What belief in the angels entails is: Believing in their existence and believing in the duties that they carry out in the universe. So the angels are one of Allah's creations, which He created for the purpose of worshipping Him and carrying out His orders in the universe.
Al-Jili specifies that the angels are created from the Light of Muhammad and in his attribute of guidance, light and beauty.
Allah created angels with intelligence but no desire, & animals with desire but little intelligence. And He created man with both. So when man acts wisely and conquers desire, he becomes superior to an angel. And when he succumbs to unwise desires, he is worse than a beast.
Without angels there would be no prophets as Allah cannot communicate directly with humans, so without angels Muslims wouldn't have the teachings of the prophets.
The Quran does mention that angels have wings (Quran 35:1), but Muslims don't speculate on what exactly they look like. Muslims find it blasphemous, for example, to engage in making images of angels. It is believed that angels can take the form of human beings when required to communicate with the human world.
According to the Summa Theologica, angels were created instantaneously by God in a state of grace in the Empyrean Heaven (LXI. 4) at the same time when he created all the contents of the corporeal world (LXI. 3). They are pure spirits whose life consists in knowledge and love.
Muslims believe that angels, or malaikah , were created before humans with the purpose of following the orders of Allah and communicating with humans. Muslims believe that angels, like all other creatures, were created by God.
Belief in the Angels of God: Muslims believe in angels, unseen beings who worship God and carry out God's orders throughout the universe. The angel Gabriel brought the divine revelation to the prophets.
Each person is assigned four Hafaza angels, two of which keep watch during the day and two during the night. Muhammad is reported to have said that every man has ten guardian angels. Ali ben-Ka'b/Ka'b bin 'Ujrah, and Ibn 'Abbas read these as angels.
Israfil is mentioned in a hadith as the angel nearest to God, mediating the commands of God to the other archangels.
Mīkāl is also remembered as aiding the Muslims in their first significant military victory (Battle of Badr) in Arabia in 624. It is said that he was so shocked at the sight of hell when it was created that he never laughed again.
Some may believe that the angels were associated with the prophets and since Muhammad was the last Prophet of Islam there is no need for angels to still work in the world.
Most Sunni Muslims believe that angels don't have free will , so they are totally obedient to God. This means they are ideal for carrying out God's tasks and communicating God's word reliably.
Others have described the archangel as having 600 wings, each pair so enormous that they crowd the space between East and West. Jibrīl has also been depicted as sitting on a chair suspended between heaven and earth.
In the Quran, it is stated in that humans are created from the earth and jinn from smokeless fire.
In more than 15 ahadith found in the Sahih of Imam Bukhari, Sunnan of Imam Abu Dawwud, Jamii of Imam Tirmidhi and others, the prophet (saws) said Islam has a specific lifespan on earth, these Ahadith state Allah gave Islam 1500 years then relatively soon after this He would establish the Hour, we are now in the year ...
In Islam, Muslims believe in the existence of all of the creatures that Allah SWT has created, which other than mankind includes Jinn and Angels. Both Jinn and Angels exist parallel to humans, and there are interactions between them and mankind, however we cannot see them, thus the term of the "unseen."
In Islam, Michael, or Mīkāʾīl, is the angel said to effectuate God's providence as well as natural phenomena, such as rain. He is one of the four archangels along with Jebreel (Gabriel, whom he is often paired with), ʾIsrāfīl (trumpeter angel) and ʿAzrāʾīl (angel of death).
The Angels were created from light, as is reported in a Hadith that Allah created the angels from light and He created the devils from fire and He created the humans from dirt. No one knows how many in number the angels are, their manner of being or their natures except for Allah.
The work of the kiraman katibin is to write down and record every action of a person each day. One angel figuratively sits on the right shoulder and records all good deeds, while the other sits on the left shoulder and records all bad deeds.
Heralding the Day of Resurrection, the angel Israfil blows his trumpet, calling all creatures to assemble in Jerusalem. The celestial being is named not in the Qur'an but in hadith, or the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, and scholars specify that he sounds his call from the sacred Rock.
Azrael, angel of death is prevalent in a few religions. Depending on the religion, Azrael is either portrayed as a servant of God or as a fallen angel that serves Satan.
Gabriel was the archangel who announced to the Virgin Mary that she had been chosen to bear the Son of God (Luke 1:27-38).