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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks" style="border-collapse:collapse;"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background-color:#dcf5dc;">Part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background-color:#dcf5dc;"><a href="Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam"></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="padding-top:0;">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background-color:#dcf5dc;;background:#dcf5dc;padding:0.2em;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Iman_(Islam)" title="Iman (Islam)">Beliefs</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist" style="padding-left:0.2em; padding-right:0.2em;">
<ul><li><a href="Tawhid" title="Tawhid">Oneness</a> of <a href="God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">God</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Angels_in_Islam" title="Angels in Islam">Angels</a></li>
<li><a href="Islamic_holy_books" title="Islamic holy books">Holy books</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Prophets_and_messengers_in_Islam" title="Prophets and messengers in Islam">Prophets</a></li>
<li><a href="Judgement_Day_in_Islam" title="Judgement Day in Islam">Judgement Day</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Predestination_in_Islam" title="Predestination in Islam">Predestination</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Shahada" title="Shahada">Profession of faith</a></li>
<li><a href="Salah" title="Salah">Prayer</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Zakat" title="Zakat">Almsgiving</a></li>
<li><a href="Fasting_in_Islam" title="Fasting in Islam">Fasting</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a></li>
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<li><i><a href="Qisas_al-Anbiya" title="Qisas al-Anbiya">Qisas al-Anbiya</a></i> (<i>Stories of the Prophets</i>)</li>
<li><i><a href="Mathnawi" title="Mathnawi">Mathnawi</a></i> (poems)</li></ul>
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<li><a href="Jahiliyyah" title="Jahiliyyah">Jahiliyyah</a></li>
<li><a href="Muhammad_in_Islam" title="Muhammad in Islam">Muhammad</a></li>
<li><a href="Ahl_al-Bayt" title="Ahl al-Bayt">Ahl al-Bayt</a></li>
<li><a href="Companions_of_the_Prophet" title="Companions of the Prophet">Sahabah</a></li>
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<li><a href="Ilkhanate" title="Ilkhanate">Ilkhanate</a></li>
<li><a href="Timurid_Renaissance" title="Timurid Renaissance">Timurid Renaissance</a></li>
<li><a href="Gunpowder_empires" title="Gunpowder empires">Gunpowder empires</a></li>
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<p><b>Azazil</b> (<a href="Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: عزازيل <i>ʿAzāzīl</i>, <a href="Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>: <i lang="tr">Azâzîl</i>; also known in <a href="Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: حارث <i>Ḥārith</i>) is a figure in <a href="Islam" title="Islam">Islamic</a> tradition, and believed to be the original name of <a href="Iblis" title="Iblis">Satan</a> (<i>Iblīs</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to various Islamic beliefs, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> was the master of the <a href="Angels_in_Islam" title="Angels in Islam">angels</a> and the strongest and most knowledgeable of them, before his pride led to his downfall.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is mentioned in Islamic complementary narratives, such as <i><a href="Tafsir" title="Tafsir">tafsīr</a></i> (authorized exegesis of the Quran) and <a href="Qisas_al-Anbiya" title="Qisas al-Anbiya">Qisas al-Anbiya</a>. According to a <i><a href="Hadith" title="Hadith">ḥadīth</a></i> by <a href="Ibn_Abbas" title="Ibn Abbas">ibn Abbas</a>, Satan was once an angel called <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> or <i>al-Ḥārith</i>. He states that <a href="God_in_Islam" title="God in Islam">God</a> created most angels from "<a href="N%C5%ABr_(Islam)" title="Nūr (Islam)">light</a>" (<i>Nūr</i>), but <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> and the angels with him from "<a href="Nar_as-samum" title="Nar as-samum">poisonous fire</a>" (<i>nār as-samūm</i>). The <a href="Djinn" class="mw-redirect" title="Djinn">djinn</a> were created from "a mixture of fire" (<i>mārijin min nār</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The djinn were the first to inhabit the world and God entrusted them to govern the earth. When corruption increased among them, God sent an army of angels under the leadership of <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> to punish them. After driving the djinn away, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> grew arrogant. When God creates a successor to the djinn and commands the angels to prostrate themselves before the new creation, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> refuses, claiming that he is better. Thereupon, he is condemned to hell.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology_and_naming">Etymology and naming</h2></div>
