External speed light with soft box. Fisheye lens.

From the courtyard outside of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

O ! Light of consciousness

Shine forth thy brilliant beams

Over the realm of the intellect

For perfect perception

In making judgements

Right, genuine and wise

 

O ! Man, why so late and why you keep

Standing outside and peep ?

At your own heavenly house ?

Go in, get yourself cleansed

Of all filth and enjoy the inside wealth !

 

- Anuj Nair

 

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When God created man in His image, He created a measure; the human perception of the world corresponds to God's creative intention. Man by definition is a center, or "the center" in a given universe; not by accident, but in virtue of the very nature of Being, and this is why that which is large or small for man is large or small in the divine intention; man perceives things as they present themselves in the divine Intellect.

 

And that is why the world of the indefinitely small, as well as the world of the indefinitely

large, is as it were forbidden to man, who should not want to disproportionately enlarge the small or to disproportionately reduce the large. Man ought to feel that there is no advantage or happiness in such enterprises; and he would feel it if he had maintained a relationship with the Absolute, or if this relationship were sincere and sufficient.

 

He who is really at peace with God is free from all unhealthy curiosity, if one may say so; he lives, like a well-guarded child, in the blessed garden of a grace that does not forsake him; the Creator knows the best place for the creature, and He knows what is good for man.

48/365.

 

There are two people in my house who have a bit of a candy problem. Both these individuals, coincidentally, lack a Y chromosome. Stuff like this doesn't last long in our house. You bring home a bag of Skittles, and the two girls will make short work of them before you can even unload the rest of the groceries.

 

I can see why, when given a chance, any self-respecting piece of candy would attempt escape when the opportunity arises (hell, I almost had to clone some in for this shot 'cause my "assistant" kept eating the props!)

 

The Mini-Me's (who got my version of the "Y chromo") on the other hand, take after their Fah-zha and dig the chocolate. That's what I'm talking 'bout, Willis.

 

It's genetic boys, just like the dashing good looks, razor-sharp intellect, and all-around awesome-ness. Don't fight it… ;)

 

p.s. I got up this morning with what felt like razor blades in my throat. I think I have strep throat (lab results in the a.m.), so this photo was a challenge in more ways than one, I just wanted to go to bed. That said, any c&c (+ve or -ve) is surely appreciated. "Set pieces" and strobist lighting are not my forte.

The Mystic Order - Immortality by Daniel Arrhakis (2019)

 

With the music : Crypt of Insomnia - Lunaris | Beautiful Dramatic Orchestral Vocal Music

 

youtu.be/gwCIt77sP1w

  

Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death, unending existence.

In religious contexts, immortality is often stated to be one of the promises of God (or other deities) to human beings who show goodness or else follow divine law.

After the Bible God promises a resurrection to eternal life to everyone who repents, worships God and accepts Jesus as the Messiah and His sacrifice.

  

The belief in an afterlife is a fundamental tenet of most religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism and others however, the concept of an immortal soul is not.

 

The "soul" itself has different meanings and is not used in the same way in different religions and different denominations of a religion. For example, various branches of Christianity have disagreeing views on the soul's immortality and its relation to the body.

 

Depending on the philosophical system, a soul can either be mortal or immortal. In Judeo-Christianity, only human beings have immortal souls (although immortality is disputed within Judaism and may have been influenced by Plato).

 

The Ancient Alchemists strive to solve the mystery of immortality with the Philosopher's Stone and elixir of life. They believe through the application of alchemical processes, the physical body can be maintained through Infinity, not dying by any natural diseases.

 

Everyone needs to know that life has purpose, that death isn’t the permanent end of our existence. Christians belief regarding the afterlife is that people possess souls and at death their consciousness in the form of that soul departs from the body and heads for heaven or hell.

 

Most religions teach some form of life after death. The ancient Egyptians, for example, practiced elaborate ceremonies to prepare the pharaohs for their next life.

 

Belief in the immortality of the soul was an important aspect of ancient thought espoused by the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

 

Origen (ca. 185-254) was the first person to attempt to organize Christian doctrine into a systematic theology. He was an admirer of Plato and believed in the immortality of the soul and that it would depart to an everlasting reward or everlasting punishment at death.

 

Later Augustine (354-430) tackled the problem of the immortality of the soul and death. For Augustine death meant the destruction of the body, but the conscious soul would continue to live in either a blissful state with God or an agonizing state of separation from God.

 

Centuries later Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225-1274) crystallized the doctrine of the immortal soul in The Summa Theologica. He taught that the soul is a conscious intellect and will and cannot be destroyed.

 

The Hebrew word translated “soul” in the Old Testament is nephesh, which simply means “a breathing creature.”

 

The Hebrew Scriptures state plainly that, rather than possess immortality, the soul can and does die. “The soul [ nephesh ] who sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4, Ezekiel 18:20).

 

The Laws of Ion's Transcendence

The First Law - The Immortality Of The Soul

 

In the Ion Mystical World, Immortality is the first law of the Laws of Ion's Transcendence.

 

And in this theorizing the soul is immortal and timeless.

In a first stage which we call Aetherium, hence his relation to the physical body ends with his death, the soul remain in an ethereal stage of semi consciousness for some time; hence often reports of Near-death experiences (NDEs).

 

A near-death experience (NDE) is the event of maintaining a conscious recognition of sensations, visions, or events after having been declared clinically dead and ultimately being resuscitated to reflect on what was experienced.

Such events often include the vision of a white light, sometimes interpreted to be God; encounters with angels, ancestors, or other members of the deceased; out-of-body experiences; and a review of one's life, among other reported phenomena. NDEs can be either heavenly or hellish experiences.

Skeptical scientists believing there to be a biological explanation for the phenomena, while more paranormally inclined scientists claim these experiences to be evidence of a spiritual world. No matter what people may believe, the truth is that there are more and more reports and in many cases there are similarities between them.

 

In a second stage the soul no longer has relation to the body and beyond its temporal spacing there is a dimensional time apart. In this conception the soul has no expression in the physical world that we know outside the body but it is part of a space-time dimension that transcends us and that induces us to forget our previous life.

This second stage is the Stadium of Physical Inconscience or

Oblivion. However, we will not be in this stage for a long time until we reincarnate again in another body and in another life.

 

This third phase of Reincarnation can be done in different temporal space lines so that we can reincarnate both in a long past or in a future that we can not imagine.

As the temporal space dimensions are different in the Physical and Spiritual World it will not be possible to have memory of each other except for rare exceptions in which are involved phenomena of bridges between the two Worlds.

 

However there is something we can not predict ... what will be our next life ... or who we will be again ... or what experiences will be reserved ... but this is another conversation for another time ! : )

 

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Thank you dear friends for your kind visit, comments and invitations these last days, much grateful and trying catching up during the next days, so sorry i am delay with all of you !

 

Fraser Nelson, the highly regarded editor of The Spectator, was in Teddington this evening, where he gave a wide-ranging ‘in conversation’ talk about the state of British politics, journalism, ethics and religion. As would be expected of a journalist of his calibre and intellect, it was a stimulating evening.

 

In addition to his work at The Spectator, Fraser Nelson is a frequent contributor to political programmes on radio and television, he writes guest columns for many newspapers, and he’s a member of the advisory board for the Centre of Social Justice and the Centre for Policy Studies. A recipient of the Political Journalist of the Year Award, he was also named one of the most influential journalists working in London. Listening to him and engaging with him last night, it was easy to see why.

 

♦ Update: Fraser Nelson resigned from The Spectator in 2024, following its acquisition by a new owner. He now writes a weekly column for The Times newspaper, and he serves on the advisory boards for the Centre for Policy Studies and the Centre for Social Justice. He also works as a media commentator and is much in demand.

  

The older I get, the more I am becoming a stranger.

Fryodor Dostoevsky wrote “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” He was right on many levels. And as I get older, I give thanks that I have become unexpected, because of it! I found that the first part of enabling yourself to love, is to love and be kind, not just to others, but also towards yourself. And that this could be applied to the principle of the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to share how personally significant it is. How on reflection of its application, I now appreciate why it is so important.

The consideration of love, come about after a face book conversation with a young man I help raise. He was a kind, and happy young man, but he wrote something on social media that made me genuinely concerned for him. He wrote of post-traumatic stress syndrome, or PTSD and I tried to convey to him that despite what may have happened to him, or what he may have seen to cause it, that he should be kind to himself. I wrote to him saying he should be easy on himself. I told him we all loved him. We loved him because he was a kind, and respectful person. Talking to him, helped teach me, that we all make mistakes, and that sometimes despite making no mistakes at all, and despite being utterly blameless, we witness things that no person should witness. I conveyed to him that we must remember that we are not to blame, even despite at times our direct involvement. I indirectly shared a little part of myself with him, not just because I am proud of how he turned out, as he now helps me, and others. I shared it, because he assisted me, one way or another, and as a result he helped me to write this, a self-reflection that helps me with my own PTSD.

Thanks Ben.

Despite only being a little older than fifty, my mind and body, no longer match nor recognise the person I once was, and my recollections of my character become more frequently and every so often vailed. Despite the change of loss, it still cuts a little. It was not that I showed pride, it was not that my ego was hurt or reduced, it was from the personal experience of PTSD that I spoke to Ben with an adult honesty, an honesty that I always showed him even when he was a child. And it made me realize that despite the ever present or looming Spector of PTSD, that the thing that grates me, was the idea that some thought it was a weakness. Although never considering myself as weak, the considerations were foreign and made me reconsider who I was as a person.

So, who is this new person, this stranger?

I do not know, and to be honest; it is just that the more I write about myself, to myself, the more I appreciate the efforts I made. The more I write, the less, and curiously the more of a stranger I become. I reiterate, over and over to myself, about just how many failures it took to achieve anything. And it should be noted that failure is not necessarily an end; it is in general I have found, “…the start of doing something meaningful…, to paraphrase someone from somewhere in the cloud...

The more I look back, one of the things that I appreciate, was giving the benefit of the doubt. And although I fell on my face applying it on multiple occasions, I dearly valued how it helped, not just those that I gave it to, but in the end, it helped me! It helped me value the person I had become, and very fortunately it helped me value the person I was, despite all that had happened. Because of my application of it to others, I learnt to give myself the benefit of the doubt. And writing about it in my diary, makes me appreciate the principle, for what it is. It showed me just how clever it remains, and of how much worth it has as an intrinsic value or idiom. It in retrospect seemed like just a thing you do, and it should be noted that to give it, (the benefit of the doubt), and expect something back, other than to be granted the courage that it might be possibly or hopefully reciprocated, lacks integrity and self-sacrifice. It was something I was taught by my parents to do as a child, and I did it, and do it, because I was instructed that it was the right thing to do. I keep it up, because now I know, it is the just thing to do, not just a thing you do.

The application of this fundamental axion, pushed for me, to try to treat people with respect, even if I did not know them. It is not that I respect them, whoever they are, as my respect is earned, it is that I respect their right to be treated humanely and with humility. And until recently, I never fully treated myself with this respect. As a result, I now have become a stranger to myself. The more I learn, the more I find out, and the more I understand that I was not what other people thought I was. That they never really knew me. That their opinion of me was in general in error, and or self-serving of themselves.

I never forget the mistakes I made, which is part of my PTSD. But I try and be kind to myself and not dwell on them, as learning is and always will be an objective, and I now know we, as in humanity, universally make mistakes, while learning. I know that this is part of the learning process. These mistakes are written about in humanities survival manuals, printed, and etched in text to help us. Reading of others, not just personally observing them, and having firsthand experience, reinforced that this scenario played out repeatedly in its truism. It helped not just with forgiving myself for my mistakes or failings, but it aided in forgiving others for theirs. Due to this maxim, and its novel application to myself, I now look at this foreign person that I have never seen before. That person was me, and ironically, always was. I look at myself in a new light. It is not that I had an epiphany about who I was, I just never gave myself any credit, as not many others did. It was a trait written in one of my high school reports.

