His Spirit And His Angels
The last major monotheistic religion is Islam, founded by the Prophet Muhammad in 622 AD in Arabia. Like its sister/brother religions Judaism and Christianity angels played a role in the belief system. Mala'ika, messenger, is the Islamic term for angel and the chief duty of the angels were to carry messages to Allah, the name of the Muslim God. Revelation originates in God, as is indicated in verses in which God speaks in the first person: I have sent down (the Qur'an) (Q 2:41), and more often: We have sent down (the Qur'an)" (e.g., Q 44:3; 76:23; 97:1). But revelation does not come down directly to the prophets. The intermediate agents are the angels. God sends them down with the revelations, as is implied in Q 16:2: He sends down (yunazzilu) the angels and the spirit by His commandment on whom He pleases of His servants " Andrew Rippin, The Blackwell companion to the Qur'an, page 237
His Spirit And His Angels
On December 27, 1995, at about 4:30 p.m. preparations to perform Christmas Puja for Jesus Christ were in progress. Kash was alone in his room, deep in meditation.
Then Shri Nirmala Devi spoke to him for about 10 minutes, inquiring about his state of mind. Kash told the Ruh of Allah that he was still not ready spiritually. She replied that this was normal and he should lead an ordinary life. (Till date Kash has given no indication that he is ready and continues to rebuff all attempts to change his mind.)
The Spirit of Allah then revealed to him that there were five special occasions among more than a thousand encounters with Her that She appeared in Her highest form of Allah's Ruh. By this She meant that Kash witnessed Her purest form only five times, the rest being Her Mahamaya form! Few people understand the immensity of this Revelation. We can only say that it is extremely difficult to see even Her Mahamaya form in the Sahasrara.
But why did She have to stoop to allow Her genuine Self to be revealed to a mere child? Maybe She had to for the sake of Truth as there will always be humans who will argue and doubt Revealed Truth. She had foreseen various obstacles and provided the means to overcome them, leaving no room for future doubt or dissent. The Ruh of Allah had to intervene upon witnessing Kash's father trying to delete specific evidence vital to validate the Truth about angels, an absolute requirement to validate the prophecies and revelations of the Qur'an and Bible.
The five occasions were:
i) The very first day he saw Her. This was on the Diwali of 13th. November 1993 (Jumada I 28, 1414 A.H.), the Hindu New Year.
ii) The day he came to request from Her to bestow the boon of a baby sister. This day is unknown as Kash had done it on his own initiative, without informing anyone.(1993-4/ 1414 A.H.)
iii) April 2/3, 1994, the day She revealed that his just hours-old baby sister Lalita, born at midnight on the Christian holy day of Easter Sunday (April 3, 1994/Shawwal 21, 1414 A.H.), is an angel.
iv) April 18, 1994, the day She revealed that Kash, born on the Muslim holy day of Id Al-Adha (October 19, 1980/Dhu'l-Hijja 9, 1414 A.H.), is also an angel.
v) July 26, 1995, (Safar 27, 1416 A.H.) the day She revealed that the Miracle Photo taken by his father was genuine and implied that all the Messengers of God Almighty had given enough evidence necessary for the Believers on Earth to surrender to the Truth. She then ended Kash's mystical journeys into his own Sahasrara with these parting words: "We Have Done Our Job Here."
It is with the above Revelations that we have the courage to lay before humankind the Truth for all to examine, in relation to all that has been posted on this website so far. Wa maa alainaa illa al-balaagh — there is nothing upon us except to convey (the truth).
We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power: [6217]
And what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand Months.
Therein come down the angels, and the Spirit by Allah's permission,
On every errand: Peace! This until the rise of morn!
surah 97:1-5 Al Qadr (The Night of Power and Honour)
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
"6217. . . . It is best to take this in the mystic sense, which also accords with verse 3 below, which says that the Night of Power is better than a thousand Nights. It transcends Time: for it is Allah's Power dispelling the Darkness of Ignorance, by His Revelation, in every kind of affair.
The subject matter is the mystic Night of Power (or Honour), in which Revelation comes down to a benighted world — it may be to the wonderful Cosmos of an individual — and transforms the conflict of wrongdoing into Peace and Harmony — through the agency of the angelic host, representing the spiritual powers of the Mercy of Allah."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
Lo! We revealed it on the Night of Predestination.
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Night of Power is?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.
