Malik

The triliteral root mīm lām kāf (م ل ك) occurs in the Quran 206 times.

Malik, Melik, Malka, Malek or Melekh (Phoenician:___; Arabic: ملك‎; Hebrew: מֶלֶךְ‬) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and later Northwest Semitic (e.g. Aramaic, Canaanite, Hebrew) and Arabic.

Although the early forms of the name were to be found among the Pre-Arab and Pre-Islamic Semites of The Levant, Canaan, and Mesopotamia, it has since been adopted in various other, mainly but not exclusively Islamized or Arabized non-Semitic Asian languages for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere. It is also sometimes used in derived meanings.

Etymology

The earliest form of the name Maloka was used to denote a prince or chieftain in the East Semitic Akkadian language of the Mesopotamian states of Akkad, Assyria, Babylonia and Chaldea. The Northwest Semitic "mlk" was the title of the rulers of the primarily Amorite, Sutean, Canaanite, Phoenician and Aramean city-states of the Levant and Canaan from the Late Bronze Age. Eventual derivatives include the Aramaic, Neo-Assyrian, Mandic and Arabic forms: Malik, Malek, Mallick, Malkha, Malka, Malkai and the Hebrew form Melek.

Moloch has been traditionally interpreted the epithet of a god, known as "the king" like Baal was an epithet "the master" and Adon an epithet "the lord", but in the case of Moloch purposely mispronounced as Molek instead of Melek using the vowels of Hebrew bosheth "shame".

In The Quran

God - the King

(20:114) Then exalted (above all) is God, the King (Arab. الْمَلِكُ, l-maliku), the Truth. Do not be hasty with the Quran before its inspiration is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase my knowledge."

Kingship

(2:248) Their prophet said to them, "The sign of his kingship (Arab. مُلْكِهِ, mul'kihi) shall be that he brings to you the ark in which there is tranquility from your Lord and the legacy of what was left behind by the descendants of Moses and the descendants of Aaron being carried by the angels. In this is a sign for you if you acknowledge."

(2:251) So they defeated them by God's leave. Thus, David killed Goliath, and God gave him the kingship (Arab. الْمُلْكَ, l-mul'ka) and the wisdom and taught him what He wished. Had it not been for God restrain the people to challenge one another, then the earth would have long been corrupted. But God has done favor over the worlds.

(2:258) Did the news come to you of the person who debated with Abraham regarding his Lord, though God had given him the kingship (Arab. الْمُلْكَ, l-mul'ka)? Abraham said, "My Lord is the One who gives life and death," he said, "I bring life and death." Abraham said, "God brings the sun from the east, so you bring it from the west!" The one who did not appreciate was confounded! God does not guide the wicked people.

Angel

(2:30) Your Lord said to the angels (Arab. لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ, lil'malāikati), "I am placing a successor on earth." They said, "Would You place in it he who would corrupt it, and shed blood, while we sing Your glory with Your praises, and sanctify You?" He said, "I know what you do not know.

(2:98) "Whoever was an enemy to God and His angels, and His messengers (Arab. وَمَلَائِكَتِهِ, wamalāikatihi), and Gabriel, and Michael, then so God is the enemy to the rejectors."

(3:45) The Angels (Arab. الْمَلَائِكَةُ, l-malāikatu) said, "O Mary, God gives good news of a word from Him. His name is the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary. Honorable in this world and in the Hereafter, and from among those who are made close."

(66:4) If you both repent to God, then (be aware, that) your hearts have inclined (to wrong decision). But if you backup (each other) against him, then indeed God - He is his protector. And Gabriel, and the righteous of those who acknowledge, and the angels (Arab. وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ, wal-malāikatu) after that are his supporters.

Angels and Mary

(3:42) The Angels (Arab. الْمَلَائِكَةُ, l-malāikatu) said, "O Mary, God has selected you and cleansed you, and He has chosen you over the women of the worlds."

Angels - servants to God

(4:172) The Messiah would not be too proud to be a servant to God, nor would the angels (Arab. الْمَلَائِكَةُ, l-malāikatu) who are close to Him. Whoever is too proud from His service, and is arrogant, then He will summon them all before Him.

Angels and the Spirit

(70:4) The angels (Arab. الْمَلَائِكَةُ, l-malāikatu) and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day which is equivalent to fifty Thousand years.

See Also

Caliph