The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 143
Angles 143 relationship with the rest of creation and should be able to approach them. Thus, through this design of God. Almighty, this wonderful form of creation came into being which is called angels. They are so lost in obedience to God that they have no will or fashion or design of their own, and no personal faculties whereby they could be kind to anyone on their own, or could be angry with anyone on their own, or could desire something on their own, or could dislike something on their own. They are wholly like the limbs of the Divine. All the designs of. God Almighty are first reflected in their transparent mirrors and through their mediation are spread in the whole of creation. God Almighty, on account of His. Perfect Holiness, is in extreme uniqueness and transcendence, therefore, those that are not free from ego and from the opaqueness of veiled existence and are conscious of their existence have no relationship with the. Fountainhead of Grace. Thus, the need arose for a form of creation which on the one side should be related to. God Almighty and on the other to His creation so that they should obtain grace from one side and communicate it to the other. [Ā'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 161-170, footnote]. Angels are External Means of the Fulfilment of Our. Spiritual Needs. In order to accept the existence of angels, the easiest way is that we should direct our reason to the following. It is admitted that for the training and perfection of our bodies, and in order that the desired actions of our senses should be carried into effect, God Almighty has promulgated the law of nature that the elements and the sun and the moon and all the stars have been pressed into service