Abu Nasr al-Farabi, also known as the second master, died in 950/951 in Damascus. He traveled to Baghdad and was known for his relationship with the notorious Baghdad school. Additionally, he visited Egypt and Damascus. Farabi, together with Avicenna, is one of the most important figures in Islamic peripatetic schools because of his constructive work for a systematical philosophy. This chapter aims to understand Farabi’s holistic system in which God, the universe, and human beings are all connected with the central concept of intellect. Despite the large scholarly literature on various dimensions of Farabi’s philosophy, this chapter finds its focus in two selected passages from The Opinions of the People of the Virtuous City (i.e., Perfect State): the first passage is from the introduction where Farabi gives his own summary for Perfect State. Here he lists the central topics of the book in three classes: Metaphysics, Natural Sciences, and Sciences related to Human Will (iradiyat). In the second passage, we are given the connector and the connecting mechanism for these three realms: the intellect. This is described in the 13th chapter of Perfect State. These three areas of investigation are connected with the intellect, and the result becomes research into the nature of human beings concerning his/her perfection and a search for meaning in the world. Thus, this chapter will provide a background for understanding Farabian conceptualizations of human beings and their perfection. Selected texts and giving this background through them additionally might make one of the central classical texts of Islamic philosophy (Perfect State) more accessible.