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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Exegesis of the saying of Allah the Exalted: “It is He who sends blessings upon you and His angels, that He may bring you out of the darknesses into the light”

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He said: “
It is He who confers blessing upon you هُوَ الَّذِي يُصَلِّي عَلَيْكُمْ
[Al-Ahzab 33:43]
meaning He shows mercy to you
and His angels وَمَلائِكَتُهُ
meaning they seek forgiveness for you”
The author has now explained the prayer (salah) with regard to Allah as mercy, and with regard to the angels as seeking forgiveness. He then said:
sends blessings upon you يصلي عليكم
He shows mercy to you
and His angels وملائكته
they seek forgiveness for you. This is open to criticism. The correct view is that the meaning of
and sends blessings upon you ويصلي عليكم
is that He praises you in the highest assembly, and the angels also praise you. This is the meaning of prayer. And regarding the angels as well, his statement:
confers blessing upon you, and His angels يُصَلِّي عَلَيْكُمْ وَمَلائِكَتُهُ
[Al-Ahzab 33:43]
has a grammatical issue in terms of inflection.
His angels ملائكته
is in the nominative case. Yes, and Ibn Malik says
“And if you coordinate with a connected pronoun in the nominative case, separate it with the separated pronoun”
Here, the pronoun did not come. He did not say, “It is He who sends blessings upon you, He and His angels,” or use a separator. This falls under his statement, “or a separator.” What is the separator here? The prepositional phrase (jar wa majrur). Therefore, if you say, “I stood up and Zayd,” this is weak. The stronger position is to say, “I stood up and Zayd” (accusative), treating it as an object with it. However, if you separate and say, “I, I, stood up and Zayd,” or “I stood up among the people as a speaker and Zayd,” and you separate, then there is no harm. Here, the separation was by the prepositional phrase.
confers blessing upon you, and His angels يُصَلِّي عَلَيْكُمْ وَمَلائِكَتُهُ
[Al-Ahzab 33:43]
Allah attributed the angels to Himself as a form of honor for them, because they are His angels, and they are also created by Him. As we have passed over, the angels are a hidden realm (ghayb). Allah the Exalted created them from light.
They exalt [Him] night and day [and] do not slacken. يسبحون الليل والنهار لا يفترون
[Al-Anbya 21:20]
they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded. لا يعصون الله ما أمرهم ويفعلون ما يؤمرون
[At-Tahrim 66:6]
Is it possible for them to be from the realm of the seen (shahadah)? Yes, as Jibril (peace be upon him) came to Maryam and appeared to her in the form of a perfect man. And he came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asking him about Islam, faith, and excellence in worship in the form of a man with intensely white clothes and intensely black hair, with no sign of travel on him, and none of the Companions recognized him. And as mentioned in the chapter of Duhayhah al-Kalbi and others. But the original state is that they are a hidden realm.
Source alathar.net

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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