Still another example may be given...

Still another example may be given: Looking at news agencies and mass media may give a fine impression that it is very pleasant to sit at home and become easily aware of what is happening in the whole world. But as learned men of the East and West say, one should remember how much worry and anxiety is caused by the same mass media. For, it is often advisable for human beings not to know of some matters, especially of disasters, about which they can do nothing.

Thus we cannot claim that evolutionary growth has taken place in the relations of human beings with one another, or even if it has, it is not proportionate to the development of tools and social organization. Man's Relation with Himself Another problem is man's relation with himself, which is called ethics.

If we do not wish to exaggerate by saying that man's happiness as a w hole lies in establishing good relationship with himself, yet we compare the factors of this happiness, obviously the main part of it is related to his relation with his human or animal side, for, many human values are inherent in him. He is an animal which has become human, and the question is whether his humanity is subordinate to his animalism or vice versa.

Or as the Qur'an says in Chapter Shams (the Sun) Verses 9-10: “He will indeed be successful who purifies it. and he will indeed fail who corrupts it." The question of purification is to cleanse oneself from all the low animal characteristics, without which it is not possible to have good a relationship with others, so as not to enslave them or not to be enslaved by them. So far, then, four points have been discussed: Man’s relation with nature, and his progress.

Man's relation with society and its progress. Man's relation with other human beings showing whether he has advanced in spirituality or not. Man's relation with himself or his morality. Has man of today or of yesterday put some space between himself and animality, and secured human values? Is his human evolution greater than that in the past? What part have the prophets played in historical evolution, and what will it be in future? What role has religion had and will have in future?

We can estimate this role by scientific and social evidence, and realize whether man needs religion in future for his evolution or not, for, the survival of everything is subject to its need.