Assalamualaikum.
Modern day mainstream Islamic interpretations of the word "Jinn" state Jinn to be some sort of demonic existence that take over humans sometimes and control them for their own ends. Kind of like in that movie "Exorcism of Emily Rose" (which I have not seen though I think the challenge is worth it). These are just rubbish interpretations drawn out by Ulema who lacked guidance from revelation.
However, the Quran claims Jinn are ...
before I get into that please note that the following is a gist of or quotations from
The Jinn. Again very interesting read stating that ...
the "Jinn" can refer to various meanings.
The meaning I will try to prove here is that the Jinn refer to the several Microorganisms (bacteria and viruses (though viruses are not really organisms)).
Firstly, microorganisms are not visible to the naked eye and the use of the word "Jinn" for them would make sense. Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) strongly admonished people not to use dried up lumps of dung or bones of dead animals for cleaning themselves after attending to the call of nature because they are food for the
jinn.
The Quran describes them as having been born out of blasts of fire (from the cosmos).
"And the Jinn We created before that (the creation of man) from blasts of fire (naris-samum)."
Here the adjective used to describe the nature of the particular fire from which the
jinn were created is
Samum, which means a blazing fire or a blast that has no smoke. We find a similar statement in another Quranic verse:
"And the Jinn He created from the flame of fire."
According to the accepted scientific studies, direct heat from fire had to play a vital role in the creation and maintenance of pre-biotic organisms. This, in fact was the only mode of transfer of energy for the consumption of organized forms of existence during this era.
