Shaitan
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A shaitan or shaytan is an evil spirit in Islam, inciting humans and jinn to sin by whispering in their hearts. Although invisible to humans, shayatin are imagined to be ugly and grotesque creatures created from Hellfire.
Depiction of a shaitan by Siyah Qalam, c. 14th/15th century. The art-style of Uighur or Central Asia origin was used by Muslim Turks to depict various legendary beings.
Depiction of shayāṭīn in the Turco-Islamic horror film "Semum" (2008).
A visual rendition of the Islamic model of the soul showing the position of "nafs" relative to other concepts, based on a consensus of 18 surveyed academic and religious experts
Devil
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A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God, 2) an aspect of God, 3) a created being turning evil, and 4) a symbol of human evil.
Statue of the devil in the Žmuidzinavičius Museum or Devil's Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania
Satan (the dragon; on the left) gives to the beast of the sea (on the right) power represented by a sceptre in a detail of panel III.40 of the medieval French Apocalypse Tapestry, produced between 1377 and 1382.
A fresco detail from the Rila Monastery, in which demons are depicted as having grotesque faces and bodies
The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel (Musée Fabre, Montpellier)