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The Council of Choice

With the rise of Muhammed and the spread of Islamic Domination, the lands of the Djinn were increasingly lost. The Djinn tribes could not hold back even the early incursions of the Prophet and his followers. Fearing either destruction or the flight of all Djinn from the land of the mortals, the tribes held a great meeting in the Sacred Mountains of Asir, south of Makkah (Mecca). Here Al-Yazid, a great Jinn sheikh, set forth the great Choice.

He had had a vision in the desert, in which a great scythe in the shape of a crescent moon had split a great Djinni in half. In order to survive, Al-Yazid told the Djinn tribes they must side with the Prophet and God, or against them. Only then would the tribes avoid the flight or destruction that they feared.

There was much debate over the vision, and the mountains were rocked by skirmishes between groups of the Ifriti tribe and those of the Jinn tribe under Al-Yazid. Finally, the leaders of the tribes agreed to decide, but only on a tribe by tribe basis. The Jinn and their allies, the Jann, sided with Muhammed and Islam. The Shaitan and Ghul tribes sided against the Prophet, for they had been corrupted by demons hiding within the Ifriti, whose choice for evil was never in doubt. The sheikh of the small Marid tribe allowed the Djinni of his tribe to decide as individuals, for the Marid are very proud and the strongest of the Djinni.

As the last choice was made, an angel appeared before the council. By your words and your deeds, the angel said, you have entered into the realm of good and evil, of God, and his enemy Satan. With your choice you will carry a new responsibility, the responsibility of a soul. >From now on, all the Djinn alive now and yet to be must decide upon their own salvation or damnation.S With a great rending of the sky, the angel disappeared, and each Djinn felt as if a door opened, and another had closed. Soon after, Al-Yazid and his followers bowed before the Prophet, while The Ifriti and the others made ready their resistance.


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Hans Georg Schaathun
Sun May 25 14:21:01 MET DST 1997