Sejadin

Sheikh Sejadin or Sejad ad-Dīn (Kurdish: Şêx Sicadîn[1]) is one of the Shemsani Sheikhs (four major saints who are the sons of the mythological Ezdina Mir) in Yezidism, along with Sheikh Shems (Shems ad-Dīn), Fakhraddin, and Nasirdin.[2][3]

Sheikh

Sejadin
Şêx Sicadîn
Other namesSejad ad-Dīn
Known forMessenger of Death
Parent(s)
FamilyShemsani lineage
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Along with Nasirdin, he is also revered as one of the two death angels who take Yazidi souls into the afterlife.[3] Nasirdin is identified as the Angel of Death and Renewal while Sejadin plays the role of a psychopomp and Messenger of Death. They come to a person during his/her death whereupon Sejadin serves as a messenger of death, whereas Nasirdin is the hangman who separates the soul from the body.[4][5][6]

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References
  1. Omarkhali, Khanna (2017). The Yezidi religious textual tradition, from oral to written: categories, transmission, scripturalisation, and canonisation of the Yezidi oral religious texts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10856-0. OCLC 994778968.
  2. Kreyenbroek, Philip (1995). Yezidism: its background, observances, and textual tradition. Lewiston NY: E. Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-9004-3. OCLC 31377794.
  3. Kreyenbroek, Philip (2005). God and Sheikh Adi are perfect: sacred poems and religious narratives from the Yezidi tradition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-05300-6. OCLC 63127403.
  4. Fobbe, Sean; Navrouzov, Natia; Hopper, Kristen; Khudida Burjus, Ahmed; Philip, Graham; Nawaf, Maher G; Lawrence, Daniel; Walasek, Helen; Birjandian, Sara; Ali, Majid Hassan; Rashidani, Salim (2019-08-02). "Destroying the Soul of the Yazidis: Cultural Heritage Destruction during the Islamic State's Genocide against the Yazidis": 55–109. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3826126. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. Kreyenbroek, Philip G. (1995). Yezidism--its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition. E. Mellen Press. pp. 92–124, 127. ISBN 978-0-7734-9004-8.
  6. Omarkhali, Khanna (2011-03-20). "YEZIDI RELIGIOUS ORAL POETIC LITERATURE: STATUS, FORMAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND GENRE ANALYSIS: With some examples of Yezidi religious texts". Scrinium. 7–8 (2): 144–195. doi:10.1163/18177565-90000247. ISSN 1817-7530.


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