The Angels who confiscate the souls

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Though the second verse attributes the confiscation of the souls to God but we learn from other verses of the Qura’n and this work is done by the angels.

The third verse is addressed to the Holy Messenger. When the pagans denied resurrection God said:

““Say: “The Angel of Death put in charge of you will take your souls: then shall you be brought back to your lord”

The point to note that the verse speaks about the angel of death who is designated with this work while in the previous verse the work was attributed to God. In verse 28 of Surah Nahl it speaks the angels; ““They are those lives that the angels take in a state where they wrong their own souls.”

Again in verse 61 of Surah Anam the Book says;

“Our Messengers take his soul”

If we look deeply into the verses we will find no discrepancy between them because actually only god confiscates the soul. Azrael the angle of death is in-charge of this duty and he does it through a group of angels and these angels have been referred to by the word “Rusuluna”. Normally all the jobs are done through the angels on this world and they are all obedient to God. Death which is a part of these events is no exception in this law.

“And then you will be returned to your Lord”

This verse tells us that the return to the Lord and the journey to the eternal world is the same as when a child is born the birth is the gateway into the destructible world. The word “Summa” may be referring to purgatory.

 

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