Despite them saying things like you are not bright enough; or you do not have the capacity, I just kept on going, like Vinsent from the movie Gattica. My mother gently pushed me not to listen to the people that said things like you cannot do that, or you will not succeed if you go down that rout. I tried never to listen to the nay sayers, because that is what my mother taught me. Although at times, I did. She was so calm and repetitive in saying it, that I should just keep on going. And as my capacity to take hits lessons, and my body runs out of time, I am losing some of the innocence I once had. The naive ignorance, and faith, in my capacity to weather personal injury slowly diminishes. I am not becoming a grumpy old man, sinical or anything like that. But, as my ability to disregard the opinion of those that thought, or think, of my applications of intellect, where acts of stupidity, I now become a little inelastic. My perseverance for those that thought it, and felt no shame in publicly pronouncing it, gets less, and because of their ridicule, I have become more.

In Australia, right or wrong we cut down tall poppies, and I have been cut down many times. This process seems highly ironic, as I never stood tall for all but a second in my youth. And boy did I get cut down by those that disagreed with me. Recently it seemed to me that they were just flogging a dead horse, trying to bleed the very last drop of effort out, all the while offering no just reward. But unlike Boxer from George Orwell’s novel Animal farm, I am not at the knackery yet, nor have I been sold for more whiskey for the pigs. It has not gone quite that far, although it has been tried by those that sort to capitalise on my work. And although my study and work put me in many perilous positions, some of which had left me socially prostrate and biochemically brutalised, it was the innocence and naivety, with which I went about my work, just like Boxer, that I am happy about. An innocence or loyalty that was, and is, of a worth that I personally think is immeasurable. It was not just a loyalty to people, but to values and things I had been taught.

Standing on principles that where and are sometimes profoundly challenged by my peers is and was in fact a strength. Most do not know the value or strength of virtue. And the revaluation, of its consideration helped me establish who I am, and what I went through. It helped reduce the PTSD, and now I am someone foreign to me. Like a thought of the third person, I have become a welcome stranger to myself. It has caused a process of revaluation, and in that process, I have become someone new, someone alien, someone of value. And just like the welcome swallows that turned up every year at my old house, they as a metaphor for an idea where in contrast, and unlike PTSD. They, like a conscious dream, fly in from nowhere, light up my day, and move on. And just like the birds, who took with them the mosquitos that filled the night air, my considerations take with them, the mosquitoes of my mind. They were such a beautiful little thing to see, and always welcome. For a quite mind is a gift.

This new person was created with two forces, out of something old. Like water and wind, to use a cliché, they helped produce me, with a heavy dose of self-fortitude. They had both worn me out, and worn me down, and I become a considerate tolerant man. Both were my parents. My mother, said and encouraged me to try anything, but she always reminded me, of the demanding work required to achieve said task. In contrast, my father cut down every endeavour I had thought of trying. Where my mother had taught me how to give myself the benefit of the doubt, my father gave me the capacity and discipline to do the work required. Initially he did not believe that I had the capacity to do the miles, to use a cycling term. To do the miles is to suffer for extended periods of time, to work, to churn, or grind away on the pedals as you train. Doing the miles makes your response to the task automatic, disciplined, and acutely effective. The longer you grind, or the more miles you do, the more Zen like you become at a task. Ironically as they both aged, my mother’s enthusiasm for me waned, and my father’s enthusiasm increased.

I do not know, if my father saw in the end, the miles being done, but, and it should be noted that both my mother and my father may have been a bit out, in their accuracy department of their analysis of me early on. Despite this, they both taught me resilience. The resilience, to have the not so common capacity to give the benefit of the doubt. One initially vocally optimistic, and ever encouraging, the other absent in lack of optimism, with an ever-present silence. His silence came from seeing me fall, seeing people laugh at his son, and finding the visual or metaphor more horrid to watch, than it ever was. I do not think he ever worked out, that where I might have lacked the ability to do the miles, it was my persistence in getting back up after a fall, which was my talent or discipline. Due to this, both my mother and father’s appraisals were wrong.

What caused it, this factual error? And to introduce Einstein in my parent’s defence, the situation was relative; it was not just their lack of faith in that I would just keep going after a fall, they just never could clearly see, where I was moving to, or where I was in time. I was on one train, and they were on the other. Like ships in the night passing each other, we never really stopped to talk, I never really discussed my work with them, I never told them about what I did. For when I had, they never believed me, for they could not comprehend my achievements. This social isolation is part of the new person I am, and as I discuss me, and what, or who I am, I come to the realisation of my exploitation by others. With an absence of family to discuss the details of my effort, and the sacrifices I had made, as they would never understand it, I started to write a journal, or a diary, about my work, and put into perspective or context, that journey.

Part of that journey due to my lowly status at work, was I never had a boss who could intimidate me. I never had a boss that could threaten me with a lower position, because I was in general already or always in it, the lowest of jobs. And thus, I become a type of wondering ronin. I am not sure, if my use of the word ronin is the old, or the updated version, but it most certainly is an Australian or western fusion of the two. This wondering, this lack of direction, and the experience of suffering and struggle, become an instructor of joy. It was an indicator, or a sign that I had earned my happiness, and not expected others to pay for it. This work or suffering had educated me, that I had earned the right to smile. I had served not just myself, in my endeavours of my pursuit of personal happiness, but that I had also served others on their quest or personal journey or pursuit of it… It was through my personal suffering, for that is what my work was, that I had lowered my collateral damage to those that surrounded me. I had reduced my infliction on their personal pursuits of happiness. As a result, I gave the benefit of the doubt to my pain, not knowing if it would ever bear fruit. I learnt of the discomfort of others, through my experience. I discovered that I should be considerate, because one way or another, we all suffer, and to intentionally cause another to suffer more is inhumane. I learned what that tribulation may entail, how personal it is, and how much of a double-edged sword it can be, as it is both, friend, and foe. And through the sympathy of other individuals suffering, and because of it, I learnt to give myself the benefit of the doubt, and I concluded that I had earned a decent living.

Studying others and their sacrifice, not just my own, and being respectful to both, helps alleviate the constant reminder of my broken body. The aches, and the pains, that I presume, if I make it to eighty, will all be quite weathering. But for now, they help keep me honest. I can only hope as I become more crippled, that I take more from Yoda than quasi modo. It will help put into context, the sacrifice of others, and just how lucky I have been, in comparison to some. It puts into perspective, that to give the benefit of the doubt, is to sacrifice little, and to give the benefit of the doubt, is to give up nothing. It is staunch, hard, and stoic, with one purpose, to give, and the first person you need to give it to is yourself. It has been both philosophically and religiously said, that suffering, and trial are a gift, a gift reserved for those that can manage it, but sometimes I wonder. At times, I look on at people, and question about their journey, and how much they, which is most of us, endure. And after reading a little of the Philosophers, I concur, luck, and hard work, are no strangers to each other, and when combined, are like magic. A magic so powerful, I no longer recognise myself, or care about my crippled body, nor the PTSD from the events that crippled it.

I was not cursed by my suffering, I was blessed to help not just myself, but others.

 

To endure myself may be the hardest task in the universe. I cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for me. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. I dress it myself or continue bleeding for all to see.

Frank Herbert

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Oṃ Gaṇeśāya Namaḥ,

Oṃ Gan Gaṇapatayē Namaḥ

  

" Ganesha ... is one of the best-known and most widely worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India. [He} is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as the Lord of Beginnings, patron of arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom ... ." Wikipedia. For more about Sri Ganesha: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

Female Mountain Bluebird (Sialia curricoides) associated with Box 13 of Section 4 of Beaver Lake Road in Lake Country, BC.

 

As mentioned in the discussion of Trisk's name, the name Triska actually does have some history.

 

Here's what I found at www.ask-oracle.com/baby-name/triska/

 

"Triska is a unique and intriguing name with Greek origins, meaning "three" or "third." Though not widely used, it offers a distinct and memorable choice for parents seeking a name with historical and cultural depth. Its connection to the number three holds symbolic significance in various cultures, often representing completeness, balance, and harmony.

 

Triska is generally perceived as a strong and sophisticated name, evoking feelings of intellect and individuality. While its pronunciation may require some clarification, it is easy to write and remember.

 

Though not prevalent in popular culture, Triska's connection to the number three could spark creative interpretations in literature or art. It is a name that stands out, offering a unique and meaningful option for those seeking a name with historical and cultural resonance."

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

 

~ Paul Valéry

 

Taken at Fine Arts Institution, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A still-life of the vintage Local Positioning System. The art of navigation in pre-space era. It works good and reliably and is powered by Natural Intellect only. Stylized photo.

There are way too many roads begging to be followed. That's my conclusion anyway, after a ride down Nevada I-95. The trouble is, you can't follow them all, even when the destination appears to be as close to "heaven on earth" as you can get to in a car. This particular dirt road had a mighty powerful call. If it weren't for the Intellects awaiting us in Las Vegas, we'd most likely have been swallowed up by Mt. Whitney--that's her standing proudly in the distance.

 

Somewhere in Nevada

Graffiti Alley, Toronto Ontario Canada

A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the villain character type, commonly found in comic books, action movies and science fiction in various media. They are sometimes used as foils to superheroes and other heroes. Whereas superheroes often wield fantastic powers, the supervillain possesses commensurate powers and abilities so that he can present a daunting challenge to the hero. Even without actual physical, mystical, superhuman or superalien powers, the supervillain often possesses a genius intellect that allows him to draft complex schemes or create fantastic devices. Another common trait is possession of considerable resources to help further his aims. Many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, mobsters, and terrorists and often have aspirations of world domination or universal leadership. Superheroes and supervillains often mirror each other in their powers, abilities, or origins. In some cases, the only difference between the two is that the hero uses his extraordinary powers to help others, while the villain uses his powers for selfish, destructive or ruthless purposes.

 

Numerology

El amarillo es el color percibido del sol. Se asocia con alegría, felicidad, intelecto y energía.

The Italian Bridge is the bridge across the Griboedov Canal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is a single span, steel, pedestrian bridge next to Italian street (hence the name). The bridge's length is 19.66 meters, the width is 3 meters.

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aesthetic attitude dependent on principles based in the culture, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, with the emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, clarity of structure, perfection, restrained emotion, as well as explicit appeal to the intellect. The art of classicism typically seeks to be formal and restrained: of the Discobolus Sir Kenneth Clark observed, "if we object to his restraint and compression we are simply objecting to the classicism of classic art.

When the heart has acquired stillness, it will look upon the heights and depths of knowledge , and the intellect, once quieted, will be given to hear wonderful things from God.

Hesychios the Martyr

Logic can either operate as part of an intellection, or else, on the contrary, put itself at the service of an error; moreover unintelligence can diminish or even nullify logic, so that philosophy can in fact become the vehicle of almost anything: it can be an Aristotelianism carrying ontological insights, just as it can degenerate into an "existentialism" in which logic has become a mere shadow of itself, a blind and unreal operation.

 

Indeed, what can be said of a "metaphysic" which idiotically posits man at the centre of the Real, like a sack of coal, and which operates with such blatantly subjective and conjectural concepts as "worry" and "anguish"? When unintelligence (and the variety we mean here is in no wise incompatible with what passes for intelligence in "worldly" circles) and passion prostitute logic, it is impossible to escape from that mental satanism which is so frequently to be found in contemporary thought.

 

The validity of a logical demonstration thus depends on the knowledge which we, as demonstrators, have of the subject in view, and it is evidently wrong to take as our starting-point not this direct knowledge but pure and simple logic.

 

When man has no "visionary" knowledge of Being, and merely "thinks" with his "brain" instead of "seeing" with his "heart", all his logic is useless to him, because it starts out from an initial fallacy. Moreover, the validity of a demonstration must be distinguished from its dialectical efficacy; the latter evidently depends on the intuitive disposition available for the recognition of truth when demonstrated, and therefore on an intellectual capacity.

 

Logic is nothing but the science of mental co-ordination and of arriving at rational conclusions; it cannot, therefore, attain the transcendent through its own resources; a supralogical -not an illogical- dialectic, based on symbolism and analogy, and therefore descriptive rather than ratiocinative, may be harder for some people to assimilate, but it conforms more closely to transcendent Reality.

