The person must learn the attributes of the angels. If he does not learn that, he would fall in perdition.

English Text By Jun 01, 2018

كما أَنَّهُ يَجبُ تَحذيرُ النَّاسِ أَنَّهُ لا يَجوزُ الاستهزاءُ بِمَلَكِ المَوتِ عَزرائيل بعضهم يَسِبُونَهُ وبعضهم يقولونَ: “جاءَ ليَقْبِضَ روح فلان فضَيَّعَ العُنوان” وهذا كُفرٌ والعياذُ بالله، قَالَ اللهُ تَعَالى: ﴿وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٌ فَإِذَا جَاءَ أَجَلُهُمْ لَا يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلَا يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ﴾ سورة يونس / 49.

مَنْ سَبَّ واحدٌ من الملائكةِ أو استخف به فليس بمؤمن عند الله.

Also, we must warn people against mocking the Angel of Death ^Azra’il, for some would cuss him, and others say: He came to take the soul of so and so; however, he lost his address. This is blasphemy and we seek refuge with Allah from that. Allah ta^alamentioned in Verse 40 of Surat Yunus that every nation has an appointed time of death, and every self would die at the exact moment that Allah willed for it to die, not an hour late, and not an hour earlier.

The one who cusses one single angel or mocks him is not a believer.

كذلك واجِبٌ التحذيرُ وَتَعليمُ النَّاسِ أنَّهُم لا يَعصونَ اللهَ (الملائكة)، فالشيطان قد يأتي لإنسانٍ وَيَقولُ لَهُ أنا مِنَ المِلائكَةِ من السماء السادسة مثلاً، فإن عَمِلَ الشيطان عملاً حرامًا واعتقد الشخصُ أن هذا الشيطان هو مَلَكًا فقد كفر.

الإنسانُ عَليهِ أن يتعلمَ صفاتُ الملائكَةِ إن لم يعرف ذلك يهلك، الشيخُ عبد الله قالَ في بِلاَدِ الحَبَشَةِ كَان هُنَاكَ شَخصٌ يَجْمَعُ الناس عنده يقول: أنا تأتي لعندي الملائكة. صاروا يسمعون صوتًا من بعيد، يسألُ ثُمَّ يُجابُ من بعيد. ذَهَبَ شَخصٌ مِن أَهلِ العِلمِ قَالَ: أنا أُريدُ أَن أُكَلِمَهُ. قَالَ: مَنْ أنت؟ قَالَ بَيتٌ من الشعر عن الملائكة. سأله عن صفات الملائكة ثُمَّ قال له: ما اسمُكَ، قال: فلانٌ ابن فلان. قال له: كذبت يا عَدوَ الله. فانقطع وَلَم يَظهر ثانيةً. نعم فالملائكة ليس لهم أبٌ ولا أُمٌّ.

Also it is an obligation to warn people and to teach them that the angels do not disobey Allah, because the devil might come to a person and say: I am an angel from the sixth heaven (for example), and then the devil would do something unlawful and that person would believe that this devil is an angel and he would blaspheme for that.

The person must learn the attributes of the angels. If he does not learn that, he would fall in perdition. Shaykh ^Abdullah said that there was in Abyssinia (al-Habashhah) a man who used to gather people at his place and he used to tell them: The angels come to me and visit me. The people started to hear a voice coming from far away that would ask a question and would be answered from a distance. A man from the people of Knowledge went to him and said to him: I want to talk to that one. He said to the one whose voice was heard by people: Who are you? He answered him with a verse of poetry about the angels, he then asked him about the attributes of the angels and then he asked him: What is your name? To that he answered: So and so the son of so and so. The knowledgeable man said to him: You are a liar, o enemy of Allah. He then quit doing that and did not appear again. That knowledgeable man said that to him because the angels do not have a father or a mother.