Who Are Angels?

WHO ARE ANGELS? degree do they deviate from the instructions given by God. At every moment, there are innumerable happenings in the universe. For instance, the orbiting of the stars, the shining of the sun and the moon and the rotation of the earth. Similarly, the rains, changes in the weather, diverse cosmic events, the continuous habitation of man and the animals on earth, and other such countless happenings as are constantly taking place in the world. All of these are arranged by the angels. The angels are completely loyal and obedient workers. The angels are invisible to human beings but human beings are visible to them. They keep a watch over human beings on God’s behalf. It is these angels who have the power to take a person’s soul at the time of death, and bring that soul to God. The angels are facilitators of this present universe as well as the organizers of heaven and hell in the Hereafter. These angels are countless in number. The functioning of the angels may be illustrated by the example of a big factory. In a big factory, there are on the one hand large and complex machines and on the other hand is the product of the machines for