Editing Sunni Islam (section)

=== Angels and other spirits ===
[[File:Siyer-i Nebi 298a.jpg|thumb|[[Muhammed]] accompanied by the [[archangel]]s [[Gabriel]], [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]], [[Israfil]] und [[Azrael]]. Turkish [[Siyer-i Nebi|Siyer-i-Nebi]]-work, 1595]]
Sunnis believe in [[Angels in Islam|angels]].<ref name="Aschari29056"/> God hid the [[angels]] from the vision of humans, thus they can usually not see them. Just in some special occusations God unveils them for individual humans. Like when the archangel [[Gabriel]] appeared to [[Muhammad]] one time in his true form with 600 wings, filling the entire horizon and another time when he was among the circles of the Sahaba, in the form of a white clothed traveller.<ref>[[Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUṯaimīn]]: ''ʿAqīdat ahl as-sunna wa-l-ǧamāʿa''. 2001/02, p. 20.</ref>

Angels fulfil duties assigned by God. The angel [[Gabriel]] has the mission to transmit God's revelations to chosen Prophets. The [[angel Michael]] is assigned over rain and plants. The [[angel]] [[Israfil]] must blow into the trumpet during thunder and the day of resurrection.<ref>[[Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUṯaimīn]]: ''ʿAqīdat ahl as-sunna wa-l-ǧamāʿa''. 2001/02, S. 20.</ref> Furthermore, to the angels belong the recording angels, who supervise humans and the angel of death, who takes the [[Ruh|souls]] (lit. spirits) of the inhabitants of the world.<ref name="Aqīda 1995">aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī: ''al-ʿAqīda''. 1995, S. 25. – Engl. Übers. Watt 54.</ref>

Unlike the Mutazilites and the Jahmites,<ref>al-Ašʿarī: ''al-Ibāna ʿan uṣūl ad-diyāna''. S. 12. – Engl. Übers. 55.</ref> the Sunnis believe that [[Iblis|Satan]] whispers doubts to humans and hits them, as the Quran states.<ref name="Aschari29660">al-Ašʿarī: ''Kitāb Maqālāt al-islāmīyīn''. S. 296. – Dt. Übersetzung 1931, S. 60.</ref> But humans, [[jinn]], angels and [[Shayatin|devils]] are all created by the power of God and bound to his will. Even if humans, jinn, angels and devils aligned to move or stop one atom, they could not succeed without God's will.<ref name="Gazali10775">al-Ġazālī: ''[[Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn]]''. 2005, S. 107 – Engl. Übers. Watt. 1994. S. 75.</ref>