Note [original edition] : Except those whom God shall please to exempt;]
These, some say, will be the angels
Gabriel, Michael, and
Israfil,
and the angel of death, who yet will afterwards all die, at the command of
God
2; it being the constant opinion of the
Mohammedan doctors, that every
soul, both of men and of animals, which live either on land or in the sea, and
of the angels also, must necessarily taste of death
3:
others suppose those who
will be exempted are the angels who bear the throne of
God
4, or the black-eyed
damsels, and other inhabitants of paradise
5.
The space between these two blasts of the trumpet will be forty days,
according to
Yahya and others; there are some, however, who suppose it will be
as many years
6.
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2
Al Beidawi, Yahya.
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3
V. Pocock. not. in Port. Mosis. p. 266.
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4
Al Beidawi.
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5
Jallalo’ddin.
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6
See the Prel. Disc. ubi sup.