Angels of Death

On the Day, the sky is split apart with clouds, and the angels are sent down in ranks

25:25A day when the heaven with the clouds will be rent asunder and the angels will be sent down, a grand descent.

“Gather the wrongdoers, their partners, and all they used to worship.

37:22(And it is said unto the angels): Assemble those who did wrong, together with their wives and what they used to worship

If only you could see the wrongdoers in the throes of death, as the angels stretch out their hands, saying, “Surrender your souls! Today you will be repaid with the torment of disgrace for saying falsehoods about Allah and arrogantly rejecting His signs.”

6:93Who is guilty of more wrong than he who forgeth a lie against Allah, or saith: I am inspired, when he is not inspired in aught; and who saith: I will reveal the like of that which Allah hath revealed? If thou couldst see, when the wrong-doers reach the pangs of death and the angels stretch their hands out (saying): Deliver up your souls. This day ye are awarded doom of degradation for that ye spake concerning Allah other than the truth, and used to scorn His portents.

If only you could see when the angels take the souls of the disbelievers, striking their faces and backs, saying, “Taste the punishment of the Fire.”

8:50If thou couldst see how the angels receive those who disbelieve, smiting faces and their backs and (saying): Taste the punishment of burning!

47:27Then how (will it be with them) when the angels gather them, smiting their faces and their backs!

When angels take the souls of those who wronged themselves, they ask, “What was your condition?” They reply, “We were oppressed in the land.” The angels say, “Was Allah’s earth not vast enough for you to migrate?”

4:97Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein? As for such, their habitation will be hell, an evil journey's end;

16:28Whom the angels cause to die while they are wronging themselves. Then will they make full submission (saying): We used not to do any wrong. Nay! Surely Allah is Knower of what ye used to do.

This is the fate of those who rejected Allah’s signs with arrogance, without any justification.

40:75(And it is said unto them): This is because ye exulted in the earth without right, and because ye were petulant.

Enter the gates of Hell, to remain forever. What a dreadful fate for the arrogant!

40:76Enter ye the gates of hell, to dwell therein. Evil is the habitation of the scornful.

We have appointed only angels as guardians of the Fire, and made their number a trial for the disbelievers

74:31We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say: What meaneth Allah by this similitude? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will, and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is naught else than a Reminder unto mortals.

Over it are nineteen keepers.

74:30Above it are nineteen.

We will summon the guardians.

96:18We will call the guards of hell.

And your Lord arrives with the angels, rank upon rank

89:22And thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank,

The Day they are shoved into the Fire of Hell with force:

52:13The day when they are thrust with a (disdainful) thrust, into the fire of hell

“This is the Fire you used to deny.

52:14(And it is said unto them): This is the Fire which ye were wont to deny.

Is this magic? Or do you still not see?

52:15Is this magic, or do ye not see?

Say, “The angel of death, assigned to you, will reclaim you. Then to your Lord you will be returned.”

32:11Say: The angel of death, who hath charge concerning you, will gather you, and afterward unto your Lord ye will be returned.

Do they await anything but the arrival of the angels or the command of your Lord? Those before them did the same, and Allah did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves.

16:33Await they aught say that the angels should come unto them or thy Lord's command should come to pass? Even so did those before them. Allah wronged them not, but they did wrong themselves,

Their punishment is that upon them is Allah’s curse, as well as the curse of the angels and all of humanity.

3:87As for such, their guerdon is that on them rests the curse of Allah and of angels and of men combined.

O you who believe, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones. Over it are stern and mighty angels who never disobey Allah’s command and do exactly what they are told.

66:6O ye who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded.