Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem, assalamu alaikum.
37:1. By the (angels) arranged in ranks.
37:2. By the (angels) who drive the clouds in a good way.
37:3. By the (angels) who bring the Book and the Qur’an from Allah to mankind.
37:4. Verily your Ilah (God) is indeed One;
37:5. Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, and Lord of every point of the sun’s risings.
This is the picture Allah draws for us when describing the Angels, they are arranged in ranks in every place in the universe from the earth to its end.
When you understand the Quran you can act on what you perceive from it without needing someone to tell you how to act. These verses inspired me to ask the Mala’ikah in a way unique from what people may know, usually when I ask them for help I ask Maka’ikat al Rahma (the Angels of Mercy), or Maka’ikat Al Kursi, or Maka’ikat al Mawt, or Maka’ikat Jahanam.
I would ask by the rank and role Allah gave them, after spending sometime with them I would come to sense each Angels unique type of light and presence, like any human would feel different from another, eventually the more you talk to them the better you sense and know them.
But the verses above inspired me to talk to them in a new way, I began to ask the Mala’ikah as a group by every Maqam (rank) Allah gave them, Ya Mala’ikah Bi Kil Maqam Allah Attakum, and so eventually I came to sense their response as they responded all together from every Maqam Allah gave them.
If you ask Mala’ikat al Rahma, you sense the response from the direction of mercy, if you ask Maka’ikat Jahanam you sense the response from the direction of punishment, if you ask Maka’ikat al Kursi you sense the response from the direction of knowledge, because that is each Angels quality and that is the quality of each rank (Maqam).
But when you ask them to act on something from every Maqam Allah gave them you sense the most complete response possible from every angle in the universe a subject could possibly have, you sense something complete, finished, perfected.
I think that is as close as a description as I can give you, it is a unique light and the most serene because of the assurance (salam) that the matter is covered in every respect.
After spending some time with them and understanding what I was looking at, an understanding that surprised me greatly dawned on me, this is the exact same light Allah gave to Abu Bakr (ra) which I have seen with Him (ra), the prophet (saws) said about Him (ra); If the Iman of Abu Bakr (ra) was placed on one side of the scale and the Iman of My Ummah on the other, the Iman of Abu Bakr (ra) would outweigh them.
The support of Abu Bakr (ra) to the prophet (saws), which is what supported the establishment of Islam on earth for every later generation, had the quality of covering the issues the prophet (saws) faced from every angle possible, and hence this was the light Allah gave Him (ra), the most complete light in the Ummah of Muhammad (ra).
When He (ra) acted the Mala’ikah would act with Him (ra) from every Maqam they had because He was establishing Islam on earth for Allah.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.