Translations:Otuzuncu Lem'a/182/en

As is explained in the Introduction to the Second Station of the Twenty-Second Word, Azra’il (Upon whom be peace) supplicated Almighty God concerning his duty of seizing the spirits of the dying, saying: “Your servants will be angry with me.” He was told in reply: “I shall place the veil of illness and calamity between your duty and the dying, then they shall fling their arrows of complaint and objection, not at you, but at those veils.” According to this supplication, Azra’il’s (Upon whom be peace) duty is a veil as other causes are apparent veils, so that the anger and complaints of those who do not see the true, beautiful face of death – beautiful for the people of belief – and do not know the manifestation of mercy on it, are not directed to the Ever-Living and Self- Subsistent One.