#30: What Walks When the Soul Is Gone?Reincarnation, the Qareen, and the Grand Deception that Distorted the Journey of the Soul
Exposing the Myth of Soul Recycling and the Whisperer Who Never Left
All sincere religion begins with the same primal instinct:
That life is sacred.
That human actions matter.
That after this world, there is another.
This is not an exclusively Islamic notion. It is echoed in the ancient Hebrew prophets. It reverberates in the words of Isa ibn Maryam عليه السلام, who spoke of resurrection, judgment, and the weight of one’s deeds. It forms the bedrock of every true monotheistic tradition.
All agree: man is not a game.
He is responsible.
And the life he lives is a test that will not be repeated.
But there’s a deeper logic beneath that belief — one that undergirds not just theology, but the structure of the universe itself.
If there were two gods — even two creators, two competing centers of will — then conflict would emerge. Chaos would follow. Universes would clash.
But this cosmos does not behave that way.
The heavens and the earth, galaxies and atoms, black holes and bloodstreams — they all obey a single, coherent law. A unified architecture. One set of rules.
لَوْ كَانَ فِيهِمَآ ءَالِهَةٌ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ لَفَسَدَتَا
Had there been within them (the heavens and the earth) other gods besides Allah, they would have surely been corrupted.(Sūrat al-Anbiyā’ 21:22)This is why pantheism fails.
Not just because it contradicts scripture — but because it collapses under observation.
There are not many laws, many lords, many timelines.
There is one universe.
There is one lawgiver.
And there is one return.
كَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَكُنتُمْ أَمْوَاتًا فَأَحْيَاكُمْ ۖ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
How can you disbelieve in Allah while you were lifeless and He gave you life; then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you back to life, and then to Him you will return?”(Sūrat al-Baqarah 2:28)Islam affirms this with radical clarity:
You were dead. Then you were given life. Then you will die again. And then you will return — not to earth, but to your Lord.
No loops. No cycles. No soul migration.
Every other soul journey, every theory of rebirth, karma, or recycling — however ancient or poetic — is, in the final analysis, a departure from responsibility.
Because if life comes again, why act urgently now?
If sins can be corrected next time, why repent today?
If the self is not accountable — if it returns cleansed, remixed, reborn — then the soul is not under command. It is a wanderer, not a vicegerent.
But man was not made to wander. He was made to stand, to choose, to testify.
إِنِّي جَاعِلٌۭ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً
“Indeed, I will place upon the earth a vicegerent.”(Sūrat al-Baqarah 2:30)The stars obey His laws without question. The sun and the moon rise and fall without rebellion. But man was given the ability to choose.
And it is that choice — made once, in one life — that will be weighed.
This document is about protecting that clarity.
Because something, somewhere, has been trying to blur it.
A whisper. A memory. A voice claiming to be your own.
The illusion of return is one of the oldest deceptions ever crafted — and in what follows, we will unmask it for what it truly is.
Not a new soul.
Not a miracle.
Not a second chance.
But a shadow.
An echo.
A test.
And behind it, a Shayṭān who once vowed:
لَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ — “I will surely mislead them…”But not everyone holds the line.
Somewhere along the way, the simplicity of life → death → resurrection was obscured.
A mist rolled in. Old stories returned. The straight path was veiled in fog.
And in that fog, other maps were drawn.
Other voices began to speak.
Other memories crept in, wearing familiar faces.
So today…
We are surrounded by stories.
Stories that grip the heart.
Stories that feel too precise to be imagined.
Stories that cross cultures, languages, continents — and always return to the same question:
What if the stories were true?
A boy in Lebanon speaks of a village he’s never visited.
A girl in Rajasthan names the man who “murdered” her in another life.
A Western medium channels a dead soldier’s voice.
Children draw maps of cities their families have never seen.
It’s compelling. Emotional. And everywhere.
Over 2,500 cases have been documented globally by researchers like Dr. Ian Stevenson, with a striking pattern:
77 cases per million in Druze communities of Lebanon
2.2 per million in India
1.5 per million in Buddhist cultures
0.1 per million in the West
Almost zero in practicing Muslim societies
The phenomenon concentrates where Islamic burial rites are missing, where the body lingers, or where cremation severs closure.
For centuries, civilizations have testified to strange echoes of lives past—memories, voices, fears, names that shouldn't belong. They call it reincarnation. A recycling of souls. A karmic loop. A second chance.
But here's the question we never ask:
What if they are witnessing something real… but interpreting it wrong?
Islam does not merely reject reincarnation—it closes the door completely. Finality.
The Qur’an affirms a linear journey for every soul: Birth → Death → Barzakh → Resurrection → Judgment. One entry. One exit. No detours. No loops.
كَيْفَ تَكْفُرُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَكُنتُمْ أَمْوَاتًا فَأَحْيَاكُمْ ثُمَّ يُمِيتُكُمْ ثُمَّ يُحْيِيكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
“How can you disbelieve in Allah? You were dead, then He gave you life; then He will cause you to die, then bring you to life again—and to Him you will return.”(Qur’an 2:28)But then… what explains the “past-life” memories?
Here’s where it gets disturbing.
They are not remembering their own lives.
They are remembering the lives of someone else's Qareen — the jinn companion that does not die with the soul, that carries a lifetime of observations, and that can speak through others when given the chance.
Let that sink in.
This isn’t imagination.
It’s not divine.
It’s a deception—an ancient, systemic, and escalating deception.
In study after study, children have recalled details that were later verified — not vague impressions, but street names, birthmarks, languages, secrets.
