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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Theological Instructions LESSON TWELVE: ANALYSING THE REASONS FOR DEVIATION Introduction As indicated in the first lesson, the worldviews can be divided into two groups; the divine worldview and the materialistic worldview. The major difference between the two is that the divine worldview accepts a wise creator as the fundamental principle, whereas this is rejected by the materialistic worldview.

In the previous lessons we have provided appropriate discourses for proving God’s existence, established the most important positive and negative attributes and given discussions pertaining to the attributes of essence and action. In order to acknowledge belief with the fundamental principle we will give a brief criticism of the materialistic worldview by establishing the divine worldview, which will unveil the former as being baseless and impotent.

In order to realise this, we will be initiating the following discussion by providing the reasons for the departure from the divine view towards heresy, followed by an explanation of the weak elements in the materialistic worldview. Reasons of deviation Heresy, atheism, and materialism have a long past in human history. However there have always been traces in human societies of there being a belief in a creator.

Nevertheless the ubiquity of being irreligious started in Europe during the eighteenth century and gradually expanded to other regions of the world. Although the advent of this irreligiousness was a response towards the system of the church and aimed at opposing Christianity, its waves nevertheless swept the other religions away with it. This anti-religious inclination, along with industry, art and Western technology was exported to other parts of the world.

Furthermore in the more recent centuries this transformation and diffusion was with sociological and economical; Marxist thought, which was applied in many countries, the outcome of which was the fall of humanity. The reasons and factors that necessitated the appearance and development of this distorted thought are numerous, an investigation into which would require a separate book. However they can be generalised into three groups: a.

Psychological reasons for deviation Qualities such as irresponsibility, carelessness and desire towards pleasure seeking are all tendencies, which may delude an individual towards atheism.