[they say,] 'Why have you not chosen oneḍ', that is, 'Why do you not summon it from your own selfḍ'. Say: 'I follow only that which is revealed to me from my Lord, in other words, I do not create anything of my own doing, but simply communicate on behalf of God and I do not say except that which is revealed to me from Him, because I subsist through Him and not through my own soul.