<p>The name resembles <a href="Azazel" title="Azazel">Azazel</a>, a fallen angel in the <a href="Apocalypse_of_Abraham" title="Apocalypse of Abraham">Apocalypse of Abraham</a>, and might be its etymological origin.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name itself likely derives from Jewish sources, but Islamic sources appear to be the first to consider this to be the original name of Satan.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Some scholars suggested that Muslims constructed the name independently from Jewish sources. Feinberg argues that the name relates to Arabic <i>‘azala</i> (to remove) and is given to this angel because he "removes or separates" by Muslim authors.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Islamic philologists construct his name from the words <i>aziz</i> and <i>il</i> (<i>God's dear</i>), meaning that his name derived from the meaning that he was once God's favorite angel.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to many Arabic scholars, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> was the personal name of Satan (Iblis). <a href="Ibn_Manzur" title="Ibn Manzur">Ibn Manzur</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (June–July 1233 – December 1311/January 1312) writes in his <a href="Dictionary" title="Dictionary">dictionary</a> of the Arabic language:
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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"The word "إبليس" [(Iblis)] is from the root "بلس" [(<span class="smallcaps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">BLS</span></span>)]. The root may mean: to be silent. "أبلس من رحمة الله" means to be in despair of
Allah's mercy, hence, the name إبليس (Iblis). His original name was Azazil. Allah has said in Surah <a href="Ar-Rum" title="Ar-Rum">Al-Rum</a> "وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ ٱلسَّاعَةُ يُبْلِسُ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ" (On the Day that the Hour will be established, the guilty will be struck dumb with despair). The name "Iblis" is derived from the root, بلس , as he is in despair of Allah's mercy" -Ibn Mandhur, Lisan Al-Arab, Vol.6/29</p></blockquote>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sunni_interpretation">Sunni interpretation</h2></div>
<p><a href="Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam">Sunni exegetical tradition</a> can be divided into two camps in regards on the identity of Satan. This dispute roots back to the formative stage of Islam.<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Surah <a href="Al-Kahf" title="Al-Kahf">al-Kahf</a> states, in reference to Satan, "(...) he was one of the jinni (...)", the strand of <a href="Hasan_al-Basri" title="Hasan al-Basri">Hasan al-Basri</a> and <a href="Ibn_Abbas" title="Ibn Abbas">ibn Abbas</a> differ in meaning. According to al-Basri, angels are infallible.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, he argues, Satan could not have been an angel.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Instead, the verse is supposed to mean that Satan is one of the djinn, distinct from the angels.<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to ibn Abbas, the term is interpreted as <i>jinān</i>, meaning that Satan was "an inhabitant of paradise" (i.e. an angel).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time, he was appointed by God as the ruler of the lower heavens and sent to judge the djinn, until they became corrupt and was commanded to eliminate them.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ibn Abbas further explains that Satan's angelic name was <i>ʿAzāzīl</i>. However, after <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> was banished from heaven, his name is changed to <i>Iblīs</i> and is turned into a "cursed demon" (<i>shayṭān rajim</i>).
