Angels in Islam (16) every Nation worshiped the Angels

The Angels are responsible for helping the entire activities of man from his birth to his death. Instead of believing in the Angels, man worshiped them and made them gods

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Study of man’s traditional, historical, mythological and cultural folklores reveals that man all over the world worshiped the superpowers surrounding him which are represented by many gods like god of power, god of fertility, god of love, god of sexuality, god of clouds, god of sea, god of wind, god of rain, god of ocean, god of war, god of thunder, god of rivers, god of sky, god of lightning, god of plants, god of planets, god of wine, god of pleasures, god of protection, god of death, god of prosperity, god of plague, god of healing, god of hunting, god of animals etc.

 

It is interesting to find that every nation throughout the history believed in one or more of the above gods; you find that upon studying the cultures of Persian, Egypt, Greece, Romano-Celtic, Native American, Africa, Rome, Chinese, Armenia, Semitic, Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Fiji, Germanic, Japan, Hindu, Haiti, Tibet, Maya, Celtic, Kassites, Aztec, Gaul, Hispanic, Moabite, Teutonic, Sparta, Chaldean, Dahomey, Taoist, Shinto, Hungary, Sumer, Teutonic, Tamil, Slavic, Tamil, Etruscan, Polynesian/Maori, Mexico, Celtic, Sumer, Tahiti, Phoenician, Gaul, Polynesian, Finland, Hittite, Mesoamerican, Akkad, Slavonic, Ethiopian, Yemeni, Native Australia, Columbian etc.

 

Then, what was the essential background of such belief?

After creation of Adam, Allah has told him that He will send to man messengers to guide human beings and man has to follow them.

The message that Allah sent to his messengers from Noah to Muhammad was the same; it is to believe in 1) Allah, 2) the Angels, 3) the Messengers, 4) the Divinely-revealed Books and 5) the Last Day and the Afterlife.

All the messengers taught their people everything about this faith; and of course they taught them everything about the nature and the role of the Angels the same as the Prophet Muhammad has told us

In brief, the Islamic teachings concerning the job descriptions of the Angels say that the Angels are responsible for helping the entire activities of man from his birth to his death.

The Angels are responsible also for the activities and the balance of the surrounding environment surrounding us. Not only that, but the Angels are responsible for your Afterlife.

 

1)    The Angels responsible for helping the entire activities of man from his birth to his death:

There are angels in charge of the baby inside the womb of his mother

Others are responsible for protecting the man throughout his life, when he stays home and when he travels, when he is asleep and when he is awake.

Others are responsible for recording the deeds of man, good and bad

Others are responsible for taking people’s souls: these are the Angel of Death and his group

Others are responsible for testing people in the grave.

 

2)    The Angels responsible for the environment surrounding us

There are angels responsible for rain, directing it wherever Allah wishes.

There are angels direct the winds and clouds, as Allah wills.

There are angels in charge of the plants

Some of the Angels are responsible for fertility, sea, thunder, ocean, war, mountains, rivers, sky, lightning, planets, plague, healing, etc.

 

3)    The Angels responsible for your Afterlife

Some of the Angels are the keepers of Paradise.

Some of the Angels are the keepers of Hell,

 

Back to the man throughout the history, instead of believing in the Angels, he worshiped them and made them god of fertility, god of love, god of sexuality, god of clouds, god of sea, god of wind, god of rain, god of ocean, god of war, god of thunder, god of rivers, god of sky, god of lightning, god of plants, god of planets, god of wine, god of pleasures, god of protection, god of death, god of prosperity, god of plague, god of healing, god of hunting, god of animals etc.

It is possible that his belief took time to develop and for sure it is done by Satan’s inspiration

 

Man has to believe in the Angels and to love them; however he made them gods and worshiped them!

It may be a kind of fiction to imagine that there are many gods in this world as the ancient people believed.

Would those many gods argue, struggle and fight together?

Have you seen some movies about the Greek gods which fought together?

Look how the Quran simply declares how this faith is err.

 

The meanings of the verse 21:22:

Had there been in the heavens and/or the earth, gods other than Allah, the heavens and/or the earth would have surely deteriorated, they would have deviated from their observed perfect order, because counteractive forces would exist among such gods, as is usually the case, when there is more than one ruler, that there is counteraction and a lack of consensus regarding something.  So glory be to Allah, the Lord of the Throne, above what the disbelievers ascribe.

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The verse 21:22 in four different translations:

QARIB:

Had there been gods in heaven or earth, other than Allah, both would indeed have been ruined. Exalted be Allah, lord of the throne, above that they describe.

