:In three passages of the Qur'an,<ref>Qur'an xv. 17 and 34; xxxvii. 7; lxvii. 5.</ref> we are told of ::Satan listening stealthily, and being driven away with stones; another idea taken from the Jews, in one of whose books we find it written of the Genii that :"they listened behind the curtain" in order to gain knowledge of things to come.
