And when the decree was: No one is able to reject it after it has reached that place, because we intend to gather the creatures for judgment based on what they did in what We established them in and commanded them with, and it will only be what We want. Just as you acknowledge that He created you from dust and that He will bring you back forcefully to dust, it is necessary for you to acknowledge that He is capable of bringing you back from the dust. If you deny this necessary conclusion, it will necessitate your denial of its implication, and that is a contradiction in the senses. Let the other be like it. Thus, it is established that we only bring the creatures back to dust to gather them in it, then we resurrect them from it to reward each one according to what they deserve, and we divide them into three groups. As for if the dead among them is from the close ones, meaning: the predecessors whom the truth attracted from themselves, so He brought them close to Him, and they were desired before they were willing. The closeness is not a closeness of place, for He, glorified and exalted is He, is free from that. Rather, it is by embodying the noble attributes to the extent of human capacity, so that the human becomes a pure spirit like the angels, with no way for desires and lusts upon him. For their closeness is only by detaching from will altogether and fundamentally, and that is because they have no desires, no aims, and no actions except what they were commanded with, so there is no will. Rather, the will is for the Master, glorified is He, and this is the meaning of: 'And He forbids immorality, wrongdoing, and oppression' [An-Nahl: 90], meaning the absolute will in matters other than Allah's command, for the owned one who belongs to another should not have anything, neither will nor otherwise. May Allah, glorified and exalted is He, grant us success in that.