Sheikh Nasirdin, Melek Nasirdin or Naṣir ad-Dīn (
Kurdish: Şêx Nasirdîn, Melek Nasirdîn[1]) is a holy figure venerated in
Yezidism, he is considered one of the Seven Divine Beings, to all of whom God assigned the World's affairs, and his earthly incarnation is considered one of the four sons of Ezdina Mir along with
Sheikh Shems (Shems ad-Dīn),
Fakhraddin, and
Sejadin, who are the respective ancestors and patriarchs of the four
Şemsanî Sheikh lineages.[2]
Along with
Sejadin, he is also revered as one of the two
death angels who take Yazidi souls into the afterlife. 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.[3][4][5] He is also portrayed as holding knife and as an executioner.[6]
^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.
ISBN978-3-447-10856-0.
OCLC994778968.