And within His saying: “and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], 'Am I not your Lord?'” is the clearest proof of the correctness of that. For within these phrases, there is a permissibly latent pronoun (damir al-istitar) in the word bi-rabbikum (your Lord), and all of them are vocal proofs that He is the One who took, made them testify, and addressed with respect to His creation.

When we say, for example: “The judge made the defendant testify against himself that he is indebted to the plaintiff,” we understand that the matter of making him testify was directly from the judge and without an intermediary. If the policeman were the one handling the matter of making the defendant testify, it would not be correct, by the judgment of logic and reality, to attribute the act of making him testify to the judge instead of him.