The angels and the Spirit descend therein, by the permission of their Lord,
With all decrees. (The night is) Peace until the rising of the dawn.
surah 97:1-5 (Al Qadr)
Mohammed Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Quran,
University of Michigan.
predestination 1 Theol. the doctrine that a) God foreordained everything that would happen b) God predestines certain souls to salvation and, esp. in Calvinism, others to damnation 2 a predestinating or being predestined; destiny; fate
angels 1 Theol. a) a messenger of God b) a supernatural being, either good or bad, to whom are attached greater than human power, intelligence, etc. 2 a guiding spirit or influence [one's good angel]
Spirit 1 a) the life principle, esp. in man. orig. regarded as inherent in the breath or as infused by a deity b) soul 2 the thinking, motivating, feeling part of man, often as distinguished from the body; mind; intelligence 3 life, will, consciousness, thought, etc., regarded as separate from matter
Descend 1 to move from a higher to a lower place, or go down 2 to pass from an earlier to a later time, from greater to less, from general to particular, etc. permission the act of permitting; esp. formal consent; leave;
license [permission to go]
decree(s) 1 an official order, edict, or decision, as of a church, government, court, etc. 2 something that is or seems to be foreordained
dispensation Theol. a) the ordering of events under divine authority b) any religious system"
Webster New World Dictionary
Third College Ed., Simon & Schuster, 1988.
O ye that believe! Celebrate the praises of Allah, and do so often;
And glorify Him morning and evening.
He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels,
That He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: And He is full of Mercy to His Believers.
surah 33: 43 Al Ahzabi (The Confederates)
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall [5675] —
The Unbelievers, the which there is none to ward off —
(A Penalty) from Allah, Lord of the Ways of Ascent. [5676]
The angels and the Spirit [5677] ascend unto Him in a Day,
The measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years.
surah 70: 1-4 Al Ma'arij (The Ways of Ascent)
"5675. Any one might ask, When will Judgement come? That question usually implies doubt. The answer is: the mystery of Time is beyond man's comprehension . . . we are reminded of another title of Allah, "Lord of the Ways of Ascent"; which means that though He sits high on His Throne of Glory, He is not inaccessible, but His infinite Mercy has provided ways of ascent to Him; see next note.
5676. Ma'arij: stairways, ways of ascent . . . Here there is a profound spiritual meaning. Can we reach up to Allah Most High? In His infinite grace He gives that privilege to angels and spiritual beings, man being such in his highest aspect. But the way is not easy, nor can it be traveled in a day.
5677. Ruh: "The Spirit," Cf. 78:38, "the Spirit and the angels"; and 97:4, "the angels and the Spirit." In 16:2, we have translated Ruh by "inspiration." Some commentators understand the angel Gabriel by "the Spirit." But I think a more general meaning is possible."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)
WA-LAA UQSIM BI-AN-NAFSAL-LAWWAAMAH
I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;
And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit.
Concerning what are they disputing?
Concerning the Great News. [5889]
About which they cannot agree.
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!
Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!
surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)
"5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of the Resurrection."
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.
Types of Kufr (Disbelief) — Adapted from 'Tafseer ibn Katheer'
1. Kufrul-'Inaad: Disbelief out of stubbornness;
2. Kufrul-Inkaar: Disbelief out of denial;
3. Kufrul-Kibr: Disbelief out of arrogance and pride;
4. Kufrul-Juhood: Disbelief out of rejection;
5. Kufrul-Nifaaq: Disbelief out of hypocrisy;
6. Kufrul-Kurh: Disbelief out of detesting any of Allah's commands;
7. Kufrul-Istihzaha: Disbelief due to mockery and derision;
8. Kufrul-I'raadh: Disbelief due to avoidance;
In Abdullah Yusuf Ali's commentary Kufr, Kafara, Kafir, and
derivative forms of the word imply a deliberate rejection of faith, revelation and truth of the Holy Qur'an:
"The culmination of Allah's Revelation is in the Qur'an, which confirms
previous scriptures, corrects the errors which men introduced into
them, and explains many points in detail for all who seek right
worship and service to Allah—whether they inherit the previous Books
or not. It is a universal Message ... The worst and most hardened
sinner is the man to whom Allah's Signs are actually brought home and
who yet prefers Evil and turns away from the Light of Allah. The
Signs may be in the words and guidance of a great Teacher or in some
sorrow or warning, but from which he deliberately refuses to profit.
The penalty—the Nemesis—must necessary come eventually."
