- So, you see these incidents online
where a person is walking on the street
and they don't see a bunch of cars that are coming,
and a truck, this huge truck is about to collide into them,
and then suddenly it's as if an arm
just pulls that truck away and it goes
in a completely different direction,
or someone who misses four cars and they collide,
and that person just stands there, and they're okay.
Or, in some situations, you see someone that is involved
in a freak accident, and the guy that's jogging on the beach
and then suddenly a plane hits him while he's jogging
on the beach, or something along those lines,
and it's like you witness divine decree in precision,
you witness that Qadr of Allah (swt), that perfect Qadr of Allah.
And then relate that to your own self.
Sometimes, you're on the highway and you're driving,
and you're supposed to be in a car accident.
You're doing something that distracts you,
and then in that moment of distraction,
something horrible's about to happen
and then you see what happens around you
and you say, "SubhanAllah, Allah protected me."
Those that have seen their children fall,
and if they would've fallen just a little bit differently,
then it would've hit the back of their head
or this would've happened or that would've happened,
and it would've been catastrophic.
All of these things that we witness in our lives
obviously speak to the overwhelming power
of Allah (swt),
but they have something to do with the angels as well.
Allah (swt) says: "Lahum mu'aqqibaatin min bayni aydeehi wa min khalfihi yahfadhunahu min amrillah."
That every single person has a guardian angel
in front of them and behind them that protect them from
the decree of Allah (swt).
Now, that concept requires a lot of reflection.
Number one: the mercy of Allah (swt).
We're always so paranoid about the devils,
"the devils, the shayateen,
they're everywhere, the jinn, the jinn."
Every single human being has only one shaytan
assigned to them, and four angels assigned to them.
Now, everything else that's invited into your life
of angels or devils is invited as a result
of your good deeds or your bad deeds,
but every single person has, proportionately speaking,
four angels that are with them, and only one devil.
Two angels that protect you and two angels
that record on you, so the two angels that record
and the two angels that guard you,
but only one shaytan that whispers and tempts.
But of course, environments and deeds
invite more angels or more shayateen.
But, what do those guardian angels do,
and what role do they play in our lives?
Number one: they're always with you.
They're with you during the day,
they're with you when you sleep at night.
They are with you for the most significant
and insignificant moments of Qadr,
moments of divine decree in your life.
Mujahid (rahimahullah), he said that those angels
protect you from any wild animal, from any riding animal,
from any beast, from any person who wants to harm you,
even 'an-naml fee udhunik,' an ant
that would be in your ear; if the decree is not upon you
to be harmed, those angels will shoo away those bugs,
they will push away those objects
that are coming your way, and protect you.
Ali ibn Abi Taleb (r), he said
when he was told that there was a tribe,
the tribe of Murad, and they were planning to attack him,
he said that "they cannot harm me with anything,
unless Allah (swt) has decreed it.
For Allah has set up guardian angels for each person,"
and the only time that a person is harmed
is when those angels are told to stand down,
when they move out of the way, and that's what
Ibn Abbas, he said that
out of obedience to Allah (swt),
those angels will protect you and they will be there for you
and they will only move out of the way
when Allah (swt) decrees otherwise.
And this is a powerful concept on an individual level,
because you think about the story
of the Prophet (pbuh)
and Jibril (pbuh) protecting him
from his enemies, or the Muslims in the Battle of Badr,
and the angels being sent in hundreds
to protect them to where the Muslims could even see
that their enemies were being thrown off of their horses,
and the sound of a whip crackling on someone,
and they don't see the whip and they don't see
who's actually doing it, but they were just seeing
these things happen in front of them,
or the Prophet (pbuh) talking about
the end of times, where the Dajjal would try
to enter into Madina, but he would find angels at its gate
that are protecting it from all directions.
In our own individual lives, if you think about that,
when Ibn Abbas mentions
that you have these angels that are in front of you
and behind you, and the only time, the only time
that they step aside is when Allah (swt)
decrees that harm is coming to you,
and that harm is what was decreed in the womb,
also written by an angel, that your date of death,
your lifespan, and that moment for you to go is now,
and so those angels move aside when the decree of death
comes your way, only for your soul to be transferred
to another group of angels with the shroud
either of paradise or the shroud of hell fire.