10 Preface وَإِنَّ عَلَيكُم لَحافِظينَYusuf AliBut verily over you (are appointed angels)1 to protect you,—Besides the faculties given to man to guide him, and the Form and Personality through which he can rise by stages to the Presence of God, there are spiritual agencies around him to help and protect him, and to note down his Record, so that perfect justice may be done to him at the end. For these Guardian Angels, see 50:17-18, and n. to 50:18. The Record is of course figurative, for man’s own good, so that perfect justice may be done. God’s own knowledge is perfect, and independent of Records.