The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 145
Angles 145 compelled to acknowledge their existence though we may not be able to penetrate to their reality, nor is this necessary. When we have accepted the external law, there is no reason why in the same way we should not accept the internal law. We shall have to accept it in the same way as we have accepted the external law. That is the reason why God Almighty in His Holy Book has set forth these two laws in the same words, as He says: والذُّرِيتِ ذَرُوا فَالْحَمِلت وقراه فالجريت يُشرَاه فَالْمُقَسّمتِ أَمْراه 32 that is to say, God puts forward the testimony of the winds that separate the vapours from the oceans and other waters and carry them inside like pregnant women and waft them in the shape of clouds to their goal and the testimony of the angels that put into effect all these matters. This indicates that the winds have no power in themselves to lift the vapours from the oceans and to convert them into clouds and to cause them to send down rain where it is needed and thus administer matters. All this is the function of angels. . In these verses God Almighty first indicated, like philosophers, the cause of rain descending from the clouds and set out how water becomes vapour and then becomes clouds, then in the last verse: فَالْمُقَسمتِ امْرًا 33 disclosed the reality that no one should imagine that the system of material causes and effects is adequate for the. Divine dispensation, but that a system of spiritual causes is behind this physical system which supports this visible 32 Al-Dhariyāt, 51:2-5 [Publisher] 33 Al-Dhariyāt, 51:5 [Publisher]