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Build for me a tower that I may attain the means of access, the means of access to the heavens. [^7] Indeed, the oppressive human desires of hunger, lust, wealth and status, which are served by the faculty of anger to feed its endless desires, are not humble before anything. They do not stop at any boundary, nor do they turn away from wasting any entitlement. A life with all these desires can only result in corruption in life.

With this anger there is no result but bloodshed, which destroys tilth and stock. In fact, human beings are capable of using their intellectual powers to discover secrets of the universe in order to attain their unlimited evil desires. Thus, they will drag the human life on this planet to ruin and destruction. Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have wrought.

[^8] The only power that can control the defiant human self, take hold of excess anger and desire, train him until he becomes modest and establishes personal and social rights, is the faith in Allah and the Return, and reward and punishment. For, indeed the belief in Allah, Who (He) is with you wherever you are, [^9] and with the requital, which: So, he who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it, and he who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.

[^10] This belief raises the human being to every good and stops him from every evil. Hence, they will follow the philosophy of reconciliation rather than struggle for existence. Distinction of the Science of the Principles of Faith Since it is a part of their nature, human beings love to seek knowledge. After all, what makes the human a human is intellect. The fruit of intellect is knowledge.

This is why if you call an ignorant ‘ignorant,’ he will be hurt, even though he knows that he is ignorant. On the contrary, if you called him ‘knowledgeable,’ he will be pleased, though he knows that he is not knowledgeable. As Islam is the religion of nature, it has compared knowledge and ignorance to light and darkness, and to life and death. Indeed, it (knowledge) is light. It arises in the heart of whomsoever Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, wills to guide.

[^11] A learned between the ignorant is like a living between the dead. [^12] All sciences are distinctive in themselves. However, the status of all sciences is different based on a number of issues: the topic, the result, and the method of reasoning used in them.