Israfel
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Israfel - the angel of the trumpet in Islamic eschatology, though such a name does not appear in the Qu'ran.
- Israfel appears in cabbalistic lore and increasingly in 19th-century Occultism. Israfel is the subject and title of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
- Similarly, Israfel holds his holy trumpet to his lips century after century, awaiting the signal from God to sound it at the Last Judgement. At this time he will descend to Earth and stand upon the holy rock in Jerusalem. The first blow of his trumpet will shatter the world, and the second blow will awaken the dead and summon them to judgement.
