The Raven darkness. The use of the raven—the "devil bird"—also suggests this. This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is "from the Night's Plutonian shore", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld (also known as Dis Pater in Roman mythology). A direct allusion to Satan also appears: "Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore..." Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the story because he wanted a "non-reasoning" creature capable of speech. He decided on a raven, which he considered "equally capable of speech"
Names of God in Islam While the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religiously inappropriate, theophoric names can however be formed by either removing the definite article "al" (ال), or prefixing the term "ˁabdu" (عَبْدُ - "servant of") to the name. For example, a person may not be named "Al-Karīm" (ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "the Generous") or "Al-Mālik" (ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "the King"), but may be named simply "Karīm" (كَرِيمُ - "Generous") or "Mālik" (مَـٰلِك - "King"), as well as "ˤAbd ul-Karīm" (عَبْدُ ٱلْكَرِيمُ - "servant of the Generous") or "ˤAbd ul-Mālik" (عَبْدُ ٱلْمَـٰلِك - "servant