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He is further blamed to claim divine authority for himself by calling for obedience among God's creation. <a href="Al-Anbiya" title="Al-Anbiya">Surah al-’Anbiyā</a> (26-29) is understood as a reference to Satan:<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><blockquote><p> "And they say, "The Most Merciful has taken a son." Exalted is He! Rather, they are [but] honored servants. They cannot precede Him in word, and they act by His command. He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they cannot intercede except on behalf of one whom He approves. And they, from fear of Him, are apprehensive. And whoever of them should say, "Indeed, I am a god besides Him" - that one We would recompense with Hell. Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike the tradition of al-Basri, ibn Abbas' interpretation accepts that angels can sin and be expelled from heaven.<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This interpretation is favored in <a href="Sunnism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunnism">Sunni tradition</a> by scholars such as <a href="Tabari" class="mw-redirect" title="Tabari">Tabari</a>, <a href="Suyuti" class="mw-redirect" title="Suyuti">Suyuti</a>, and <a href="Abu_al-Barakat_al-Nasafi" title="Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi">Nasafi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Erdağı_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Erdağı-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sufism">Sufism</h3></div>
<p><a href="Mansur_Al-Hallaj" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansur Al-Hallaj">Al-Hallaj</a> (c. 858 – 922) mentions <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> in his <i>Kitāb al-Tawāsīn</i>. Here, <i>ʿAzāzīl's</i> disobedience to refuse God's command is described as way to hallow God's name. According to him, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> proved loyalty to God by declining to bow before Adam. Chapter Six is dedicated to the self-defence of <i>ʿAzāzīl</i>, and in one section Hallaj explains how each of the letters of <i>ʿAzāzīl's</i> name relate to his personality. Unlike many other Sufi writers, Hallaj rejected that <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> could be restored to God's grace, insisting on Satan's damnation.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He argues that, since <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> originated from fire, fire must be his final destiny.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is also mentioned three times in <a href="Jal%C4%81l_ad-D%C4%ABn_Muhammad_R%C5%ABm%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī">Rumi</a>'s Masnavi, as a reminder for the Muslim to exercise discipline and humility, since when <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> acted arrogantly, he was abandoned to hell in spite of his former high position:
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<blockquote><p> Through discipline and humility this heaven has been filled with light, and through discipline the angel became immaculate and holy. By reason of irreverence, the sun was eclipsed, and insolence caused Azazil to be turned back from the door.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="Abd_al-Kar%C4%ABm_al-J%C4%ABl%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Karīm al-Jīlī">Al-Jili</a> describes angels (<i>malāʾikah</i>) and devils (<i>shayāṭīn</i>) as manifestations of <a href="Names_of_God_in_Islam" title="Names of God in Islam">God's attributes</a>. While the good angels are made from <a href="Nur_(Islam)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nur (Islam)">light</a> in order to guide humanity, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> and his angels are created as reflecting God's names of majesty, darkness and misleading.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As an angel of single-minded devotion, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> fails to realize that bowing before Adam in accordance with God's command is equal as bowing to God himself.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> and his angels were reduced to the principle of evil, when they rejected repentance and justified their persistence by their creation from fire.