Praise be to God, Initiator of the heavens and the earth; maker of the angels as messengers with powers/dimensions in two's, and three's, and four's. He increases in the creation as He wishes. God is able to do all things.
Translation endnotes
[35:1] Malaika (singular: Malak) are powers or controllers employed by God to carry out God's specific commands and control the physical universe according to God's. Controllers (malaika) are contrasted with the Perverse (Satan). Controllers are commonly called angels, and through stories they are depicted females with wings. The word janaha (plural ajniha) is used 9 times in the Quran to mean "incline" (8:61) or wing of compassion and protection (15:88; 18:24; 20:22; 26:215; 28:32), bird's wing (6:38) and here, which can be understood as a wing of compassion and protection. However, considering another meaning of the word, “side" we may understand it as” dimension." Angels are not like birds and the odd numbers of "wings" turn it into a metaphor, rather than bird's wings. Besides, what is the function of wings? To make a mass afloat in the air. The vast space however has no air. The Christian concept of angels which was later adopted by Muslims contradict the concept of Malak mentioned in the Quran, since Malak's space is not limited with that of the airoplanes and birds. See 37:150; 66:6; 69:17; 89:22; 97:4.