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The Quran, Hadith and Sira affirms the existence of angels (see angel and angels on Quran Corpus), traditionally said to be made from light as mentioned in (Sahih Muslim 42:7134 - Islamic tradition),<ref>[https://islamqa.info/en/answers/843/angels-in-islam#of-what-are-the-angels-created Angels in Islam.] Of what are the Angels created? Islam Q&A. 2000</ref> while other have asserted they are made from fire like jinn based on (see: Quran 38:73-76 and Quran 7:11-12),<ref>El-Zein, Amira. ''Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) (Kindle Edition. pp. 44-46 ).'' Syracuse University Press.</ref> before humans Quran 2:30. | Similarly to Judeo-Christian literature, The Quran, Hadith and Sira affirms the existence of angels (see angel and angels on Quran Corpus), traditionally said to be made from light as mentioned in (Sahih Muslim 42:7134 - Islamic tradition),<ref>[https://islamqa.info/en/answers/843/angels-in-islam#of-what-are-the-angels-created Angels in Islam.] Of what are the Angels created? Islam Q&A. 2000</ref> while other have asserted they are made from fire like jinn based on (see: Quran 38:73-76 and Quran 7:11-12),<ref>El-Zein, Amira. ''Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) (Kindle Edition. pp. 44-46 ).'' Syracuse University Press.</ref> before humans Quran 2:30. | ||
They are also God's messengers like humans, and have two, three or four (pairs of) wings.{{Quote|{{Quran|35|1}}|All praise belongs to Allah, originator of the heavens and the earth, maker of the angels [His] messengers, possessing wings, two, three or four [of them]... He adds to the creation whatever He wishes. Indeed Allah has power over all things.}}They are said to hold God’s throne (in the seventh heaven) (Q 40:7, 69:17) and some stand around it (Q 40:7). Eight angels will carry the throne of God on Judgement Day(Q 69:17). Two write down everyone's deeds for judgment day (Q 50:17 – 21), they also ask forgiveness for the faithful on Earth (Q 42:5), help fight with believers against non-believers (Q 8:12) chastise unbelievers (Q 8:50). As well as blow the trumpets on judgement day<ref>[https://islamqa.info/en/answers/49009/what-is-meant-by-the-blowing-of-the-trumpet What is meant by the blowing of the Trumpet?] Islam Q&A. 2003.</ref> in e.g. Q 6:73, Q18:99. | They are also God's messengers like humans, and have two, three or four (pairs of) wings.{{Quote|{{Quran|35|1}}|All praise belongs to Allah, originator of the heavens and the earth, maker of the angels [His] messengers, possessing wings, two, three or four [of them]... He adds to the creation whatever He wishes. Indeed Allah has power over all things.}}They are said to hold God’s throne (in the seventh heaven) (Q 40:7, 69:17) and some stand around it (Q 40:7). Eight angels will carry the throne of God on Judgement Day(Q 69:17). Two write down everyone's deeds for judgment day (Q 50:17 – 21), they also ask forgiveness for the faithful on Earth (Q 42:5), help fight with believers against non-believers (Q 8:12) chastise unbelievers (Q 8:50). As well as blow the trumpets on judgement day<ref>[https://islamqa.info/en/answers/49009/what-is-meant-by-the-blowing-of-the-trumpet What is meant by the blowing of the Trumpet?] Islam Q&A. 2003.</ref> in e.g. Q 6:73, Q18:99. | ||
They praise and worship God constantly Q13:13 Q 7:206, 21:19, 40:7, 41:38, 42:5, 69:17 and carry out his divine will. | They praise and worship God constantly Q13:13 Q 7:206, 21:19, 40:7, 41:38, 42:5, 69:17 and carry out his divine will - and unlike biblical angels, do not seem to be able to disobey god, they: ''“do as they are commanded” (Q 16:50, 66:6: yafʿalūna mā yuʾmarūn; see also 21:27: wa-hum bi-amrihi yaʿmalūn),30 “do not disobey God” (Q 66:6: lā yaʿṣūna llāha), and “do not deem themselves above serving him” (Q 7:206, 21:19: lā yastakbirūna ʿan ʿibādatihi; see also 16:49: wa-hum lā yastakbirūn).'' Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (p. 633). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | ||
They also have an active role in the cosmos, striking spying jinn devils from attempting to listen in to divine information from the 'exalted assembly', to be stuck by stars/meteors/fireballs ''(see: [[:en:Shooting_Stars_in_the_Quran|shooting stars in the Quran]])''. (Q 15:16 – 18), (Q 37:6 – 10) Q67:5, 72:8-9; with Q 72:8 – 9 says that the firmament is filled with guards [ḥaras], who are undoubtedly angels.<ref>Decharneux, Julien. Creation and Contemplation: ''The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East Book 47) (Kindle Edition. pp. 313).'' De Gruyter.</ref> | They also have an active role in the cosmos, striking spying jinn devils from attempting to listen in to divine information from the 'exalted assembly', to be stuck by stars/meteors/fireballs ''(see: [[:en:Shooting_Stars_in_the_Quran|shooting stars in the Quran]])''. (Q 15:16 – 18), (Q 37:6 – 10) Q67:5, 72:8-9; with Q 72:8 – 9 says that the firmament is filled with guards [ḥaras], who are undoubtedly angels.<ref>Decharneux, Julien. Creation and Contemplation: ''The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East Book 47) (Kindle Edition. pp. 313).'' De Gruyter.</ref> | ||
