If you say: They only combined between the number and the counted in what is beyond one and two. They said: I have three men and four horses, because the counted is devoid of indicating a specific number. As for man and two men, horse and two horses, they are counted with an indication of the number, so there is no need to say: one man and two men. What is the meaning of His saying: two gods? [Mahran said: 'If you say, what is the benefit of His saying two with the dual form being sufficient for that... etc. Ahmad said: This section is one of its virtues that cannot be contested, and Allah is the Guide.'] I say: The name that carries the meaning of singularity and duality indicates two things: the type and the specific number. If the indication is intended to show that the meaning is from either of them, and the subject of the discussion is the number, it is confirmed by what emphasizes it, thus indicating the intention and care for it. Do you not see that if you said: It is only one god, and you did not confirm it with one, it would not be good? It would seem that you affirm divinity, not oneness. 'So fear Me alone' is a shift of speech from the third person to the first person, and it is permissible because the predominant is the speaker. This is a method of turning, and it is more eloquent in instilling fear than saying: 'And fear Him alone,' and than having what precedes it in the form of the speaker.