 

Contemporary philosophy, on the other hand, really amounts to a decapitated logic: what is intellectually evident it calls "prejudice"; wishing to free itself from servitude to the mental, it sinks into infralogic; shutting itself off from the intellectual light above, it exposes itself to the obscurity of the lowest "subconscious" beneath.

 

Philosophic scepticism takes itself for a healthy attitude and for an absence of "prejudices", whereas it is in fact something completely artificial; it proceeds, not from real knowledge, but from sheer ignorance, and for this reason it is as alien to intelligence as it is to reality.

 

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Frithjof Schuon

 

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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

 

My last last last minute entry to totallyawesome_me's contest! Soooo, from left to right, yadda yadda yadda, (you know the drill)

 

UnderDweller: A subterranean mole-like creature, incredibly strong and fast but extremely vulnerable to the sun's rays. Seriously, he's been blinded for hours by a pen light.

 

Rupture: The "muscle" of the team, Rupture is able to change between a indestructible bedrock beast and a fiery being of pure magma. Though this is a great advantage in battle, it means he isn't the most stealthy of foes. He also tends to make wood and paper spontaneously catch fire, making him a great hazard to wooden houses, crates, and cursed Tiki dolls.

 

Kommandant Skûl: The "brains" and the team's disputably fearless leader. He possesses slightly above average intellect, and gains super strength and flight when he is wearing his titanium-polyester alloy armor. The armor tends to chafe terribly, however, so- I'll just leave it at that. :P He also has an army of "Skûlbots®" which he claims are vastly superior to the "mere mortals" he fights, but they mostly just get creamed by whatever hero is nearby.

“Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.” - Peter De Vries

 

Aaron and myself have decided to attempt the Seven Deadly Sins series - and today (somewhat appropriately) we chose Gluttony.

 

I have never felt so full in all my life - me, Aaron and my mum, dad and bro all went out to a thai resturant and ate so so so so much, I think we are both about to pop!! My dad was going to pay, but Aaron devised a plan to pay the bill before my dad got there, he's so lovely!! So using our cunning intellect and numerous "bathroom trips" and credit-card-to-foot passing under the table, we sorted it all out and I've never seen my dad more surprised! It was such a lovely night.

 

Canoing was completely awesome - it was perfect. The sky was blue and we paddled (or should I say I paddled!!) out to the middle of the lake which was completely blue and serene and lay on our backs and fell asleep there. It was so surreal, I loved it.

 

Aaron is asleep behind me with his laptop on his chest, hand poised to post his image, but I don't think he's gonna make it... so I'm gonna go climb in there with him!

 

Goodnight Flickr!

 

<3

 

99/365

will never forget her intensity and intellect as a student

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o16fn4VP6xo

Mikee showing off his reading ability.

that men of moderate mental capacity have to stoop in order to reach it :-( Hillaire Belloc. HBW!!

dahlia, 'happy single party'

j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

Know this 'rich' man, a prosperous dealer

A procurer and supplier

Of goods essential and rare

To the people near and dear

And to his villagers in general.

 

He did his job with a zeal

Genuine not ceremonial,

Putting a penny in every deal

To return with two, excelling

All his counterparts in business

 

Day by day, his purse did swell

As did his belly with cake so well

Day and night his mind pursued

And intellect worked, where he could

Find his profit tenfold or more.

 

Day by day grew his shop

In girth and worth this 'rich' man atop

Stood, in his village esteemed

As the wise, pious and famous

Businessman in all praise.

 

Bought he fields and good gardens

Built a house high and lovely,

A mansion with rubble walls

And furnished well to suit the style

Of elegant men, not of rank and file

 

But all his care stood about

His shop the money brewing grot

And all his worries wandered round

The slew of servants, hounds

Who wag their tails to munch his fund

 

Household servants put he in

Locked the gate and kept the key

In his pocket, walked with a fake grin

To his shop, his routine every day

Greeting those he met on the way

 

Grew he rich as years rolled

And his thirst for money strolled

After pursuits new and pastures fresh

Which put in his hands bags of coin

And in his head accounts of gain

 

On a rainy day, O ! a dull day to him

He returned home with a grim

And troubled heart and head too hot

Cursing rain and at the gate so stout

He stood as it was firmly closed.

 

At dead of night when the rain

Was pouring cats and dogs, in vain

He called his servants, at high pitch

To open the gate and let him reach

His home so beautiful and rich

 

None did come however loud he called

And this poor man, the 'rich' man yelled

Like the midnight owl or a crank,

An oldman with the look of a derelict pauper

Who came that way, pertly said,

 

"O ! Man, why so late and why you keep

Standing outside and peep

At your heavenly house ?

Go in, get yourself cleansed

Of all filth and enjoy the inside wealth".

 

"The gate is closed, how I could"

Said he "enter home from this mud?".

The oldman then smiled and said,

"It's no wonder, a man of your kind

Would forget the key in his pocket"

 

"I forgot, I forgot, O! me

This key is always with me.

Thank you sir I was in the dark

You have torched the mark

Wherein lies the key for inner joy".

 

- Anuj Nair

 

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"... It is a bridge that unites the world of the gods and the world of men. The notion of metaxis can be extended in the modern era, affirming that humans are suspended in a network of polarities: the one and the many, eternity and time, freedom and destiny, instinct and intellect, risk and security, love and hate, etc. Metaxis has also been defined as the state of total and simultaneous belonging to two different autonomous worlds "

Tight Strung Rules.

  

Subtraindo almas limitando capacidades oportunidades de individuação diferenças categorias coisas ocultas significados exemplos formas imateriais,

manières constituées principes composés quiddités simples doctrines universelles du philosophe inductions au-delà des questions accomplies intellects découvrant des raisons sciences suffisantes arguments principes métaphoriques révélations adversaires,

ystyried ysbrydoliaeth darogan damweiniau cynigiadau dysgeidiaeth gweithredu hanfod egwyddorion llifo naturiol,

kommentatorer skelner åndelige konklusioner effektive liv belysninger betingelser nødvendige tid arrogationer revolutioner irrationelle sind forklarer resultater,

Mortibus ægrotationum redirecting legibus servatis auctoritates pro tutore scholarium scripta senatus consultis pretium responsa aureum themata textus sacri maturuerunt,,

熟考進歩性知識ファンタズムは理解しやすい印象を引き出す抽象化された不自然さ決定的な形優秀な光進行力を引く.

Steve.D.Hammond.

A candid street photo of two women playing chess in the street. One of them is in blue, another one wears red jacket. The lady in red is thinking over the next move, the lady in blue is ready to use her smartphone, maybe she is going to call Magnus and ask his expert advice.

*Working Towards a Better World

 

It is a happy talent to know how to play. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung

 

My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. Ron Olson

 

It’s better to play than do nothing. Confucious

 

Deep meaning lies often in childish play. Johann Friedrich von Schille

 

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. Mark Twain

 

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good. Lucia Capocchione

 

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

 

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. Abraham Maslow

 

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. Kay Redfield Jamison

Ganesh

 

Dans l’hindouisme, Gaṇesh, Gaṇesha, Vinâyaka, Gaṇapati ou Pillayar dans le sud de l’Inde est le dieu qui supprime les obstacles1. Il est aussi le dieu de la sagesse, de l’intelligence, de l’éducation et de la prudence, le patron des écoles et des travailleurs du savoir. Reconnaissable à sa tête d'éléphant, il est sans doute le dieu le plus vénéré en Inde et son aura touche même tout le sous-continent indien et l'Asie en général. Il est le fils de Shiva et Pârvatî, l’époux de Siddhi (le Succès), Buddhi (l'Intellect) et Riddhî (la Richesse).

 

Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (1684 – 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy.

 

Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. Holberg's works about natural and common law were widely read by many Danish law students over two hundred years, from 1736 to 1936.

 

Holberg believed in people's inner divine light of reason, and to him it was important that the first goal of education was to teach students to use their senses and intellect, instead of uselessly memorising school books. This shows he was a man of the Age of Enlightenment.

 

Wikipedia

Guess I’m back to the drawing board again....to making new heroes

 

This guy has nothing to do with a certain Nintendo character (Meta Knight). With the recent heroes made by our fellow Leaguers. Hags to those inspirations from you. Also inspired by Dr Mid-Nite, Peacemaker, and Agent Venom. This is one of my favourite characters so far, and a one I enjoyed making.

 

-Multi, current meme maker.

 

Profile

Name: Samuel “Sam” Clark Rolton

Hero's name: Metanight, also spelled as Metanite. Also called by others as Sam, Sammy Boy, “Man from the Roof”.

Age: 22

 

Bio: The son of illegal immigrants, Sam is a street smart kid. Despite growing up poor in the neighbourhood, he built things that he found useful. At 9, he looted a handgun from a unconscious robber and took it to his basement, and managed to make a robot for target practice and developed his own self-taught style of fighting.

 

Sam grew up to join the Marine Corps, alongside Adrian Kane and Marcus Crúz. He was present alongside them in some military tours, and managed to make friends with them. He struggled with depression for a year after his service ended.

 

Returning home, he became a bartender and courier. Despite fighting depression, he turned to his recently developed powers, which he anticipated years ago grew more stronger and honed it to his equipment. Sam trained his mind and body to perfection, and became a vigilante. He was renowned for his thievery and hunted down criminals from rooftops above at night, which earned him status among the superhero community. He also managed to build a companion out of the scrapped robot into a smaller one, the one that he carries by his shoulder, named “Nicholas”.

 

Sam’s recent activities include a non stop hunt of criminals, most notably trying to track down his city’s biggest drug lords, dealers and mob bosses, but has taken interest in Adrian Kane’s team, whom Sam knows about his career...

 

But is he the 3rd agent?

 

Powers and abilities: While not having genius level intellect, Sam possesses the ability to sedate people like a tranquilliser gun, and emit a odourless gas that knocks out people and puts them to sleep. He also has super stamina, the ability to breathe without oxygen, and is equally matched to an above-average Olympic level athlete (peak human strength, conditioning, running etc.) Sam is an expert thief, able to pick locks, hide undetected, and among his skills he is also good in combat, freerunning/parkour and wall/mountain climbing.

 

Weaknesses: Lack of salt in food, lactose intolerant, despite being able to survive without oxygen, he is still susceptible to some airborne hazards to a degree. His powers aren’t that well against powerful psychics and non-organic beings. He used to have depression after his military service.

 

Equipment: Super flexible, toughened suit laced with custom protective parts, two custom masks, one that covers his nose and mouth, the other for his eyes. He possesses some hidden grappling hooks and zip lines that allow him access to buildings. Nicholas, which as as his companion, is also a drone/spy camera, detector, shoulder rifle and assistant that helps him (similar to Bao-Dur’s remote from KOTOR II, as well as War Machine’s cannon) Personal sidearms/handguns and melee are his preferred weapons of choice.

 

Personality: Kind, well-thought, conflicted, decisive, good natured, methodical (to his own ways)

"Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks

to you on an emotional level.

It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect

and goes to a different part of the brain."

- Steven Bochco

 

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Images worked into printed image. resonare of the intellect while the lovely engraved wolf cubs spring into action. muted colors. shapes and negative space. are you really expecting this to happen, Trudi?

“The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.” ~ Augustus Hare

 

Still experimenting with glass :)

In a certain respect, the difference between philosophy, theology and gnosis is total; in another respect, it is relative. It is total when one understands by "philosophy" rationalism alone; by "theology", the explanation of religious teachings alone; and by "gnosis", intuitive and intellective, and thus supra-rational, knowledge; but the difference is only relative when one understands by "philosophy" the fact of thinking, by "theology" the fact of speaking from a dogmatic point of view about God and religious things, and by "gnosis" the fact of presenting pure metaphysics, for then the genres are interpenetrating.

 

It is impossible to deny that the most illustrious Sufis, while being "gnostics" by definition, were at the same time to some extent theologians and to some extent philosophers, or that the great theologians were both to some extent philosophers and to some extent gnostics, the last word having to be understood in its proper and not sectarian sense.

