FIRST STEP: Haqiqah and hikmah require that the samâwât, like the earth, should have inhabitants appropriate to them. In the language of the Sharî'ah, these different classes of entities are named the malâikah and the rûhânîyât. Yes, haqiqah requires it to be thus. For, despite its small size and insignificance, the earth being filled with living and conscious creatures, emptied from time to time and again re-enlivened with conscious beings indicates — indeed, explicitly demonstrates — that the samâwât, too, which are adorned palaces possessing magnificent towers, are filled with conscious creatures endowed with perception. They, too, like man and jinn, are the spectators of this palace of the ‘âlam, the studious readers of this book of the universe and the proclaimers of the sovereignty of Rubûbiyyah. For the adorning of the universe with innumerable ornaments, beauties and embroideries evidently demands the gazes of the appreciators engaged in tafakkur and the enraptured admirers. Indeed, beauty requires a lover, and food is given to the hungry. However, man and jinn are able to perform only a millionth of this endless duty, this majestic oversight and this vast ‘ubûdiyyah. That is to say, infinite kinds of malâikah and infinite classes of rûhânîyât are necessary to perform these infinite and diverse duties and ‘ibâdah.

Through the indication of some riwâyât and the hikmah in the order of the ‘âlam, it can be said that some kinds of travelling bodies, from planets to drops of rain, are the mounts of a kind of malâikah; they mount them with Allah's permission, wander through the ‘âlam ash-shahâdah and spectate it. It also can be said that some species of animal’s bodies, from the birds of Jannah — which are called طَيْرٍ خُضْرٍ 1 in a hadith — to flies, are the aircraft for a kind of rûh. They enter them at the command of Haqq, travel through the physical ‘âlam, and gaze upon the physical miracles of fitrah through the windows of the senses of those bodies.

Al-Khâliq, Who continuously creates subtle life and luminous creatures endowed with perception from dense soil and turbid water, indeed has conscious creatures suitable for rûh and life from this sea of nûr and even from the sea of darkness. And they exist in great abundance. In a risale of mine entitled Nokta on the existence of malâikah and rûhânîyât and in the Twenty-Ninth Word, this has been proved with the certainty of two times two equals four. If you wish, refer to them.