Dream - The trend of checking khodam has recently gone viral on social media, especially on TikTok. There are even some people who have conducted live streaming to check the khodam, which has attracted a lot of viewers. As this phenomenon has become viral on social media, it has sparked curiosity among some people about the khodam. Questions arise about what khodam is and why someone would want to check it. In this growing trend, checking khodam is done by showing a figure that may appear strange. This appearance leads many people to believe that checking khodam is merely for entertainment purposes.

Khodam as a human companion can be obtained by humans because it is descended from ancestors or from oneself. The existence of this khodam enables humans to communicate with the unseen world or jinn. For Javanese people, khodam is usually referred to as prewangan. It is called khodam because someone can do various things that cannot be done by humans in general. The form of khodam varies. For companion or ancestral khodam, its form can be in the form of white macam, butterfly macam, dragon, qorin jinn, snake, white crocodile, tiger with stripes, and many more.

Even, through the word of Allah SWT it has been explained as follows: "And indeed if you ask them, 'Who has created the heavens and the earth?' Surely they will answer, 'Allah.' Say, 'Then tell me about what you invoke besides Allah, if Allah intended harm for me, can your idols remove His harm, or if Allah intended mercy for me, can they withhold His mercy?' Say, 'Sufficient for me is Allah; upon Him [alone] rely the [wise] reliers.'" (QS. Az-Zumar: 38)

The scholars also agree that believing in the power of anything other than Allah SWT, including making, possessing amulets or spirits for the purpose of attracting customers, beauty, immunity, and the like, is considered an act of shirk or associating partners with Allah SWT. Such act of shirk can bring about a great sin. As explained in Surah An-Nisa verse 48:

"Indeed, Allah will not forgive the sin of shirk (associating partners with Him), but He forgives all other sins for whom He wills. Whoever associates partners with Allah has indeed committed a great sin." (Quran, An-Nisa' 48)