The One Who Waits on Eid

This is a real account from a Ruqya healer in Jordan. The man's family witnessed it, and so did the healer and the neighbours. They believe it was a jinn, and it happened right after Eid.

The man had just come back from Eid prayers. He laughed with his children and shared sweets with the neighbours, and everything seemed normal. Late in the afternoon he went completely silent. He sat in a corner staring at the wall, and his mouth moved as if he were trying to speak, but nothing came out.

They rushed him to the hospital. The scans came back clean: no stroke, nothing neurological. Then they called the Ruqya healer.

The moment the Quran was played, his body locked up. He shook and breathed hard, and then he spoke, in a voice that was not his, a hoarse whisper.

"He greeted someone else first. Not me, on Eid."

The healer asked who it was.

"He forgot the one who waits every Eid by the garden wall."

That was when the family remembered. Every Eid the man used to visit an old woman who lived by the garden. She had died last year. This year he had walked right past without stopping.

The jinn said it had been waiting, and that it entered him the moment he ignored it.

It took six days of Ruqya before he could speak again. His first words were, "I didn't mean to ignore her."

They still don't know who she was. But no one walks past that garden on Eid now without whispering a prayer, just in case she is still waiting.