Faith in the Angels and Their Creation
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The Shaykh:
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may the prayers and peace be upon the leader of the white-ankled ones, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. O brothers and sisters, peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Welcome to a blessed meeting on the program Light on the Path. The guest of this
The presenter:
meeting is the Honorable Shaykh Sa'd Hamad al-Fawzan, a member of the Committee of Senior Scholars and a member of the Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta. At the beginning of this meeting, we welcome the Honorable Shaykh and thank him for graciously accepting the invitation and answering the questions of the brothers and sisters. Welcome, Shaykh Sa'd. May Allah keep you safe and bless you.
The questioner:
This questioner, Usamah Mahi al-Din, residing in Riyadh, says: Honorable Shaykh, are the angels mentioned in the Noble Qur'an in the form of humans? And I read that there are angels on the right of a person who record the good deeds, and on his left angels who record the bad deeds. Tell us about that and about faith in the angels.
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may the prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, faith in the angels is one of the pillars of faith mentioned in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. The angels are a creation of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, and they are from the unseen realm, which no one knows except Allah; no one knows their creation or their number except Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Allah created them to worship Him; He created them from light and made them into categories, each category performing one of the tasks that Allah has entrusted to them. Faith in them is a pillar of the six pillars of faith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned in his saying:Sahih Muslim 8a. We stop at this point and do not enter into anything about which we have no knowledge. They are from the unseen realm, which no one knows except Allah. Among them are the angels entrusted with preserving and recording the deeds of the children of Adam; they take turns among us by night and day. And among them are the angels entrusted with protecting the children of Adam from what harms them, [Ar-Ra'd 13:11], that is, by the command of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes. May Allah reward you and bless you.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may the prayers and peace be upon the leader of the white-ankled ones, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. O brothers and sisters, peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Welcome to a blessed meeting on the program Light on the Path. The guest of this
The presenter:
meeting is the Honorable Shaykh Sa'd Hamad al-Fawzan, a member of the Committee of Senior Scholars and a member of the Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta. At the beginning of this meeting, we welcome the Honorable Shaykh and thank him for graciously accepting the invitation and answering the questions of the brothers and sisters. Welcome, Shaykh Sa'd. May Allah keep you safe and bless you.
The questioner:
This questioner, Usamah Mahi al-Din, residing in Riyadh, says: Honorable Shaykh, are the angels mentioned in the Noble Qur'an in the form of humans? And I read that there are angels on the right of a person who record the good deeds, and on his left angels who record the bad deeds. Tell us about that and about faith in the angels.
The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And may the prayers and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, faith in the angels is one of the pillars of faith mentioned in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. The angels are a creation of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, and they are from the unseen realm, which no one knows except Allah; no one knows their creation or their number except Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Allah created them to worship Him; He created them from light and made them into categories, each category performing one of the tasks that Allah has entrusted to them. Faith in them is a pillar of the six pillars of faith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned in his saying:
That you affirm your faith in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil.
الإيمان أن تؤمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله واليوم الآخر، وتؤمن بالقدر خيره وشرهFor each one are successive [angels] before and behind him who protect him by the decree of Allah.
لَهُ مُعَقِّبَاتٌ مِّن بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ يَحْفَظُونَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، نور على الدرب 249 من المجموعة الثالثة للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (0:26)
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