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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Principles of Faith (Usul al-Din) Common Prophethood (Nabuwwat ‘Ammah) Once the existence of the All-Wise Creator is proved, the necessity of Prophethood and prophets is proven through it. Need for Divine Education and Training To understand the need of mankind for the guidance of the prophets, we must know the nature of human creation, the purpose of his creation and the factors that make him reach that purpose or prevent him from it.

This brief book does not allow us to go deep into these discussions, as is apparent from the presented topics. However, we will indicate some dimensions to a degree: First Dimension The human being has different instincts. His life begins from the weakest stage, which is the plant life, and ascends to the intellectual life. In fact, it ascends to a stage higher than that.

Indeed, a believer looks with the light of Allah.[^1] The human being is a creation composed of nature and intellect, a body with limited needs, and a soul with unlimited wishes. In his eminence man is higher than the angels, and in his abasement he is lower than the animals. It is reported on the authority of ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan, who said: I asked Abu ‘Abd Allah Ja’far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (as): Are the angels superior or the children of Adam?

He (as) replied: The Commander of the Faithful ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib (as) said: Indeed, Allah, the Mighty and High, composed the angels from the intellect without the desires and composed the animals from the desires without the intellect, but He composed the children of Adam from both of them. Therefore, whose intellect overcomes his desires is better than the angels, and whose desires overpower his intellect is worse than the animals.

[^2] This creation was at the peak of innovation as it became—after being made completely and the spirit breathed[^3] into him—an exceptional creation of all beings. The greatness of His creation becomes apparent from the Word of the Exalted: Then We caused it to grow into another creation, so blessed be Allah, the best of the creators. [^4] The human being perceives that he is not made for a limited materialist life.

Wisdom demands that the tools should be appropriate for the work that is required of them. They should be made to suit the purpose they serve. If man was made for the life of this world alone, then the faculty of desire, which attracts to the comfortable and the faculty of anger, which rejects the painful, were sufficient for him.