| Combat | ATK 8 DEF 9 SPR 10 SPD 10 INT 10 |
| Element | Light |
| Role | Sage |
| Rarity | Legendary |
| Threat | Medium |
| LCK | 10 |
| ARC | 10 |
| Epithets | "Jibrail" (Arabic); "Gabriel" (Hebrew: *Gavri-El* — God is my strength); "the Faithful Spirit" (*al-Ruh al-Amin*); "the First Intellect" (*Aql al-Awwal* — in Suhrawardi's system) |
| Sacred Animals | None — as an angel he is a being of pure light; his six hundred wings in the hadith of the Prophet's *mi'raj* are not physical |
| Sacred Objects | The divine words he carries — the Quran as dictated through him is his sacred object; his six hundred wings that fill the horizon when fully unfurled |
| Sacred Colors | White and green (the colors of light and divine revelation in Islamic tradition) |
| Sacred Number | 600 (the number of wings described in the Prophet's night journey vision); 23 (years he spent conveying the Quran to Muhammad) |
| Tariqa | No specific order — he is above all orders; but the Ishraqiyya (Illuminationist school of Suhrawardi) identifies him as the *Aql al-Awwal* (First Intellect) central to their philosophy |
| Key Teaching | All divine knowledge descends through Jibrail — he is the principle of *ta'lim* (divine instruction); Sufi *kashf* (spiritual unveiling) is Jibrail-function; the cosmic teacher who never stops teaching |
| Dargah / Sacred Sites | No personal shrine — he is an angel and has no burial place; associated with the Cave of Hira (Mecca) where he first appeared to Muhammad; the *mi'raj* sites in Jerusalem |
| Festivals | Laylat al-Qadr (the Night of Power — when Jibrail descended to Muhammad with the first Quranic revelation, Ramadan 27 in Islamic tradition) |
| Iconography | In Persian and Mughal manuscript art: a young man of surpassing beauty in white and green; sometimes depicted with six hundred wings spanning the horizon; shown in the Cave of Hira appearing to a terrified Muhammad |
| Period | Active from the creation of Adam through the final revelation to Muhammad (c. 610-632 CE); continues to teach saints in the Sufi imaginal realm |
| Region | Universal — the cosmic teacher of all prophets; associated with Mecca, Jerusalem, and all sites of prophetic revelation |
| Special | Six Hundred Wings — Jibrail unfurls the spectrum of his being and the seer is granted *ma'rifa* — direct knowledge that bypasses all reasoning and sets the heart on its true axis. |
| Passive | First Intellect — Jibrail is the angelic mind through which all teaching descends; every prophecy, every gnosis, every moment of *kashf* (unveiling) passes through his hand. |
Jibrail (Gabriel) in standard Islamic theology is the angel of revelation — the one who descended to Muhammad in the Cave of Hira and dictated the Quran over twenty-three years. But in Sufi cosmology Jibrail is more: he is the Aql al-Awwal (First Intellect), the cosmic teacher, the principle by which divine knowledge enters every level of the cosmos. He taught Adam the names. He taught the prophets the meanings. He continues to teach the saints in their deepest visions — appearing in the imaginal realm (Alam al-Mithal) under various forms: a beautiful youth in white, a man of light, a vast presence with six hundred wings.
In Suhrawardi’s Hikmat al-Ishraq (Philosophy of Illumination), Jibrail is the fundamental angelic intelligence — the Active Intellect — through whom the soul receives all ma’rifa (gnosis). Sufi initiations frequently report Jibrail’s presence at the threshold; some saints are uwaysi through him, instructed without intermediary. His name Jibrail (Hebrew Gavri-El) means “God is my strength,” and that is what he is: the strength of the divine reaching down into the structures of the soul to teach what cannot be taught.
Biblical Parallels: Jibrail is the same Gabriel who appears to Daniel (Daniel 8-9), to Zechariah (Luke 1:11-19), and to Mary (Luke 1:26-38) — the angel of annunciation in both traditions. The Sufi elevation of Gabriel to the rank of First Intellect parallels the Christian Logos theology (John 1, where the Word is the agent of creation and the principle of intelligibility), and the Jewish Metatron tradition — Enoch transformed into the great angel who dictates the heavenly tablets and serves as the divine scribe and teacher.
Cross-Tradition: Jibrail parallels the Vedic Hiranyagarbha (the golden womb, the cosmic mind) and the Hindu Brihaspati (priest of the gods, lord of speech). In Buddhism he resembles Manjushri — the bodhisattva of wisdom who carries the sword that cuts ignorance. In Greek philosophy he is the Nous of Plotinus, the second hypostasis after the One.
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