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204 excels his father, he remains humble to his father with innate love and devotion. Thus, the assumed possibility is far-fetched and the same applies to other possibilities understood by the Western philosophers. Thus, generally speaking, the theory of jealousy and a mental vacuum is no more than mere conjecture. To adopt an unnatural walkway in preference to a natural highway and deny God, who has been accepted by every nation throughout the ages, on the basis of a far-fetched possibility, is no more than wishful thinking. Evidently, those who present such arguments have first denied the existence of God and then devised these arguments. The inferiority complex presented by some scholars as an argument against the existence of God is, in fact, a weighty argu- ment for the existence of God. Muslim scholars have always pre- sented it as such. Hadrat Ali ra , the fourth Caliph of the Holy Prophet saw , said: ِ ی ْ بِفَسْخ ِ الْعَزَائِم ِّ عَرَفْت ُ رَب Meaning that, I have recognised God by the failure of many a firm resolve and sound plans. This brief statement of Hadrat Ali ra is full of profound insight and incorporates the philosophy otherwise referred to as ‘inferi- ority complex’ and used by those who are unaware of spirituality to argue against the existence of God. Hadrat Ali ra means to say that man sometimes makes a firm resolve, devises a solid plan, and acquires all the necessary means to achieve something and thinks that he is almost there. Then suddenly, out of the blue, something happens that unravels all his plans and shatters his resolve. It is then that man realises that his resolve and his plans are not the