Angel

الملائكة

Angel (الملائكة) is a category in the ontology which refers to the creations of Allah mentioned in the Quran known as angels. According to Islamic belief, the angels were created from light in an analogous way to how the jinn were created from fire, and man from clay.

Definitions are in English, as published by the Quranic Arabic Corpus.

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is a kind ofLiving CreationSentient CreationChildren of Adamبنى آدمHumanAngelالملائكةJinnالجنBeast of the Earthدابة الارضAzraelعزرائيلHarutهاروتJibreelجبريلMalikمالكMarutماروتMikaeelميكائيلAngelsالملائكة
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Knowledge base

Sources: Tanzil (text, verbatim) · Quranic Arabic Corpus, © Kais Dukes, GNU GPL (morphology, syntax, word-by-word English, ontology) · Draft trees for 9:92 to 58: “Quranic” hybrid treebank, CC BY 4.0 · Translations: Pickthall (EN), Jalandhari (UR), via tanzil.net/trans · Themes: Quranpedia.net topics index (dump 2026-11-11) and classical tafsir citations · Indo-Pak text and font: DigitalKhatt (MIT, SIL OFL 1.1). Urdu word glosses are coming soon.