ANGELS
When Hell was created,
the hearts of angels flew away
from their proper places.
When human beings were created
those hearts came back.
EXORDIUM
Praise be to God Who has inspired us with the wonderful signs of
His creation and granted us the goodness of His knowledge and love
by sending us His Messengers, showing us His truths, both the manifest
and the hidden. Praise be to God Who has allowed us to peer into His
hidden treasures, Who alone adorned Himself with His divine attributes
before languages came to be, and Who is alone in the uppermost stations
of Beauty and Majesty where all seekers are drawn and hope to reach.
There lovers chant and dance in His remembrance with burning love, there
sincere servants seek His pleasure as Messengers from His divine presence.
He is the First to be worshipped, without beginning. He is the Everlasting
without end. He is the King Who alone creates and invents. He is the
Owner and Ruler of His kingdom both seen and unseen, angels and human beings. He is the Master Whom none resembles, ever besought and in need of none.
Nothing can contain Him and He contains everything. He is the
Self-Subsistent Who sustains the seven earths and the seven heavens and
all universes with His power. He is unique in His perfect attributes. He
is the Living, the Everlasting, Whose life knows no end. He is the Knower
in His ancient knowledge. He is the Expert in creation, the All-Encompassing
in both hidden and manifest knowledge. He is the Witness before Himself of
His own Oneness. He is the All-Hearing without necessity to listen. He is
the All-Seeing without necessity to look, the Watchful Who overlooks nothing
concerning His angels and His servants. He is the Preserver Who never
forgets, the Guardian of His creation, the All-Powerful of old Who brought
an unlimited creation into existence. He is the Provider of all without
being asked. He is the Light of lights with which the hearts of His
believers are enlightened. His Kingdom no more diminishes in the wake
of His generosity than an endless ocean whose waves keep breaking upon
the shore.