And when he informed them of that which shatters the stones if it were to be suspended for an hour, he informed that their returning from their harsh nature and their thick ignorance did not benefit them. He said, expressing his estimation: 'This testimony did not benefit them out of shame before Allah nor submission within themselves, nor did it lead them to cease from argument and stubbornness, just as mere knowledge of Allah did not benefit them concerning them: ﴿And they said to their skins﴾. And it included what he explicitly stated of its benefits due to the lack of what calls for detail. And when it acted like the rational ones, they addressed it as they would address each other, saying: ﴿Why did you testify against us?﴾

And when this was a matter of astonishment for them, and it contained their ignorance in their assumption that it had the ability to remain silent, and their question about the reason was not based on its reality but rather intended as blame, they were answered out of a longing for the response by saying, expressing its speech in a manner that it can comprehend: ﴿They said﴾ [excusing themselves]: ﴿Allah has caused us to speak﴾ by compulsion, ﴿Who has the keys of might﴾ in a way that we could not refrain from it. And when the state of the disbelievers was always revolving between ignorance and stubbornness, they established for them two witnessing proofs, saying: ﴿The One who has caused everything to speak﴾, meaning: by action or power or state and saying.

And when all things are equal in their ability to speak and be silent and other than that in all that can be in relation to His ability, glorified is He, they alerted them to that by saying: ﴿And He created you the first time﴾. And the certain knowledge is established with you that you were nothing, then a drop that does not accept speech in the natural course in any way, then your stages in the stages of development likewise until He brought you to the realm of perception, thus compelling you (p-171) to speak in such a way that if you wished to deny it from yourselves, you could not. And when creation is a single thing, he expressed it in the past tense, and the return is sometimes by sense and sometimes by meaning, and that which is by meaning is often multiple due to the abundance of renewal. He said: ﴿And to Him﴾ [meaning]: to others ﴿You will be returned﴾, meaning: at every moment, compelled by the easiest matter upon all that He wills from the first of what you were created to what has no end. So if you had a type of knowledge, that would suffice as a reminder in this world, knowing by it that you are in a state of utmost inability, and that He has greatness, pride, power, and might. Muslim narrated in his Sahih from Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: 'We were with the Messenger of Allah, blessings and peace be upon him, and he said: “Do you know what makes me laugh? We said: Allah and His Messenger know best. He said: From the addressing of the servant to his Lord, saying: O my Lord, did You not protect me from injustice? He said: He will say: Yes. He said: Then he will say: I do not accept except a witness from myself. He said: Then it will be said: Sufficient for you today as a witness is yourself and the noble recorders as witnesses. He said: Then it will be sealed upon his mouth, and it will be said to his limbs: Speak! And they will speak of his deeds. Then he will be allowed to speak, and he will say: Woe to you and destruction! From you I used to argue.'