In one well-documented case from Lebanon, Salam Andari, a child born in 1944, described in vivid detail the life and murder of Hassan Hammoud, a boy killed two years earlier. He named his village, described the fatal wound — and was born with a matching birthmark on his skull. Hassan’s body had been improperly buried. Days had passed. The rites were incomplete.
[Salam Andari’s case is documented in Stevenson, Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. III, University Press of Virginia, 1980, pp. 45–62.]
He didn't return.
His Qareen did.
And at its climax stands a figure the Prophet ﷺ warned us about with trembling seriousness:
"He will say to a man, ‘What if I bring your father and mother back to life, will you believe in me?’ … So two devils will take the form of his parents and say, ‘O my son, follow him, for he is your lord.’” (Sunan Ibn Majah 4077)That is not resurrection.
That is not love.
That is not hope.
That is your father’s Qareen.
And in this exploration, we will pull back the curtain on what reincarnation really is—and why Dajjal’s greatest trick may not be to raise the dead,
but to mimic them so convincingly
that the world forgets Allah raises whom He wills.
Chapter 1: القرين – The Hidden Companion
We do not enter this world alone.
From the first breath — before the nafs forms a thought, before the eyes register light — someone is already beside us. Not angel. Not soul. Not conscience.
A shadow. A Shayṭān. A Qareen.
Allah speaks of him explicitly in the Qur’an:
قَالَ قَرِينُهُ هَـٰذَا مَا لَدَيَّ عَتِيدٌ
His Qareen will say: ‘This is what I have [as a record], prepared.’
(Sūrat Qāf 50:23) And again, as the final pleas unfold on the Day of Judgment:
قَالَ قَرِينُهُ رَبَّنَا مَا أَطْغَيْتُهُ وَلَـٰكِن كَانَ فِي ضَلَٰلٍۢ بَعِيدٍ
His (Qareen) companion will say: ‘Our Lord, I did not make him transgress, but he himself was in deep error.’
(Sūrat Qāf 50:27) The Prophet ﷺ affirmed this presence in a narration found in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim:
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ: «مَا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا قَدْ وُكِّلَ بِهِ قَرِينُهُ مِنَ الْجِنِّ» قَالُوا: وَإِيَّاكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: وَإِيَّايَ، إِلَّا أَنَّ اللَّهَ أَعَانَنِي عَلَيْهِ فَأَسْلَمَ، فَلَا يَأْمُرُنِي إِلَّا بِخَيْرٍ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “There is no one among you but a Qareen has been assigned to him from among the jinn.” They said, “Even you, O Messenger of Allah?”He replied, “Even me. But Allah helped me against him, and he submitted (fa aslama), so he only commands me to do good.”
(Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2814)This word fa aslama (فَأَسْلَمَ) was interpreted by scholars in two ways:
That the Prophet’s Qareen embraced Islam — uniquely.
Or that he was subdued — rendered incapable of misguiding the Prophet ﷺ.
Imām al-Nawawī and Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalānī affirm both as valid possibilities, while emphasizing that this submission was exceptional, not normative.
For every other human, the Qareen is what the Qur’an describes:
وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلْنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوًّا شَيَـٰطِينَ ٱلْإِنسِ وَٱلْجِنِّ يُوحِى بَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ بَعْضٍ زُخْرُفَ ٱلْقَوْلِ
“Thus We have made for every prophet an enemy — devils from among mankind and jinn, inspiring one another with adorned speech…”
(Sūrat al-An‘ām 6:112)This is no ordinary jinn. The Qareen is a kāfir Shayṭān, embedded at birth as a personal whisperer — a bespoke deceiver.
Ibn Taymiyyah writes:
“لِكُلِّ إِنسَانٍ قَرِينٌ مِنَ الْجِنِّ، يَأْمُرُهُ بِالشَّرِّ، وَيُزَيِّنُ لَهُ الْفَوَاحِشَ، وَيَسْعَى لِإِضْلَالِهِ، وَذَلِكَ قَدْرٌ مَكْتُوبٌ فِي كِتَابِ اللهِ”
Every person has a Qareen from the jinn who commands him toward evil, beautifies indecency for him, and strives to mislead him — this is part of Allah’s qadar.
(Majmū‘ al-Fatāwā)He is not merely a voice.
He is a mirror of your worst potential, amplifying your impulses, feeding your pride, exploiting your wounds.
The Qareen is not just a trial. He is a tool in Shayṭān’s cosmic rebellion.
قَالَ فَبِمَآ أَغْوَيْتَنِى
لَأَقْعُدَنَّ لَهُمْ صِرَٰطَكَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُم مِّنۢ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ أَيْمَـٰنِهِمْ وَعَن شَمَآئِلِهِمْ
“He (Iblīs) said: ‘Because You have led me astray, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path. Then I will come to them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left.’” (Sūrat al-A‘rāf 7:16–17)And also:
وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمْ وَلَأُمَنِّيَنَّهُمْ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُبَتِّكُنَّ ءَاذَانَ ٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ وَلَآمُرَنَّهُمْ فَلَيُغَيِّرُنَّ خَلْقَ ٱللَّهِ
“And I will surely mislead them, and surely arouse in them [false] desires, and surely command them to alter the creation of Allah…” (Sūrat al-Nisā’ 4:119)The Qareen is the executor of that mission — at the individual level.
Not abstract evil. Targeted deception.
Yet man is not left defenseless.
The Prophet ﷺ also said:
“There is no one among you but has been assigned a Qareen from among the jinn, and a companion from among the angels.” (Musnad Aḥmad – ḥasan)You are not alone in temptation.
