They       the traditions of the Ahlul-Bayt?
               considered  it  contrary  to  the        The  concept  and  truth  of  the
                                                         .
               normal rules.                         Jinn  In the books of the word, the
                  Nowadays,  the  attitude  to       word Jinn and its derivatives are
               material     appearances      and     meant  to  be  hidden  and
               manifestations  by  some,  as         invisible.  (Ibn  Manzur,  1993:
               materialists,  and  the  belief  in   13  and  93;  Ragheb  Isfahani,
               the  existence  of  those  things     1993: 1 and 203)
               that  are  experimentable  and           The day of Imam Baqir was
               observable,  have  led  many          sitting  in  a  shrine  between  a
               people  to  believe  in  nothing      group of friends and one of his
               but  what  they  see,  and  thus      friends, who suddenly came to
               False  beliefs  and  superstitions    the Imam with a congregation
               believe and believe.                  from  his  right  and  said  to
                  However,  the  Holy  Quran         Imam: “Do you ask question?”
               and narratives of the Ahl al-Bayt,
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