35 Preface أَفَنَجعَلُ المُسلِمينَ كَالمُجرِمينَYusuf AliShall We then treat the People of Faith like the People of Sin?1The spiritual arrogance which rejects faith in God is perhaps the worst Sin, because it makes itself impervious to the Mercy of God, as a bed of clay is impervious to the absorption of water. It sets up its own standards and its own will, but how can it measure or bind the Will of God? It sets up its own fetishes?idols, priests, gods, or godlings. The fetishes may be even God-given gifts or faculties. Intellect or Science, if pushed up to the position of idols. If they are made rivals to God, question them: Will they solve God’s mysteries, or even the mysteries of Life and Soul?