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Food items serve during iftar at Feroz Shah Kotla Fort mosque, large number of devotees gather at the fort to offer prayer.There is a practice and believe that people in large number gather every thursday to offer prayer to the Djinns, and write letters, stick coins to the walls of the mosque, offer milk, sweets, fruits and even meats to the Djinns, all with the single objective of appeasing the 'unhappy spirits' and getting a long-cherished wish fulfilled. There is a great believe that by doing so wishes are fulfilled by the Djinns...... Jinn or djinn are supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology as well as pre-Islamic Arabian mythology. They are mentioned frequently in the Quran (the 72nd sura is titled Sūrat al-Jinn) and other Islamic texts and inhabit an unseen world in dimensions b