Maalik

In Islamic belief, Maalik () denotes an angel in Hell/Purgatory () who guarded the Hellfire and assisted by other angel guards (Q) known as Zabaniyah (). In the Qur'an, Maalik is mentioned in as the chief of angels of hell. The earliest codices offer various alternative spellings of this word including , meaning "angel", instead of a proper name.

==Etymology== The native authorities derived the name from mlk, meaning to possess, rule over. This root may have influenced the form, but the source is likely the Biblical Moloch located in Gehenna.