Question:
Assalamualaikum,
I was wondering what a mokial/muwakkil is?
Thank you for you time, jazakallah.
Answer:
Wa `alaykum as-Salam wa rahmatullah.
In the context of the sciences of traditional Islam, “muwakkil” refers to an angel charged with safeguarding the secrets corresponding to a particular letter of the Arabic alphabet. Now, in this context each letter is also associated with a jinn, so it is important to observe that the two domains are considered distinct. If in popular usage the same word is applied to both domains, here then is yet another example of the potentially dangerous confusion of the psychic and spiritual to which I have referred in earlier posts.
Mahmoud Shelton