 

If we wish to retain the limitative, or indeed pejorative sense of the word philosopher, we could say that gnosis or pure metaphysics takes certainty as its starting-point, whereas philosophy on the contrary has doubt as its starting-point, and strives to overcome this only with the means that are at its disposition and which do not pretend to be more than purely rational. But since neither the term "philosophy" in itself, nor the usage that has been made of it since the earliest times, oblige us to accept only the restrictive sense of the word, we shall not consider criminal those who employ it in a wider sense than what may seem to be opportune.

 

Theory, by definition, is not an end in itself, it is only - and seeks only - to be a key with a view to a cognition on the part of the "heart".

 

If there is attached to the notion of"philosophy" a suspicion of superficiality, insufficiency and pretension, it is precisely because only too often - and indeed always in the case of the moderns – it is presented as being sufficient unto itself. "This is only philosophy": we readily accept the use of this turn of phrase, but only on condition that one does not say that "Plat'o is only a philosopher", Plato who said that "beauty is the splendor of the truth"; beauty that includes or demands all that we are or can be.

 

If Plato maintains that the philosophos should think independently of received opinions, he is referring to intellection and not to logic alone; whereas Descartes, who did everything to restrict and compromise the notion of philosophy, reaches such a conclusion from the starting-point of systematic doubt, so that for him philosophy is synonymous not only with rationalism, but also with skepticism.

 

This is a first suicide of the intelligence, inaugurated moreover by Pyrrho and others, in the guise of a reaction against what one looked on as metaphysical "dogmatism".

 

The "Greek miracle" is in fact the substitution of the reason for the Intellect, of the fact for the Principle, of the phenomenon for the Idea, of the accident for the Substance, of the form for the Essence, of man for God; and this applies to art as well as to thought.

 

The true Greek miracle, if miracle there be (and in this case it would be related to the "Hindu miracle”), is doctrinal metaphysics and methodic logic, providentially utilized by the monotheistic Semites .

Frithjof Schuon

Oh, very funny, Mister. I see the phrase you spelled out! No bedtime treats for you ;-) Jasper got a new game of Banagrams and just had to get cute and spell out disparaging remarks on humans vs. Aussies ("humans drools"? Bad grammar, my furry fiend!!). Look at his smirk! He's so proud of his little quip

~ Dean Koontz

      

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Folklore Graphics

[ساعدنا في الترجمة!]

المحتويات أخف

المقدمة

الملائكة في العقيدة الإسلامية

صفاتهم

 

الصفات الخُلقية

الصفات الخَلقية

القدرات

أعداد الملائكة

أعمال الملائكة

عبادة الملائكة

وفاة الملائكة

من ذُكر منهم

انظر أيضًا

مصادر أساسية

مراجع

 

الآيات

وصلات خارجية

الملائكة في الإسلام

 

مقالة

نقاش

اقرأ

عدّل

تاريخ

 

أدوات

المظهر أخف

النص

 

صغير

 

قياسي

 

كبير

العرض

 

قياسي

 

عريض

اللون (تجريبية)

 

تلقائي

 

فاتح

 

داكن

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أركان الإيمان

Quran calligraphy

الإيمان باللهالإيمان بالملائكةالإيمان بالكتب السماويةالإيمان بالرسلالإيمان باليوم الآخرالإيمان بالقدر خيره وشره

التصنيفبوابة الإسلام

عنت

المَلَائِكَةُ في الإسلام هم خلقٌ خلقهم الله من نور، وهم مربوبون مسخّرون، عباد مُكرمون، لا يعصون الله ما أمرهم ويفعلون ما يُؤمرون، لا يوصفون بالذكورة ولا الأنوثة، لا يأكلون، لا يشربون، لا يتناكحون، لا يملّون، لا يتعبون، ولا يعلم عددهم إلا الله. والإيمان بهم ركن من أركان الإيمان، فمن أنكرهم ولم يؤمن بهم فقد كفر بما نزل في القرآن: ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا ١٣٦﴾. ولهم أعمال ومهمات معينة كلّفهم الله بها لينفذونها، مثل تبليغ الوحي والنفخ في الصُّورِ، ونزع أرواح العباد.

 

الملائكة في العقيدة الإسلامية

 

تخطيط جبريل عليه السلام.

يؤمن كل المسلمين بأنّ الملائكة إنّما هم عباد الله المكرمون، وهم الرسل بين الله وبين رسله وأنبيائه، وأنها مخلوقات قائمة بنفسها، ويؤمنون بأن الإيمان إيماناً جازماً بلا شك ولا ريب بهم واجب، لما ورد عن ابن عمر عن النبي حينما سُئِلَ عن الإيمان: «أن تؤمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله»، فمن لم يؤمن بوجودهم فقد أسقط ركناً من أركان الإيمان الستة وكفر لقوله تعالى: ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا ١٣٦﴾ [النساء:136]. وذكر البيهقي في كتاب له أن الإيمان بالملائكة يتضمن التصديق بوجودهم، وإنزالهم منازلهم، وإثبات أنهم عباد الله وخلقه كالإنس والجن مأمورون مكلفون لا يقدرون إلا ما أقدرهم الله عليه، والموت عليهم جائز، ولكن الله جعل لهم أمداً بعيداً فلا يتوفاهم حتى يبلغوه، ولا يوصفون بشيء يؤدي وصفهم به إلى إشراكهم بالله. ولا يُدْعَوْنَ آلهة كما دعتهم الأوائل. والاعتراف بأن منهم رسلاً يرسلهم الله إلى من يشاء من البشر، وقد يجوز أن يرسل بعضهم إلى بعض، ويتبع ذلك الاعتراف بأن منهم حملة العرش، ومنهم الصافون، ومنهم خزنة الجنة ومنهم خزنة النار، ومنهم كتبة الأعمال ومنهم الذين يسوقون السحاب فقد ورد القرآن بذلك كله أو بأكثره. والإيمان بالملائكة يتضمن أربعة أمور:

 

الأول: الإيمان بوجودهم.

الثاني: الإيمان بمن عُلم اسمه منهم باسمه (كجبريل) ومن لم يُعلم أسماءهم يُؤمن بهم إجمالاً.

الثالث: الإيمان بما عُلم من صفاتهم.

الرابع: الإيمان بما عُلم من أعمالهم التي يقومون بها بأمر الله تعالى؛ كتسبيحه، والتعبد له ليلاً ونهارًا بدون ملل، ولا فُتُور.

وهناك عدة واجبات يجب على المسلم أن يفعلها تجاه الملائكة،، أولها عدم إيذاء الملائكة، سواء بالسب أو بعيبهم، والبعد عن الذنوب والمعاصي، لأنها تؤذي الملائكة، فلذلك هي لا تدخل بيت فيه كلب أو صورة، وعدم البصاق عن اليمين في الصلاة، فعن أبي هريرة أن النبي قال: «إِذَا قَامَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى الصَّلاةِ، فَلا يَبْصُقْ أَمَامَهُ، فَإِنَّهُ يُنَاجِي اللَّهَ مَا دَامَ فِي مُصَلَّاهُ، وَلا عَنْ يَمِينِهِ، فَإِنَّ عَنْ يَمِينِهِ مَلَكًا، وَلَكِنْ لِيَبْصُقْ عَنْ شِمَالِهِ أَوْ تَحْتَ رِجْلِهِ، فَيَدْفِنُهُ». وموالاة الملائكة كلهم، أي لا يفرق بين ملك وآخر، فلا يوالي هذا ويعادي ذاك لسبب ما، كما فعلت اليهود التي والت ميكائيل وعادت جبريل.

 

يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة لهم صفات وقدرات وهبها الله لهم، فجعل لهم أجنحة، قادرين على التشكل، سريعين، منظمين، ولهم صفات خُلقية عديدة كاستحيائهم، ووصفهم القرآن بأنهم كرام بررة. وبحسب اعتقاد المسلمين فإن لهم مكانة رفيعة وعظيمة وعالية عند الله. فقد قال الله في جبريل: ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ ١٩ ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ ٢٠ مُطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ ٢١﴾. والملائكة بحسب اعتقاد المسلمين يعبدون الله بعبادات مختلفة، كالتسبيح والاصطفاف، والحج، وخشية الله.

 

والملائكة لهم أعمال خاصة تجاه المؤمنين، مثل تأمين دعائهم ومحبتهم لهم، ولهم أعمال خاصة للكفرة، مثل لعنهم وإنزال العذاب بهم. وقد اختلف العلماء في مسألة المفاضلة بين الملائكة والبشر، فقد اتفق بعض العلماء أن صالحي البشر أفضل من الملائكة وقدموا العديد من الحجج والأدلة، واتفق آخرون أن الملائكة أفضل وأيضاً قدموا أدلتهم وأحاجيجهم.

 

ويؤمن المسلمون بأن أعداد الملائكة لا يحصيها إلا الله، فهم كثيرون جداً، حيث أن كل يوم يدخل منهم سبعون ألفاً للبيت المعمور ولا يعودون إليه، ومع كل إنسان ملكان يكتبان أعماله، وكل نطفة لها ملك موكل بها، وهذا يدل على كثرتهم. ويؤمن المسلمون أيضاً بأن الملائكة عظيمي الخلقة، مثال ذلك، روى أبو داود وأحمد من حديث جابر بن عبد الله عن النبي أنه قال: «أذن لي أن أحدث عن ملك من ملائكة الله من حملة العرش أن ما بين شحمة أذنه إلى عاتقه مسيرة سبعمائة عام».

 

صفاتهم

الصفات الخُلقية

وصف الله في القرآن بأن الملائكة كرام بررة، حيث قال: ﴿بِأَيْدِي سَفَرَةٍ ١٥ كِرَامٍ بَرَرَةٍ ١٦﴾ أي أن القرآن بأيدي سفرة وهم الملائكة حيث أن الملائكة سفراء الله إلى رسله بحسب اعتقاد المسلمين. ووصفهم بأنهم كرام بررة أي أن خلقهم حسن شريف وأخلاقهم وأفعالهم بارة طاهرة كاملة.

 

ومن صفات الملائكة الحياء، مثل ما قال الرسول عن عثمان بن عفان: «ألا استحيي من رجل تستحيي منه الملائكة».

 

الصفات الخَلقية

 

غلاف كتاب "الحبائك في أخبار الملائك" لجلال الدين السيوطي، يتحدث فيه عن أخبار الملائكة وصفاتهم من القرآن والسنة والآثار الإسلامية.

يؤمن المسلمون بأن مادة خلق الملائكة هي النور، فعن عائشة أن الرسول قال: «خُلقت الملائكة من نور ..». ولم يبين أي نور الذي خُلقوا منه. ولم تُحدد المدة الزمنية التي خُلقوا فيها، فليست هناك نصوص شرعية دلت على ذلك، ولكن خلقهم كان سابقاً على البشر، ودليل العلماء في ذلك: ﴿وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً قَالُوا أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَنْ يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِكُ الدِّمَاءَ وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ لَكَ قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ٣٠﴾، فقد أخبر الله ملائكته بأنه سيخلق خليفة يسكن الأرض، والخليفة هو آدم فذلك يدل على أنهم مخلوقون قبل النبي آدم أبو البشر.

 

لا يستطيع البشر رؤية الملائكة بهيئتهم الخلقية، فلا قدرة لهم على ذلك، ولم يرَ الملائكة في صورتهم الحقيقية أحد إلا الرسول محمد، فقد رأى جبريل في هيئته الخلقية مرتين: المرة الأولى كانت عندما أوحي إليه لأول مرة في غار حراء، والمرة الثانية هي في رحلة الإسراء والمعراج، وما يدل على ذلك قول الله: ﴿وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ نَزْلَةً أُخْرَى ١٣﴾. ولكن يمكن للبشر رؤية الملائكة إن تشكلوا في صورة بشر كما جاء في بعض النصوص.

