Musa said to him immediately: 'Our Lord,' meaning our Creator, our Sustainer, and our Master, 'who has given everything' of what you see in existence 'its creation,' meaning what it is in terms of what is most suitable for the benefits associated with it, and the effects that arise from it in terms of form, shape, quantity, color, nature, and other things that are beyond enumeration and are too great to be described.

And when there is in the bestowal of the spirit from majesty and greatness something that diminishes in comparison to it, he indicated this with the word of delay, saying: 'Then He guided,' meaning every living being from it, although it includes the rational and the non-rational, to all its benefits, so it strives for them, and its harms, so it avoids them. Thus, with this distinction and separation, along with the unity of the relation of the whole to the doer, it is established that He is one and chosen. And if this were by nature dependent on the stars or others, as Pharaoh and others believed, this distinction would not exist.