From their backs when he said to them, “Am I not your Lord?” Did any of them say, “Yes, no, by God.” Rather, they said, “Yes,” so they acknowledged his lordship because they were in the grip of the Taker. They were confined. If they had testified that their forelocks were in the hand of God, the testimony of an eye or faith, like the testimony of an eye, like the testimony of taking, they would not have disobeyed God for the blink of an eye. Like all creatures, they glorify God day and night without faltering. When they revealed these merciful names, they said, “O our Lord, why did you create us?” He said, “To worship you,” that is, to be humiliated in My presence. They did not see the quality of oppression, nor the power of pride that would humiliate them, especially since He said to them, “Be humble before Me.” He added the act of humiliation to them, so they would have increased their arrogance in doing so. If he had said To them, I did not create you except to humiliate you. T