Faith (IMAN

result and their completion. On the one hand, a person sees God, who is a treasure of justice and wisdom. On the other hand, when he looks at the universe, his heart cries out that such a vast creative plan can never be without purpose. Then, when he looks at human beings living on the earth, among whom there are oppressors and the oppressed, the good and the bad, he becomes certain that a Day of Accountability must come, where the truthful will be rewarded for their truthfulness and the evil for their evil. Trust in the Lord of the Worlds itself becomes the foundation of fear of the Lord of the Worlds. This fear of God is not like the fear that arises in a person’s heart after seeing something frightening. In reality, it is a feeling that cannot be properly expressed by any single word. It is a mixed state of extreme hope and extreme apprehension, in which a person can never decide which of the two should take precedence. It is the highest sense of considering oneself as nothing despite having done everything, a state in which