How can one get belief? This is the most difficult question anyone can ask; for it cannot be learned, it cannot be taught, it is a grace of God. Belief is essentially the same thing as faith, but only when belief has become a conviction does it turn into faith. I remember my murshid giving me, in blessing me, this wish, "May your faith be strengthened." Being a young man, I thought, "Is that all he is saying to me, not, "May you be inspired, or illuminated, or prosperous," or something else?" But when I think of it now I know that in that blessing there was all. When belief is strengthened, then there is everything; all that we lack in life is mostly because of our lack of belief. But again, it is not something that one can learn or teach or that one can give to anybody; this comes from the grace of God.