10.3. The Jinn:
The jinn are beings of two dimensions (2-D) or four directions, and according to traditional sources they are made of fire. Ibn Arabi affirms that:
The fire jinn got the four (of letters) because of the facts they are based on that caused them to say as the Real, the Exalted, told: then I will approach them from between their hands, from behind them, from their right side and from their left side (7:17), and then their facts are over, they have no further fifth fact to seek through it further level, and you should be aware not to think that this is possible for them that to have the height (up) and its counterpart (down) by which the six directions are complete, because the (their) reality does not permit that as we affirmed in the book 'al-Mabadi wal-Ghayat'.
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It is evident, therefore, that jinn can only move in four directions; the plane or the surface. They have no sense of height, so their space is a sub-space of ours, and that is why we do not see them, they are too thin and tenuous, just like the surface of a heat wave or flame. It is also noteworthy in this regard here that Allah said in Qur'an that the angels say: 'to Him (to Allah) belongs what is between our hands and what is behind us and what is between that' (19:64); so He did not mention the sides as in the case of jinn. This therefore supports what we said above about the angels being only 1-D.