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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Journey To The Fact The Conscientious Reason F How are you, son? S You know Dad, it’s obvious. I’m not the same as before at all. F Why? Are you sick? S I wish I am sick! F Don’t say that, son! What happened? S You’re asking me “What happened?” It was me who asked you this question last night. F Everything is alright. S What do you mean alright? You threw me into a sea of doubt; the huge waves drifted me away from the coast.

Neither swimming nor riding a boat could save me. F Thank God, thank God. It was exactly what I wanted. S Dad, why did you do that? Please tell me. F I’ll tell you, but first tell me where you have finally reached after you’ve been thrown away by the waves where neither swimming nor riding a boat could help you. S I felt weak and lost. There was no way and no one who could be of assistance. I began looking for an absolute power to save me from this rough sea and help me reach the coast safely.

Suddenly I felt that this power is near me, so I exclaimed profoundly: “O God the greatest”, and then a feeling of reassurance and certainty submerged me and made the doubts go away. Then I departed the sea of the awful doubt to the coast of faith. F Well-done son. God be praised. This was exactly what I wanted for you. I wanted you to find God by yourself and to suffer in this trip, so you know the value of what you have found.

I wanted you to experience the trip from doubt to faith in order to believe in the God that you have found, not the one that you’ve heard of from your father. There is a big difference between this and that. S You are right Dad. My heart is filled up with confidence after that painful experience. And now I do feel the difference between my former faith and the new one I gained after this conscientious experience. F This experience is called the conscientious reasoning of God’s existence.

It’s neither based on rational reasoning nor on intellectual analysis and theological inference. It’s the reason for the pure nature, simple and genuine experience that leads naturally to God after dusting off the heaps of misunderstanding that concealed the truth. S Explain more, Dad! F Look son, human nature instinctively believes in God and it doesn’t need a reason. Have you ever seen how a thirsty person moves directly towards water?

If you stop him/her while he/she is raising the glass to drink and ask whether he/she is sure that what he/she is drinking is water, what will he/she reply?