And from the purport of this majestic divine saying, we know that the bringing of a thing into existence in this manner can only be by Him, the Exalted. This is an exclusive characteristic by which the Creator is distinguished from the created, and it is not possible for a servant to perform it. And if our statement were to allow for the possibility of a created being performing it, we would have equated between the Lord and the vassal (al-marbub), and the servant and the worshipped. And this is impossible both rationally and textually ('aqlan wa shar'an).

And let me strike an example for that: If we were in a certain place, and near us was a large rock firmly rooted in the earth in a way that makes it impossible for a created being to budge it. Then the Creator, Glory be to Him, spoke to us with His saying—and we are hearing His speech and we are believers that He is the one addressing us and no one else—He spoke to us saying: "No one in existence is able to remove this rock from its place except Me." And after a period of time, a person came—and we are seeing him—and he uprooted the rock from its position and threw it into a deep valley