Angels — Selected Writings of the Promised Messiah
Introduction
Expounding upon the metaphysical reality of the angelic realm, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS) explains the functions and descent of angels in orchestrating the universe and inspiring the human heart toward good.
Book Series: Selections from the Writings of the Promised Messiah
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Compiler: Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV (RH)
Section: Unseen Realm
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Excerpt 53
One learns from a deeper study of the Holy Quran that not only for the education and upbringing of man but also for the overt and covert progressive development of the entire universe, some intermediaries are essential between God and His creation. There are clear indications in the Holy Quran leading one to believe that the holy beings known as angels have specific relationships with various heavenly bodies.
Some of them, with their special faculties, govern the phenomenon of the motion of winds and some cause rain to fall. Similarly there are others who are deputed to cause some other cosmic influences to descend upon earth.
[Tawdih-e-Maram: Ruhani Khaza’in Vol. 3, p. 70]
[Selected Writings of the Promised Messiah, p. 67]
Excerpt 54
It should be remembered that according to Islam, angels do not possess faculties superior in rank to those possessed by human beings. For them to be granted the role of intermediaries in the physical or spiritual world does not in itself indicate their superiority. According to the Holy Quran they are assigned these functions like servants.
[Tawdih-e-Maram: Ruhani Khaza’in Vol. 3, p. 74]
[Selected Writings of the Promised Messiah, p. 67]
Excerpt 55
What is meant by the descent of angels, one might wonder! So let it be known that according to the established ways of God, when a Messenger or a Prophet or a Muhaddith descends from heaven to reform mankind, with him invariably descend such angels as sow the seed of guidance in receptive hearts. They make them inclined towards goodness.
They keep on descending until the darkness of ignorance and infidelity is dispelled by the dawn of a new day of faith and righteousness. The Holy Quran speaks of this in the verses:’Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord with decrees of their Lord concerning every matter. It is all peace, till the break of dawn’. (97:5 6) The descent of the angels and the Holy Spirit takes place when a man of outstanding qualities wearing the robe of vicegerency of God, having been blessed with Word of God, descends to earth.
The Holy Spirit is especially bestowed on to him.
[Fath-e-Islam: Ruhani Khaza’in Vol. 3, footnote p. 12]
[Selected Writings of the Promised Messiah, p. 67]