DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?

OUTLINE

• Why people believe.

• Where ghosts can be found.

• A few haunted places known around the world.

• What science/ facts say.

• Effect of religion on belief.

Why people believe• The idea that the dead remain with us in spirit is an

ancient one, and one that offers many people comfort; Most people believe in ghosts because of personal experience; they have seen or sensed some unexplained presence.

• Many people believe that support for the existence of ghosts can be found in Albert Einstein’s theory which suggested a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts; if energy cannot be created or destroyed but only change form, what happens to our body's energy when we die? Becomes a ghost?

WHERE GHOSTS EXISTGhosts exist in a variety of places on Earth. They can

create a centre for themselves in living and non-living objects. By centre we mean a place where they store their black energy. The centre acts as an entry point and a point of receiving or transmitting their black energy. Ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies, etc.) generally create a centre for themselves in people, trees, houses, electrical equipments etc

1) HUMAN BEINGS

2) ANIMALS

3) VEGITATION

4) OBJECTS

5) PLACES/HOUSES

6) POLICE STATIONS/ JAILS

7) HOSPITALS

8) CEMETRIES

FAMOUSE HAUNTED PLACES ALL AROUND THE WORLD

Penitentiary Moundsville, West Virginia

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia

. Monte Cristo, New South Wales, Australia

Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland

Berry Pomeroy Castle, Totness

Bhangarh Fort, India

Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls, Ontario

What science says.• The physician John Ferrier says sightings of ghosts are the

result of optical illusions.• French physician Alexandre Jacques says sightings of ghosts

are hallucinations.• Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry wrote that

there was no credible scientific evidence that any location was inhabited by spirits of the dead.

• Limitations of human perception and ordinary physical explanations can account for ghost sightings; for example, airpressure changes in a home causing doors to slam, or lights from a passing car reflected through a window at night.

• Pareidolia an innate tendency to recognize patterns in random perceptions, is what some skeptics believe causes people to believe that they have 'seen ghosts‘.

• Reports of ghosts "seen out of the corner of the eye" may be accounted for by the sensitivity of human peripheral vision

• According to Nickell, peripheral vision can easily mislead, especially late at night when the brain is tired and more likely to misinterpret sights and sounds."

WHAT RELIGION SAYS• let me specify WHAT IS A GHOST ? This means “the soul or spirit of

dead person who haunts the world of the living “. This definition contradicts ISLAM .Once a soul leaves , it never returns until the day of judgment. ALLAH mentioned in Quran : “and behind them is a barrier until the day when they are raised”[Al Muminoon:100].

• In the light of absolutely clear guidance of Quran and Sunnah there is absolutely no such thing like ghost. The only being that ALLAH has created who has the chance to do good and evil are the human beings and jinn. Ghosts are nothing but imaginations. Allah mentioned that :“I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship me”[AL Dhariyat].

CONCLUSIONWhat do you think? All of us have experienced something supernatural.. Personally or heard about it from relatives or friends. These are jinn because Allah mentioned that they have chance to do good and evil. As a Muslim we don’t believe in ghosts.

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