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Inayat_Khan" title="Inayat Khan">Inayat Khan</a> (1882 – 1927), a pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West, similarly teaches that <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is a devil leading astray from the way of God. He states that evil actions performed by people attract the spirit of <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> (or his minions) who in turn leads them further astray into darkness and wrong actions.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is the worst tempters, since the fallen angel has the power to lead even saints astray, however, still fails against the prophets.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Shia_interpretations">Shia interpretations</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Twelver_Shia">Twelver Shia</h3></div>
<p>Similar to the Sunni tradition, <a href="Shia" class="mw-redirect" title="Shia">Shia exegesis</a> on the events mentioned in Surah 2:30-34 revolves around <a href="Adam_in_Islam" title="Adam in Islam">Adam's role</a> as a "successor" (<i>ḫalīfa</i>). Both conjecture that Adam is a successor to the <a href="Djinn" class="mw-redirect" title="Djinn">djinn</a>, whose rulings over the earth was put to an end by the angels on God's behalf. The angels drew a parallel between Adam and the impious djinn when questioning God's decision to create humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Ali_ibn_Ibrahim_al-Qummi" title="Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi">Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi</a> attributes this account through a lineage of <a href="Twelve_Imams" title="Twelve Imams">previous Imams</a> until it reaches <a href="Ali" title="Ali">Ali</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In the treatise <i>Itbad al wasiyya</i>, not an exegetical work but legitimation of the Twelve Imams,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> God created the djinn and <a href="Nasnas" title="Nasnas">nasnas</a> on earth. When the djinn and nasnas caused corruption and bloodshed, God sends down an army of angels. The leader of the angels was <i>ʿAzāzīl</i>. <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> and his angels deported the djinn and nasnas to the edge of the world. whereas <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> and his companions settled on the central part of the earth. <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> became the ruler of the earth and pretended to be of angelic quality outwardly but disobeyed God inwardly. <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> ruled for 7000 years until God ordered the angels of heaven to look at earth again. The angels were appalled by the destruction occurring on earth. After that, God announces to create a successor to the angels.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ismailism">Ismailism</h3></div>
<p>In <a href="Umm_al-Kitab_(Ismaili_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Umm al-Kitab (Ismaili book)">Umm al-Kitab</a>, an 8th-century <a href="Ismailism" title="Ismailism">Ismaili</a> work, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is the first creation of God, the <i>High King</i>. God gave him the power of creation, but <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> boasted with his loaned power, claiming divinity for himself, describing himself as another God beside the High King. To prove that <i>ʿAzāzīl's</i> creation only depends on the power of his own creator, God makes a new creation, opposed by <i>ʿAzāzīl</i>. Every time, <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> again claims to be like God, he and his fellow angels lose colour, becoming darker and inferior and are thrown into lower celestial spheres until they end up on earth, which is made out of the essence of <i>ʿAzāzīl's</i> creations.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i><a href="Iblis" title="Iblis">Iblīs</a></i> enters the scene only later, as a result of the sins of the former heavenly creatures. For that reason, <i>Iblīs</i> does not know the world of light and is utterly evil. For this reason, evil is always associated with ignorance.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In the tenth-century work <i>Kitāb al-Šaǧara</i> satans (<i>abālisa</i>) and devils (<i>shayāṭīn</i>) are described as forces who obstruct people from learning <a href="Batiniyya" title="Batiniyya">esoteric knowledge</a> (<i>ʿilm al-bāṭin</i>) of the Quran.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each prophet has to face a unique incarnation of the devilish principle.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>ʿAzāzīl</i> is the first satan (<i>iblīs</i>) and his disciple (<i>šayṭān</i>) is the <a href="Cain_and_Abel_in_Islam" title="Cain and Abel in Islam">Quranic Cain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bektashi_Alevism">Bektashi Alevism</h2></div>
