Religious obligation (taklīf) means holding people responsible through commands and prohibitions. If an agent had no meaningful choice at all, praise for obedience and blame for disobedience would become deeply problematic. Sunni accounts therefore affirm the servant's acquisition and voluntary agency.
Telling the truth intentionally differs morally from deliberately lying, even when both acts fall under divine creation. Reward and punishment concern how an action is voluntarily attributed to its agent, not whether that agent independently created it.
The doctrine of acquisition preserves a crucial distinction between absolute compulsion and independent creative power.