 The engendering command brings the cosmos into existence, but the divine attributes demand much more than life, awareness, desire, power, and other qualities that are presupposed by the existence of minerals, plants, and animals. Among the ontological possibilities actually present in the Essence and actually manifest in the universe are mercy, love, compassion, forgiveness, justice, fairness, wisdom, and many other moral and ethical traits whose significance only becomes clear in human activity and interactions. All these are ontological qualities, but, in order for them to become fully manifest, the engendering command must give rise to the prescriptive command, which instructs people in the haqq of love, mercy, beneficence, kindness, and other traits. Becoming rightly characterized by the divine names does not happen simply by the natural course of events; it calls for the engagement of the will. Only by choosing the haqq over the bâtil, right over wrong, good over evil, can people realize the full possibilities of their own deiformity.