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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Political Dimension of Religion in Shiism Comparative Views On Mahdism the Divine Vs the Human Throughout the centuries mankind, by its own standards, has sought someone to bring justice as a means to peace and fulfilment. Leaders have come and gone, but impenitent man in his ignorance and futility still keeps seeking one who will bring victory over oppression.

Sadly in many instances the justice sought has been driven by fallible conceptions and convictions; even, at times, worsened by cleverly-concealed ambitious desires. This paper attempts to demonstrate firstly, that without the recognition of, and aid from the Lord of the Worlds, mankind will never have cognisance of true justice, true values, and thus no matter how much it struggles, will never attain understanding of that which it innately seeks.

Secondly, unless man returns to the pristine Pathway of Allah, he will find himself rudderless in a sea of disaster, in grave danger of not recognising the Chosen One, Imam Mahdi (a.s.), Imam of the Age, who is to lead mankind and establish justice and peace upon the Earth. 1.1 The Nature of Man Created by Allah, man\'s existence was for a noble purpose as seen Qur\'anically in Surah Al Hijr (15:26,28,29).

Fashioned out of clay but breathed into by Allah, Lord of the Worlds, Adam (a.s.) the first man and recipient of the Divine life force was created in such a way that it was possible for him to attain the greatest heights of spirituality and intellect, receiving the capability of being the representative of Allah upon the Earth. This was acknowledged in aya 29 when it was said to the angels: "When I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My Spirit, fall down in obeisance unto him".

As if to reinforce this spiritual element of man's being, the same words are given in verse 72 of Surah 38. Added to this spiritual element was the time spent with Allah in which He taught Adam, and even the angels acknowledged man\'s superiority over them in the attainment of this knowledge.

Nevertheless, in forgetting his origin and his Creator, man could revert to the lesser material, the clay which was ever part of him, and Iblis, the enemy of mankind, refused to bow to man basing his argument entirely on the reasoning of man's material constituent being inferior.