If these faculties ( malakat ) are noble...

If these faculties ( malakat ) are noble, they manifest themselves as moral and wise speech and behaviour in man. If, on the contrary, they are evil and base, they are manifested through immoral and perverse behaviour. These very faculties play the decisive role in determining the fate of the individual in the eternal world of the Hereafter. The soul shall be accompanied there by the same faculties that it was associated and united with in this world.

If these faculties are virtuous, the soul shall have eternal bliss, and if they were wicked ones, it shall face eternal damnation. This matter of malakat provides the answer to those who say how could the Compassionate and Merciful God condemn an individual to eternal damnation for a sin committed in a short span…