The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 158
158 Essence of Islām II appointed who safeguards it and enables it to perform its functions properly. [A'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, p. 77 footnote] Two Systems for the Proper Functioning of the Universe Angels safeguard against physical calamities also, but this safeguarding is in a spiritual manner. For instance, if a person is standing at a place where a wall is about to fall down, no angel will lift him up with his hands and take him away from the place. If that person is destined to be saved, an angel would convey to him the warning that he should move away. But the protection of stars and elements, etc. , is physical. [A'īna-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, p. 99, footnote] The All-Powerful One has not confined the events of the world to a visible system, but there is also an invisible system which is in operation all the time. The sun and the moon and the earth, and the vapours that become rain, and the winds that blow fiercely, and the hail that de- scends upon the earth and the shooting stars have physi- cal causes for all their actions and changes and revolu- tions and occurrences which are set out in books on astronomy and physics, yet those who possess insight know that behind these causes there are other causes which regulate them and which are called angels. What- ever they are connected with, they carry it to its goal and in their functions they keep in mind the spiritual objects that God Almighty has committed to them. Their action is not vain but in all that they do they have in mind great objectives. It is an established verity which we have set out in some