According to Ibn Taymiyah (1263 - 1328) "kufr is
the attribute of everyone who rejects something that God has
commanded us to believe in, after news of that has reached him,
whether he rejects it in his heart without uttering it, or he speaks
those words of rejection without believing it in his heart, or he
does both; or he does an action which is described in the texts as
putting one beyond the pale of faith."
However, this explanation of kufr is most lucid and applicable to the sheer gravity, importance, and dire consequences of this universal Message of Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection):
"Just as faith for Muslims has to do not with believing but with knowing, so
kufr, rejection, is not a lack of belief, not an intellectual position that holds that something is
otherwise than is the case, and certainly it is not mere ignorance. Rather it, too, like its correlative iman, presupposes knowledge; for it is an active
repudiation of what one knows to be true. This is why it is a sin, and indeed a (the)
monstrous sin. It is the one final, cosmic (or some would say, the one final human) wrong;
the deliberate saying of 'no' to what one knows to be right." (Wilfred Cantwell Smith, On Understanding Islam: Selected Studies, 1981, page 154)
Therefore most of the Al-Kufr ul Akbar (major disbeliefs) are applicable to
those rejecting or disbelieving Allah's (SWT) Signs and surahs
upholding the collection, promulgation, recital, explanation and
warning of the following:
i) His Call to witness Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection);
ii) His Call to witness His Ruh (self-reproaching Spirit);
iii) His Call to heed Al Naba (The Great News);
iv) His Call to participate in Al Qadr (The Night of Power and Destiny);
v) His Call to confirm His Revelations, Signs, and Warnings (of i-iv).
Thus kaffir (non-believer) here is applied to all humankind,
both Muslim and non-Muslim, who reject the Call that God has commanded us
to believe in after His Revelations, Signs and Warnings have reached us.
The Qur'an clearly warns that many will disbelief, even mock, the
Great News and Sure Signs of Al-Qiyamah.
So be forewarned, and in the Hereafter never deny deliverance of this clear Warning:
"O ye assembly of Jinns and men! came there not unto you
messengers from amongst you, setting forth unto you My signs, and
warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?" Qur'an 6.130
And those still rejecting, hesitant or unable to make up their minds even after hearing the Great News and shown the Signs,
Allah (SWT) questions: "Are they waiting until the Hour comes to them
suddenly? All the Signs thereof have already come. Once the Hour
comes to them, how will they benefit from their message?" "Why do
they not study the Quran carefully? Do they have locks on their
minds?" Qur'an 47:18-24
The last paragraph is yet another warning from Allah (SWT) that
prior to the Wrath of the End (Al Qariah) humans are offered the
Mercy of the Resurrection (Al Qadr). And once the Hour of Al Qariah
comes to them, how will they benefit from their contemporary message of Al Qadr i.e., from the Great News of the messengers from amongst you? How will those reading these lines benefit if they continue to doubt and wait, and the Striking Day comes suddenly?
What use then will be the Mercy and Compassion of Al Qadr (Night of Destiny) if the morn of the Al Qariah (Striking Day) ends His Peace?
Why doesn't the Ummah then not study the Quran with painstaking effort to avoid the errors, mistranslation and ignorance of the ulema that have presently paralyzed their minds from believing the Great News? Why don't they use their own mental faculties and intelligence to understand Al- Qiyamah, the heart and soul of the living, breathing Quran? Living and breathing because God Almighty is now talking directly to you through His Holy Book! After all, it is Allah (SWT) who has now called out to all Believers with this Decree: "I do call to witness the Resurrection Day; And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit." He is specifically addressing you in particular (and Believers is general) to do so!
Only now in this modern age of universal education, mass media and publishing technology—after 14 centuries and unlike the illiterate past—is it possible to own and be sufficiently
literate to "study the Quran carefully" in languages they understand
best.* And just in case the Believers start studying the entire Qur'an, it
must be stressed that Allah (SWT) is referring specifically to those
eschatological Signs and surahs upholding His Call to bear witness of the
Resurrection! They must thoroughly examine and understand the Signs that have already manifested, and
set forth by messengers from amongst themselves.