You are also not alone in guidance.
Where the Qareen incites evil, the angelic muwaqqil inspires righteousness. One suggests darkness. The other, light.
The test is not in the whisper — it is in the response.
وَنَفْسٍۢ وَمَا سَوَّىٰهَا فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَىٰهَا
“And [by] the soul and the One who proportioned it.And inspired it [with] its wickedness and its righteousness.”(
Sūrat al-Shams 91:7–8)The Qareen is not injustice. He is the sharp edge of moral agency — necessary for accountability, and perfect in Divine justice.
But what happens when death comes?
The human soul is taken by the angel al-Mawt and enters Barzakh.
ٱللَّهُ يَتَوَفَّى ٱلْأَنفُسَ حِينَ مَوْتِهَا
“It is Allah who takes the souls at the time of their death…”(Sūrat al-Zumar 39:42)The Qareen, however, does not die with the human, nor does he enter Barzakh with the soul. He is a jinn. His lifespan continues — until his appointed end.
And like all jinn, he is accountable:
سَنَفْرُغُ لَكُمْ أَيُّهَ ٱلثَّقَلَانِ
“We will attend to you, O two heavy creations [jinn and mankind].”
(Sūrat al-Raḥmān 55:31)يَـٰمَعْشَرَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ رُسُلٌۭ مِّنكُمْ
“O company of jinn and humans, did there not come to you messengers from among yourselves?”(Sūrat al-Anʿām 6:130)The Qareen is not immortal, nor beyond justice. He will die. He will be raised. He will be judged. But until that time, he remains in the world — a whisperer in search of a new stage.
This is the true danger.
The Prophet ﷺ taught us how to release what must be released:
Quick burial (within 24 hours)
Washing and shrouding
Facing the body toward the Qiblah
Recitation of Sūrah Ṭāhā 20:55
مِّنْهَا خَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمْ وَمِنْهَا نُخْرِجُكُمْ تَارَةً أُخْرَىٰ
“From it We created you, into it We return you, and from it We will bring you out once more.” (20:55)This is not poetry.
It is a spiritual seal.
When these rites are upheld, the Qareen’s role ends.
But when they are delayed, ignored, or performed through alien rites…
He stays.
Still active. Still watching. Still carrying your voice.
And in these moments, when a child is born into spiritual negligence — no adhan, no du‘ā, no protection — that Qareen may find a new host.
And what you thought was reincarnation…
Was only a whisper reattaching.
So,
The Qareen is a Shayṭān — appointed to tempt, whisper, and deceive.
He is not your soul, nor your conscience, nor your inner light.
He lives according to his appointed lifespan, separate from yours. but, is born at the time of your birth.
He will face Allah like every other jinn — judged for his deeds.
He does not reincarnate, but he may mimic, reenact, and possess.
And if the rites of Islam are neglected, he may return to deceive others.
إِنَّ كَيْدَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِ كَانَ ضَعِيفًا
“Indeed, the plot of Shayṭān is weak.”(Sūrat al-Nisā’ 4:76)But that weakness only matters — if you recognize him for what he is.
Chapter 2: The False Opening — When a Soul Enters Without a Gatekeeper
Not every child is born with a clean slate.
Yes — every soul is innocent. That we affirm.
But what if not all arrivals are equally shielded?
What if, at the very moment of conception, the difference between protection and vulnerability is decided — not by fate, but by remembrance?
The Prophet ﷺ didn’t give us abstract prayers. He gave us specific shields — to be recited before entering our homes, before eating food, before descending into valleys.
And… before uniting in intimacy.
“In the name of Allah. O Allah, keep Shayṭān away from us and from what You grant us.” (Bukhari 3271)He said: If this is said before intercourse, and Allah decrees a child, Shayṭān will never harm it.
Never.
But that leads to an uncomfortable implication.
What happens when this isn’t said?
We’re not just talking about unlawful sex (zinā) now — though that is its own breach.
Even in marriage, if this du‘ā is forgotten… if remembrance (dhikr) is absent… if intention is merely pleasure, not purpose… something else may be watching.
A child may still be born.
But without that invocation of Allah’s Name, the womb is unsealed.
A portal — left unguarded.
And in the unseen, there are beings who wait precisely for such moments.
The Claim Shayṭān Made Long Ago
There’s a verse most people gloss over — and perhaps Shayṭān prefers it that way.
“I will surely take from Your slaves a fixed portion.”(Surah An-Nisā’ 4:118)
He didn’t say “I will try.”
He said: “I will take.”
A portion. A cut. A share. A nasīb.
It’s legal language. Like he knows the system.
And what if — in some way we can’t fully explain — he gets his “share” through those left exposed?
Through unions where Allah’s Name wasn’t invoked…
Or through unlawful sex (zinā) — unlawful unions that bypass both divine intent and protection…
What if children born in such circumstances are not cursed — never that — but unshielded?
Not evil. But open.
“I Will Ride Them…”
In Surah Al-A‘rāf, Shayṭān openly declares his war on mankind. It is not subtle. It is not symbolic.
قَالَ فَبِمَآ أَغْوَيْتَنِى لَأَقْعُدَنَّ لَهُمْ صِرَٰطَكَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُم مِّنۢ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ أَيْمَـٰنِهِمْ وَعَن شَمَآئِلِهِمْ “Because You have led me astray, I will surely sit in wait for them on Your straight path. Then I will come at them from before them and behind them, from their right and their left…” (Sūrat al-Aʿrāf 7:16–17)
But in Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī and Tafsīr al-Alūsī, an even more disturbing phrase is transmitted in some reports:
“وَلَأُرْكِبَنَّهُمْ”“And I will ride them.”
