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Without doubt, we need knowledge and cognition for everything we do and it is attained in three ways: Experiences The information that comes through experiences makes up a great part of valuable human knowledge but it has boundaries. For example: Some of the greatest incidents of the world are not repeatable and we cannot experience them. Knowledge gained through experience is never flawless or perfect.

It has happened many times that after years we reach a point where what we thought was fact turns out to be untrue. There are lots of medicine or chemicals that are tested and recognized as harmless but after years we diagnose their harmful effects. This is because we do not have domination on all the dimensions of an experience. Another example is of medicines that are on the shelves but because of the side effects they have to confiscated or banned.

So, to traverse the way of life we cannot depend completely on our experiences. It does not lead us to the secrets of this world and we cannot search the chambers of this life with this dim light. Wisdom As we read in Hadithe Qudsi the most valuable creation of Allah is wisdom.[^1] The foundation of our beliefs is wisdom and logical reasoning, but wisdom has few certain and general judgments.

The human intellect cannot tell us how we must eat, how we must wear, whom we can have a relationship with, and what kind of economic and political system we must chose. In such uncertain rules and commands we cannot find a common answer because every philosopher and politician gives different solutions. Every philosopher disapproves of the previous one, and so we are unable to find a common ground to answer such questions relating to our life.

We also need a foundation that can answer the common aspects of our life and meanwhile it must be adoptive to different special situations of each society. So, with the general rules of wisdom we cannot find our way in the maze of life.