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Jinn

جِنّ
Definition

Created from smokeless fire, possessing free will. The first jinn society predated Adam by long ages. Iblis was of the jinn, though he was elevated among the angels until the moment of his refusal.

As understood in the classical tradition of Ibn Kathir and the scholars of his school.

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