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send down the same as Allah has sent down'? If you could only see the
wrongdoers in the throes of death when the angels are stretching out
their hands, saying, 'Disgorge your own selves! Today you will be re-
paid with the punishment of humiliation for saying something other
than the truth about Allah, and being arrogant about His Signs.' (Surat
al-An'am, 93)
As for those the angels take in death while they are wronging them-
selves, they will offer their submission: 'We did not do any evil.' Oh
yes you did! Allah knows what you were doing. Enter the gates of
Hell, remaining in it timelessly, for ever. How evil is the abode of the
arrogant!' When those who have fear of Allah are asked, 'What has
your Lord sent down?' their reply is, 'Good!' There is good in this
world for those who do good, and the abode of the hereafter is even
better. How wonderful is the abode of those who guard against evil:
Gardens of Eden which they enter, with rivers flowing under them,
where they have whatever they desire. That is how Allah repays those
who guard agaisnt evil: those the angels take in a virtuous state. They
say, 'Peace be upon you! Enter the Garden for what you did.' What are
they waiting for but the angels to come to them or your Lord's com-
mand to come? That is like what those before them did. Allah did not
wrong them; rather they wronged themselves. (Surat an-Nahl, 28-33)

ANGELS BEARING THE THRONE
And Heaven will be split apart, for that Day it will be very frail. The
angels will be gathered round its edge. On that Day, eight will bear the
Throne of their Lord above their heads. (Surat al-Haqqa, 16-17)

HARUT AND MARUT
They follow what the satans recited in the reign of Sulayman. Sulay-
man did not become disbeliever, but the satans did, teaching people
sorcery and what had been sent down to Harut and Marut, the two an-
gels in Babylon, who taught no one without first saying to him, 'We are
merely a trial and temptation, so do not become disbelievers.' People
learned from them how to separate a man and his wife but they cannot
harm anyone by it, except with Allah's permission. They have learned