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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]
The trumpet is an añafil, adopted from the Muslim nafir by Christians after the two sides fought in the Reconquista and crusades. With the sounding of the second trumpet, something described as "a great mountain burning with fire" plunges into the sea and turns a third of the oceans to blood.
The mentioned expensive metal from which the trumpets are made is said to refer to the luxurious life of the Muslim rulers in al-Andalus and to identify the trumpets as royal instruments. Silver añafiles are also a symbol of the luxurious life of the Muslims in other poems about the Spanish reconquest of Granada (genre: romances fronterizos).
Abu abdul al-Rahman, a jinn-king and son in law of Malik Gatshan, ascetic and devoted to the Kaaba. [4] ( Genie) Adiliob, friend of renewal of religion (). (Devil) [5] Afra'il, the guardian angel of the seventh heaven. [6]
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.
In verse 1, the opening of the seventh seal concludes a section beginning in chapter 6 which records the opening of the "Seven Seals". Verses 2-13 and chapters 9 to 11 contain an account relating to the sounding of the "Seven Trumpets". [4] [5] In chapter 8, the first four angels' trumpets are sounded.
Meaning of seven. A group of Muslim scholars argued that seven should be interpreted metaphorically, [20] due to the tendency of Arabs to use numbers such as 7, 70 and 700 to denote large quantities. In their view, the ahruf were intended to permit the recitation of the Quran in any Arabic dialect or a multiplicity of variants.
American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold released an album titled Sounding the Seventh Trumpet, a reference to the angels playing their trumpets following the removal of the seventh seal. Seven Seals is the name of a 2005 album by Primal Fear and also a track on that album. The Reaping, a 2007 film starring Hilary Swank.