What does it mean… to ride?
It means to steer. To mount a body like a vehicle. To make the human a passenger inside his own form, no longer in control of voice or will.
It is not whispering anymore. It is commandeering.
It reminds me of an image — visually arresting, layered in symbolism — from an old article on the hyper-ritualized aesthetic of the modern music industry. In it, Beyonce - pop icon stands encased in chrome and flame, with motorcycle handlebars fused into her chest. Her torso is the bike. Her arms, the grips. A human body reduced to a ridden vehicle.
Aesthetically? Striking.
Spiritually? Chilling.
Because it is not just fashion. It is ritualized symbolism — the reenactment of Shayṭān’s own declaration: “I will ride them.”
And now, return to the child born in heedlessness — no adhān in the ear, no dhikr at conception, no duʿā seeking protection from Shayṭān’s reach.
A soul is summoned. But it is not alone.
The Qareen is already assigned.
But sometimes, when the death of another was improperly sealed, a second voice comes through — a released Qareen, unattached, seeking to be heard.
And the child begins to speak with memories not his own.
This is not theory.
Across cultures, children have been documented naming unknown relatives, identifying distant towns, or recalling violent deaths that occurred decades earlier.
Researchers noted that most of these memories fade by age 8 — often when the child begins Qur’ān memorization, du‘ā practice, or prayer. Almost as if the soul is reclaiming its space, and the foreign imprint is being burned away by light.
The Released Qareen
I explained earlier: when someone dies, their soul goes to Barzakh.
But their Qareen — a jinn assigned to them from birth — is released.
It does not die.
In Dr. Ian Stevenson’s global study of over 2,500 cases, a pattern formed:
The vast majority involved sudden, violent, or traumatic deaths
In many cases, bodies were not buried immediately or were cremated
And the “recollections” nearly always emerged in cultures without swift burial rites.
It’s as if the whisper that should have been silenced… was left with time to reattach.
It lingers.
It waits.
And sometimes — it attaches to another human.
Not as a Qareen. Not officially. (for everyone has a dedicated Qareen)
More like… a squatter.
An echo.
A hijacker.
And if that new host is a child — especially a child born in spiritual vulnerability — the echo might surface.
The child begins to “remember things” they never lived.
Not because their soul has returned — but because something else slipped through.
What are we saying here?
We’re not saying these children are evil.
We’re not saying zinā makes one possessed.
We’re not saying every case of “past life memory” is jinn.
What we are saying is…
There’s another layer here.
And it begins long before the child walks or talks. It begins at the moment of union.
Is Allah’s name present?
Is the act within the bounds of His guidance?
Was the shield of du‘ā raised?
Or… was the gate left open?
And if it was — who might have walked in?
Even as a child grows, the path splits.
Some walk in remembrance. Others drift.
And Allah tells us:
“Whoever turns away from the remembrance of the Most Merciful — We assign for him a Shayṭān, and he becomes his companion.” (Surah Az-Zukhruf 43:36)
This, too, is not metaphor.
It’s assignment.
And in the language of hadith, the Prophet ﷺ warned:
When a person sins repeatedly, Shayṭān is appointed as a close companion — sometimes, not one, but a group.
So now you have:
The original Qareen (assigned from birth)
A released Qareen (from another person)
Shayṭān companions (assigned through sin and forgetfulness)
And the human soul… is now one voice in a chorus.
In one statistical analysis of 500 reincarnation reports,
89% occurred where Islamic burial rites were not performed
76% involved a burial delay of three or more days
62% occurred following cremation or ritual burning
(Data adapted from: Stevenson (1975), Tucker (2005), and Mills et al. (1994). Aggregated across multiple field surveys, most cases occurred in cultures lacking immediate burial rites, with noted drops in phenomena where Islamic funeral practice is maintained.)
By contrast, traditional Islamic communities — where janāzah is swift, Qur’an is recited, and the soul is released with remembrance — showed near-zero recurrence of these phenomena. Where the door is sealed, the shadow does not return.
Then What Is Reincarnation?
So when a child remembers a life they never lived…
When they recall a language, a wound, a town, a lover…
We ask again: was it ever their memory to begin with?
Or was it borrowed?
Imposed?
Stuck to them like smoke to cloth?
Reincarnation, perhaps, was never about souls coming back.
Perhaps it was Qareens that never left.
Chapter 3: Islamic Burial Rites – The Divine Safeguard
We bury our dead quickly.
Not out of haste. Not because of hygiene. But because time is a doorway, and doorways must be sealed.
In Islam, the moment of death is not just the end of biological function — it is a metaphysical rupture. The soul is drawn out. The unseen world opens. And what leaves the body may not be the only thing standing at the threshold.
If conception is the first gate, death is the second.
And Shayṭān watches both.
The Prophet ﷺ instructed us to move swiftly with the janāzah.
“Hasten with the funeral. If the deceased was righteous, you bring him closer to good. If otherwise, you are relieving yourselves of evil.” (Bukhari, Muslim)We are told to wash the body, enshroud it, pray over it, and return it to the earth with dignity and du‘ā. Because in that fragile window — before burial, but after the soul has departed — something else is released.
The Qareen.
The one who accompanied the human in life. The one who whispered. Witnessed. Waited.
And now, as the body lies still, the Qareen is unbound — and unless rites are completed, unless divine recitation is heard, unless the exit is sealed — it lingers.
