It is said that, when was about to die, he laid in his bed and met Azrael in human shape | A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels |
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Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions | A welcoming depiction of the Archangel of Death, as usually attributed to Azrael, by , 1881 |
One account explains death and its relation to Azrael, representing Death and Azrael as former two separate entities, but when God created Death, God ordered the angels to look upon it and they swoon for a thousand years.
In , he is the embodiment of evil | Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopaedia, 4 vols |
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See also [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to | Smith, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection State University of New York Press 1981 p |
Only Azrael succeeded, whereupon he was destined to become the angel concerning life and death of humanity.
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