The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 155
Angles 55 155 proclaiming His Holiness and should descend from their appointed places to the earth and should depart from the high heaven. Indeed they move in accord with their nature while still keeping to their appointed places like the King Who has settled Himself on the Throne. You know that Allāh descends to the heaven of the earth in the latter part of the night, but it cannot be said that He departs from His Throne and then ascends back to it later. The same is the case with the angels who reflect the attributes of their Lord as the shadow reflects the original. We do not realize the reality of it but we believe in it. We cannot describe their condition in the terms of the conditions of man, the reality of whose attributes and the limits of whose qualities and whose movements and whose stillness we recognize and understand. Allāh has forbidden us that and has said: 40 مَا يَعْلَمُ جُنُودَ رَبِّكَ إِلَّا هُوَ "None knows the hosts of thy Lord but He. " Then mind your duty to Allāh, O men of wisdom. [Ā'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 384-387]. Angels are the Cause of Every Change. Now that it is clearly established that by the Divine law of nature for the spiritual system there are, like the physical system, external influences which are called angels, it remains to show that whatever is happening in the physical system also does not take place without the mediation of angels. God Almighty has called angels regulators and distributors and they are the cause of every change and development. They bear aloft the 40 Al-Muddaththir, 74:32 [Publisher]