Believes on Malaika (The Angels)
One of the Six Article of faith for Muslim is to believe in Malaika
Literally This Malaika word is derived from AI-Ulooka , which means Messengership.Al-Malaika is plural of Malak.
The Angels are a matter of the unseen. They are created by
Allah and they worship Him. They have no attributes that qualify them to be
gods or lords. Allah created them from light, and He bestowed on them the
bounty of obeying Him at all times. He gave them the power to carry and
implement His orders, “And those who are near Him (the angels) are not too
proud to worship Him, nor are they weary (of His worship). They glorify His
praises night and day, (and) they never slacken (to do so).” [21:19-20]. They
are so numerous that only Allah can count their numbers. Anas (radiyallaahu
anhu) said, while narrating the story of the Prophet’s (sallallaahu alaihi
wa-sallam) ascension to heaven, that Al-Bait Al-Ma’amoor (the House in heaven
that is always inhabited. It is, for the inhabitants of heaven, like the
Kaa’bah for the people of earth) was raised for the Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi
wa-sallam) in heaven so he can see it. Each day, seventy thousand Angels pray in
this House, and when they exit from it, they will never get back into it (this
shows how numerous the angels are).[Saheeh al-Bukharee and Saheeh Muslim]
Belief In The Angels Has three Parts
1. Belief in their existence.
Belief in what we were told of their names, such as Jibreel,
and also belief in other angels whom we were not informed of their names.
2. Belief in what we were told of their attributes. The
example to this is the description of Jibreel. The Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi
wa-sallam) told us that he saw Jibreel in the shape that Allah created him,
having six hundred wings and larger than the horizon. The angels may change
their shapes, by the order of Allah. They may take the shape of men. Allah sent
Jibreel to Maryam (Mary) and he came to her in the shape of a man. He was also
sent to Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu alaihi wa-sallam), while he was sitting
down with his companions, in the shape of a man, wearing very white clothes
with very dark hair, a stranger to the companions, yet no evidence of traveling
was apparent on him. He sat next to the Prophet and laid his knees next to the
Prophet’s knees and put his hands on the Prophet’s thighs. He asked the Prophet
about Islam, Iman, Ih’san (excellence in the religion) and the Last Hour and its
signs. The Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi wa-sallam) answered him. Then, Jibreel
left. The Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi wa-sallam) said to his companions, “This
was Jibreel, He came to you to teach you your religion.” [Saheeh Muslim
popularly known as the HADEETH of JIBREEL]
Also, Allah sent the angels to Ibrahim (Abraham) and Lut in
the shape of men.
Belief in the tasks that they perform, by the order of
Allah. They praise Allah and worship him at all times without the slightest
boredom or fatigue. Some angels may have special tasks to fulfill, a few have
been mentioned below;
Jibreel is the honorable angel, whom Allah sends down with
revelation to the Prophets and Messengers. Mikaeel is the angel who is
controlling rain and Vegetation by the order of Allah. Israfeel is the angel
who must blow in the Horn when the Hour (Last Day) has started and when it is
time to resurrect the dead. An angel is the keeper and supervisor of Hell. The
Angel of death captures the souls at death. There are angels who supervise
fetuses in the wombs. When a fetus is four months old, Allah sends down an
angel and orders him to record the fetus’s sustenance, maximum age, deeds and
if miserable (destined to Hell) or happy (destined to Paradise). There are
angels who record deeds of mankind. They have a record of everyone’s deeds.
There are two angels for each person, one to the right and the other to the
left. There are other angels who question the dead when they are in their
graves. Two angels come to all dead persons and ask each one of them about the
Lord he worshipped, the religion he followed and the Messenger he obeyed.
Benefits of Believing In The Angels
1. Knowing Allah’s Might, Strength and Power. All the
strength of creation is a sign of the Strength of the Creator.
2. Thanking Allah because He takes care of mankind. He
appointed angels to protect them, record their deeds and other beneficial
tasks.
3. Loving the angels because they are true worshippers of
Allah.
Some misguided people reject that the angels exist in a
physical form. They claim that the angels are the potential for good that
creation possesses. This is a direct rejection to the Book of Allah, the Sunnah
of His Messenger (sallallaahu alaihi wa-sallam) and the Ijmaa’ (consensus) of
Muslims. Allah said, what translated means: “All the praises and thanks be to
Allah, the (Only) Originator of the heavens and the earth, Who made the Angels
messengers with wings, two or three or four)." [35:1], “And if you could
see when the angels take away the souls of those who disbelieve (at death),
they smite their faces and their backs.” [8:50], “And if you could but see when
the unjust (disbelievers) are in the agonies of death, while the angels are
stretching forth their hands (saying): “Deliver your souls.” [6:93], “Until
when fear is banished from their (the angels’) hearts, they (the angels) say:
“What is that your Lord has said?” They say: “The Truth. “And He is the Most High,
the Most Great” [34:23] and, “And angels shall enter unto them from every gate
(saying): ‘Peace be upon you for that you preserved in patience! Excellent
indeed is the final Home (Paradise).” [13:23-24].
The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alaihi wa-sallam) said,
what translated means, “When Allah likes a slave, He calls on Jibreel, saying:
‘Allah loves so and so (person), therefore, love him.’ Then, Gibreal loves him.
Afterwards, Jibreel calls on the inhabitants of heaven, saying: ‘Allah loves so
and so (person), therefore, love him.’ Then, the people of heaven love him.
Afterwards acceptance (among the community of believers) will be granted for
him in earth.”[3] and, “When the day of Friday comes, there stand angels at
each of the Masjid’s doors. They record the first then the next (one to come to
the Masjid). When the Imam sits down (waiting for the call to prayer to end so
he can start the speech), they close the books and they come to listen to the
Thikr (the remembrance of Allah contained in the Friday speech).” [Saheeh
al-Bukharee]
The above texts are clear in their meaning that the angels
have physical forms and are not a state of the mind, as the misguided claim.
The true meaning of these texts, which states that the angels exist in a
physical form, is accepted by the entire Ummah.
(It is rough Translation of Sheikh Salih Uthmayeen Rahmatullah Alaihi book Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ka Aqeedah a book fully refrenced from Quran and Hadith)
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