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!
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