Thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank

Today as I was driving to work, the sky was crystal clear, the sun was shining, it was really warm and everything was promising a beautiful day. I turned on the radio and enjoyed beautiful recitations of the Qur’an. As I was listening I was praising God for all these blessings that He has given us, and suddenly I heard a verse that made me jump while I was driving. The verse goes like this: “And thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank.” I don’t know how many times I have read or heard this verse, but I never really paid any attention to what it means.

“Thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank.”

After few minutes I was at work and I hurried to open my Qur’an and check this verse, which is in a chapter I am very familiar with. Let’s read this verse with the verses before it.

Qur'an 89:17-22 “¹⁷No! But you do not honor the orphan, ¹⁸And you do not encourage one another to feed the poor, ¹⁹And you devour inheritance all with greed, ²⁰And love wealth with abounding love. ²¹No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed - ²²And thy Lord shall come with angels, rank on rank.”

Thy Lord… shall come… with angels… If I had never read the Bible this verse would probably mean nothing to me. We read in the Bible:

Matthew 16:27 (NIV) "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done."

Matthew 25:31 (NIV) "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory."

Mark 8:38 (NIV) "If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels."

Luke 9:26 (NIV) "If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels."

Yes, my Lord Jesus Christ will come with angels and its written right there in the Qur’an as it is in the Bible.