Later, Israfil will blow the trumpet for the second time, then all creatures will be revived and wait for judgment. The first blow will kill all creatures and creations except Israfil himself. Mission Īccording Saudi scholar Salih bin Abdullah al Humaid, Quranic exegesis (tafsir) states that Israfil will blow the trumpet two times. Ī few reports assume that Israfil had visited Muhammad before Gabriel did. Kitab aḥwāl al-qiyāma states he has four wings, however, another tradition mention that he has twelve.
Due to his beautiful voice, he is also the Muezzin of those in Heaven. Ī beautiful angel who is a master of music, Israfil sings praises to God in a thousand different languages, the breath of which is used to inject life into hosts of angels who add to the songs themselves. And when the period of the world is completed, the trumpet will be brought near the face of Israfil and he will fold his four wings and blow the trumpet. He awaits the command of God, and when He commands he will blow.
Although the name Israfil does not appear in the Quran, a figure blowing a trumpet is repeatedly alluded to, and is assumed to be this figure:Īnd the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except him whom Allah will then it shall be blown again, then they shall stand up awaiting. Israfil is mentioned in a hadith as the angel nearest to God, mediating the commands of God to the other archangels. George Sale (1697–1736) classifies Israfil, in his translation of the Quran, as the archangel of music in Islamic tradition. He is commonly thought of as the counterpart of the Judeo-Christian archangel Raphael. It is believed that Israfil will blow the trumpet from a holy rock in Jerusalem to announce the Day of Resurrection. The "Book of Dead" described Israfil as the oldest of all archangels. Though unnamed in the Quran, he is one of the four archangels in Islamic tradition, along with Mīkāʾīl, Jibrāʾīl, and ʿAzrāʾīl.
Israfil ( Arabic: إِسْـرَافِـيْـل, ʾIsrāfīl or Israfel) is the angel who blows the trumpet to signal Qiyamah (the Day of Judgment) in Islam.