The Qareen is mentioned in the Quraan (al-Nisa [4]:42; al-
Saffat [37]: 49-54; Fussilat [41]-54.
He is the ‘fellow’ who belongs with every human, but he is
not clerly described. In the hadeeth there is talk of two ‘fellows’, one of the
jinn (qarin min al-jinn) and one of the angels ( qarin min al-mala’ika).
When a human being is born, simultaneously a Qareen is born,
that is, a doppelganger who resembles the person he or she belongs to in every
respect. Even nowadays doppleganger constitute a specific category of ginnis
that must certainly be taken into account.
