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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Self Building Translator’s Foreword In the Name of God the Beneficent, The Merciful The human being is the most complicated and astonishing creation of God-Almighty, the creation who in addition to having its primordial animalistic desires also possesses their peculiar nature and spiritual personality.

The creation that has been assigned the Divine Viceregency upon earth, [^1] accepted the Divine Trust [^2] when heavens, the earth and the mountains shrank from bearing it, and in its upward heavenly ascent [^3]even surpassed the God's Favorite Angels. A creation that selects and thinks, and through combination of his mental power and physical endeavors is capable of removing all obstacles from his path for betterment of his life.

The one who creates his own life history through enrichment of knowledge inherited from his predecessors and makes, the path smoother for further advancement by the coming generations in the future. But unfortunately, in the midst of man's struggle with nature for improving the quality of his living environment, the most precious reality that has been forgotten is the self and the jewel of human personality.

Or in other words, what has been forgotten is the man himself, his training and self-purification and making him an ideal or perfect human being.

A human being who has been called by God-Almighty, the Most Superior Creation, [^4]and about whose identification the authentic commentators of the revelations have said: “Whoever has recognized his self -in reality has recognized his Creator.” [^5] Self-forgetfulness, negligence shown towards recognizing the infinite dimensions of human celestial soul and under estimation of human inner potential for attaining self-purification or moral perfection is the pain which has inflicted plenty of suffering upon the modern human societies.

The domination of technology, fast pace of modern life, usurpation of power by materialists and world-worshippers over vast regions of the world on one hand and the failure and incompetency of various school and ideologies in presenting a clearly illuminated path and satisfactory interpretation of human being on the other hand have made this journey of retrogression and self alienation further complicated.

But in the Islamic Ideology, the greatest aim in the life's struggle is to become victorious over the self.