From the looks of the moon I could judge it was past midnight. The sky was very dark and the weather was very windy. The rustling of trees constantly caught my attention as I rode by on my horse. The rhythmic thumps of the hoofs beat straight into my mind causing a hypnotic trance, and yet I had one thing on my mind-to arrive home safely. Upon reaching the center of the wooded region, I spotted something on the ground. I maneuvered the horse to stop in an attempt to see what it was. Lying on the earth was a goat that looked like it had been ill for a while. I decided to take it with me in order to bring home at least a feast. It took me a few minutes to saddle the goat on the back of the horse before I began my journey home. Everything was going very well until I marked that the horse was beginning to move slower than before. He would not accelerate or even try to gain speed. As the journey progressed, so the slower the horse moved. I also noticed that the front of the horse began to rise up, which meant that the rear was falling. I had never seen such actions happen in an animal like this one. With sheer instincts I decided to look behind me to see what was going on and what I saw I could never forget. The goat had transformed into these weird looking beast of some sort. It had the horns of a rhino and the feet of a zebra. Its hind legs were clenched into the ground with great bear like claws. I realized why the horse could not go. Physical action and instinct took over my fear as I reached over and kicked the goat off the horse and rode into the darkness. I could still hear in the back of my mind that "thing" saying I escaped luckily through its grasp.
             When my grandfather told me this story exactly as written, the first word that came into my mind was Jinn. A Jinni (plural Jinn) in Islamic beliefs is a supernatural spirit below the level of angels and devils. Nursi states that there are three classes of Jinn: "Gh...