Reseña del libro "The New Muslim's Guide to the Angels (en Inglés)"
Belief in the angels sits second in the Islamic creed, immediately after belief in God. It asks you to accept the existence of a class of creature you cannot verify - and then it changes how you arrive at Friday prayer, how you treat a throwaway remark, how you go to bed, and how you grieve.The New Muslim's Guide to the Angels is the full treatment of that article of faith for someone in their first years as a Muslim, written in the first person by the author of Now That You're Muslim.Part One - What They Are. Why the angels come second; believing without picturing; made of light, and what follows; the borrowed pictures taken down - cherubs, harps, the dead becoming angels, fallen angels - and the Muslim folklore named alongside them; angels, jinn, and the middle creature made of clay.Part Two - Who They Are. Jibril, from the cave to the night journey; the named ones, with a table of how well each is established; and the scenes of the Qur'an in which angels appear - Ibrahim's guests, Lut's door, Zakariyya, Maryam, Badr, the Night of Decree.Part Three - What They Do With You. The two who write, and the tenfold rule; the guardians, and what guarding does not mean; angels in your ordinary day; every word and prayer that involves them, with meanings; what draws them and what is said to repel them, with the evidence grade beside each.Part Four. Death, the grave, and the gates; talking about angels with family, friends, and children; the chapter for the reader who believes and feels nothing; and what any of it changes.Every claim is placed - Qur'an, sound hadith, weaker report, scholarly opinion, or folklore - and the reader is taught to do the same. No pictures, no folklore presented as doctrine, and never, in any form, a prayer to an angel.