<p><a href="Alevism" title="Alevism">Bektashi Alevism</a>, despite its <a href="Heterodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Heterodox">heterodox</a>, believes in angels similar to Sunnis.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As in the Quranic tradition, angels are ordered to prostrate themselves, but Azazil refuses.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Alevi interpretation, however, the prostration was to <a href="Ali" title="Ali">Ali</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In a creation story, the archangels are ordered to bow before a mystical light. After Azazil served God for 1001 days, he refused to bow down, claiming independency of his creator out of pride.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whereupon, he is, unlike the other archangels, not allowed to enter the light and remains in the world of the "<a href="Nafs" title="Nafs">Evil Self</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This event later manifests in the enmity between the Devil and humanity.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Angels_in_Islam" title="Angels in Islam">Angels in Islam</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_angels_in_theology" title="List of angels in theology">List of angels in theology</a></li>
<li><a href="Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="Mastema" title="Mastema">Mastema</a></li>
<li><a href="Metatron" title="Metatron">Metatron</a></li>
<li><a href="Nuriel" title="Nuriel">Nuriel</a></li>
<li><a href="Pravuil" title="Pravuil">Pravuil</a></li>
<li><a href="Raziel" title="Raziel">Raziel</a></li>
<li><a href="Sachiel" title="Sachiel">Sachiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Samael" title="Samael">Samael</a></li>
<li><a href="Samyaza" title="Samyaza">Samyaza</a></li>
<li><a href="Sandalphon" title="Sandalphon">Sandalphon</a></li>
<li><a href="Senoy%2C_Sansenoy_and_Semangelof" title="Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof">Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof</a></li>
<li><a href="Zaphkiel" title="Zaphkiel">Tzaphqiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Yahoel" title="Yahoel">Yahoel</a></li>
<li><a href="Zadkiel" title="Zadkiel">Zadkiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Zerachiel" title="Zerachiel">Zerachiel</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Seraph" title="Seraph">Seraphim</a></li>
<li><a href="Living_creatures_(Bible)" title="Living creatures (Bible)">Chayot</a></li>
<li><a href="Ophanim" title="Ophanim">Ophanim</a></li>
<li><a href="Cherub" title="Cherub">Cherubim</a></li>
<li><a href="Hashmal" title="Hashmal">Hashmallim</a></li>
<li><a href="Ishim_(angel)" title="Ishim (angel)">Ishim</a></li>
<li><a href="Sons_of_God" title="Sons of God">Sons of God</a></li>
<li><a href="Recording_angel" title="Recording angel">Recording angels</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Angels_in_Christianity" title="Angels in Christianity">Angels in<br>Christianity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Individuals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Michael</a></li>
<li><a href="Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Gabriel</a></li>
<li><a href="Abaddon" title="Abaddon">Abaddon</a></li>
<li><a href="Raphael_(archangel)" title="Raphael (archangel)">Raphael</a></li>
<li><a href="Uriel" title="Uriel">Uriel</a></li>
<li><a href="Ariel_(angel)" title="Ariel (angel)">Ariel</a></li>
<li><a href="Azazel" title="Azazel">Azazel</a></li>
<li><a href="Sariel" title="Sariel">Sariel</a></li>
<li><a href="Sandalphon" title="Sandalphon">Sandalphon</a></li>
<li><a href="Raguel_(angel)" title="Raguel (angel)">Raguel</a></li>