SHAKIR:

if there had been in them any gods except Allah, they would both have certainly been in a state of disorder; therefore glory be to Allah, the lord of the dominion, above what they attribute (to him)

PICKTHAL:

If there were therein gods beside Allah, then verily both (the heavens and the earth) had been disordered. Glorified be Allah, the lord of the throne, from all that they ascribe (unto him).

YUSUFALI:

If there were, in the heavens and the earth, other gods besides Allah, there would have been confusion in both! But glory to Allah, the lord of the throne: (high is he) above what they attribute to him!

This is Allah (15) Allah Has sent a warning Messenger to every Nation

1) Allah asks: is the belief equal to disbelief?

2) Allah asks: is the Paradise equal to Hell?

3) Allah asks: is the living equal to the dead?

4) Allah asks: is blind man equal with the seer?

5) Allah asks: is the shadow equal with the sun’s full heat?

6) Who are the Messengers which Allah has sent to America, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia etc?

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Many people do not know Allah. This series is an attempt to help them in order to know their Creator.

Verses 35:19-24 of the Noble Quran asks are they equal:

1) belief and disbelief,

2) believers and disbelievers,

3) Paradise and the Hell and

4) living and the dead? 

You O Muhammad are but a warning messenger. 

Allah Has sent a warning messenger to every nation.

Scientists have to look for the warning messengers sent to North America, South America, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia etc.  

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The meaning of verse 35:19:

Is the disbeliever, the blind man who does not see the truth equal with the seer which is the believer?

The meaning of verse 35:20:

Nor the darkness which is the disbelief is tantamount to the light which is the belief;

The meaning of verse 35:21:

Nor is the beautiful and peaceful shade equal with the extremely hot weather, i.e. nor is Paradise equal to the Fire in the Hereafter;

The meaning of verse 35:22:

Nor are the living equal to the dead, the believers and the disbelievers respectively (linguistically, the addition of the particle lā, ‘nor’, in all three instances is for emphasis).  In other words, nor are the believers equal with the disbelievers in relation to obedience and honors.

Indeed Allah makes to hear whomever He will, to be guided, so that such a person then responds to Him by embracing faith.

But you, O Muhammad, cannot make those who are in the graves to hear, namely, the disbelievers; whom He has likened to the dead  to hear and so respond.

In other words, Allah makes whom He will; whoever deserves it to hear to understand.  You, O Muhammad, cannot make understand those who are in the graves those who are as if dead and buried in the graves.

The meaning of verse 35:23:

You, O Muhammad, are but a Warner to them; a Messenger warning by the Quran.

The meaning of verse 35:24:

Truly, Allah has sent you with the truth, with right guidance, as a bearer of good tidings, to him who responds to it, and a Warner, to him who does not respond to it. And there is not a community or a nation but there has passed, there has been, in it a Warner, a prophet to warn it.

In other words, there is not a nation but a Warner has passed among them except that they had a warning messenger.

Historically, this verse is very interesting.  Scientists have to look for the warning messengers which Allah has sent to North America, South America, Canada, China, Japan, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia etc.

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Verses 35:7-9 in different English translations:

QARIB:

19) The blind and the seeing are not equal,

20) Nor are darkness and light

21) The shade and the hot wind are not equal,

22) Nor are the living and the dead equal. Allah makes to hear whosoever he will, but you cannot make those who are in their graves hear.

23) You (Prophet Muhammad) are but a warner.

24) We have sent you with the truth, a bearer of glad tidings and warning, for there is no nation, that has not had a warner pass away in it.

SHAKIR:

19) And the blind and the seeing are not alike

20) Nor the darkness and the light,

21) Nor the shade and the heat,

22) Neither are the living and the dead alike. surely Allah makes whom he pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are m the graves

23) You are naught but a warner

24) Surely we have sent you with the truth as a bearer of good news and a warner; and there is not a people but a warner has gone among them

PICKTHAL:

19) The blind man is not equal with the seer;

20) Nor is darkness (tantamount to) light;

21) Nor is the shadow equal with the sun’s full heat;

22) Nor are the living equal with the dead. lo! Allah maketh whom he will to hear. thou canst not reach those who are in the graves.

23) Thou art but a warner.

24) Lo! We have sent thee with the truth, a bearer of glad tidings and a warner; and there is not a nation but a warner hath passed among them.

YUSUFALI:

19) The blind and the seeing are not alike;

20) Nor are the depths of darkness and the light;

22) Nor are alike those that are living and those that are dead. Allah can make any that he wills to hear; but thou canst not make those to hear who are (buried) in graves.

23) Thou art no other than a warner.

24) Verily we have sent thee in truth, as a bearer of glad tidings, and as a warner: and there never was a people, without a warner having lived among them (in the past).