Allah the Exalted created them, and they engaged in His worship and submitted to His obedience << They do not be arrogant about His worship, nor do they slack off. They glorify Him night and day without ceasing.
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The Shaykh :"Allah the Exalted created them". I wish the author had explained from what they were created. If he had said "Allah created them from light," that would have been good.
Allah created the angels from light, as is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
If someone were to ask: How can they be created from light when they are bodies?
The answer to that is from two angles:
First: Many people say that light is a body. That is one point.
Second: We say that Allah is capable of everything, so He is able to create a body from what is not a body, just as He is able to transform what is not a body into a body.
Have you seen death? On the Day of Resurrection, it will be brought in the form of a ram, and the people of Hell and the people of Paradise will be called out: "Do you know this?" They will say, "Yes," and it will be slaughtered between Paradise and Hell. Here, Allah the Exalted made death, which is a conceptual matter, into what? A body. And Allah is capable of everything. Indeed, righteous deeds, according to the view that what is weighed is the deed itself—and this is the correct view—are made into bodies on the Day of Resurrection and are weighed.
It is incumbent upon the Muslim, when Allah and His Messenger inform him of something, to believe without doubt or skepticism, without asking "how," and without asking "why." Do not ask about the "how," because the power of Allah the Exalted is above your intellect, and do not ask "why," because the wisdom of Allah is beyond your comprehension. What is required of you? You—Ahmad—what is required of you? You must submit and say, "Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth." Good.
So, if this objection is raised to us, the answer is from two angles:
The first angle: Some people have said that light is a body.
The second: Allah is capable of everything; He is able to create a body from what is not a body. Good.
He says: "and they engaged in His worship and submitted to His obedience". They engaged in worship with their bodies, and they submitted, so there was no arrogance from them, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Anbya 21:19] meaning they do not become arrogant and leave it, nor do they slack off and diminish [Al-Anbya 21:20]. Allah is the Greatest! "Night" here is a time adverb, and "day" is conjoined to it. It did not say "they glorify in the night"; it said: [Al-Anbya 21:20] Therefore, their glorification is continuous in every moment and instant. If the glorification were only in some moments, it would have said "in the night and the day." So, they are inspired with glorification just as we are inspired with breathing. Our breaths are always without effort, and they likewise glorify night and day without ceasing.
"Allah has veiled them from us, so we do not see them".
The wisdom behind that is from two angles:
The first angle: That our belief in them be belief in the unseen, and belief in the unseen is what a person is praised for.
The second matter: So that we are not disturbed. If we saw the angels with us, sitting on the right and on the left, attending the lessons, and sitting at the doors of the mosques on Friday writing down the first and the first, and so on, it might cause what? Anxiety and disturbance, especially for those with small minds. For this reason, it was wise that what? That Allah veiled them from us, for two reasons, right?
The student: So that we are not disturbed.
The Shaykh : Huh? That is one, so that we are not disturbed, and the second?
The student: That the belief be in the unseen.
The Shaykh : That the belief in them be part of belief in the unseen, and belief in the unseen is what a person is praised for, and it is what benefits a person. As for belief through direct observation, a person is not praised for it, nor does he benefit from it in that way. For this reason, when death is present and a person believes after the presence of death, his belief does not benefit him, because he is now observing it. Good.
Allah created the angels from light, as is authentic from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
That they were created from light
أنهم خلقوا من نورIf someone were to ask: How can they be created from light when they are bodies?
The answer to that is from two angles:
First: Many people say that light is a body. That is one point.
Second: We say that Allah is capable of everything, so He is able to create a body from what is not a body, just as He is able to transform what is not a body into a body.
Have you seen death? On the Day of Resurrection, it will be brought in the form of a ram, and the people of Hell and the people of Paradise will be called out: "Do you know this?" They will say, "Yes," and it will be slaughtered between Paradise and Hell. Here, Allah the Exalted made death, which is a conceptual matter, into what? A body. And Allah is capable of everything. Indeed, righteous deeds, according to the view that what is weighed is the deed itself—and this is the correct view—are made into bodies on the Day of Resurrection and are weighed.
It is incumbent upon the Muslim, when Allah and His Messenger inform him of something, to believe without doubt or skepticism, without asking "how," and without asking "why." Do not ask about the "how," because the power of Allah the Exalted is above your intellect, and do not ask "why," because the wisdom of Allah is beyond your comprehension. What is required of you? You—Ahmad—what is required of you? You must submit and say, "Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth." Good.
So, if this objection is raised to us, the answer is from two angles:
The first angle: Some people have said that light is a body.
The second: Allah is capable of everything; He is able to create a body from what is not a body. Good.
He says: "and they engaged in His worship and submitted to His obedience". They engaged in worship with their bodies, and they submitted, so there was no arrogance from them, as Allah the Exalted said:
And those near Him are not prevented by arrogance from His worship, nor do they tire.
ومن عنده لا يستكبرون عن عبادته ولا يستحسرونThey exalt [Him] night and day [and] do not slacken.
يسبحون الليل والنهار لا يفترونThey exalt [Him] night and day
يسبحون الليل والنهار"Allah has veiled them from us, so we do not see them".
The wisdom behind that is from two angles:
The first angle: That our belief in them be belief in the unseen, and belief in the unseen is what a person is praised for.
The second matter: So that we are not disturbed. If we saw the angels with us, sitting on the right and on the left, attending the lessons, and sitting at the doors of the mosques on Friday writing down the first and the first, and so on, it might cause what? Anxiety and disturbance, especially for those with small minds. For this reason, it was wise that what? That Allah veiled them from us, for two reasons, right?
The student: So that we are not disturbed.
The Shaykh : Huh? That is one, so that we are not disturbed, and the second?
The student: That the belief be in the unseen.
The Shaykh : That the belief in them be part of belief in the unseen, and belief in the unseen is what a person is praised for, and it is what benefits a person. As for belief through direct observation, a person is not praised for it, nor does he benefit from it in that way. For this reason, when death is present and a person believes after the presence of death, his belief does not benefit him, because he is now observing it. Good.