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:	post by DomesticTerror at 2010-03-30 16:27:51

The Man In Black is a Djinn, possibly Iblis from the Qur'an.
according to the Qur'an, God made 3 forms of intelligent life: Angels, Djinn, and Man. after god created man, he commanded the angels and djinn to bow before man. a djinn named Iblis refused, so god condemned him to hell, but wouldn't send him there until His day of judgement (no idea why, but hey, that's religion for ya.) Iblis then vowed to spend his time until judgement day corrupting Man so that they would all go to Hell with him.
also, there's a story about one of Solomon's wives being half djinn, and apparently she went mad, so i'm wondering if our MIB is some combination of both tales.

the bottle metaphor made me think "genie" so i looked up more about the djinn (all i know is from wes craven) and thanks to wikipedia i found all that qur'an shit.
obviously, the Lost writers are making their own tale, but i figure this is basically what they've based the MIB character on.

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