But they meet with ninety nine disappointments and perhaps one reality. And when we come to the idea of the Sufi, his idea is that life lives, death dies. In other words: to life there is no death, and to death there is no life. But his way of attaining to the certitude of life is not only an intellectual one. Because a person may study all the philosophies, all the metaphysics all through his life which may in every way prove by reasons that there is the continuity of life, still this realization gained by the effort of mind will not give that feeling of certitude which one wishes to have.