Gabriel, Michael, Israfil, and Azrael, then he created nine hundred and seventy-four angels, adding them to the angels we have mentioned, and inspired them and commanded them about what would happen at their hands in His creation, so they said [Page 123 of the Cairo edition]

We do not descend except by the command of your Lord. Before us, and what is behind us, and what is between that, and your Lord has never forgotten, and He said about them, “They shall not disobey God in what He has commanded them.” These angels are the rulers in particular, and God created angels who populate the heavens and the earth to worship Him. There is no place in the heavens or the earth except that there is an angel in it. And the truth will continue to create angels from the breath of the world as long as they last. Breathing

[ He created the earthly abode ]

And when he had completed the movements of this first orbit, and its duration was fifty-four thousand years, which you consider, God created the earthly abode and granted it a duration. It will end in a certain way, and its form will end, and it will become impossible from being a home for us and accepting a specific form, which we see today until the earth is replaced by another earth, and the heavens. And when sixty-three thousand years of the movement of this sphere had passed, which you consider, God created the Hereafter, the home, Paradise and Hell, which God had prepared for His happy and wretched servants, and it was. Between the creation of this world and the creation of the Hereafter is nine thousand years of what you count, and for this reason it is called the Hereafter because its creation was later than the creation of this world, and it is called this world.