<p>('Izra'il), the Islamic archangel of death. In Islam, Azrael is traditionally described as being of cosmic size with countless wings, eyes, tongues, and four faces.</p>
<p>One of the four archangels, he is said to stand with one foot on the fourth (or seventh) heaven, the other on the razor-sharp bridge that divides paradise from hell.</p>
<p>He is believed to keep the roll of mankind and, when Allah decides, to draw the soul from the human body within forty days.</p>
<p>Stories, often humorous, of Azrael confronting his victim, who had thought to avoid him by moving to a different place, are widespread in the Islamic world.</p>
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