 

يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة عظيمي الخلقة، لا يتصور عظم خلقتهم أحد، ولكن النصوص قد لمحت بشيء من أبعاد بعض الملائكة. ومثل ذلك قول الرسول: «أُذن لي أن أحدث عن ملك من ملائكة الله، من حملة العرش، إن ما بين شحمة أذنه إلى عاتقه مسيرة سبعمائة عام». أما عن عظم خلقة جبريل، فقد سألت عائشة النبي عن الآية الثالثة والعشرين من سورة التكوير والآية الثالثة عشر والرابعة عشر والخامسة عشر من سورة النجم، فقال: «إنما هو جبريل لم أره على صورته التي خُلق عليها غير هاتين المرتين. رأيته منهبطاً من السماء ساداً عظم خلقه ما بين السماء إلى الأرض». ومن عظم خلقتهم تعدد أجنحتهم. فالملائكة لديها أجنحة، منهم من لديه جناح ومنهم من لديه اثنان أو ثلاثة، أو أربعة، أو حتى أكثر من ذلك: ﴿الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ فَاطِرِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ جَاعِلِ الْمَلَائِكَةِ رُسُلًا أُولِي أَجْنِحَةٍ مَثْنَى وَثُلَاثَ وَرُبَاعَ يَزِيدُ فِي الْخَلْقِ مَا يَشَاءُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ ١﴾. وملك الوحي جبريل نفسه له ستمائة جناح، فعن عبد الله بن مسعود أنه قال: «رأى محمد ﷺ جبريل له ستمائة جناح». والملائكة متفاوتون في الخلق والمقدار، فهم مختلفين في عدد الأجنحة، ومقاماتهم متفاوتة ومعلومة عند الله: ﴿وَمَا مِنَّا إِلَّا لَهُ مَقَامٌ مَعْلُومٌ ١٦٤﴾. وقال في جبريل ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ ١٩ ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ ٢٠﴾ [التكوير:19–20]. أي له مكانة ومنزلة رفيعة عند الله. وأفضل الملائكة هم الذين شهدوا غزوة بدر حيث جاء جبريل إلى النبي فقال: «ما تعدون أهل بدر فيكم؟» قال: «من أفضل المسلمين» قال: «وكذلك من شهد بدراً من الملائكة».

 

ويؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة خلقهم الله في صورة جميلة وكريمة. فقد قال الله في جبريل: ﴿عَلَّمَهُ شَدِيدُ الْقُوَى ٥ ذُو مِرَّةٍ فَاسْتَوَى ٦﴾. قال ابن عباس: ذو مرة أي ذو منظر حسن، وقال قتادة: ذو خلق طويل حسن. وقيل ذو مرة أي ذو قوة. ولا منافاة بين الأقوال فهو قوي وحسن المنظر. وقد تقرر عند الناس وصف الملائكة بالجمال، كما تقرر عندهم وصف الشياطين بالقبح، ولذلك فهم يشَبِّهون الجميل من البشر بالملك، مثل ما قال الله على لسان النسوة في النبي يوسف: ﴿فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ بِمَكْرِهِنَّ أَرْسَلَتْ إِلَيْهِنَّ وَأَعْتَدَتْ لَهُنَّ مُتَّكَأً وَآتَتْ كُلَّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهُنَّ سِكِّينًا وَقَالَتِ اخْرُجْ عَلَيْهِنَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَيْنَهُ أَكْبَرْنَهُ وَقَطَّعْنَ أَيْدِيَهُنَّ وَقُلْنَ حَاشَ لِلَّهِ مَا هَذَا بَشَرًا إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا مَلَكٌ كَرِيمٌ ٣١﴾.

 

وليست هناك نصوص تدل على أن هناك شبه بين الملائكة والبشر في الصورة، إلا ما ذكره الرسول: « .. ورأيت جبريل عليه السلام، فإذا أقرب من رأيت به شبهاً دحية بن خليفة»، وتشبيهه بالصحابي دحية إما أن يكون دحية يشبه جبريل في صورته الحقيقية، أو عندما تَشَبَّه به في صورة بشر. والرأي الآخر هو الأرجح لما ذُكر أن جبريل كان يتمثل في هيئة دحية كثيراً.

 

وللملائكة ثلاثة صفات أساسية يتميزون بها عن البشر: لا يوصفون بالذكورة أو الأنوثة، ولا يأكلون ولا يشربون ولا يتناكحون، ولا يملون ولا يتعبون. فهم منزوعي الشهوة، لذلك لا تشتهي أنفسهم الطعام والشراب أو النكاح. وقد وصف المشركون الملائكة بأنهم إناثاً بنات الله، فاستنكرت العديد من الآيات هذا الوصف وجعل الله لقولهم شهادة ليحاسبهم عليه، قال الله تعالى: ﴿وَجَعَلُوا الْمَلَائِكَةَ الَّذِينَ هُمْ عِبَادُ الرَّحْمَنِ إِنَاثًا أَشَهِدُوا خَلْقَهُمْ سَتُكْتَبُ شَهَادَتُهُمْ وَيُسْأَلُونَ ١٩﴾. وأما عند عدم شربهم وأكلهم فهم لا يحتاجون الطعام ولا يشتهونه، ومِمَّا ورد أنهم عندما جاؤوا النبي إبراهيم في صورة بشر وقدم إليهم الطعام لم تمتد إليهم، جاء في القرآن: ﴿هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ ضَيْفِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْمُكْرَمِينَ ٢٤ إِذْ دَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ فَقَالُوا سَلَامًا قَالَ سَلَامٌ قَوْمٌ مُنْكَرُونَ ٢٥ فَرَاغَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ فَجَاءَ بِعِجْلٍ سَمِينٍ ٢٦ فَقَرَّبَهُ إِلَيْهِمْ قَالَ أَلَا تَأْكُلُونَ ٢٧ فَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً قَالُوا لَا تَخَفْ وَبَشَّرُوهُ بِغُلَامٍ عَلِيمٍ ٢٨﴾. قال الفخر الرازي: «العلماء اتفقوا على أن الملائكة لا يأكلون ولا يشربون ولا يتناكحون». والصفة الثالثة لا يملون ولا يتعبون، حيث أنهم يقومون بعبادة الله وطاعته وتنفيذ أوامره من دون ملل أو كلل، ولا يدركهم ما يدرك البشر من تعب، قال تعالى: ﴿يُسَبِّحُونَ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ لَا يَفْتُرُونَ ٢٠﴾. وفي آية أخرى: ﴿فَإِنِ اسْتَكْبَرُوا فَالَّذِينَ عِنْدَ رَبِّكَ يُسَبِّحُونَ لَهُ بِاللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَهُمْ لَا يَسْأَمُونَ ٣٨﴾. ولا يفترون أي لا ينامون ولا يسأمون أي لا يملون.

 

يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة تسكن السماء، وتتخذها منزلاً، وأنهم أحياناً ينزلون للأرض لتنفيذ مهمات وُكِّلت إليهم، مثل مقاتلتهم في غزوة بدر، وأحياناً ينزلون في مناسبات خاصة، مثل ليلة القدر. قال الله: ﴿لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ ٣ تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ مِنْ كُلِّ أَمْرٍ ٤﴾.

 

القدرات

 

تخطيط الملائكة عليهم السلام

التشكل: يؤمن المسلمون بأن الله أعطى الملائكة القدرة على التشكل في هيئة غير هيئتهم وصورتهم. فقد جاء جبريل لمريم بنت عمران في صورة بشر، والنبي إبراهيم جاءته الملائكة في صورة بشر، والنبي لوط جاؤوا إليه في صورة شباب حسن الوجوه. وقد أتى جبريل النبي محمد في صور متعددة، كصورة دحية الكلبي أو صورة أعرابي، وشاهده الصحابة كذلك عندما أتى النبي على هيئة أعرابي سائلاً عن الإيمان والإحسان والساعة وأمارتها ليُعَلِّمَ المسلمين دينَهم. وأرسل الله ملكاً في صورة آدمي للملائكة المختصمين في أمر الرجل الذي قتل تسعاً وتسعين نفساً فحكم بينهم. وقد رأت عائشة النبي وهو واضع يده على معرفة فرس دحية بن خليفة ويكلمه، فلما سألته عن ذلك قال: «ذلك جبريل، وهو يقرئك السلام».

السرعة: يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة عظيمي السرعة، وسرعتهم فوق كل سرعة، ولا تقاس بمقاييس البشر، فهم يؤمنون أنه إذا أحد سأل النبي عن شيء يأتيه جبريل من السماء في لحظات بسرعة قصوى ويجيبه، فيجيب السائل.

العلم: يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة لديهم العلم الوفير علمهم الله إياه، ولكن ليس لديهم القدرة على التعرف على الأشياء، كما يقدر الإنسان، فلا يميزون أو يعرفون شيئاً إلا إذا علمهم الله ذلك. قال الله تعالى: ﴿وَعَلَّمَ آدَمَ الْأَسْمَاءَ كُلَّهَا ثُمَّ عَرَضَهُمْ عَلَى الْمَلَائِكَةِ فَقَالَ أَنْبِئُونِي بِأَسْمَاءِ هَؤُلَاءِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ ٣١ قَالُوا سُبْحَانَكَ لَا عِلْمَ لَنَا إِلَّا مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ ٣٢﴾. ولكن الذي علمهم الله إياه أكثر مما يعرفه الإنسان. والملائكة مخلوقات تهتم بالعلم وتتحاور وتناقش بعضها بعضا عن بعض الأشياء، قال الرسول محمد: «أتَاني الليلةَ ربِّي تبارك وتعالى في أحسنِ صورةٍ فَقَالَ يا مُحمَّدُ هل تدري فيمَ يختصمُ الملأ الأعْلَى؟ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: لا، قَالَ فوضَعَ يدَهُ بيَن كَتِفَيَّ حتَّى وجدْتُ بَردَهَا بيَن ثديَيَّ أَوْ قَالَ في نَحْري فعلمتُ ما في السَّمَاوات وما في الأَرْضِ. قَالَ يا مُحمَّد هلْ تدري فيمَ يختصم الملأ الأعلى؟ قُلت نعم في الكفَّارات، والدَّرجاتُ ..».

التنظيم: الملائكة منظمون في كل شؤونهم، وفي عبادتهم. وحث الرسول المسلمين على الاقتداء بهم في التنظيم حين قال: «ألا تصفون كما تصف الملائكة عند ربها؟» قيل يا رسول الله وكيف تصف الملائكة عند ربها؟ قال: «يتمون الصفوف ويتراصون في الصف». وتأتي الملائكة يوم القيامة في صفوف منتظمة: ﴿وَجَاءَ رَبُّكَ وَالْمَلَكُ صَفًّا صَفًّا ٢٢﴾، وفي آية أخرى ﴿يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الرُّوحُ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ صَفًّا لَا يَتَكَلَّمُونَ إِلَّا مَنْ أَذِنَ لَهُ الرَّحْمَنُ وَقَالَ صَوَابًا ٣٨﴾. وهم دقيقون حتى في تنفيذ الأوامر، قال النبي: «آتي باب الجنة فأستفتح فيقول: من أنت، فأقول محمد، فيقول بك أُمرت لا أفتح لأحد قبلك»، ومثال آخر على دقتهم وتنظيمهم، هو في رحلة الإسراء والمعراج، فكلما وصل جبريل باب كل سماء استأذن فلا يُفتح له باب السماء إلا بعد الاستفسار.

العصمة: يؤمن المسلمون بعصمة الملائكة، جميعهم دون استثناء، لأن ليس لهم القدرة على معصية الله، فهم مجبولون على الطاعة، ومِمَّا دل على ذلك قول الله: ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا وَقُودُهَا النَّاسُ وَالْحِجَارَةُ عَلَيْهَا مَلَائِكَةٌ غِلَاظٌ شِدَادٌ لَا يَعْصُونَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَفْعَلُونَ مَا يُؤْمَرُونَ ٦﴾ و﴿لَا يَسْبِقُونَهُ بِالْقَوْلِ وَهُمْ بِأَمْرِهِ يَعْمَلُونَ ٢٧﴾.

