Do you know the Angels?
What are the Angels?
How many Angels has Allah created; what is their number?
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Do you know the Angels?
Allah has created things of which you have no knowledge (the verse 16:8)
What are the Angels?
They are the hosts of the heavens and the servants of Allah (the verse 48:7)
Who has created the Angels?
Allah who is ever Mighty in His kingdom and Wise in His actions (the verse 48:7)
How many Angels has Allah created; what is their number?
He increases the creation as He wills (the verse 35:1)
Certainly, Muslims have no knowledge of precisely when the Angels were created, because there is no verse in the Quran to tell us this.
However, Muslims do know for sure that they were created before Mankind.
Also, Muslims know for certain that the number of Angels is much more than the number of human beings.
The Angels are many, and their number is known only to Allah who created them.
The Prophet Muhammad said, describing the Much-Frequented Visited House that is present in the heaven:
“Then I was taken up to the Much-Frequented Visited House: every day seventy thousand Angels visit it and leave, never returning to it again, another [group] coming after them.”
The Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, said: ‘Hell will be brought forth that day (the Last Day) by means of seventy thousand ropes, each of which will be pulled by seventy thousand Angels.”
Angels are the most numerous kind of creation of Allah. There are more Angels than the other creations of Allah, including the humans and jinn–even the trees.
Also, the Prophet Muhammad said:
There is no space equivalent to the width of four fingers in the sky except one would find an Angel mentioning (worshipping) Allah–either standing, bowing or prostrating. They stay as such worshipping Allah until the Day of Judgment.
There are countless numbers of Angels, and only Allah knows how many there are.
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The verse 16:8
QARIB:
…and He creates what you do not know.
SHAKIR:
…and He creates what you do not know
PICKTHAL:
…and He createth that which ye know not.
YUSUFALI:
…and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.
The verse 48:7
QARIB:
To Allah belong the armies of the heavens and the earth. Allah is the almighty and the wise.
SHAKIR:
And Allah’s are the hosts of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is mighty, wise
PICKTHAL:
Allah’s are the hosts of the heavens and the earth, and Allah is ever mighty, wise.
YUSUFALI:
For to Allah belong the forces of the heavens and the earth; and Allah is exalted in power, full of wisdom.
The verse 35:1
QARIB:
…He increases the creation as he wills…
SHAKIR:
… He increases in creation what he pleases…
PICKTHAL:
… He multiplieth in creation what he will…
YUSUFALI:
… He adds to creation as he pleases…
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