Archangels in Islam

In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel ( ) or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the messenger of God. He is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran.

archangel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic teachings

archangel featuring in Book of Tobit

Azrael (; , 'God has helped'; ) is the canonical angel of death in Islam and appears centuries earlier in the apocryphal text Apocalypse of Peter.

thumb|Islamic portrayal of the angel Metatron () depicted in the ( 'Degrees of Truths') by Nasir ad-Din Rammal in the 14th century CE.

thumb|Israfel blows a nafir in [[Zakariya al-Qazwini's The Wonders of Creation (1570s).]]

thumb|Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-'i Nathani - A Soul Symbolized as an Angel Rūḥ or The Spirit (, al-rūḥ) is mentioned twenty one times in the Quran, where it is described as issuing from command of God. The spirit acts as an agent of divine action or communication.