Believing in angels

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This is a famous website where you can find high quality pictures from normal photographers for free. The search result of word ‘angels’ shows a woman, with two wings, delicate and beautiful. ‘Wings’ always resonate with the word ‘angel’.

Other than wings, we, believers, also consider them the creatures who are extra ordinarily serving the Almighty Allah. They can not commit a mistake and they are always making the ‘will of God’ come true.

Above all, these are the creatures that are resourceful, never die, abundant in strength and have the might to shake the world in an instant. Hazrat Israfil (as) is the angel who has been assigned to blow the horn. He is holding his breath for one task, to bring Qayyamah.

Jins also..

There is next supernatural creature, mentioned abundantly in Quran, movies or our horror stories called as Jins (ghosts). We believe they are made of fire. They can roam around just like human beings. They can not be seen. The evil ghosts harm people. Good ghosts protect people. They also read Quran and will be judged on the grounds of their affiliation with the book / books of Allah.

They are physically moving, but are invisible for us. We have to consider them around us.

What is the problem?

The basic problem with all these stories is these stories are against the law of nature and understandings of science. These do not go in line with all our life’s effort. The work done in our laboratories, schools, homes, during our upbringing; do not go with the understanding of these creatures. We are physically living people, bound to logical thoughts, always putting in our entire effort towards understanding the ‘nature’. But we are told to believe in ’super-nature’.

I being a Telecom Engineer, Web developer, studying courses on Udemy and university, can not apprehend the word angels and jins. I did not see them. I am only told, ‘these exist’. But my entire life’s work is focused on the understanding of ‘Nature’; earning for my household, my job, social interactions, subjects in my university, assignments and priorities. I never focused on the angels and the jins.

I can not answer this question:- Why do I believe in Angels and Jins?

I am left in a void of finding them forever. Never truly grasping the meaning of their existence.

The major problem

Indeed, those whom the angels take [in death] while wronging themselves - [the angels] will say, “In what [condition] were you?” They will say, “We were oppressed in the land.” The angels will say, “Was not the earth of Allah spacious [enough] for you to emigrate therein?” For those, their refuge is Hell - and evil it is as a destination.
- Surah Al Nisa verse 97

This verse tells us to:-

1. Believe in angels, that they exist in all their might.

2. Migrate to a land of no oppression, that if we die wronging ourselves, we will be sent to the hell.

3. Believe the earth of Allah is spacious, that even if we give up tax bindings, property, siblings and a stable life; we will still be finding shelter in abundance on Allah’s earth.

The grave issue is; if I do not believe in angels and jins, I can not succeed. But I am unable to believe. I am unable to compromise a stable life over a life of certainty promised by Quran.

I can not give up my property, siblings, shelter and a stable life. I can not migrate, until I get the certainty that I will be brought comfort and peace through a super natural force of angels.

But..

I know, we all know, these angels are there above us. These are protecting us and helping us. They have intervened in our physical world in the past, and they are still managing the complex mesh of this world.

We know, this earth can not survive without an outer force. It will collapse the next moment we are left on our own; without principles, rules and policies. The nature that governs us, has a root. We are not focusing on the root.

Our life is not pointed towards finding the magic that can literally break the laws of nature and provide for us, ways to the success. We are not focused on the angels, jins and the universe of abundance that has huge to explore. But not explored at all.

Conclusion

It is not easy to believe in angels. Believing in angels means; believing in there literal intervention into our world that they find means and ways for us. We jump higher with our eyes closed. We walk blind we will succeed. We move and Allah will provide for us.

Believing means, there is a huge opportunity to be explored to getting rich in material and spirit. An untouched domain is there to be explored, that will only open after we close our eyes.