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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Principles of Faith (Usul al-Din) The Ways of Attaining Faith in Allah The ways through which one may attain faith in Allah, the Exalted, are many: As for the godly ones, then the proof for them over His existence and means of His recognition is He Himself: • Is it not sufficient as regards your Lord that He is a witness over all things? [^1] • He Who guides to Himself through Himself.

[^2] • I have come to know You through You and You have guided me to Yourself. [^3] For others, we will indicate only a few ways to be concise: First Way When a human being looks at himself or anything else he can perceive, when he observes its parts and particles, he notices that no parts are impossible in existence. He also notices that none of them are necessary in existence nor necessary in nonexistence, hence they are all possible beings.

Thus, everything which is possible in its existence and its nonexistence requires a cause that brings it to being. The example of that is of the two sides of a balance, neither of the two can sway over the other without the addition of something else. Likewise, a possible being requires a cause for it to exist, or it will be nonexistent due to the nonexistence of a cause.

Since every particle from the parts of this universe requires a cause for its existence, it either gives existence to itself or something similar gives it existence. As for its giving existence to itself, then it was nonexistent. How could it give something which it did not have? As for something similar to itself, then the same applies to it. When it is not possible for it to give existence to itself then how could it give existence to something else?

This rule applies to all parts of the universe and to the entire universe as well. The light in the air, which does not have light in its essence, is proof over the existence of the One who brought about the light. He must have it in His essence; otherwise, He will not be able to lighten the air. It is impossible for one who is dark in essence to give light to itself, let alone give light to others.

Thus, the existence of the universe and the perfection of the existence, like life, knowledge and power, are proof over the existence of an Originator, whose existence, life, knowledge and omnipotence are present in His essence and are not referred to other than Him: Or were they created without there being anything, or are they the creators?