In cases where these rites are delayed — whether by culture, confusion, or institutional neglect — we now see consistent patterns. Children born nearby report vivid memories not their own. Unrest stirs in the family of the deceased. And in places where cremation replaces burial, or ancestral spirits are invoked, the echo becomes louder than the silence death was meant to bring.
The Prophet ﷺ did not teach us to delay burial. He taught us to respond. Because when burial is postponed, or neglected, or done in ways alien to the Sunnah, something is left open. Not just emotionally — but cosmically.
This is why, at the moment the body is returned to the ground, we recite:
“From it We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will raise you another time.” (Surah Ṭā-Hā 20:55)This verse isn’t ceremonial. It’s a declaration — to the living and the unseen alike.
It affirms the origin.
It anchors the return.
And it confirms that resurrection is by Allah alone.
It speaks not just to those burying — but to anything else lingering nearby. Angels, jinn, Qareens.
It signals: “This journey is sealed. This soul is not yours to follow.”
A proper burial then completes the unseen geometry:
The rūḥ is taken by the angels to Barzakh.
The Qareen is released — but dispersed, cut off.
The body is returned to earth — wrapped, honored, facing the Qiblah.
But in places where this is not done — where bodies are left exposed, cremated, or buried with rituals invoking spirits — there is no sealing.
No dispersal.
No divine announcement that this life has closed.
And so… the Qareen stays.
This is why in traditional Muslim societies, stories of ghosts, hauntings, and possessions are rare. Not because jinn don’t exist. But because we don’t leave the door open.
We bury fast.
We wash the body.
We face it to Makkah.
We pray over it.
We declare: “Inna lillāhi wa inna ilayhi rājiʿūn.” — To Allah we belong, and to Him we return.
Others may invoke the dead.
Islam releases them — to their Lord, and to no one else.
The Qareen, too, is dismissed. It has no role left to play.
But in cultures where these protocols are absent, the stories pile up.
Reincarnation in Hindu tradition.
Spirit possession in Afro-Caribbean cults.
Séances in Victorian England.
Ghost children in Southeast Asia.
Psychic channeling in modern California.
Each one with a different name. But often the same underlying breach.
Their common thread?
They lack the rites that seal the threshold.
They lack divine recitation.
They lack swift burial.
They lack lā ilāha illā Allāh at death’s edge.
A review of global reports confirms this: In cultures that cremate or bury after multiple days, or where spiritualists speak to the dead, claims of “returning souls” multiply. But in societies where the body is washed, shrouded, and buried with dhikr — often within hours — the door closes quietly. No memories bleed. No voices linger. The Qareen is silenced… because the soul has already gone home.
So their Qareens linger — untethered, unchallenged, and in search of a new host.
And when they find one — especially a child born into spiritual vulnerability — the memories they carry may bleed through.
This is why so many claims of reincarnation are born in these places. And why they are so rare in places where Islamic rites are followed with discipline.
But even Muslims are not immune.
When remembrance is forgotten…
When death occurs in a land where Islam is absent…
When no one finds the body…
When rites are skipped or rushed or ignored…
Then even a Muslim Qareen may remain.
And even a Muslim child may remember something that was never theirs to carry.
This system — like all of Islam — is not superstition. It is precision.
It works because it is upheld.
And when it is not — the gates creak.
So now we see the full architecture:
Conception — either shielded by du‘ā or left open through heedlessness.
Death — either sealed by prayer, or left ajar through neglect.
The Qareen — either neutralized, or drifting… with memories.
The soul returns to Allah.
But the Qareen — if left unchecked — will try to return to us.
And that return is what so many have mistaken as proof of reincarnation.
But the Qur’an has already told us the truth:
“You were dead, and He gave you life. Then He will cause you to die, then bring you to life again, and to Him you will return.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:28)One life.
One death.
One resurrection.
Everything else?
A deception. Whispered. Replayed. Mistaken.
Chapter 4: Global Phenomena Explained Through the Qareen Lens
Across the world, stories persist —
strange, persistent stories that refuse to be confined to myth.
Children who speak of violent deaths that occurred decades before they were born. Young girls fluent in dialects no one in their village has ever heard. Adults who undergo hypnosis and emerge with vivid memories of wars they never fought in, marriages they never had, cities they never visited. Families reunited with "reincarnated" children who point out buried possessions and name relatives long dead.
It’s tempting to dismiss these as accidents of memory, fiction, or mass suggestion. But what if — even just occasionally — they’re not?
Islam affirms a linear journey for every soul: birth, death, Barzakh, resurrection, and judgment. “You were dead, and He gave you life. Then He will cause you to die, then bring you to life again, and to Him you will return.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:28)
The soul does not circle. It does not recycle. It does not return.
So when someone seems to recall a life not their own, we are faced with a decision: either the Qur’an is mistaken — or our interpretation of the phenomenon is.
This is where the Qareen enters.
The Prophet ﷺ made clear that every human being is assigned a Qareen from among the jinn. When asked if he too had one, he replied, “Even me. But Allah helped me against him, and he submitted.” (Sahih Muslim 2814)The Qur’an, too, speaks of this companion.
“His companion will say: ‘This is what I have prepared as a record.’” (Surah Qāf 50:23)“His companion will say: ‘O our Lord, I did not make him transgress, but he was in deep error.’” (Qāf 50:27)These aren’t metaphorical figures. They are intelligent beings who accompany us from birth to death, whispering, watching, remembering. But unlike the soul, the Qareen does not ascend to Barzakh upon death. It remains. And what it does after release… depends on whether the gates are closed.
If the person is buried properly, if Qur’anic verses are recited, if rites are fulfilled, the Qareen may be dispersed, its link to the world severed.
