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Shaikh Abu Bakr al-Jaza'iri (R) says: “The Jinn, even the righteous among them, are less dignified in Allah's sight than humans. Allah has confirmed the dignity and honour of mankind when He then said:
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُمْ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَىٰ كَثِيرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْضِيلًا ﴿٧٠﴾
And We have certainly honored the children of Adam and carried them on the land and sea and provided for them of the good things and preferred them over much of what We have created, with [definite] preference. [Surat Bani Isra'il, verse 70].
Such honour was not mentioned for the Jinn, either in any of the Holy Books of Allah, or in the sayings of any of His Prophets. Therefore, it is clear that humans are more dignified than Jinn, and this is confirmed by the fact that the Jinn themselves feel a sense of inferiority before the humans. So whenever humans seek refuge in them and request their help, they feel both exalted and presumptuous - a state which is not common in their lives - so they serve the humans and increase them (humans) in wickedness. Allah (SWT) said:
وَأَنَّهُ كَانَ رِجَالٌ مِّنَ الْإِنسِ يَعُوذُونَ بِرِجَالٍ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ فَزَادُوهُمْ رَهَقًا ﴿٦﴾
And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn, so they [only] increased them in burden. [AL JINN 72:6]
They feel weakness and baseness before a human believer who believes in Allah (SWT) and His Messenger, and is faithful in his worship to the Oneness of Allah (SWT). As for the person who does none of these, the righteous Jinn are better than him/her, and are more dignified than all the disbelievers of mankind”. ['Aqidat al-mu'min (The Creed of the Believer) (228).]
What does this bring up for you today?