Without question, to "study the Quran carefully" means using one's own mental faculties, not those of the ulema (Muslim clergy) who have
for centuries put "locks on their minds" and are the very reason for
the Ummah's present predicament i.e., their unprecedented kaffir-like mindset,
reaction, rejection and mocking of His Call, Signs and Great News of the Resurrection. They must know that during Al Qadr no 'graves are going to open up'
as this is His Night of Compassion and Mercy. So "Peace!... This until the rise of the morn!" (Quran 97:5)
"There is so much blind faith, there is so much of wrong ideas, so much of organizational fortresses they have built. All kinds of nonsensical things are going on in this world, but they'll all be finished."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Vienna, Austria, 8 June 1988
"We are now in the Blossom Time, as I call it, because many flowers are born and they are to become the fruits. This is the Resurrection Time, which is described in all the scriptures. But it's not like this, the way they had described us. Something wrong with them that all the dead bodies who are in the graves will come out of the graves. I mean, how much is left out of them, God knows. Must be some bones or maybe some skulls there. So they'll come out of the graves and they will get their Resurrection!!!? This is a very wrong idea.
Once I happened to meet a fellow, a Muslim from Bosnia and he told Me, "I want to die for my religion, for God's sake." I said, "But why? Who told you to die?" He said, "Now, if I die in the name of God, I'll be resurrected." I said, "It's all wrong. That's not the way it is going to work out. Resurrection is going to work out this way that at this time, all these souls will take their birth. All these souls will take their birth and they will be resurrected. As human beings they'll have to come."
That's why we find all kinds of funny people these days, all kinds of cruel, criminal, all kinds of idiotic, stupid, I mean very queer, weird, funny ideas which find such, such a variety of people and such a tremendous population that we should understand they have to have their chance of Resurrection. But how many will come? That's the point. How many are going to come?"
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Philadelphia, USA — October 15, 1993
So Peace to all Believers bearing witness to the Resurrection (Al-Qiyamah)! So Peace to all Believers bearing witness to His self-reproaching Spirit (Ruh)! So Peace to all Believers resurrecting themselves during this blessed Night of Power and Destiny (Al Qadr)! So Peace to all Believers of the Great News (Al Naba)! So Peace until the dreadful morn of the Great Calamity, the Striking Day (Al Qariah) against the Unbelievers (Al-Kafirun)!
Last, but not the least, the Qur'an insists that ample warning of impending calamity must be always delivered by His messengers:
"That is because thy Lord would never destroy the cities unjustly, while their inhabitants were heedless." (Quran 6.131);
"Never did We destroy a population, but had its warners - By way of reminder; and We never are unjust." (Quran 26:208-209);
"And never did Thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother-town a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations." (Quran 27:59);
This cardinal rule has been expressly complied with and Warning of the impending Great Calamity repeatedly announced and fearlessly upheld by the incarnation of His Ruh for more than three decades until Her retirement in 2008 at the age of 85. (Since Jesus is the mandatory Sign of the Hour [Quran 43:61], and as the Comforter promised and sent by God Almighty in Jesus' name, She has also ceaselessly glorified Christ and His Message of the Last Judgment.)
"I should do something to bring sense to these people (humanity). Something should happen to them otherwise what I see is a
complete disaster. It is going to happen. I do not want to frighten you
like Mrs Thatcher does about the Russians. That might be imaginary. But
this is real. I am warning you that the Disaster is going to come as destruction itself."
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
London, UK, 6 June 1983
"The Last Judgment has started. We are facing the Last Judgment today. We are not aware of it. And all the satanic forces have come out like the wolves in sheep's clothes. And they are trying to attract you and you do not judge them. You only sit down and judge the Reality. It has started! It is a fact! It has started!"
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
Kingston, UK, 6 November 1980
"I have such respect for so many of them (Muslims). I wish they could accept that this is not Jihad time anymore but
Qiyamah Time, the Resurrection Time, the Blossom Time. Are they going to miss it?"
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
*
— "Muslim illiteracy worldwide stands at about 51 percent for all age
groups over fifteen. Despite a rapid increase in primary school
enrollment, only 45 percent of Muslim children aged six to eleven
attend primary school. An even larger gap exists at higher levels of
research." - Martin S. Kramer, Arab awakening and Islamic revival,
1996, page 280;
— "The vast majority of Muslims do not speak Arabic as their native
tongue" - Christine Huda Dodge, The everything understanding Islam,
2003, page 21;
— "The degree of knowledge of Arabic determines a person's
understanding of the Islamic creed. The Quran, the Hadith and Sira
traditions (Prophetic sayings and actions), and the writings of the
early Islamic scholars and jurists were in Arabic. Imam Shafei (767-
820), the founder of the Shafei School of Sunni jurisprudence,
advocated that every Muslim should learn Arabic, at least to the
point of reciting the Quran (Hourani 1991, 68). Most non-Arab Muslims
do not understand Arabic." - Elie Elhadj, The Islamic Shield, 2006, page
22;
— "If your mother tongue is not Arabic, Satan (or his troops) will
encourage you to read the Quran in Arabic. Why does he do that?