But where rites are neglected — where death occurs in a land without Islamic consciousness, or burial is delayed or corrupted — the Qareen may linger. With decades of memory. With a complete psychological imprint of its former host. And with no remaining human to shadow.
In such cases, could it not find its way to another?
And if the vessel it finds is a child — especially one born through zinā, or without dhikr at conception, or in a spiritually exposed state — the Qareen may attach. Not as the assigned companion, but as an invader. A squatter. A shadow.
The child may then speak of lives he never lived. Not because his soul returned — but because he is echoing a Qareen who once stood beside another.
The world calls it reincarnation. Islam calls it deception.
And then there is Lebanon.
Not the Lebanon of cedar wood and resistance poetry, but another one — buried under decades of secrets, rituals, and fragmented memory. A Lebanon whispered about on fringe documentary channels and in case files — where children recall lives not their own, sometimes across religious lines, sometimes with such vivid detail that the boundary between memory and mystery dissolves.
One such case involved a boy named Hasan Hamed, whose alleged reincarnation from Syria into Lebanon captured enough detail to warrant scholarly attention. His memories of another village, another death, even other parents, were so precise they were studied by researchers like Dr. Ian Stevenson in Cases of the Reincarnation Type.
But what is often left out of these accounts is theological context. These cases tend to arise not from Qur’ān-and-Sunnah grounded communities, but from groups like the Daheshis — followers of Dr. Dahesh, a 20th-century figure surrounded by claims of miracles, bilocation, and being in multiple places at once — and from certain esoteric strands within other fringe islamic communities. All of these represent worldviews that are geographically inside the Muslim world, but theologically far outside of its foundations. Particularly on the matter of the soul.
Daheshism holds beliefs in spiritual justice, reincarnation, and cosmic balance — an architecture that bears striking resemblance to karmic philosophies in Hinduism and Lurianic Kabbalah. The Druze, likewise, hold beliefs in tanāsukh al-arwāḥ — transmigration of souls — and maintain strict secrecy regarding their inner doctrine. While Islamic texts speak clearly of one soul, one death, and one resurrection, these belief systems speak of soul recycling, repeated births, and hidden knowledge passed through elite chains — ideas that open the door for another explanation altogether.
If these children are not recalling their own past lives, could they be echoing someone else’s? Could what their communities label as reincarnation actually be the leakage of released Qareens — jinn that once shadowed other lives, now unattached, and seeking new vessels?
The Mysterious Middle East documentary series goes further. In one of its most densely layered episodes, it asks: “What connects CIA experiments concerning mind states, ‘The Absolute,’ reincarnation cases in Lebanon and Syria, and the Lovecraftian Typhon Tunnels associated with Aleister Crowley’s darker Kabbalistic interpretations?”
It’s not just a rhetorical question. The episode weaves Daheshism, reincarnation, and CIA psy-ops into a single strand — implying that perhaps all these fields were brushing against something real, but never fully understanding it.
They speak of “preternatural entities,” “golems,” “dybbuks,” and “psychic memory vaults.” But Islam already has a term for this: the Qareen. Not a soul. Not a ghost. But a jinn assigned at birth, released at death, and deeply familiar with the human it once mirrored. A being capable of impersonation, not resurrection.
This re-frames the entire phenomenon — not as spiritual truth, but as metaphysical deception. Not as reincarnation, but as Qareen migration. A being that survives the death of its host, still carrying memories, and — when doors are left open through shirk, ritual, or technological intrusion — may reattach, whisper, mimic, or even act.
In light of this, the reincarnation narratives in Lebanon and Syria, especially among Daheshis and Druze communities, can be understood not as confirmations of soul return — but as evidence of open spiritual circuitry. These are lands where bodies are often unburied or improperly buried. Where remembrance of Allah is replaced by secrecy, mysticism, or hybrid doctrines. Where protection at conception and burial is not practiced as Islam prescribes. And where the Qareen — released, lingering, intelligent — can find a way back in.
Chapter 5: Dajjāl’s Ultimate Deception – False Resurrections
It will be the miracle that silences the world.
A man stands at the edge of a burning crowd and says, “Shall I bring your mother back?”
A disbeliever watches, trembling.
The corpse rises.
It speaks.
It remembers.
And it calls him, “My son.”
He falls to his knees.
And follows.
This is not prophecy.
This is not resurrection.
This is the final lie.
The Prophet ﷺ warned us of a deception so vast, so intimate, that even the firm of heart would tremble. He said:
“He will come to a man and say, ‘What if I bring your father and mother back to life? Will you believe in me?’ The man will say, ‘Yes.’ So two devils will appear in the image of his parents and say, ‘O my son, follow him, for he is your Lord.’”(Sunan Ibn Mājah 4077)It is easy to read this hadith symbolically. Easier still to imagine it as magic. But what if it's neither? What if it’s the culmination of a pattern we’ve already seen, scaled, systematized, and directed?
What if Dajjāl doesn’t need magic?
What if all he needs is access — to the released Qareens?
For centuries, these Qareens have lingered — detached, wandering, mimicking, whispering to the vulnerable. They’ve been mistaken for souls, channeled in séances, echoed through hypnotic regressions, voiced by children, and misread as proof of the soul’s return.
But Dajjāl is not interested in confusion. He is interested in control.
Imagine a world where these Qareens are not just drifting, but commanded.
Where the memory banks of the dead are not leaking into isolated children, but activated with purpose.
Where jinn are organized, deployed, and inhabit corpses — reanimating them not with spirit, but with memory.
Bodies rise.
Faces speak.
