Before the beginning of time, there was no universe. No stars or planets, no distinct forces, not even gravity. There wasn't even empty space. Only the mysterious Creator existed outside of reality, and encased within Him were countless particles and electrons. Thus, time and multidimensional space were crafted in a massive explosion set off by Him; the Big Bang.
Many millennia after, a solar system like most others formed and at the centre was a star, the sun. It had many layers, like all stars did in the universe, including a deep super-heated layer where positive and negative ions separated and moved independently of each other; a state of matter called plasma. Within, positively charged ions and freely floating electrons were both acted on by intense magnetic forces also present in the sun. It was nothing spectacular, that is, until the Creator extracted bits and pieces of the sun's plasma and released it onto one particular planet, earth, which had finally assumed its stable orbit.
The plasma collected within a miniscule fifth dimension of space and time that rested immediately beyond the obvious three-dimensional space. The laws of physics in this dimension were similar to that of others, except gravity and electromagnetism were unified which caused it to curl into itself and exist everywhere and nowhere all at once.
While the early Earth continued to feed violently from asteroids and other debris, the dense plasma became warped and compacted; reshaped by the distinct magnetic forces of the planet. The result was something nearly unimaginable; immensely powerful entities that fed from the flow of radiation emitted from the sun. The djinn, sentient creatures with individual identities composed from, in their simplest form, magnetic patterns of electrical charges. They resembled a deep, dark smog with a core that burned hot as a smokeless flame. Because their most basic form was pure energy, they were able to adopt the properties of anything desired. Well, as long as the elements needed were available to manipulate since neither energy or matter could be created or destroyed. Except by the Creator, of course.
Djinn built a harmonious community on earth that spread from pole to pole, developed relationships, language, and even discovered faith in the Creator. Earth was just for them to call home, landscaped by frozen mountains of ice that melted into deep oceans, active volcanos, and bare deserts. In four dimensions, they could move fluidly through and around objects in their environment, from one side of the globe to the next in less than a second. However, He was not finished with earth yet. The position of the planet in relation to the sun was just perfect for another design.
It began partly by chance and partly by manipulation. Simple organic compounds were forged from inorganic compounds struck with enormous and irreproducible energy from the Creator. An evolutionary process of increasing complexity began, allowing life to exist beside the djinn's four dimensional world in just three dimensions. For the djinn, this meant an entirely new reality; a world with beautiful oceans, clouds, and mountains that bloomed with flora and fauna.
Not yet satisfied with such basic life-forms as single-celled organisms, the Creator manifested from the sun a new, but much weaker, form of conscious energy which allowed the evolution of animals. Within every complex organism that lived, from the smallest insect to the largest dinosaur, was a unique energy, a soul.
Similar to a djinni's core energy, the energy within living creatures fabricated the base of their consciousness and so it varied according to individual identity. But the similarities stopped there because the slighter and more stable energy of a soul could not be manipulated like the powerful inferno that djinn were made of. In order to exist on the planet at all, each soul required a living vessel which harboured a vulnerability to illness, injury, and age.
Djinn could exist for as long as their core energy remained, but a living being's soul had one very special capability that the djinn did not. They could procreate, which meant that new souls were born into the world with every new generation, each just a little different than the last. A djinni could exist for eternity, but he would never evolve.
Djinn existed peacefully through millions of years of evolution next to the living as invisible entities until the advancement of humankind showed characteristics remarkably similar to them. Out of curiosity and admiration for the new creatures, some appeared to people as deities that aided ancient human society. They did this by letting go of their extra spacial dimension and altering their form so it could be perceivable by people who could only interact in three-dimensional space. Several djinn, however, grew increasingly annoyed by human civilization because it threatened their existence as the single dominant species on earth. Instead of maintaining peace, they brought harm and suffering to humans unlucky enough to encounter them.
Unrest ran ramped through djinn society as they struggled to cope with the change. It started as a civil argument, but as they continued to disagree with one another, their once harmonious community divided into war. Iniquity and dishonesty deepened within every djinni's thought, and the Creator grieved with great sorrow at the theater of violence and disaster. It was time for Him to offer His progenies guidance, and so for the first time, He spoke to them.
He congregated all djinn from earth into an unknown realm not within the perceivable space and time of the universe, the Aboveworld. The space was far beyond anything plausible, there was light all around with no distinguishable floor nor ceiling, but yet they remained still. Tiny globes of colour floated around them like a grouping of rainbow fireflies. As one reached out to touch a globe, they saw into another world, perhaps even another universe. Some of the worlds included creatures of odd shapes and sizes, exhibiting behaviours that were not possible within the laws of physics in their home universe. But, there was one globe shockingly familiar. It was earth, and on it they observed humankind's advancement as they migrated all over the globe, building strange technologies and changing the landscape.
The phenomenon was so strange that no djinni could explain their experience. It was as though time didn't exist at all; what was past was also present as the future already happened. They were in the mystifying house of the Creator Himself.
"I am your Creator," He began,
"I have brought you out of internment so that you may bear freedom with your commencement. You shall not trust in the wisdom of any strange divinity other than I. You shall not make yourself an idol, nor the image of anything that is above or beneath, for I am the jealous maker of all domains. I am the essence for which you shall build your edifice of faith as I plead mercy unto those who keep My commandments.
"You shall not steal, nor commit fictitious engagements. You shall not harm, nor devastate, nor kill. Respect and satisfy your words as they are your reflection. You shall not covet one's possessions, relations, nor status. For if you have already envied, you have already sinned. Honour your neighbours and you shall complement their eternal spirits in My kingdom."
The Creator told the basic rules for a djinni's ethical existence that outlined the absolutes of morality that He intended for them as He asked the djinn to respect all forms of life on earth. The human soul was His greatest creation, and a djinni was to honour it in order to receive redemption in the Aboveworld and bear the triumphant title of peri.
When He asked all djinn to bow down to Him and to the humans of earth for all eternity, one particular djinni rejected. Iblis disobeyed the Creator, refusing to become a peri. He was arrogant and wanted to rule over his own kingdom. In that moment, Iblis became the father of all sin and the ultimate enemy of peri. The Creator, who did not want to destroy his child, dismissed him from the Aboveworld and cast him to the realm of the Underworld, a desolate space made just for malevolent creatures. However, Iblis did not leave the Aboveworld without impact. Nearly one-third of all djinn who witnessed his rebellion chose to leave with him.
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