The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 141
4. ANGELS. Those people are to be pitied who, by being affected by the darkness of false philosophy, deny the existence of angels and satans and reject the clear texts and proofs comprised in the Holy Qur'an, and foolishly fall into the pit of heresy. This problem is one of those for proof of which, from the verities comprised in the Holy Qur'ān, God. Almighty has chosen me alone. All praise is due to Allāh for this. [Ā'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, p. 89]. God Almighty, Who in His Transcendence and Holiness is above everything, employs appropriate agencies for. His signs and manifestations. Bodies and material things confined as they are to their personal characteristics, and conscious of their existence and characterised by their designs and natural actions, and having a permanent existence, which comprises self and excludes non-self, they have drawn far away from the Cause of causes and the Absolute Benevolent. They are shut off by a thick veil of their own existence and ego and their having been created. They are not worthy that those graces of the. Almighty should descend upon them directly which can only descend if the veils that have been mentioned did not intervene and their existence wholly resembled nonexistence. As their existence does not resemble nonexistence, everything of this kind of creation loudly proclaims its existence. The sun proclaims that it is a body that is the source of heat and cold that affects the 141