Saladin’s feeling of triumph reveals the dark side of his character, showing that his obsession with revenge has completely consumed him. Meanwhile, Gibreel now seems to have fully accepted that he is a divine agent. The vision of a halo reinforces the ambiguity of his condition—is it a genuine miracle, or just another hallucination? Naming the trumpet “Azraeel,” after the angel of death, suggests that Gibreel sees himself as an instrument of divine judgment.