Hi H20,
I will try and explain the implications of jinns reaching the stars. I will be using light years as the unit for describing distances, even though this isn't 100% it is close enough to use a guide. The nearest star is 4.3 light years away(trillions and trillions etc), in other words travelling at the speed of light it takes 4.3 years to reach the eath from the nearest star(excluding the sun). Therefore a return journey would take 8.6 light years if travelling at 186000 miles per second!!!!
If we read the following hadith we learn about the speed of the jinn
Thus, the Jinn could no longer gather information about the future as easily as they could before the Prophet's (pbuh) mission. Because of that, they now mix their information with many lies. The Prophet said: "They (the Jinn) would pass the information back down until it reaches the lips of a magician fortune-teller. Sometimes a meteor would overtake them before they could pass it on. If they passed it on before being struck, they would add to it a hundred lies." (Al-Bukhari and Tirmidhi)
This makes it clear that it is possible for meteorites to catch jinns, therefore this would means jinns cannot travel anywhere near the speed of light. The fastest metorites travel in space at around 2700 miles per second compared to 186000 miles a second of light. In other words if the jinn could match the fastest meteorites it would take around 600 years to reach the stars and back. Which fortune teller is going to wait that long for their message??
Not only that how can meteorite affect a jinn in space, afterall it's just a rock. It only lights up when it reaches the earths atmosphere(300 miles above earth), there is no reason for the jinn to be chased away by a meteorite in space. Anyway a meteorite travels in a fixed line in space surely they would just move out the way!!! There is no evidence of meteorites erratically changing course. The stars are also a defense for the jinns according to the Koran
We have indeed decked the lower heaven with beauty (in) the stars, (for beauty) and for guard against all obstinate rebellious Satans. (So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side. -- Sura 37:6-8
There are infact billions of miles between each of star, there is nothing to stop a jinn going between stars. Infact a jinn could bring along thousands of buddies and there is logical reason to why the stars can stop them.
As for man reaching the stars it would currently take around 150,000 years to reach the nearest stars. That should put human travelling to the stars in perspective. Speed of sound is is only 10 miles per second, light travels 186,000 miles per second. To say we will be able to approach the light of speed because will achieved sound is vey misleading. As the following paragraph will demonstrate:
It is sometimes objected that "they said no-one would ever go faster than sound and they were wrong. Now they say no-one will ever go faster than light. . ." Actually it is probably not true that anybody said it was impossible to go faster than sound. It was known that rifle bullets go faster than sound long before an aircraft did. The truth is that some engineers said that controlled flight at faster than sound might be impossible, and they were wrong about that. FTL is a very different matter. It was inevitable that someone would one day succeed in flying faster than sound once technology got round the problems. It is not inevitable that one day technology will enable us to go faster than light. Relativity has a lot to say about it. If FTL travel or FTL communication were possible then causality would probably be violated and some very strange conclusions would follow.
quoted from this link
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/R ... t/FTL.html at
Clearly the concept of jinns and their travels seem to defy logic in a number of ways.
regards
Musti