أعداد الملائكة

يؤمن المسلمون بأن الملائكة خلق كثير لا يعلم عددهم إلا الله، وهم كثيرون جداً، وهناك أمثلة دلت على كثرتهم، ففي كل يوم يحج سبعون ألفاً للبيت المعمور ولا يعودون إليه، وهناك 4,900,000,000 ملك فقط لجر النار يوم القيامة لقول الرسول محمد: «يؤتى بجهنم يوم القيامة يومئذ لها سبعون ألف زمام مع كل زمام سبعون ألف ملك يجرونها». ولكل نطفة فهناك ملك موكل بها، ولكل إنسان ملكين يكتبان أعماله، وملائكة تحفظه، وهذا مِمَّ يدل على كثرتهم.

 

أعمال الملائكة

 

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تنقسم أعمال الملائكة لأربعة أقسام، أعمالهم مع الناس عامة، وأعمالهم مع المؤمنين والصالحين خاصة، وأعمالهم مع الكفرة والفساق والعصاة خاصة، وأعمالهم مع بقية المخلوقات من غير البشر.

 

والملائكة لهم عدة أعمال تجاه الناس عامة. فهم لهم دور في تكوين الإنسان، فعن أبي ذر الغفاري أن الرسول محمد قال: «إذا مر بالنطفة ثنتان وأربعون ليلة بعث الله إليها ملكاً، فصورها، وخلق سمعها وبصرها، وجلدها ولحمها وعظامها، ثم قال: أي رب: أذكر أم أنثى؟ فيقضي ربك ما يشاء ويكتب الملك». وهناك ملائكة موكلة بحراسة ابن آدم. قال الله: ﴿لَهُ مُعَقِّبَاتٌ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ يَحْفَظُونَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ وَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ سُوءًا فَلَا مَرَدَّ لَهُ وَمَا لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِهِ مِنْ وَالٍ ١١﴾. وقد بين المفسرون أن المعقبات هي الملائكة. وقد وُكِّل الملائكة أيضاً بأن يكونوا سفراء ورسل الله لرسله وأنبيائه، واختص بهذه المهمة جبريل. ولكن ليس كل من أتاه ملك فهو نبي، فقد أُرسل جبريل لمريم، ولأم إسماعيل عندما نفد منها الطعام والماء. ومن مهام الملائكة تحريك بواعث الخير في نفوس العباد، فكل إنسان حسب اعتقاد المسلمين وُكِّل به قرين من الملائكة وقرين من الجن، الأول يأمره بالخير ويرغبه فيه، والآخر يأمره بالشر ويرغبه فيه. قال الرسول محمد: «ما منكم من أحد إلا وقد وكل به قرينه من الجن وقرينه من الملائكة».

 

ومن مهام الملائكة تسجيل صالح أعمال بني آدم وسيئها. فكل إنسان وُكل به ملكين، حاضرين لا يفارقانه يحصيان عليه أعماله وأقواله. قال تعالى: ﴿إِذْ يَتَلَقَّى الْمُتَلَقِّيَانِ عَنِ الْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ الشِّمَالِ قَعِيدٌ ١٧ مَا يَلْفِظُ مِنْ قَوْلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيْهِ رَقِيبٌ عَتِيدٌ ١٨﴾. ومن مهام الملائكة ابتلاء بني آدم، فعن أبي هريرة أن الرسول قال: «إن ثلاثة في بني إسرائيل أبرص وأقرع وأعمى، بدا لله عز وجل أن يبتليهم فبعث إليهم ملكا، فأتى الأبرص فقال: أي شيء أحب إليك؟ قال: لون حسن وجلد حسن قد قذرني الناس، قال: فمسحه فذهب عنه فأعطي لونا حسنا وجلدا حسنا، فقال: أي المال أحب إليك؟ قال: الإبل أو قال البقر هو شك في ذلك إن الأبرص والأقرع قال أحدهما الإبل وقال الآخر البقر فأعطي ناقة عشراء، فقال: يبارك لك فيها. وأتى الأقرع فقال: أي شيء أحب إليك؟ قال: شعر حسن ويذهب عني هذا قد قذرني الناس، قال: فمسحه فذهب وأعطي شعرا حسنا، قال: فأي المال أحب إليك؟ قال البقر قال: فأعطاه بقرة حاملا، وقال: يبارك لك فيها. وأتى الأعمى فقال: أي شيء أحب إليك، قال: يرد الله إلي بصري فأبصر به الناس، قال فمسحه فرد الله إليه بصره، قال: فأي المال أحب إليك؟ قال: الغنم فأعطاه شاة والدا، فأنتج هذان وَوَلَّدَ هذا، فكان لهذا واد من إبل، ولهذا واد من بقر، ولهذا واد من غنم، ثم إنه أتى الأبرص في صورته وهيئته، فقال: رجل مسكين تقطعت بي الحبال في سفري فلا بلاغ اليوم إلا بالله ثم بك، أسألك بالذي أعطاك اللون الحسن والجلد الحسن والمال، بعيراً أتبلغ عليه في سفري، فقال: له إن الحقوق كثيرة، فقال له: كأني أعرفك ألم تكن أبرص يقذرك الناس فقيرا فأعطاك الله، فقال: لقد ورثت لكابر عن كابر، فقال: إن كنت كاذباً فصيرك الله إلى ما كنت. وأتى الأقرع في صورته وهيئته، فقال: له مثل ما قال لهذا، فرد عليه مثل ما رد عليه هذا، فقال: إن كنت كاذباً فصيرك الله إلى ما كنت. وأتى الأعمى في صورته، فقال: رجل مسكين وابن سبيل وتقطعت بي الحبال في سفري فلا بلاغ اليوم إلا بالله ثم بك، أسألك بالذي رد عليك بصرك، شاة أتبلغ بها في سفري، فقال: قد كنت أعمى فرد الله بصري، وفقيراً فقد أغناني، فخذ ما شئت فوالله لا أجهدك اليوم بشيء أخذته لله، فقال: أمسك مالك فإنما ابتليتم فقد رضي الله عنك وسخط على صاحبيك». ومن مهام الملائكة هي نزع أرواح العباد عندما تنتهي آجالهم، فقد اختص الله بعض ملائكته بنزع أرواح العباد، قال تعالى: ﴿قُلْ يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ الَّذِي وُكِّلَ بِكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ ١١﴾، وهم أكثر من ملك، وتنزع أرواح الكفرة والمجرمين نزعاً شديداً، بينما تنزع أرواح المؤمنين نزعاً رفيقاً وتبشرهم عند النزع.

 

هناك عدة أدوار واجبة على الملائكة تجاه المؤمنين، ومكلفون بها، أولها محبتهم للمؤمنين الذين يحبهم الله، فعن أبي هريرة أن الرسول محمد قال: «إِذَا أَحَبَّ اللَّهُ الْعَبْدَ نَادَى جِبْرِيلَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ فُلَانًا فَأَحْبِبْهُ فَيُحِبُّهُ جِبْرِيلُ فَيُنَادِي جِبْرِيلُ فِي أَهْلِ السَّمَاءِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ فُلَانًا فَأَحِبُّوهُ فَيُحِبُّهُ أَهْلُ السَّمَاءِ ثُمَّ يُوضَعُ لَهُ الْقَبُولُ فِي الْأَرْضِ». ومن مهامهم تجاه المؤمنين تسديد المؤمنين، والصلاة على المؤمنين، وهناك عدة أعمال تصلي الملائكة على صاحبها، مثل معلم الناس الخير، والذين ينتظرون صلاة الجماعة، والذين يصلون في الصف الأول، والذين يسدون الفرج بين الصفوف، والذين يتسحرون، والذين يصلون على النبي، والذين يعودون المرضى. ومن مهامهم تأمين دعاء المؤمنين، فعن أم سلمة أن الرسول محمد قال: «لا تدعوا على أنفسكم إلا بخير فإن الملائكة يؤَمِّنُونَ على ما تقولون». ومن مهامهم استغفارهم للمؤمنين، وشهودهم مجالس العلم وحلق الذكر وحفهم أهلها بأجنحتهم، وتسجيلهم الذين يحضرون الجمعة، فعن أبي هريرة أن الرسول محمد قال: «إذا كان يوم الجمعة وقفت الملائكة على باب المسجد يكتبون الأول فالأول فإذا خرج الإمام طووا صحفهم ويستمعون الذكر». ومن مهامهم تعاقبهم في المؤمنين وتنزلهم عندما يقرؤون القرآن، وتبليغ الرسول عن أمته السلام، وتبشيرهم المؤمنين، ومقاتلتهم مع المؤمنين وتثبيتهم في حروبهم، عن ابن عباس عن الرسول محمد أنه قال: «هذا جبريل آخذ برأس فرسه عليه أداة حرب». ومن مهامهم حمايتهم للرسول محمد، ونصرتهم لصالحي العباد وتفريج كربهم. وشهودهم لجنازة الصالحين، وإظلالهم للشهيد بأجنحتهم. ومن مهامهم حمايتهم للمدينة ومكة من الدجال، حيث قال الرسول: «على أنقاب المدينة ملائكة، لا يدخلها الطاعون ولا الدجال».

 

أما عن دور الملائكة تجاه الكفار والفساق، فإن هناك بضعة مهام تؤديها الملائكة تجاه الكفار، أبرزها إنزال العذاب بهم، كإهلاك قوم لوط، ولعن الكفرة، قال الله: ﴿إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَمَاتُوا وَهُمْ كُفَّارٌ أُولَئِكَ عَلَيْهِمْ لَعْنَةُ اللَّهِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ ١٦١﴾، وقد تلعن الملائكة بعض من فعلوا ذنوباً معينة حتى لو كانوا مسلمين، مثل المرأة التي لا تستجيب لزوجها، والذي يشير لأخيه بحديدة، ومن سب أصحاب الرسول وفق تفاسير عُلماء أهل السُنَّة، ومن يحولون دون تنفيذ شرع الله والذي يؤوي محدثاً.

 

هناك ملائكة، وعددهم ثمانية، موكلون بحمل العرش، والله مستو عليه، قال تعالى: ﴿وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَى أَرْجَائِهَا وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ ١٧﴾. وللجبال ملك موكل بها، وللقطر والنبات ملك موكل بهما، ويُظن أنه ميكائيل. وللسحاب ملك موكل بها وهو الرعد، حيث قال الرسول محمد: «الرعد ملك من الملائكة موكل بالسحاب معه مخاريق من نار، يسوق بها السحاب حيث شاء الله».

 

عبادة الملائكة

يؤمن المسلمون إيماناً تاماً، بأن الملائكة مخلوقون، ومفطورون، ومجبولون، ومطبوعون على طاعة الله وعبادته، أي يعجزون عجزاً تاماً على معصية الله، ولكنه لا يكلفهم مجاهدة كما عند الإنسان، لأنه لا شهوة لهم، وتركهم للمعصية وطاعتهم لله جبلة.

