{"id":6067,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/freewill-and-angels\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:27:04","slug":"freewill-and-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/freewill-and-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"Freewill And Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Do  Angels have Free will? If they do then do they sin? Are they in the  same test as we and jins are? If they have freewill and they do not sin  because they are in presence (hazoori) of God all the time, then Iblis  has the same &#8220;hazoori&#8221;, he sinned, as he was jin and had free will. <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>It  is evident from the Qur&#8217;an that angels do have their own free will and  you are right they do not sin because they remain in God&#8217;s presence most  of the time. As for Iblees and other jinn they are not in the presence  of God. It was only at the time of creation that he the other jinn had  been called to be there for a purpose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-13<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6067\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do  Angels have Free will? If they do then do they sin? Are they in the  same test as we and jins are? 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