With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 360
360 With Love to Muhammad sa the Kh ā tam-un-Nabiyy ī n He is the Loving, the Enduring. His actions are willed, not constrained or determined. He rules today as He ever ruled before. His attributes are eternal. 4. We believe that angels are a part of God’s creation. As the Qur’ ā n has it, angels do what they are bidden to do. They have been created in His wisdom to carry out certain duties. Their existence is real and references to them in the Holy Book are not metaphorical. They depend on God as do all men and all other creatures. 5. We believe that God speaks to His chosen servants and reveals to them His purpose. Revelation comes in words. Man lives by revelation and through it comes to have contact with God. The words in which revelation comes are unique in their power and wisdom. Their wisdom may not be revealed at once. A mine may be exhausted but not the wisdom of revelation. Revelation brings us Divine ordinances, laws, and exhortations. It also brings us knowledge of the unseen and of important spiritual truths. It conveys to us the approval of God as well as His disapproval and displeasure, His love as well as His warnings. God communicates with man through revelation. The communications vary with circumstances and with the recipients. Of all Divine communications the most perfect, the most complete, the most comprehensive is the Holy Qur’ ā n. The Holy Qur’ ā n is to last forever. It cannot be superseded by any future revelation. 6. We also believe that when darkness prevails in the world and man sinks deep in sin and evil, it becomes difficult for him to rise again without the help of God. Then out of His Mercy and Beneficence God chooses one of His Own loving, loyal servants, charges him with the duty to lead