 

وهناك عدة عبادات يفعلها الملائكة، غير طاعتهم لله في تنفيذ المهمات الموكلة إليهم، أولها التسبيح، فالملائكة يسبحون الله ويذكرونه، فيسبحه حملة عرشه ﴿الَّذِينَ يَحْمِلُونَ الْعَرْشَ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُ يُسَبِّحُونَ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّهِمْ وَيُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا رَبَّنَا وَسِعْتَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ رَحْمَةً وَعِلْمًا فَاغْفِرْ لِلَّذِينَ تَابُوا وَاتَّبَعُوا سَبِيلَكَ وَقِهِمْ عَذَابَ الْجَحِيمِ ٧﴾، ويسبحه عموم ملائكته ﴿تَكَادُ السَّمَاوَاتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْ فَوْقِهِنَّ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ يُسَبِّحُونَ بِحَمْدِ رَبِّهِمْ وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ أَلَا إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ ٥﴾. وهم دائمو التسبيح لا ينقطع ليلاً أو نهاراً حيث قال الله: ﴿يُسَبِّحُونَ اللَّيْلَ وَالنَّهَارَ لَا يَفْتُرُونَ ٢٠﴾ [الأنبياء:20]. ويفخرون بكثرة تسبيحهم حيث قال الله على لسانهم: ﴿وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الْمُسَبِّحُونَ ١٦٦﴾. والعبادة الثانية التي يقوم بها الملائكة هي عبادة الاصطفاف، فاصطفاف الملائكة عند الله عبادة، ويفخرون بإنهم هم الصافون حيث قال الله على لسانهم: ﴿وَإِنَّا لَنَحْنُ الصَّافُّونَ ١٦٥﴾ وهم يركعون ويسجدون ويقومون إلى جانب اصطفافهم، فعن حكيم بن حزام أن الرسول محمد قال: «أتسمعون ما أسمع؟» قالوا: "ما نسمع من شيء". قال: «إني لأسمع أطيط السماء وما تلام أن تئط، مافيها موضع شبر إلا عليه ملك ساجد أو قائم». ومن عبادة الملائكة الحج، فللملائكة كعبة في السماء تسمى البيت المعمور، أقسم الله بها في كتابه حين قال: ﴿وَالْبَيْتِ الْمَعْمُورِ ٤﴾، يدخله كل يوم 70 ألف ملك فيتعبدون فيه ويطوفون حوله ولا يعودون إليه مرة أخرى، قال الرسول: « .. ثم رُفع بي إلى البيت المعمور، وإذا هو يدخله كل يوم سبعين ألفاً لا يعودون إليه آخر ما عليهم». ويقع البيت المعمور في السماء السابعة بحيال البيت، أي فوق كعبة الأرض. ومن عبادة الملائكة أيضاً خوفهم من الله وخشيتهم، فهم يخشون الله بدليل قوله: ﴿يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَلَا يَشْفَعُونَ إِلَّا لِمَنِ ارْتَضَى وَهُمْ مِنْ خَشْيَتِهِ مُشْفِقُونَ ٢٨﴾ وأيضاً قول الرسول: «مررت ليلة أُسري بي بالملأ الأعلى وجبريل كالحلس البالي من خشية الله».

 

وفاة الملائكة

اختلف أهل العلم في وفاة الملائكة على قولين:

 

أنهم يموتون، وهذا قول الجمهور، واستدلوا بعدد من الأحاديث التي لا تقوى، إلا أن أقوى أدلتهم هو عموم الآية في قول الله تعالى: ﴿وَلَا تَدْعُ مَعَ اللَّهِ إِلَهًا آخَرَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ لَهُ الْحُكْمُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ٨٨﴾

أنهم لا يموتون، وقد اختار هذا القول ابن حزم وبعض المفسرين، واستدلوا لقولهم بالاستثناء في قوله تعالى: ﴿وَنُفِخَ فِي الصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَنْ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَنْ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا مَنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخْرَى فَإِذَا هُمْ قِيَامٌ يَنْظُرُونَ ٦٨﴾ِ.

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نقش يبين اسم أحد الملائكة (إسرافيل) وفق التسمية الإسلامية.

جبريل: الملك جبريل ذكر أكثر من مرة في القرآن باسمه صراحة أو باسم الروح، وهو الملك المتكفل بالوحي، وله مكانة رفيعة عند الله حسب اعتقاد المسلمين، فقد أرسله الله لأنبيائه ورسله ليبلغهم الوحي، ولا تقتصر مهمته على تبليغ الوحي، فقد كان ينزل في ليالي رمضان ليدارس النبي محمد القرآن. وقد أمّه صلاةً ليعلمه كيف يؤدي الصلاة، ورقاه، وحارب معه في غزوة بدر وغزوة الخندق.

ميكائيل: ذُكر في القرآن باسمه ميكال صراحة، وبحسب ابن كثير فإنه هو الملك الموكل بالمطر والنبات.

إسرافيل: وهو الملك الذي ينفخ في الصور عند قرب القيامة بحسب ما ذكر في الحديث، وكان هؤلاء الثلاثة (جبريل وميكائيل وإسرافيل) يستفتح بهم النبي محمد صلاته في الليل ويذكرهم في دعائه.

مالك: خازن النار وجاء اسمه صريحاً في القرآن ﴿وَنَادَوْا يَا مَالِكُ لِيَقْضِ عَلَيْنَا رَبُّكَ قَالَ إِنَّكُمْ مَاكِثُونَ ٧٧﴾.

رضوان: خازن الجنة وجاء اسمه صريحاً في بعض الأحاديث.

منكر ونكير: هما ملكان موكلان بسؤال الإنسان عند موته في قبره عن دينه وإلهه ونبيه، وقد ذكر اسمهيما صريحاً في بعض الأحاديث.

هاروت وماروت: ملكان ذُكر اسمهما في القرآن، وأنهما نزلا بأرض بابل. ﴿وَاتَّبَعُوا مَا تَتْلُو الشَّيَاطِينُ عَلَى مُلْكِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَانُ وَلَكِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ كَفَرُوا يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى الْمَلَكَيْنِ بِبَابِلَ هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ وَمَا يُعَلِّمَانِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ حَتَّى يَقُولَا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلَا تَكْفُرْ فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُمَا مَا يُفَرِّقُونَ بِهِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ وَمَا هُمْ بِضَارِّينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلَا يَنْفَعُهُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلَاقٍ وَلَبِئْسَ مَا شَرَوْا بِهِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ ١٠٢﴾.

ملك الموت: هو الملك الموكل بنزع أرواح العباد، لم يذكر اسمه صراحة بالقرآن والسنة، وجاء فيهما ذكر اسم «ملك الموت». ﴿قُلْ يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ الَّذِي وُكِّلَ بِكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَى رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ ١١﴾.

حملة العرش: هم ملائكة موكلون بحمل العرش وعددهم ثمانية، وجاء ذكرهم في القرآن. ﴿وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَى أَرْجَائِهَا وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ ١٧﴾.

ملك الجبال: هو ملك موكل بالجبال، وذُكرت له قصة مع النبي محمد في بعض الأحاديث.

الزبانية: هم خزنة جهنم، وهم من الملائكة. جاء ذكرهم في القرآن : ﴿سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ ١٨﴾. وعددهم تسعة عشر ﴿عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَ ٣٠﴾.

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صحيح البخاري: 1\512 ورقمه:416.

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رواه مسلم: 4\1866 ورقمه:2401.

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صحيح مسلم: 1\159 ورقمه:177.

صحيح البخاري: 8\610 ورقمه:4856، 4857.

رواه البخاري: 7\312 ورقمه:3992.

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صحيح سنن الترمذي، 3\9 ورقمه: 2580 و2581.

صحيح مسلم: 1\322 ورقمه: 430.

صحيح مسلم: 1\188 ورقمه: 197.

نداء الإيمان، عصمة الملائكة.في تفسير القرآن الكريم/فصل: في القول في عصمة الملائكة:/i543&d820848&c&p1 نسخة محفوظة 10 2يناير8 على موقع واي باك مشين.

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صحيح مسلم: 4\2842 ورقمه: 2842.

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صحيح مسلم: 4\2037 ورقمه: 2645.

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صحيح البخاري: 7\312 ورقمه: 3995.

صحيح البخاري: 13\101 ورقمه: 7123.

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صحيح سنن الترمذي: 3\64 ورقمه: 2492.

سلسلة الأحاديث الصحيحة: حديث رقم 852

صحيح مسلم: 1\146 ورقمه: 162

صحيح البخاري: 6\103 ورقمه: 3207

صحيح الجامع: 5\206

إسلام ويب، موت الملائكة. نسخة محفوظة 19 يوليو 2019 على موقع واي باك مشين.

السلسلة الصحيحة، رقم: (1079): قال رسولُ الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: " كيف أَنْعَم وقد التقَمَ صاحِبُ القرن القَرْنَ وحَنى جبهتَه وأصغى سمعَه؛ يَنتظِر أن يُؤمر أن يَنفخ، فيَنفخ " قال المسلمون: فكيف نقول يا رسولَ الله؟ قال: " قولوا: حَسبنا الله ونِعم الوكيل، توكَّلنا على الله ربِّنا." وربَّما قال سفيان: " على الله توكَّلنا. " وقد روى هذا الحديثَ جمْعٌ من الصحابة الكرام عليهم أفضل الرضوان، منهم: أبو سعيد الخدري، وابن عباس، وزيد بن أرقم، وأنس بن مالك، وجابر بن عبد الله، والبراء بن عازب.

القرآن الكريم، سورة الزخرف، الآية 77.

القرآن الكريم، سورة البقرة، الآية 102.

القرآن الكريم، سورة السجدة، الآية 11.

القرآن الكريم، سورة الحاقة، الآية 17.

القرآن الكريم، سورة العلق، الآية 18.

القرآن الكريم، سورة المدثر، الآية 30.

الآيات

سورة النساء، الآية 136.

سورة التكوير، الآيات 19، 20، 21.

سورة عبس، الآيتين 15، 16.

سورة البقرة، الآية 30.

سورة النجم، الآية 13.

سورة فاطر، الآية الأولى.

سورة الصافات، الآية 164.

سورة النجم، الآيتان 19، 20.

سورة النجم، الآيتان 5 و 6.

سورة يوسف، الآية 31.

سورة الزخرف، الآية 19.

سورة الذاريات، الآيات 24، 25، 26، 27، 28.

سورة الأنبياء، الآية 20.

سورة فصلت، الآية 38.

سورة القدر، الآيتان 3 و 4.

سورة البقرة، الآيتين 32، 32.

سورة الفجر، الآية 22.

سورة النبأ، الآية 38.

سورة التحريم، الآية 6.

سورة الأنبياء، الآية 27.

سورة الرعد، الآية 11.

سورة ق، الآيتان 17، 18.

سورة السجدة، الآية 11.

سورة البقرة، الآية 161.

سورة الحاقة، الآية 17.

سورة غافر، الآية 7

سورة الشورى، الآية 5

سورة الصافات، الآية 166

سورة الصافات، الآية 165

سورة الطور، الآية 4

سورة الأنبياء، الآية 28

سورة القصص، الآية 88

سورة الزمر، الآية 86

وصلات خارجية

الدرر السنية، الموسوعة العقدية، الكتاب الثالث: الإيمان بالملائكة.

موقع الشيخ ابن جبرين.

الملائكة.

 

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In Islam, angels (Arabic: ملاك٬ ملك‎, romanized: malāk; plural: ملائِكة‎, malāʾik/malāʾikah or Persian: فرشته, romanized: ferešte) are believed to be heavenly beings, created from a luminous origin by Allah.[1][2][3][4] The Quran is the principal source for the Islamic concept of angels,[5] but more extensive features of angels appear in hadith literature, Mi'raj literature, Islamic exegesis, theology, philosophy, and mysticism.[3][4][6]

 

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Belief in angels is one of the core tenets within Islam, as it is one of the six articles of faith.[7][8] Angels are more prominent in Islam compared to Jewish and Christian traditions.[9] The angels differ from other invisible creatures in their attitude as creatures of virtue, in contrast to evil devils (Arabic: شَيَاطِين, romanized: šayāṭīn or Persian: دیو, romanized: dīv) and ambiguous jinn (Arabic: جِنّ or Persian: پَری, romanized: parī).[10][3][11][12] Despite being considered to be virtuous beings, angels are not necessarily bringers of good news, as per Islamic tradition, angels can perform grim and violent tasks.[13]

 

Angels are conceptualized as heavenly beings. As such, they are said to lack passion and bodily desires. If angels can nevertheless fail, is debated in Islam. Mu'tazilites and many Salafis usually hold the opinion that angels are always obedient and never fail to perform their tasks. In contrast, schools of theology (Kalām) often accept the fallibility of angels. Ashʿarites agree that angels have no free agency, but argue that they may still fail and then fall. Māturīdites say that the heavenly creatures are tested, and angels may fail such a test, whereupon they are dismissed from their duties.

