But when he reached it he was called with the following words ‘Blessed is he that is to say God bless him who is in the fire namely Moses and who is around it namely the angels — or vice-versa the verb bāraka may be followed immediately by the direct object or by a preposition and then the direct object; a noun such as makān ‘location’ is implied after fī ‘in’ sc. man fī makāni’l-nār ‘who is in the area of the fire’; and Glory be to God the Lord of the Worlds — this is included in the call and is meant to declare that God is above all evil associations.
