Whoever abandons hope has abandoned half of faith, for faith is two halves, half fear and half hope, and both of them depend on non-existence. So if knowledge occurs, existence occurs and non-existence disappears, and knowledge removes the ruling of faith because he witnessed what he believed in and became a possessor of knowledge. Faith is imitation and imitation contradicts knowledge unless the informant is infallible to the believer. And there is a lie in himself, and there is no intermediary between you and him in telling him, for the evidence that ruled for you was truthful and infallible from error and lies, and you had insight into it, which is knowledge, applies to you on what he tells you about God, so you will have knowledge of him as knowledge, not imitation, and this does not happen today except with the people of revelation and existence in particular. As for the people of transmission, there is no way. The companions who heard verbally from the Messenger things that