<li><a href="Ramiel" title="Ramiel">Ramiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Selaphiel" title="Selaphiel">Selaphiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Barachiel" title="Barachiel">Barachiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Jegudiel" title="Jegudiel">Jegudiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Camael" title="Camael">Camael</a></li>
<li><a href="Angel_of_Portugal" title="Angel of Portugal">Guardian Angel of Portugal</a></li>
<li><a href="Jerahmeel_(archangel)" title="Jerahmeel (archangel)">Jerahmeel</a></li>
<li><a href="Jophiel" title="Jophiel">Jophiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Metatron" title="Metatron">Metatron</a></li>
<li><a href="Samyaza" title="Samyaza">Samyaza</a></li>
<li><a href="Pravuil" title="Pravuil">Pravuil</a></li>
<li><a href="Sachiel" title="Sachiel">Sachiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Zadkiel" title="Zadkiel">Zadkiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Sarathiel" title="Sarathiel">Sarathiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Zerachiel" title="Zerachiel">Zerachiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Phanuel_(angel)" title="Phanuel (angel)">Phanuel</a></li>
<li><a href="Aker_(angel)" title="Aker (angel)">Aker</a></li>
<li><a href="Gabuthelon" title="Gabuthelon">Gabuthelon</a></li>
<li><a href="Arphugitonos" title="Arphugitonos">Arphugitonos</a></li>
<li><a href="Beburos" title="Beburos">Beburos</a></li>
<li><a href="Zebuleon" title="Zebuleon">Zebuleon</a></li>
<li><a href="Daniel_(angel)" title="Daniel (angel)">Daniel</a></li>
<li><a href="Kerubiel" title="Kerubiel">Kerubiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Kokabiel" title="Kokabiel">Kokabiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Kushiel" title="Kushiel">Kushiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Lailah_(angel)" title="Lailah (angel)">Leliel</a></li>
<li><a href="Muriel_(angel)" title="Muriel (angel)">Muriel</a></li>
<li><a href="Pahaliah" title="Pahaliah">Pahaliah</a></li>
<li><a href="Seraphiel" title="Seraphiel">Seraphiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Shamsiel" title="Shamsiel">Shamsiel</a></li>
<li><a href="Chazaqiel" title="Chazaqiel">Chazaqiel</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Seraph" title="Seraph">Seraphim</a></li>
<li><a href="Cherub" title="Cherub">Cherubim</a></li>
<li><a href="Ophanim" title="Ophanim">Ophanim</a>/<a href="Throne_(angel)" title="Throne (angel)">Thrones</a></li>
<li><a href="Dominion_(angel)" title="Dominion (angel)">Dominions</a>/<a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Lordships</a></li>
<li><a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Virtues</a></li>
<li><a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Powers</a>/<a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Authorities</a></li>
<li><a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Principalities</a>/<a href="Christian_angelology" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian angelology">Rulers</a></li>
<li><a href="Archangel" title="Archangel">Archangels</a></li>
<li><a href="Watcher_(angel)" title="Watcher (angel)">Watchers</a>/<a href="Guardian_angel" title="Guardian angel">Guardian angels</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Angels_in_Islam" title="Angels in Islam">Angels in <br>Islam</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Individuals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Michael_(archangel)" title="Michael (archangel)">Mikha'il</a></li>
<li><a href="Gabriel" title="Gabriel">Jibra'il</a></li>
<li><a href="Israfil" title="Israfil">Israfil</a></li>
<li><a href="Azrael" title="Azrael">Azra'il</a></li>
<li><i><a href="R%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5" title="Rūḥ">ar-Rūḥ</a></i></li>
<li>
<ul><li><a href="Iblis" title="Iblis">Iblis</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Artiya'il" title="Artiya'il">Artiya'il</a></li>
<li><a href="Darda'il" title="Darda'il">Darda'il</a></li>
<li><a href="Dumah_(angel)" title="Dumah (angel)">Dumah</a></li>
<li><a href="Kalqa'il" title="Kalqa'il">Kalqa'il</a></li>
<li><a href="Futrus" title="Futrus">Futrus</a></li>
<li><a href="Habib_(angel)" title="Habib (angel)">Ḥabīb</a></li>
<li><a href="Harut_and_Marut" title="Harut and Marut">Harut and Marut</a></li>
<li><a href="Maalik" title="Maalik">Mālik</a></li>
<li><a href="Munkar_and_Nakir" title="Munkar and Nakir">Munkar and Nakir</a></li>
