The Angels Are a Community, Charged with the Shari‘A of Creation
There are two divine Shari‘as: proceeding from two attributes, two humans are addressed by both and are bound to comply with both. The Shari‘a of Creation proceeds from the attribute of will,
and orders the circumstances and motions of the world, the macrocosm, which are not voluntary. It is dominical will,
and is also wrongly termed nature. The Shari‘a proceeding from the attribute of speech is the code of laws which orders the actions of man, the microcosm,
which are voluntary. The two Shari‘as sometimes come together in the same place. The divine angels are a vast community, a divine army.
They are obedient bearers of the first Shari‘a, workers and representatives. Some of them are worshipping slaves of Allah the Most High, others throng the divine throne in ecstasy.