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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Imam Al-mahdi (as) and Opponents : the Dialectic of Complementarily and Contradiction Iv.- Final Comments Humanity today is currently in a period of its history in which profound changes are occurring and these are extending progressively throughout the universe. These changes, provoked by human intelligence, incide on its way of thinking and acting with respect to things and other persons.

We stand before a true social and cultural transformation that also redounds to the spiritual and religious lives of people. Mankind has never had such an abundance of riches, possibilities and economic power, and yet a great part of the world population experiences hunger and misery. Men have never had a more acute sense of freedom as they do today, yet new types of social and psychological slavery, such as consumerism and drugs - to cite only two of them - are appearing in society.

The world feels itself as interdependent: a necessary solidarity appears that is divided by the antagonistic forces dividing society into the political, the social, the economic, the racial and the ideological, without forgetting the danger of a war capable of destroying everything. Man seeks to create a perfect order in this world using his own means, without worrying about progressing in the same way with his spiritual development.

Spirits are perturbed: man fails to find himself, and it is beginning to dawn on him that he is incapable of seeing his own history through, and that this is overwhelming him. These conditions are especially felt in the religious lives of people. Increasingly more persons are moving away from religion.

They deny the existence of God or simply dispense with Him, particularly the youth, some of them in response to a new humanism, or due to the demands of the modern scientific world in which they put their blind faith. The conviction is growing that man not only can and should increasingly strengthen his dominion over creation, but also that it exclusively falls upon him to establish Paradise on earth.

The full and true liberation of humanity is expected solely through human effort, and it is believed that the future reign of man over the world will fulfil his heart's desires. Say ,( p.b.u..h), "I cannot control any harm or benefit that come to me, except as God wills.