Elucidation of Objectives — Page 27
Tau di h-e-Mar a m 27 does not mean literal sonship or 'divinity' literal divinity. It would not be out of place here to point out that our interpretation of the term R uh ul Qudus or R u hul Am i n is in fact not inconsistent with the Islamic concept regard- ing Angels. Muslim scholars, for one, do not subscribe to the view that Angels, with some kind of material bodies quite like humans, have to walk on foot to come down to earth. This kind of thinking would evidently be false. Were it necessary for Angels to come down to earth in any formal shape to carry out their respective duties, it would have been absolutely impossible for them to complete any task. For instance, the angel of death has to take the lives of thousands of people per second, who live at distances of thousands of miles from one another, in different parts of the world. If he were under obliga- tion to foot it up to each country, town and home to find the opportunity to take a life, then let alone one second, even months wouldn’t suffice to carry out such a huge task. Is it possible for a person moving about like hu- mans to go round the world in a split second or even less? No, not at all. On the contrary, Angels do not even fractionally stir from their true stations allotted to them by God Almighty. Quoting the Angels, God says in the Holy Qur’ a n: