Belief in the angels

[نسيم الفجر]

 

BELIEF IN THE ANGELS

Belief in the angels comprises of four important points

"Whoever is an enemy to Allah, His Angels, His Messengers, Jibrael (Gabriel) and Mikael (Michael), then verily, Allah is an enemy to the disbelievers." (2:98)

1. Affirming the existence of the angels and the fact that they are a creation of Allah and subject to His Lordship and worship.

Shaikh Salih al-Fawzan (may ALLA be pleased with him) writes in his treatise, al-Eeman bil-Malaaikah wa-Athruhu fi-Hayatil-Ummah:

“Angels are a creation of Allah, which He created for His worship, and to carry out His commands in the universe… They are a creation from the world of unseen, we do not see them but we believe in their existence with certainty without doubt because Allah has informed about them and likewise, His Messenger has enlightened us about them with definitive information that causes us to believe in them.”

Belief in angels precedes the belief in the Books of Allah and His Messengers because Allah revealed the Books to His Messengers by means of angels. Denial of the existence of angels entails rejection of all the Divine Books and consequently everything that the Messengers were send with. Also, choosing some angels to believe in over others is disbelief like choosing some prophets over others.

Imam ibn Katheer (may ALLAH be pleased with him) writes in the Tafseer of the verse, (2): 97, '…whoever believes in one messenger is required to believe in all of the messengers. Whoever rejects one messenger, he has rejected all of the messengers. Similarly, Allah said, 'Verily, those who disbelieve in Allah and His Messengers and wish to make distinction between Allah and His Messengers saying: ‘We believe in some but reject others,' and wish to adopt a way in between. They are in truth disbelievers.' Allah decreed that they are disbelievers, because they believe in some Prophet and reject others… 'Allah's Messengers' includes angels and men for Allah said: 'Allah chooses Messengers from angels and from men.' [Surah al-Hajj (22): 75]'

2. Affirming the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the Angels in the universe.

3. Affirming the names, of those Angels that Allah and His Messenger (sallalahu aleyhi wa-salaam) has informed us of.

4. Affirming the attributes, of the Angels that are mentioned in the Qur'an and the Sunnah

Taken from As-Sunnah Newsletter