Or is it in the form of presentation and interfering in the perceptive faculty?

Or is it in the form of presentation and interfering in the perceptive faculty? The outward of the verses of the Qur’an implies to the first meaning, though some great commentators have chosen the second meaning. 7- It is understood from Islamic narrations that the number of angels is so large that they can never be compared with all human beings. Once Imam Sadiq (as) was asked whether the number of the angels is larger or that of the human beings, he said: “By Allah in whose hand is my soul!

the angels in heavens are more than the (number of) whole atoms of the dust of the earth, and there is no place in heaven but an angel is busy glorifying and praising Him therein.” [^15] 8- They neither eat nor drink nor marry. Imam Sadiq (as) in a tradition said: “Verily the angels neither eat, nor drink, nor marry, and they do live only by the breeze of the (Divine) ’Arsh!)” [^16] 9- They have neither sleep nor negligence, nor laziness.

Ali (as) in a tradition said: “There is no cessation between them, nor there is negligence with them, nor there is sin among them… sleep does not overtake them, their wisdom never involves in mistake and forgetfulness, their bodies do not tend to laziness, and they do not lie in the loins of fathers and in the wombs of mothers.” [^17] 10- They have different proper positions and ranks. Some of them are always in the state of ‘bowing’ while some others are in the state of prostration.

The Qur’an, from the tongue of the angels, says: “There is not (any one) of us but for his is an assigned place.” “And verily we are they who range ourselves in order;”…