They can be messengers (Q22:75) https://www.saet.ac.uk/Islam/Angels.pdf | They can be messengers (Q22:75) https://www.saet.ac.uk/Islam/Angels.pdf | ||
''The Qur’anic word malak, “angel” (plural: malāʾikah),18 corresponds to Hebrew malʾāk, “messenger,” which the Septuagint renders by Greek angelos. In the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, malʾāk and angelos designate not only superhuman agents on behalf of the deity (e.g., Gen 16:7 or Hos 12:5) but also human messengers commissioned by other humans (e.g., Gen 32:4, Job 1:14, or Luke 9:52; see DTEK 83). A Qur’anic malak, by contrast, is invariably a supernatural intermediary between God and humans rather than a “messenger” in a neutral functional sense, for which the Qur’an uses the words rasūl or mursal, applicable both to angelic messengers (as in Q 22:75 and 35:1) and to human ones (see under → rasūl and also Burge 2008, 52).'' | |||
Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (p. 629). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | |||
Are generally humanoid shape: ''Despite their wings and their potential invisibility, the default appearance of angels on earth is humanoid: “had we made him”—namely, the Qur’anic Messenger—“an angel, we would have made him a man (rajul),” i.e., endowed him with the appearance of an ordinary human, Q 6:9 affirms. Perhaps one is to understand that angels can exist in two different states of aggregation, as it were: a celestial one involving wings and invisibility to the human eye, and a state of manifestation to humans, in which they appear by and large like humans themselves (see also Burge 2012, 57). It is worth highlighting that Q 6:9, by virtue of employing the word rajul, additionally implies that angels are male. This corresponds to Biblical assumptions (e.g., Matt 16:5) and helps make sense of the Qur’anic polemic against belief in female angels (Q 17:40, 37:149–153, 43:16–19, 53:27–28; see also DTEK 102). A particular aspect of the angels’ humanoid appearance—namely, their possession of hands—is corroborated by Q 6:93, according to which the angels “stretch out their hands” for the wrongdoers when these latter are in the throes of death (DTEK 121). Moreover, it must be on account of the angels’ anthropomorphic appearance that Abraham initially mistook the divinely sent “messengers” (rusul) dispatched to him for ordinary humans, only realising their supernatural—i.e., angelic—status when his guests declined the food offered to them (Q 11:69–70 and 51:26–28; see below and Sinai 2020a, 282–283).26 The generally humanoid shape of Qur’anic angels also emerges from the fact that the female friends of Joseph’s Egyptian mistress so admire him that they exclaim, “This is no human but a noble angel!” (Q 12:31).'' | |||
Sinai, Nicolai. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary (p. 632). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. | |||
There is no evidence that these exist. | There is no evidence that these exist. | ||
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=== Nūḥ === | === Nūḥ === | ||
==== Lived to be 950 years old ==== | ==== Lived to be 950 years old ==== | ||
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=== Adam (ʾĀdam) === | |||
=== Abraham (Ibrahim) === | === Abraham (Ibrahim) === | ||
==== Magically cooling fire ==== | ==== Magically cooling fire ==== | ||
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And thus did We show Abraham the realm of the heavens and the earth that he would be among the certain [in faith]. Q6:75 | And thus did We show Abraham the realm of the heavens and the earth that he would be among the certain [in faith]. Q6:75 | ||
=== Ishmael (ʾIsmāʿīl) === | === Ishmael (ʾIsmāʿīl) === | ||
=== Abel (Hābīl) and Cane (Qābīl) === | |||
=== Jonah (Yunus) === | === Jonah (Yunus) === | ||
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Birds are seen in a dream which Joseph (q.v.) interprets (Q 12:36, 41). | Birds are seen in a dream which Joseph (q.v.) interprets (Q 12:36, 41). | ||
=== Job === | === Job (Ayūb) === | ||
=== Moses (Mūsā) === | === Moses (Mūsā) === | ||