Azrael does not act independently, but is only informed by when time is up to take a soul | |
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Hamilton Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript BRILL, 14 | In Quran and exegesis [ ] mentions an angel of death, identified with Azrael |
However, as the text only lists names, it cannot be determined whether Azrael was associated with death prior to the advent of.
When the unbelievers in hell cry out for help, an angel, also identified with Azrael, will appear on the horizon and tell them that they must remain | Albany: State University of New York Press |
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According to another famous narrative, God once ordered to collect dust from earth from which Adam is supposed to be created from | 2003 , Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 3, Kessinger Publishing, p |
The "Islamic Book of Dead" describes him with 4 faces, 4000 wings, and 70,000 feet, and his whole body consists of eyes and tongues whose number corresponds to the number of men inhabiting the Earth | In Hebrew, Azrael translates to 'Angel of God' or 'Help from God' |
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mentions Azrael in as an angel of death, but he is not equated with , the angel of death in Jewish lore who appears as a , instead | Relative to similar concepts of such beings, Azrael holds a rather benevolent role as the angel of death, wherein he acts as a , responsible for transporting the souls of the deceased after death |
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