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Image from a Falnama from India, created around 1610-1630, depicting the Last Judgement, Israfil on the top with a trumpet, a div below with a torch, the taqalan (ins and jinn) waiting to pass the Sirat Bridge to the afterlife with sinners falling off into hell filled with snakes, and the souls of the believers above in heaven.
Israfil (Arabic: إِسْـرَافِـيْـل, ʾIsrāfīl) or Israfel [1] is the angel who blows the trumpet to signal Qiyamah (the Day of Judgment) in Islam. [2] Though unnamed in the Quran, he is one of the four archangels in Islamic tradition, along with Michael, Gabriel, and Azrael. [1]
Angels blowing trumpets at the end of the world was not limited to Christian theology. Islamic artwork features the Archangel Israfel blowing the nafir trumpet at the end the world. From the Mameluke Dynasty [15] In Christian Eschatology, all the first six trumpets are used to serve as a wake up call to the sinners on Earth and a call to ...
Relative to similar concepts of such beings, Azrael holds a benevolent role as God's angel of death; he acts as a psychopomp, responsible for transporting the souls of the deceased after their death. [4] In Islam, he is said to hold a scroll concerning the fate of mortals, recording and erasing their names at their birth and death, similar to ...
The time period or stage between death and the end of the world [5] is called the life of Barzakh. Suicide, euthanasia, and unjust murder as means of death are all prohibited in Islam, and are considered major sins. [6] [7] Believing in an afterlife is one of the six articles of faith in Islam.
The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. [1] Human skeletons and sometimes non-human animal skeletons and skulls can also be used as blunt images of death; the traditional figure of the Grim Reaper – a black-hooded skeleton with a scythe – is one use of such symbolism. [2]
One death was confirmed in Unicoi County and the other in Johnson County. "We do expect this number to change," spokesperson Myron Hughes of the Unicoi County Emergency Management Agency said ...
A number of Bible scholars consider the term Worm ' to be a purely symbolic representation of the bitterness that will fill the earth during troubled times, noting that the plant for which Wormwood is named, Artemisia absinthium, or Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is a known biblical metaphor for things that are unpalatably bitter. [13] [14] [15] [16]