Azraël

Azrael (angel of death)

“1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland” — Kurds who had trespassed into the town ran great risk of being placed on the ground with their faces in the earth instead of being put upright in the grave with their faces towards Mecca, as custom required. Azriel, the Angel of Death, would take offence at their unseemly position and refuse them entrance to Paradise.

Borrowed from Arabic عِزْرَائِيل (ʕizrāʔīl).