The promise of Allah is true. It has two confirming sources. The first is a confirmation of itself, and the second is a confirmation of another. This is because His saying, 'For them are gardens of bliss,' means: Allah promised them gardens of bliss. Thus, the meaning of the promise is confirmed by the promise itself. As for 'true,' it indicates the meaning of steadfastness: it confirms the meaning of the promise. Both of them are confirmed by His saying, 'For them are gardens of bliss,' and He is the Almighty who cannot be overcome by anything and cannot be made incapable. He has the power over a thing and its opposite, so He gives bliss to whom He wills and misery to whom He wills. He is the Wise who does not will except what wisdom and justice necessitate. You see them; the pronoun refers to the heavens, and it is a testimony by their seeing it. It is not dependent on His saying, 'without pillars,' just as you would say to your friend: I am without a sword or spear, you see me. If you ask: What is its grammatical position? I would say: It has no position because it is an independent statement. Or it is in the position of the adjective for pillars, meaning: without visible pillars. This means that He upheld it with pillars that are not seen, and this is a reference to what has been mentioned of His creations. The creation means the created. And those besides Him are their deities; He rebuked them by saying that these great things are from what Allah created and initiated. So show me what your deities have created that would warrant them being worshipped by you. Then He turned away from rebuking them to recording against them their entanglement in misguidance from which there is no further misguidance.