A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam by Gordon Newby

Author:Gordon Newby
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Jews

See AL-YAHÛD.

Jibrîl, also Jibrâîl

The archangel Gabriel. He is the greatest of all the angels in Islamic cosmology. He brought the QURN to Muḥammad, showed IBRHÎM and ISMÎL how to build the KABAH and NUḤ how to build the ark. He protected Ibrâhîm from the fire of Namr×d and the Children of Israel from the armies of FIRAWN. Throughout Muḥammad’s prophetic career, Jibrîl was at his side, bringing him revelations from ALLH, warning him of plots against him, and heading a band of thousands of angels at the battle of BADR. According to tradition, he appeared only twice to Muḥammad in the form in which he was created rather than as a more ordinary person. Jewish and Christian tales about Jibrîl found their way into the ISRÎLIYYT literature, adding details to the Qurânic accounts. He is depicted as huge, with his feet astride the horizon, covered with six hundred pairs of wings. He appeared on horseback at the time that MÛS split the Red Sea, and it was his footprints that AS-SMIRÎ picked up and threw into the gold that helped create the Calf of Gold that the Children of Israel worshiped. He and MÎKÎL are the two angels that opened the young Muḥammad’s breast and washed his heart, and he was the one who escorted Muḥammad to heaven. All believers will encounter him on the YAWM AD-DÎN, as part of Allâhs judging entourage.

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