And the Creator, Glory be to Him, admonished His Greatest Messenger—Exalted is His might—and forbade him from promising to do a thing without saying, “If Allah wills.” The Exalted said, addressing him in Surah Al-Kahf: [“And never say of anything, 'Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,' * Except [when adding], 'If Allah wills.' And remember your Lord when you forget and say, 'Perhaps my Lord will guide me to what is nearer than this to right conduct.'”] 1 The Fifth Aspect: From the saying of our master Sulayman when he saw the throne settled before him: “This is from the favor of my Lord.”
It becomes clear to us that Asif is Allah, because he is the one who bestowed the favor of bringing the throne. And to him alone returns the favor in bringing it, since we have not found any other cause that assisted or participated in the operation of bringing it other than the one who said: “I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you.” Furthermore, we do not know, nor was it transmitted to us in the Qur'an, that Sulayman, the Prophet and the ambassador from Allah to the servants, supplicated and pleaded to Allah, the “Inaccessible Unseen” (al-ghayb al-mani'), to bestow favor and grace upon him by bringing the throne.
The Sixth Aspect: From the saying of our master Sulayman, “to test me whether I will be grateful or ungrateful,” we also deduce that Asif is Allah. Because His manifestation, the Exalted, in human form only occurred as a trial and a test for those to whom He manifested. So whoever recognized him and negated from him the appearances of incapacity, affirming for him the overcoming power, he was secure and grateful. And whoever performed the opposite of that is counted among the ungrateful and the losers.