Why do genies live in lamps

Is Aladdin Arab or Indian? Early 19th and 20th-century versions of the story clearly show Aladdin as culturally Asian. How did the genie get in the lamp? What kind of lamp is the genie in? Aladdin lamps have been around for years. As seen when Jafar wishes to be a genie, all genies are bound to lamps by default in this universe. Allah granted King Solomon a power to rule over genies so they build him a temple.

In a rush, genie turned into the djinn he is now. Before being transformed completely, she curses Hassan through her magic, to become a Genie trapped in a lamp, which is discovered by Aladdin years later. Why is a genie lamp called a lamp when it looks like a teapot? Genie offers Aladdin three wishes on anything he wished, with explicitly only three limitations: Genie could not kill anyone, make anyone fall in love, or bring people back from the dead although his words implied that he could bring people back from the dead, but it is so horrifying that he will not do it — and also.

So Williams struck an unusual deal with Disney, who agreed not to market Aladdin as a Robin Williams movie. The Cave of Wonders was the resting place of the lamp because only a person of kind heart would be able to gain access to it, thus helping to prevent this nigh unlimited power from falling in the wrong hands.

If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute. This article is about the lamp that contains Genie. For other uses, see Lamp disambiguation. Genie's lamp alternatively referred to as the Magic Lamp or Aladdin's lamp is a magical oil lamp featured in Aladdin , whose owner has the ability to summon and temporarily control a wish-granting Genie with cosmic power.

As it contains an all-powerful servant, the lamp has been coveted by many for thousands of years. The lamp has existed for millennia, though its origins are unknown. As one of the most powerful objects in the universe, the lamp was hidden deep within the Cave of Wonders , a cavern that can only be summoned by a golden scarab and entered by an individual known as the Diamond in the Rough.

The lamp itself resembles an oil lamp, which have been used as "genie lamps" in Arabian folklore for generations. In color, it is completely bronze. The interior was described by Genie as very cramped and small. Despite this, the interior has been fully seen as part of the Inside the Genie's Lamp featurette, in which the lamp boasts a large living room, dining room, a master bedroom with a "fly-in" closet, and even a garden decorated with topiaries, flora, and water features.

Additional areas that are mentioned but unseen include a ballroom and a breakfast nook. According to the Genie, he had not been summoned from the lamp for 10, years, meaning that the lamp had been in the Cave of Wonders for that long.

The evil vizier Jafar had spent years trying to find the Cave and manipulates Aladdin into recovering the lamp within. As the Cave crumbles, Jafar briefly has the lamp in his possession, but as he attempts to kill Aladdin, Abu steals it back. Aladdin uses the Genie's power to escape the underground ruins of the Cave, then uses his first wish to become a prince worthy to marry Jasmine.

Jafar attempts to kill him the night he comes to Agrabah, but Genie saves him at the cost of his second wish. As Aladdin exposes Jafar's treachery, the vizier sees the lamp in his hat and realizes the truth.

Later, Jafar's sidekick parrot Iago steals the lamp and gives it to Jafar, who uses the first two wishes to become a sultan and sorcerer, respectively, again attempting to kill Aladdin by sending him to a snow-covered cliffside far from Agrabah after exposing Prince Ali's true identity to Jasmine.

After returning thanks to the Magic Carpet , Aladdin tries to steal back the lamp, but Jafar discovers him and keeps him from doing so. With Jafar ready to kill Aladdin, the latter tricks Jafar into using his third wish to become a genie himself, allowing Aladdin to seal him in his own lamp, which Genie tosses into the depths of the desert.

Aladdin reclaims the lamp and, after considering but dismissing using his final wish to become a prince again, he fulfills his promise to Genie and sets him free. Although still Genie's "default" location to reside in although he was able to leave the lamp on his own accord rather than being perpetually trapped in it until rubbed like he was originally , Genie tended to spend more time outside his lamp than within it, the lamp serving as a place to rest more than anything else.

On at least three occasions the lamp was stolen: once by Abis Mal who sought to make the Genie grant him his wishes unaware that Genie was no longer obligated to grant wishes after his freedom , another time by Mozenrath whilst he was asleep inside it to lure Aladdin to him, and again by a 'charitable' Iago who attempted to sell it, prompting Genie to attempt to get it back as he missed his home.