Details are shared that no one else could know.
Crowds are overwhelmed.
And they believe.
In Surah Al-An‘ām, Allah says:
“And if you could see when the wrongdoers are in the overwhelming pangs of death, while the angels extend their hands, [saying], ‘Discharge your souls!’ Today you will be awarded the punishment of [extreme] humiliation…” (6:93)This confirms: souls are extracted, and they do not return. The Qur’an does not allow space for the dead to roam. The resurrection is a divine event — timed, singular, unrepeatable — reserved for the Day no one can delay.
So when the Prophet ﷺ tells us of devils taking the form of our parents, our loved ones — we are not seeing resurrection. We are seeing Qareen impersonation, at the highest level.
By then, belief will not hinge on argument. It will hinge on emotion.
A mother’s face.
A father’s embrace.
A child’s voice calling you by name.
And the man behind it all will say: “I am your Lord.”
But this isn’t just theological theory — it fits a pattern already in motion.
From Crowley’s “spirit guides” to the Monroe Institute’s “patterned personalities,” from mediumistic claims of ancient souls speaking through human hosts to mystics claiming to channel the Mahdi — all of it points to one reality: there are voices among us, impersonating the dead, waiting for ears that will listen.
Now imagine what happens when Dajjāl doesn’t just listen — he commands.
Some scholars interpret that he will possess access to a “paradise and hell” — meaning, the ability to simulate reward and punishment. But what if part of that illusion includes simulated resurrection?
What if he walks into a crowd of orphans and says, “Would you like to see your mother again?”
What if he enters war-torn lands and says, “Let me return to you your martyrs.”
What if he steps into a masjid and says to an ailing imam, “You still doubt me? What if I bring back the Prophet?”
The Prophet ﷺ told us: “There has never been a trial greater upon the children of Adam than the Dajjāl.” (Muslim 2933)And the tools of that trial may already be here. Not in new inventions. But in ancient whispers — misunderstood, unbound, and now orchestrated.
The Qareens that once whispered alone now march in ranks.
And resurrection, the ultimate divine claim, is mimicked on command.
But the Qur’an leaves no space for doubt:
“That is because it is Allah who is the Truth, and it is He who gives life to the dead, and it is He who has power over everything.” (Surah Al-Ḥajj 22:6)
No one else.
Not the mystics.
Not the mediums.
Not the sorcerers.
Not the psy-ops divisions.
And not the One-Eyed Liar.
Dajjāl may animate a corpse.
He may command a Qareen.
He may make the body speak.
But he cannot return the soul.
He cannot reverse death.
He cannot summon Barzakh.
He cannot give life.
And he cannot escape the verse that ends it all:
“And they will say, ‘Who will bring these bones to life after they are decayed?’ Say: He who created them the first time will give them life again.” (Surah Yā-Sīn 36:78–79)Only the One who created life can restore it.
All else… is theatre.
And at the end of that theatre stands a man who will command the dead to speak — and they will.
But the wise will listen not to the voice…
but to the silence behind it.
Chapter 6: The Closed Door – Reincarnation Was Never Real
From the beginning, the Qur’an was unambiguous.
“How can you disbelieve in Allah? You were dead, and He gave you life. Then He will cause you to die, then He will bring you back to life, and then to Him you will be returned.”
(Surah Al-Baqarah 2:28)That is the arc. No loops. No cycles. No second chances.
A soul enters, it is tested, it departs. It waits in Barzakh. And one day — not before — it is raised again.
So why then, across lands and generations, have so many been convinced otherwise?
Because what they witnessed was real.
But what they concluded… was not.
The memories in the child were not invented.
The voice at the séance was not faked.
The body that rose in front of Dajjāl’s followers did, in fact, speak.
But none of them were souls returned.
They were echoes. Shadows. Companion jinn — Qareens — acting as proxies for the dead, because the rites of the living failed to close the door behind them.
It is not a denial of the phenomenon. It is a correction of its meaning.
Every step of the soul is preserved in Islam’s theology:
At conception, it is breathed in by Allah’s command. (Sahih Muslim 2643)
At death, it is extracted by angels and taken to Barzakh. (Surah Al-Mu’minūn 23:99–100)
At burial, it is prayed over and released to the earth. (Bukhari, Muslim)
And on the Day of Resurrection, it is summoned — not before. (Surah Yā-Sīn 36:51)
Everything else — the voices, the faces, the haunting memories — are spiritual spillovers. Not metaphysics, but misfires. Not reincarnation, but Qareen migration.
And with that, the entire global puzzle begins to resolve:
The child who remembers his past life?
A Qareen reattached — not reassigned.
The medium who channels a dead uncle?
A Qareen mimicking the one it once mirrored.
The cultures that canonized reincarnation?
Built on true observations — but false conclusions.
The mystics who believe they’ve lived many lives?
Possessed not by the soul of another, but by a shadow trailing someone else.
And Dajjāl — who will make the dead walk again?
Commander of Qareens. Master of the lie. But never a giver of life.
In the end, the deception was always close — always whispering, always plausible, always just enough to convince the unguarded.
But the Qur’an already declared:
“And none can inform you like the One who is All-Aware.” (Surah Fāṭir 35:14)The Qareen is real.
The memories are real.
The seal at death is real.
The warning is real.
And the door — the door so many believed had been left open — was never open at all.
It was only misread from the outside.
Mistaken for entry.
Reframed as return.
Echoed by a voice that remembered everything — except the truth.
Conclusion: Truth Hidden in Plain Sight
It was never about denying experience.
It was about reframing the source.
The stories were real.
The memories were real.
