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Azrael (angel of death)عزرائیل

The narrator wonders whether the cool hand on his burning forehead at dawn was Azrael's; the nurse says it was his wife's.

Azrael (angel of death), from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Person
Persian
عزرائیل
First appears
P121.L03
Lines
1
GNML id
ent_azrael

In the scenes

Where the text names them

P121.L03

به خودم لرزیدم؛ دو سه بار از خودم پرسیدم: آیا این دست عزرائیل نبوده است؟ و به خواب رفتم.

I shuddered; two or three times I asked myself: had this not been the hand of Azrael? And I fell asleep.

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