Because he knows that you will not understand enough of it. The
majority of those who learn Arabic to study the Quran do not excel
enough to understand the implication or interpretation of certain
words when used in a special way in the Arabic language. They will
have a lot of shortcomings. Many Pakistani and Indian Muslims are
forced as children to read the Quran in Arabic and still as adults
read the Quran in Arabic but they do not understand a single word of
what they read... The Quran is a message, not just another beautiful
language book. If you cannot read it in Arabic do not wait until the
day you excel in your Arabic language, because this day may never
come. Trust God and know that He is the teacher of the Quran. He will
teach in any language and to any nationality, He created all things.
Read your Quran today, (do not wait any longer,) in any language that
you can understand and master and leave the rest to God." Dr. Rashad
Khalifa, Ph.d.
ADDITIONAL QUOTES
"The Qur'an provides many keys to the nature and ontological status of the angels. A verse constantly quoted represents the words of the angels themselves: "None of us there is but has a known station" (XXXVII, 164). God also says, "They are honored servants who precede Him not in speech and act as He commands" (XXI, 27)....
Basing themselves on these and other verses, the Quran commentators were able to discern a hierarchy of different kinds of angels, each performing a specified task. The Sufi 'Izz al-Din Kashani (d. 735/1334-35), author of the well-known Persian paraphrase of Abu Hafs Suuhrawardi's 'Awarif al-ma'arif, summarizes these discussions as follows:
All believers have faith in the existence of the angels, who dwell in the monasteries of holiness and the communities of divine intimacy ... Some of them are more excellent, others lower in degree. Their stations are various and their ranks multiple, as is explained by the verse, "By the rangers in their ranks" (XXXVII, 1).
Some have been brought nigh to the Presence of Majesty and cling to the Threshold of Perfection; these are alluded to in the words, "Then those who are foremost in going ahead" (LXXIX, 4). Others govern the affairs of creation: "Then those who govern the Command" (LXXIX, 5).
Another group guards the doorway to the Court of Magnificence: "By the drivers driving" (XXXVII, 2). Others sing the praises of the Presence of Kingship and the Divine Books: "By the reciters of a Remembrance" (XXXVII, 3).
Others carry news and relay reminders: "By those who deliver a reminder" (LXXXVII, 5). Many are their levels and ranks; each busies himself with a specific command and possess a known station: "None of us there is but has a known station" (XXXVII, 164)."
Angels in Islam (www.islamia.com)
"He doth send down His angels with the inspiration of His Command, to such of His servants as He pleaseth, (saying):
"Warn (Man) that there is no god but I: So do your duty unto Me."
surah 16: 2 Al Nahl (Bees)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an
"The Doctrines of Islam
Angels: Islam affirms the reality of angels as messengers and agents of god. Evil spirits or "Jinn" also exist. Satan is a fallen angel. Angels perform important functions for god both now and at the end of time."
Angels (www.namb.net)
"A Muslim has to proclaim faith in seven things, these are:
I believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, in the Day of Judgment, and that Fate good and bad is given by Allah, and the life after death."
www.inter-islam.org
"Allaah has honoured some of the angels by choosing them as Messengers, just as He has chosen some of mankind as Messengers:
Allaah chooses Messengers from angels and from men" [al-Hajj 22:75 - interpretation of the meaning] ...
Belief in the angels is one of the pillars of faith, and whoever denies it is a kaafir:
and whosoever disbelieves in Allaah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, and the Last Day, then indeed he has strayed far away" [al-Nisaa' 4:136 - interpretation of the meaning]"
Angels in Islam (www.a2youth.com)
"The last major monotheistic religion is Islam, founded by the Prophet Muhammad in 622 AD in Arabia .Like its sister/brother religions Judaism and Christianity angels played a role in the belief system. Mala'ika, messenger, is the Islamic term for angel and the chief duty of the angels were to carry messages to Allah, the name of the Muslim God. The Koran, the Islamic Holy Book, regularly mentions angels, such as Djibril (Gabriel) and Mikhail (Michael). It was Djibril who contacted Muhammad and dictated the Koran to him, and Djibril was the angel who conducted The Prophet to heaven during the Night Journey (Leilat al-isra'). Like the angels in other religions, the Islamic angels protect, deliver messages, and wage war against evil. They also give praise to Allah."
History of Angels (angelspeake.com)