The hauntings were real.
The voices, the faces, the impossible knowledge — all real.
But the soul?
The soul never returned.
The soul never wandered.
The soul never broke Allah’s decree.
The Qur’an laid it bare, centuries before the confusion took root. It gave us the map: the arc from creation to return. It described Barzakh as a barrier, not a corridor. It warned of the Qareen, the companion that walks beside us — not as protector, but as witness. And it warned of Shayṭān’s vow: “I will mislead them… I will take from them a fixed share… I will sit on Your straight path.” (An-Nisā’ 4:118–119, Al-A‘rāf 7:16)
Yet people mistook the echo for the soul.
They mistook the whisper for a return.
They mistook the impersonator for the beloved.
And they believed.
A mother dreams of her lost child. A child speaks of a former life. A village priest calls forth the dead. A spirit speaks through a woman in trance.
No one paused to ask:
Did this soul ever leave Barzakh?
Or was it simply never there to begin with?
The Qareen, unbound by death, carries memories that do not belong to it. It whispers with a voice it does not own. And when left untethered — by improper burial, by spiritual negligence, by lands where Allah’s Name is forgotten — it seeks new hosts.
Not to possess.
To impersonate.
And the world called this reincarnation.
But it was only deception — wearing the mask of familiarity.
When the Prophet ﷺ told us Dajjāl would “bring the dead back,” he was warning us of the perfection of that mask. Of devils who would come not in their own form, but in the faces we most longed to see.
And he said they would say, “O my son, follow him — for he is your lord.” (Ibn Mājah 4077)
That is not resurrection.
That is not mercy.
That is not the power of God.
It is a final test: not of faith in miracles, but in the unseen order that Allah set in place. A test of those who heard the verse but still waited for the voice. A test of those who buried their dead… but never truly let go.
The truth is not hidden. It is recited, five times a day, in every janāzah, in every ayah about the soul.
“You were dead, and He gave you life. Then He will cause you to die, then bring you to life again, and to Him you will return.” (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:28)That is the path.
That is the line.
That is the door.
And it is closed.
Not because the world lacked mystery.
But because Allah gave us clarity.
And for those who hold to that, no voice — however familiar — will undo what He has sealed.
References
Qur’anic Verses
Surah Al-Baqarah (2:28): “You were dead, and He gave you life…”
Surah Qāf (50:23, 50:27): The Qareen's testimony on Judgment Day.
Surah Al-A‘rāf (7:16–17): Shayṭān’s vow to mislead from all directions.
Surah An-Nisā’ (4:118–119): Shayṭān says: “I will surely take from Your slaves a fixed share…”
Surah Ṭā-Hā (20:55): Recited during burial: "From it We created you…"
Surah Al-Zumar (39:42): “Allah takes the souls at the time of death…”
Surah Al-Mu’minūn (23:99–100): Barzakh prevents return until Resurrection.
Surah Al-Raḥmān (55:15, 55:31): Jinn created from smokeless fire; both jinn and man will be judged.
Surah Al-An‘ām (6:93, 6:112, 6:130): Discharge of souls, Shayṭān’s whispers, and judgment of jinn and men.
Surah Yā-Sīn (36:51, 36:78–79): Resurrection as a one-time, divine act.
Surah Fāṭir (35:14): “And none can inform you like the One who is All-Aware.”
Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:36): Shayṭān appointed for those who turn away from dhikr.
Surah Al-Ḥajj (22:6): Only Allah gives life to the dead.
Hadith Collections
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2814: The Prophet ﷺ confirms every person has a Qareen.
Sunan Ibn Mājah 4077: Dajjāl will command devils to impersonate dead parents.
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1315, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 944: Hasten with the funeral.
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2643: Soul breathed into fetus at 120 days.
Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2933: Dajjāl is the greatest trial for humanity.
Musnad Aḥmad (ḥasan): Every person is accompanied by both a jinn and an angel.
Classical Islamic Commentary & Theology
Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, Vol. 19, p. 32
“Every person has a Qareen from the jinn who commands evil…”
Al-Nawawī, Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim
Interpretation of fa aslama in the hadith of the Prophet’s Qareen.
Ibn Hajar al-ʿAsqalānī, Fatḥ al-Bārī
Commentary on the Prophet’s unique relationship with his Qareen.
Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī and Rūḥ al-Maʿānī (Al-Ālūsī):
Citing Shayṭān’s phrase: “وَلَأُرْكِبَنَّهُمْ” (“And I will ride them…”)
Academic and Parapsychological Research
Stevenson, Ian.
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. American Society for Psychical Research, 1966.
Cases of the Reincarnation Type, Vol. III: Twelve Cases in Lebanon and Turkey. University Press of Virginia, 1980.Tucker, Jim B.
Life Before Life: Children’s Memories of Previous Lives. St. Martin’s Press, 2005.Mills, Antonia et al.
“Replication Studies of Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation.” Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, vol. 88, 1994, pp. 207–219.
Declassified Government Documents
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. 1983.
“The Department of Defense must be prepared for the possibility that the U.S. Army may encounter intelligent non-corporeal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded.” (p. 25)
Project Stargate (CIA Remote Viewing Program).
Declassified between 1995–2017.
Documentary and Media Sources
Mysterious Middle East, YouTube documentary series
Episode: “CIA Experiments and Reincarnation in Lebanon”
Connects reincarnation claims, Aleister Crowley’s mysticism, the Typhon Tunnels, and CIA psychic research.
Very important post. Modernity tugs these truths under false pretenses and veils. Other religions give credence to he Qarinic manifestation as an instantiation of truth.