Jibrīl

Jibrīl
or Jabrail

In Islam, the archangel who acts as intermediary between God and humankind and who bore divine revelations to Muhammad and previous prophets.

His biblical counterpart is Gabriel. Jibrīl aided Muhammad in times of crisis and guided him during his ascent into heaven. Muslim belief holds that Jibrīl appeared to Adam after his expulsion from Paradise to show him how to write, raise wheat, and work iron and also that Jibrīl aided Moses in delivering the Israelites from Egypt.

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also spelled  Jabrāʾīl 

      in Islām, the archangel who acts as intermediary between God and man and as bearer of revelation to the prophets, most notably, to Muḥammad (Muhammad). In biblical literature Gabriel is the counterpart to Jibrīl.

      Muḥammad himself could not at first identify the spirit that possessed him, and the Qurʾān mentions him by name only three times. Jibrīl, however, became Muḥammad's constant helper. He and the archangel Mīkāl purified Muḥammad's heart in preparation for the Prophet's ascension to heaven (miʿrāj), and then Jibrīl guided him through the various levels until they reached the throne of God. When Muḥammad recited a supposed revelation acknowledging the pagan goddesses al-Lāt, al-ʿUzzā, and Manāt, Jibrīl chastised him for presenting as divine a message inspired by the devil. Jibrīl also helped Muḥammad in times of political crises, coming to his aid at the Battle of Badr (Badr, Battle of) (624) with thousands of angels, then telling him to attack the Jewish tribes of Banū Qaynuqāʿ and Banū Qurayẓah.

      Muḥammad generally only heard the voice of his inspiration, but, according to ʿĀʾishah, his wife, he saw Jibrīl twice “in the shape that he was created” and on other occasions as a man resembling Diḥyah ibn Khalīfah al-Kalbī, an extraordinarily handsome disciple of Muḥammad. Others have described the archangel as having 600 wings, each pair so enormous that they crowd the space between East and West. Jibrīl has also been depicted as sitting on a chair suspended between heaven and earth. The popular image of Jibrīl is of an ordinary, turbaned man, dressed in two green garments, astride a horse or a mule.

      Muslim traditions concerning Jibrīl largely concur with biblical accounts of Gabriel, but his special relationship with Muḥammad has inspired a mass of mythical detail. Jibrīl is said to have appeared at Adam's side after his expulsion from paradise and shown him how to write and work iron and raise wheat. Jibrīl later appeared in Egypt to help Moses and to deceive the Egyptians into entering the Red Sea in pursuit of the Jews. The name of Jibrīl figures in the preparations of charms and appears with the names of the other archangels on the sides of magic squares.

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