The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 197
196 Ā'ĪNA-E-KAMĀLĀT-E-ISLĀM―DĀFI‘UL-WASĀWIS phenomena are based on wisdom and have great objectives underlying it. Possessed of this knowledge, sane reason will be eager to investigate these high purposes and its very eagerness and true zeal will attract it to that perfect guide, the waḥy [revelation] of the Noble Quran. If reason can at all controvert this position, it cannot, surely, do so at this stage of the discussion. Undoubtedly, however, before it accepts the explanation, it is perfectly entitled to question the idea of the exist- ence of God whose kingdom can exist only when every particle of this universe is subservient to Him. Then, it is entitled to demand valid arguments for the existence of angels and their duties. That is, it should perfectly satisfy itself that whatever arrangement prevails, or is man- ifested occasionally, in the world of matter and physical and celestial bodies, is not random and pointless. Rather, the Wise and Powerful One has committed the direction of all these into the hands of the angels, who are occupied with various types of action every moment under the command of the All-Powerful One. They do not act in vain, but cause various types of movement in heaven and earth in an alto- gether wise way for the achievement of grand purposes. No action of theirs is useless or meaningless. I have already given some arguments in this book about angels and their duties. To recap, the easiest way to accept the existence of angels is that we should direct our reason to the following. It is admit- ted that for the training and perfection of our bodies, and in order for the desired actions of our senses 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 to help our bodies and faculties perform all their functions in the best possible manner. We cannot escape from the verities that our eyes cannot per- form their function through their own light unless they are aided by the light of the Sun, and our ears cannot hear anything through their faculty of hearing unless they are aided by the air teeming with sound. Does this not prove that Divine law has ordained that the perfection of