The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 156
156. Essence of Islām II. Throne of God Almighty. The verse: 41 لان كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظُ 4 proves the appointment of angels over everything. The following verse of the Holy Qur'ān also indicates this: وَانْشَقَّتِ السَّمَاءُ فَهِيَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَّاهِيَةً و وَالْمَلكُ عَلَى ارْجَايُّهَا وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَانِيَةً 42. This means that on the Day of Judgement heaven will be rent asunder, and appear loose and listless, and will lose its faculties, because the angels who were like the soul of the heavens and heavenly bodies will give up all the connections and will retire to the edges and on that day eight angels will bear aloft the Throne of God Almighty. . In his commentary on this verse Shāh 'Abd-ul-'Aziz writes that the continuation of heaven is through the spirits, that is to say, the angels who are like spirits of the heaven and heavenly bodies, and as the soul safeguards the body and controls it, in the same way some angels control heaven and heavenly bodies and all heavenly bodies exist through them and the action of the planets takes place through their means. When the angels will depart from that body as the soul departs from the physical body the whole system of heaven will be upset as the physical system is upset by the departure of the soul. . Another verse of the Holy Qur'an also indicates this: 43 ولَقَدْ زَيَّنَا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِمَصَابِيحَ وَجَعَلْنَهَا رُجُوْمًا لِلشَّيْطين (3) (Surah Al-Mulk, Part Number 29) 41 There is no soul but has a guardian over it. '-Al-Ṭāriq, 86:5 [Publisher] 42 Al-Haqqah, 69:17-18 [Publisher] 43 Al-Mulk, 67:6 [Publisher]