<li><a href="Ri%E1%B8%8Dwan" title="Riḍwan">Riḍwan</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><i><a href="Bearers_of_the_Throne" title="Bearers of the Throne">Mu'qarrabun</a></i> (<a href="Cherub" title="Cherub">Cherubim</a> and <a href="Seraph" title="Seraph">Seraphim</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Archangel" title="Archangel">Archangels</a></li>
<li><a href="Zabaniyah" title="Zabaniyah">Angels of Hell</a></li>
<li><i><a href="Mu'aqqibat" title="Mu'aqqibat">Hafaza</a></i> (<a href="Guardian_angel" title="Guardian angel">Guardian angel</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Kiraman_Katibin" title="Kiraman Katibin">Recording angels</a></li>
<li><a href="N%C4%81zi'%C4%81t_and_N%C4%81shi%E1%B9%AD%C4%81t" title="Nāzi'āt and Nāshiṭāt">Nāzi'āt and Nāshiṭāt</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Uthra" title="Uthra">Uthras (angels) in <br>Mandaeism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Individuals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Yushamin" title="Yushamin">Yushamin</a></li>
<li><a href="Abatur" title="Abatur">Abatur</a></li>
<li><a href="Ptahil" title="Ptahil">Ptahil</a></li>
<li><a href="Hibil" title="Hibil">Hibil</a></li>
<li><a href="Shitil" title="Shitil">Shitil</a></li>
<li><a href="Anush_(Mandaeism)" title="Anush (Mandaeism)">Anush</a></li>
<li><a href="Sam_Ziwa" title="Sam Ziwa">Sam Ziwa</a></li>
<li><a href="Manda_d-Hayyi" title="Manda d-Hayyi">Manda d-Hayyi</a></li>
<li><a href="Shilmai" title="Shilmai">Shilmai</a></li>
<li><a href="Nidbai" title="Nidbai">Nidbai</a></li>
<li><a href="Adathan_and_Yadathan" title="Adathan and Yadathan">Adathan and Yadathan</a></li>
<li><a href="Yufin-Yufafin" title="Yufin-Yufafin">Yufin-Yufafin</a></li>
<li><a href="Urfeil_and_Marfeil" title="Urfeil and Marfeil">Urfeil and Marfeil</a></li>
<li><a href="Tarwan" title="Tarwan">Tar and Tarwan</a></li>
<li><a href="Bihram" title="Bihram">Bihram</a></li>
<li><a href="Zihrun" title="Zihrun">Zihrun</a></li>
<li><a href="Etinsib_Ziwa" title="Etinsib Ziwa">Etinsib Ziwa</a></li>
<li><a href="Nbat" title="Nbat">Nbat</a></li>
<li><a href="Nsab" title="Nsab">Nsab</a></li>
<li><a href="Gubran" title="Gubran">Gubran</a></li>
<li><a href="Shihlun" title="Shihlun">Shihlun</a></li>
<li><a href="Yurba" title="Yurba">Yurba</a></li>
<li><a href="Yukabar" title="Yukabar">Yukabar</a></li>
<li><a href="Yukashar" title="Yukashar">Yukashar</a></li>
<li><a href="Yawar_Ziwa" title="Yawar Ziwa">Yawar Ziwa</a></li>
<li><a href="Simat_Hayyi" title="Simat Hayyi">Simat Hayyi</a></li>
<li><a href="Saureil" title="Saureil">Saureil</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Uthra" title="Uthra">Niṭufta</a></li>
<li><a href="Gupna" class="mw-redirect" title="Gupna">Gupna</a>
<ul><li><a href="Ziwa_(Aramaic)" title="Ziwa (Aramaic)">Ziwa</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Angel_Moroni" title="Angel Moroni">Angel Moroni</a>
<ul><li><a href="Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormonism</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Hierarchy_of_angels" title="Hierarchy of angels">Hierarchy of angels</a></li>
<li><a href="Heavenly_host" title="Heavenly host">Heavenly host</a></li>
<li><a href="Seven_Archangels" title="Seven Archangels">Seven Archangels</a></li>
<li><a href="Three_Angels'_Messages" title="Three Angels' Messages">Three Angels' Messages</a></li>
<li><a href="Watcher_(angel)" title="Watcher (angel)">Watcher</a></li>
<li><a href="Fallen_angel" title="Fallen angel">Fallen angels</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_angels_in_theology" title="List of angels in theology">List of angels in theology</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_angels_in_Ars_Paulina" title="List of angels in Ars Paulina">List of angels in Ars Paulina</a></li>
<li>Ambiguous
<ul><li><a href="Chalkydri" title="Chalkydri">Chalkydri</a></li>
<li><a href="Elioud" title="Elioud">Elioud</a></li>
<li><a href="Nephilim" title="Nephilim">Nephilim</a></li>
<li><a href="Teraphim" title="Teraphim">Teraphim</a></li></ul></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Angels_in_art" title="Angels in art">Art</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_angels_in_fiction" title="List of angels in fiction">List of angels in fiction</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_films_about_angels" title="List of films about angels">List of films about angels</a></li></ul>
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