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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A General Look At Rites The Link Between the Absolute Is a Two-edged Problem The observer, scrutinizing the different acts of the stage-story of man in history, may find out that the problems 'are different and the worries diversified in their given daily formulas.

But if we went beyond these formulas, infiltrat- ing into the depth and essence of the problem, we would find, through many of such different daily formulas, one mainly essential and fixed problem with two edges or contrasting poles wherefrom mankind suffers during his civilized advancement along history. It is from one angle expressing this problem: the problem of loss and non-entity, thus expressing the negative side of the problem.

And from another angle, it expresses the problem of extreme in entity and belonging by c:olinecting the relative facts to which man belongs to an Absolute; thus express- i ng the positive side of the same problem. The Concluding Jurisprudence (of Islam) has given the name "atheism' to the first problem, which it expresses very obviously, and the name "idolatory" and shirk (believing in one or many partners with God), as also an obvious expres- sion of it.

The continuous struggle of Islam against atheism and shirk is, in its civilized reality, a struggle against both problems in their historical dimensions.

Both problems meet into one essential point, and that is: deterring man's movement to advance from a continuously good imaginative creativity, for the problem of loss means to man that he is a being in continuous loss, not belong- ing to an Absolute, to Whom he can support himself in his hard march of a long range, deriving from His Absolutism and Encompass- ment help, sustenance and clear vision of the goal, joining through that Absolute his own movement to the universe, to the whole exist- ence, to eternity and perpetuity, defining his own relationship to Him and his position in the inclusive cosmic framework, for the movement at loss without the aid of an Absolute is but a random movement like that of a feather in the wind, the phenomena around it affect it without being able to affect them.

There is no accom- plishment or productivity in the great march of man along history without a connection to and promulgation with an Absolute in an objective march.