Why was Angel Ezrael (Angel of Death) among the angels assigned to capture the soul?

Nabeel Ahsan
2 min readMar 24, 2021

When God Almighty intended to create Adam, He sent Angel Gabriel to take a handful of dust from different parts of the earth to create Adam. As soon as Angel Gabriel wanted to pick up dust from the earth, the earth asked him. What is God’s purpose in Adam’s creation? So Angel Jibreel said: The purpose is that they and their descendants should be entrusted with the obligation of worship and whoever of them obeys should be kept in Paradise forever and whoever disobeys them should be sent to Hell forever and should be punished in the prison made of fire.

When the earth heard these words from Angel Gabriel, he swore to him by the right of God and said, “Do not take dust from my being because I do not have the power to get punished by God.”.” So Angel Jibreel returned without taking anything from the earth and prayed to God that since the earth made me swear by your honor and greatness, I did not take anything from it. God also commissioned Angel Michael and Angel Israfel to bring dust, so the earth also swore to them not to carry anything and they also returned without carrying anything.

God commissioned Angel Ezrael to bring the dust. When Angel Ezrael began to pick up dust from the earth, the earth made Him swear by God not to lift anything from it, but He did not listen to Earth and said: I am afraid of disobeying the command of my God, I will not disobey God’s command. So he picked up dust from different places and presented it to God. God also encouraged him and said: Since you have obeyed my command to bring dust and have not shown mercy to the earth, I entrust you to seize the souls of the children of Adam so that someone He could not have mercy on him and he could capture the soul of the infant in the mother’s lap and separate the mother and her child and separate the two brothers by death and the husband and wife who had been in love for years. He was able to separate them and thus Angel Ezrael was commissioned by God to capture the souls of his servants.

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