Faith (IMAN

only when a person applies his willpower toward it. Although it is the clearest reality of the universe, God’s law for this world is that a person receives only that for which he has made an effort. Faith’s second component is “trust”. The study of one’s own self and of the universe tells a person, on the one hand, that there is a great Creator and Manager who is the real cause behind all the events of this vast system. At the same time, and exactly at that moment, it gives rise to two other powerful realizations. One is the realization of one’s complete helplessness, and the other is the realization of God’s boundless favours. A person sees that his existence depends on countless things, yet he cannot create even one of them by himself. He is born as a weak child and comes to an end with the frailties of old age. He stands on a planet that is suspended in space, where even a slight disturbance in its balance would be enough to destroy him. He finds himself surrounded by a vast universe over which he has no control. In such conditions, his own existence begins to appear utterly powerless and