The form of bliss and torment, and the reason for this is that what God deposited upon them in the spheres and the movements of the planets of the divine command remained and was changed from it in proportion as the forms of the spheres were changed by change and of the planets by obliteration and scattering, so their ruling differed, with increases and decreases, because the change occurred in the forms, not in the essences

[ The ruling angels, the cherubim: the screenwriter, the scribe, the tablet ]

And know that when God Almighty was called the king, the world arranged the order of the kingdom and made for him Selected members of His servants, and they are the dominant angels who sit with the Truth, the Almighty, in remembrance. They are not too proud to worship Him, nor are they ashamed. They glorify Him day and night and do not let up. Then He took one guardian from among the Cherubim and gave Him His knowledge of His creation, and it is detailed knowledge in summary. So His knowledge, Glory be to Him, was in it a place for Him and He was called that angel. Nouna is still in retreat The Presence of His knowledge, the Almighty, the Most High, and He is the head of the Divine Court and the Truth, since He is All-Knowing and He is not hidden from Him. Then He appointed from [Page 295 of the Cairo edition] His angels another angel below Him in rank. He called it the Pen and made its status below the Nun. He took it as a writer, so God Almighty teaches him from His knowledge whatever He wills in His creation through mediation. Nun, but from the general knowledge, and among the general knowledge that it contains, is the knowledge of detail, and it is one of some of the general sciences, because the sciences have levels, including the general science of details. So, among the levels of general sciences, the Divine Pen has no levels except the knowledge of details in general and some.