Yet as for this man, the aforementioned spiritual soul has completely departed from him. The hallmark of the absolute disbeliever is that when he commits evil and ugly deeds, he feels no remorse for his actions; rather, he continuously finds a lingering pleasure within them that drives him back to his wretched conduct. This man has neither repented nor taken heed, just as God the Exalted said: "And his soul permitted to him the murder of his brother, so he killed him and became among the losers." ¹ And He, majestic is His praise, said: "Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land—it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one—it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs, then indeed many of them, after that, throughout the land, were transgressors." ² How then must it be for one who seeks to destroy a group from among the foremost of the believers? But this man is neither among the people of knowledge, nor does he read, nor does he write, nor is he a scholar;