Spiritual Ascent: The basis of SPIRITUAL ascent is that God is pure Spirit and that man resembles Him fundamentally through the intelligence; man goes towards God by means of that which is, in him, most conformable to God – namely the intellect – which is at the same time both penetration and contemplation and has as its “supernaturally natural” content the Absolute which illumines and delivers. The character of a Path depends on a particular preliminary definition of man: if man is defined as passion, as the general perspective of Christianity would have it – though there is here no principial restriction – then the Path is suffering; if as desire, then the Path is renunciation; if as will, then the Path is effort; if as intelligence, then the Path is discernment, concentration, contemplation. (GTUFS: UIslam, Islam)