Guardianship from God is general in His creatures insofar as they are His servants, and with this guardianship He took over their creation, and since guardianship was related to the believers, therefore He made them bear witness against themselves, “Am I not your Lord?” They said, “Yes,” and He did not say to them, “Am I not one,” because He knew that if He created them, He would associate some of them, unite some of them, and bring them together. In acknowledging his lordship, the polytheist added, then He, Glory be to Him, is part of the generality of His guardianship that He takes care of them by being present in their own eyes, and preserves existence over them and in keeping with their purposes, and takes care of them with what He has provided for them, which is the sustenance of their livelihood and their interests in general. And He approved those among them who were approved by His guardianship to establish laws that He placed in their souls without the revelation of what