Introducing Islam a Simple Introduction to Islam
The Angels
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events—all of them extremely complex—can take
place contemporaneously?
The Prophets in their wisdom have taught that this
is all part of a divine order which the Almighty
controls through invisible angels acting as His
intermediaries. It is they who carry out His
commandments and communicate His word to the
prophets. They preserve a record of man’s actions
by means of which God decides which individuals
and which nations shall be rewarded or punished. It
is the angels who take possession of the human soul
at the moment of death, and it is they who will
sound the last trumpet which shall throw the whole
universe into disarray. It is then that the righteous
shall dwell forever in Paradise, while the sinful
shall be cast down into hell-fire and eternal
damnation.
