This practice is accompanied by an anxious quest for this truth...

This practice is accompanied by an anxious quest for this truth, which fills man's soul and attracts him to it, as he feels its richness and the possibility of its filling up all the dimensions of the vacancy, contrasted with his own feelings of deficiency, He feels its superiority over the whole world, whose boundaries he is inclined to cross and beyond which he wants to eternalize his being.

This world is unable to respond to the absolute expansion in his soul, nor cant be a substitute for that truth which is sought by him. Thus, he always tends to proceed ahead to the truth which is much more eminent than this tangible world, comprehending that this truth has all the ability to satisfy his innate longing which presses upon both his conscience and sub-conscience. This innate feeling is a true objective one, because it is a natural instinctive tendency.

Its existence in man is supported by three objective facts. They are: a. Thinking of the abstract absolute of time and place, as well as of the attributes of the tangible world. b. The inclination to sanctify the Perfect Absolute, seeking to come under His greatness and to feel small in His presence. c. Feeling imperfect while imagining the idea of perfection, searching for it and wanting to march in its direction.

All these feelings are accepted scientific facts proved by psychological studies, in the same way as the intuitive truths and the verbal utterances coined by man to refer to these essential, innate feelings are. If we comprehend that being religious is a native force deeply rooted in man's self, we will also comprehend that man's devotional tendency is a fact, not legend or superstition. This is because man's natural genesis knows nothing of superstition, nor of legends.

It is in this respect, as it is in respect of his other instincts and tendencies born in him, such as the instincts driving him to knowledge, sex and food. The mythical and legendary aspect of human life, expressed through different forms and peculiar rituals, appears only when man suffers from a state of loss and of deviation from the true Allah.

In this condition man's imagination plays havoc and he draws a picture of religion and of god as was typical during the era of Jahiliyah (pre-Islamic Ignorance). The Qur'an, confirming this fact, says: "They are Hanifs (tend) to Allah, not polytheists , which Imam Al-Sadiq (a.s.) explained, saying that. "This tendency' is part of the nature of which man has been created.