 

In Islamic philosophy and Sufism, angels are related to the nature of reason ('aql). According to Sufi cosmology, they connect the higher realms of the intellect with the lower world of matter. Thus, the human mind is conceptualized to form a connection with the heavenly spheres (malakūt) through such heavenly entities associated with light (nūr). In contrast, the devils attempt to disturb the connection by diverging the mind to the lower spheres, thus associated with fire (nār).

 

Etymology

 

Angel Blowing a Woodwind, ink and opaque watercolor painting from Safavid Iran, c. 1500, Honolulu Academy of Arts.

The Quranic word for angel (Arabic: ملك, romanized: malak) derives either from Malaka, meaning "he controlled", due to their power to govern different affairs assigned to them,[14] or from the triliteral root '-l-k, l-'-k or m-l-k with the broad meaning of a "messenger", just as its counterpart in Hebrew (malʾákh). Unlike the Hebrew word, however, the term is used exclusively for heavenly spirits of the divine world, as opposed to human messengers. The Quran refers to both angelic and human messengers as rasul instead.[15]

 

In pre-Islamic Arabian culture, the term was also used by the Thamud for beings who deserve supplication.[16]

 

Quran and exegesis

 

Muhammad meets the angel with seventy heads. Miraj Name, Herat, Afghanistan, 1436-1437. The figure may may have been identified as one of the Buddhist beings of the Brahmaloka, the non-sensual realm, and be a representation of the Boddhisatva Avalokiteśvara.[17] From this figure they received their representation.

 

Muhammad requests Maalik to show him Hell during his heavenly journey. Miniature from The David Collection. The showing of the face of the Muhammad and other prophets is forbidden in Islam

The Quran describes angels in the context of earlier Middle Eastern cultural traditions, both monotheistic and polytheistic belief-systems.[18] Belief in angels is prescribed for the believer.[19][20] Surah 35 is, in some manuscripts, named after them (al-malā’ikah).[21] With a few exceptions, angels in the Quran are largely impersonal.[22] They appear in stories about the mythic past, eschatological imagery (heaven/hell), and in discussions about prophecy and worship.[23]

 

While in the Bible the term 'angel' refers to 'messengers' (mundane or divine) the Quran uses the term 'rasul' instead.[24][25] Angels are solely heavenly spirits. As in Biblical tradition, angels deliver the message to Zechariah (3:39) and Mary (3:45).[26] In the Quran, angels are not limited to be messengers but are also part of the heavenly council. They serve as scribes (50:17-18), serve as God's warriors (9:26), and carry God's throne.[27] God commands the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam, similar to the Syrian Cave of Treasures.[28]

 

The Quran portrays the Jahiliyyah as worshipping angels as minor deities (Surah 53:19-22; 6:100; 16:57; 37:149), believed to function as intercessors (Surah 10:18). In the pre-Islamic Arabian religion, deities, jinn, angels, and demons are not clearly distinguished and shade into another.[29][30] Several angels in the Quran function as personified meteorological phenomena, and may root in polytheistic animistic beliefs.[31]

 

The Quranic creation account suggests the superiority of humans over angels: When God creates Adam, he taught him the names of all things, knowledge the angels lack. Muslim exegetes read this as a demonstration of the a unique capacity (exercise of 'aql) whereas the angels are lacking.[32][33] As such, angels are no longer objects of deserving worship and also become distinguished from God.[34] According to Quranic exegesis, some angels refused to accept the superiority of mankind and became devils (šayāṭīn).[35] This debate is closely related to a discussion regarding other verses about angels.

 

Prostration of angels and obedience

 

Angels discuss the creation of Adam. Painting from a manuscript of the Manṭiq al-ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds) of Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār. Iran, Shiraz, 899/1494.

A key event regarding angels in the Quran is the command addressed to the angels to bow before the newly created Adam. According to the Quran, the angels object to the creation of mankind at first, arguing that they commit the sins the jinn committed previously.[36][37] After the objection of the angels, Adam demonstrates his ability to "name all things" and whereupon all angels bow down, except Iblis.[36]

 

That Iblis is a fallen angel was widely accepted among Classical scholars of Islam.[a] Objection towards the concept of fallen angels, however, is attested as early as to the influential Hasan of Basra (d. 728), who is often considered one of the first who asserted the doctrine of angelic infallibility and he rejected that Iblis was an angel. While the arguments existed early on, opposition to fallen angels was not universal in early Islam, as Tabari (839–923 CE), for example, does not mention angelic infallibility, when discussing the nature of Iblis.[39] The traditions of ibn Abbas (angels can sin), and Hasan of Basra (angels cannot sin), reflect two different interpretations of the Islamic conceptualization of angels.[39]

 

Bulak al-Djurdjani opposes the ‘iṣmah (infallibility) of angels on the ground that the protest of the angels proves inevitably potential flaws in their character, such as slander, pride, malice, and finding fault with God.[40] In a comment by Gibril Haddad on Qadi Baydawi's defense on angelic fallibility, in his Tafsir al-Baydawi, it is said that the angels' "obedience is their nature while their disobedience is a burden, while human beings' obedience is a burden and their hankering after lust is their nature."[41]: 546 

 

Infallible

Opposition to the concept of the fallen angel is mostly found among the Qadariyah and most Mu'tazilites.[42] Many Salafis also agree with this view.[43] Those who oppose angelic fallibility refer to Surah at-Tahrim (66:6)[44] in favor of their position:

 

O believers! Protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, overseen by formidable and severe angels, who never disobey whatever Allah orders—always doing as commanded.

 

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi is an exception to most Sunni mutakallimūn, and agrees that angels are free from any form of sin and includes angelic infallibility to the six articles of faith.[45] Al-Razi argues that "except Iblis" (2:34, 18:50) is read as an "interrupted exception" (istithna munqathi), excluding Iblis from the group of angels and states that he hailed from jinn species instead.[46] Ibn Taimiyya rejects any ambiguity on the nature of Iblis and portrays him as a satanic jinni in contrast to the obedient angels.[47][48] Following the opinions of ibn Taimiyya and his disciple ibn Kathir, many scholars of Salafism and Wahhabism agree on this.[49] Furthermore, many of them regard this as a major difference between Christianity and Islam.[48]

 

A possible reconciliation of Iblis' fall and the doctrine of angelic impeccability is to say that God wanted Iblis to disobey[50][51] or that Iblis' disobedience derives from a noble yet misguided motivation.[52] Mahmud al-Alusi resolves potential conflicts by iterating that ʿAzāzīl was first an infallible angel, but then God removed his angelic nature and replaced it with satanic attributes, whereupon he becomes Iblis and sinned.[53]

 

Fallible

 

The angels Harut and Marut punished by hanging over the well, condemned to teach sorcery. (c. 1703)

According to those who accept the concept of fallen angels, the phrase "except Iblis" in 2:34 and 18:50 is understood as an uninterrupted exception (istithna' muttasil).[54] Therefore, Iblis is an exception from within number of angel and thus an angel himself.

 

According to a number of traditional exegetes, God's command to bow before Adam is meant to test the angels.[55] Al-Maturidi (853–944 CE) explains the test of the angels as follows

The meeting between two of the largest egos in existence is meant to turn into a fight.

When Tony Stark and Lex Luthor end up in the same universe the personality clash is inevitable.

 

They started showing off their intellect capabilities but soon the dispute moved to, well, a technical application of their Brick Mech know-how.

So Tony calls in his Hulkbuster and Lex his armored suit.

 

“My Mech is more imposing!” Shouts Lex

“You’re pathetic! You are not even supposed to have a Mech! You should have a power armor but the Lego designers decided to build a mech so they could have a set to sell!” Replies Tony

 

“That’s because they are smart guys and they recognize my intellectual superiority! Look at you! They give you a thing that is not even in scale with the Hulk you should bust- continues Lex- Oh and your Mech’s gorilla-like arms: ridicule!”

 

“My Mech does not need to be large because unlike you I don’t need to compensate!” comes Tony’s remark.

“We both know your Mech is smaller simply because the designers know you are such a small person in all the things that matter!”

 

“So tell me Lex: do you plan to annoy me to death?”

“I thought that was your super power, Tony.”

 

I think they can go on forever hehe :)

 

I hope you like this photo :)

 

May the Brick be with You :)

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. - Karl Von Clausewitz

Path to Edge

 

Rinpoche smiled when he saw the picture:

“Yes”, he said. “The only way home is to become a beast of burden.”

Maybe I looked at him asking as he continued.

“When I was young I was weak. I was not able to carry my own responsibilities. I blamed others. But as long I was blaming I felt wrong somehow. This state of consciousness kept me down and I felt like a victim of circumstances and men. I started blaming myself of being that weak. It took quite a while until I stopped being self-destructive.”

He pointed at the man. “Look, he is still trying to reach the edge, still trying to be a Bodhisattva, keeping his dark thoughts and feelings enclosed in his huge bag, not blaming others but himself. He is walking like a slave, carrying his own secret vows.”

I felt a bit weird. Obviously he knew.

“Don’t worry”, he said. “Nobody ever reached the edge. In fact one day you stop searching. I left the bag… maybe a few miles further on…” He giggled. “Down the mountains I was singing and dancing… till you crossed my ways.”

I did not smile.

Rinpoche laughed: “That’s a joke, my friend…”

 

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Das Bild zeigt Persönlichkeitsaspekte eines demütigen Menschen. Er trägt seine Lasten selbst anstatt sie dem Esel aufzubürden. Das macht ihn selbst zum Lastentier und in gewissem Sinn zum Esel. Es ist im Alltag normal, die physischen wie auch die psychischen Lasten anderen Menschen aufzubürden, Kollegen, Partnern, Kindern. Ängste werden zum Nächsten abgeschoben; auch Aggressionen, Trauer oder Verzweiflung. Man redet sich die Sorgen von der Seele und der offenherzige Zuhörer wird immer bedrückter. Ein Bodhisattva verzichtet darauf, die eigenen Sorgen bei anderen zu entsorgen, im Gegenteil, er übernimmt und teilt die Kümmernisse seiner Mitmenschen. Er entlastet alle Kreaturen und wünscht ihnen in seinen Gebeten alles Glück, während er sich selbst bescheiden zurück nimmt. Demut und Bescheidenheit sind auch christliche Tugenden. Wer diese Tugenden anerkennt und übt, hält seine niederen Ego-Instinkte in Schach und wird sich dieser Energien erst richtig bewusst. Auf dem Weg der Tugend entsteht der innere Konflikt zwischen Selbstanspruch und Schatten-Natur. Wird dieser Konflikt erkannt und bewusst geschlichtet, kommt es zur Vereinigung der Gegensätze und damit zur Erlösung aus der spannungsvollen Dualität.

Shambhala, das Paradies der Seele oder das verheißene Land sind Metaphern für den inneren Frieden, der durch den Aufstieg des Geistes auf den hohen Gipfel der Erkenntnis gewonnen wird. Millionen pilgern auf die Berge und nehmen als symbolische Erfahrung vorweg, was sie im weiteren Verlauf ihrer Pilgerschaft auch geistig und emotional erfahrbar nachvollziehen. Innerer Friede ist ein gutes Gefühl.

 

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Pictures and resources my own.

 

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Jede Ähnlichkeit mit realen Gegebenheiten wäre rein zufällig.

 

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“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. - James Joyce”

 

Macro Monday project – 04/21/14

"Curves"

Alter Ego: Flamiac

Name: Cleveland Patterson

Allegiance: Villain

Powers: None

Weapons:

* Custom Flame Thrower

* Flame proof armour

* Bullet resistant suit

Key Weakness: Hand to hand combat which he is not skilled in.

 

Origin:

Cleveland was always fascinated with fire especially ways of weaponising something so dangerous. His obsession lead him to criminal activities and engineering his own unique flame thrower called 'Fire Breather' to help him along the way. Instead of being a common street thug he pulled off high stake heists using his intellect and Fire Breather to pay for his flame resistant armour and clothing. He now is an assassin for hire and is commonly used by many mobsters as a distraction for Meta Heroes in the area going by the name 'Flamiac'.