Difference between revisions of "Archangel Michael"

Michael is called Mika'il in Muslim works generally, but in the one instance in which he is mentioned in the Quran he is called ''Mikal''. The single Quranic mention comes in the QS 2:98, when the Jews of Medina challenged Muhammed to tell them the name of the angel from whom he received his revelations; when he told them it was Gabriel, the Jews said that Gabriel was their enemy, and that revelations came from Michael. The ''hadith'' (sayings of and about the Prophet collected by his followers) quote Muhammed mentioning both Gabriel and Michael as two angels who showed him Paradise and [[Hell]], and in the early years of Islam the Muslims recited the names of both in the obligatory daily prayers (the ''salat''). The place of Michael, and some of the other [[archangels]], is not clearly identified in the major sources, and among ordinary Muslims knowledge of them is drawn from non-Islamic sources, notably Jewish.