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Abrahamic religions often refer to angels who are servants of God, often coming down to Earth to perform miracles and give guidance to humans. Above even the angels are what believers call archangels, ...
Islam also recognizes the three main Archangels, with Archangel Azrael being a fourth addition. Azrael serves as the angel of death, carrying newly crossed over souls into the afterlife.
Archangel Gabriel is one of the most revered ... alongside Michael (Mikail), Israfil and Azrael, and is central to the Islamic understanding of how divine guidance is communicated to humanity.
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.
The names of four holy angels—Azrael, Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael—are inscribed on the back of the amulet. “The discovery of similar artifacts in these two distant regions indicates that ...