And this applies perfectly well to non-magical wishing. This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 24th, at pm and is filed under books , Islam. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Okay, Pauline, what would you do with 10 million dollars? Happy Thanksgiving! I lived in a place for six years where people very much believed in the existence of the djinn. They mostly were frightened of the mischief that they could cause.

Good point. Just wanted to show my appreciation. You own this correction to your readers. Thank you for the correction. I think perhaps I used the word dirt because it seemed to encompass both mud and clay. Now that you brought the matter to my attention, I looked further to see what the Quran says that man is made from — admitted by doing Web searches since I do not own a copy of the Quran. From what I see, it variously indicates clay, mud, dust, congealed blood, and a sperm-drop.

So the jinn is like ill do something for you if you leave me alone. In what I know, they are trapped by powerful sorcerers. Maybe through a spell, or trickery. They would pour an organic substance down into the mouth of the lamp… It some how prevented the neural peptides of the perpatrader from affecting the less sociopathic and cruel leader. Making it easter for him or her to heal the sick and help true love each other. But I need snippets of fact to entwine with my story. My genie used to be regarded in high esteem.

But, my genie was an Egyptian that was praised by the Pharaoh himself. But I need just enough fact to suspend disbelief. If you want to separate fact from fiction, I would advise you to speak more directly to those that come from that culture. As Djinn, Jinn, Genie, and Jinni come from not Arabia alone but from the middle east and NE Afica, perhaps someone from one of those cultures could better assist you.

If I knew anyone from one of those cultures I would be fascinated to learn more about this from them. As it happens, I lack such contacts, and posting my speculative thoughts on a blog is one way of inviting anyone more knowledgeable on the topic to enlighten me. I Went to University, and studied with a guy from Yemen. He was from a very old clan, who only stopped being Bedouins in the last 50 years.

Some of the stories he told me about Jinns were amazing. Im talking modern stories from everyday life. He told me his friends wife got lost in the desert as a little girl and suddenly appeared back at camp out of nowhere claiming her guardian jinn had brought her home.

Later when she got married her husband would make fun of her claim about Jinns. So apparently she told her Jinn to send text messages to her husband… Apparently this happened and when the guy tried to trace the number he received texts from it didnt exist… This guy completely believed these stories. He also told me that black magicians were often used by Jealous wives to win favor over other wives, if they were in a polygamous marriage.

He even showed me a news report from Yemen I have tried to find it now and cant with a story about a man who made a deal with evil Jinns for money etc. Apparently you can still be put in prison from black magic in Yemen — but how they prove this beyond a doubt, I have no idea….

A few years ago, at a time when my very rocky marriage was maybe at its worst, I prayed for things to get better on a nightly basis. I had this dream that I was walking down a road and as I was walking past a house on my right I noticed a tornado shape of smoke twirling beside a rather large tree.

As I continued on, I looked up to see where this twirling smoke led to and up very high, higher than the free beside it was a figure, the twirling smoke formed into a giant genie looking figure which was very frightening. I ran and took a left in through a gate, of a chain link variety, and ran into a house, I am assuming was my own in this dream, and ran into a room at the right, I felt he was going to lean down and look into the window and just as a giant eye appeared I woke up, very frightened and of course relieved that this was a dream.

Later, my husband of this rocky marriage I was in went to jail for his umteenth DUI, I purchased a trailer home as I could no longer afford the house that I had lived in. During this time I dreamed this dream again, passing the same tree and running through the gate into this same house, but this time, I ran into a different room that I somehow knew had a smaller window but he could still see in it so I ducked down to hide beneath something.

Four years later, my husband and I are considering divorce. He move to the neighboring city and bought a house and starting counseling to try and save our failing marriage. I finally started council inc too, and went to the house he had purchased.

I was looking out his front door and it hit me like a ton of bricks, a cross the street was the very free thT I had dreamed the genie was beside and I was standing in the very house from my dream. The rooms were the sNe and it had the room with the little window and under the window was a desk that my husband had built and I could duck there and not be seen from that window.