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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Man and Ignorance Essential Centers If we carefully study the patterns of ` jahiliyah ' life throughout history, we find that `jahiliyah' society has many morbid symptoms and phenomena, from which the lights of belief, religion and guidance have been extinguished. Also we discover the main centers on which human and social construction of the ignorant societies stand.

These basic centers can be summed up as follows: Ideological Deviation The history of civilizations and their ideology, throughout the stages of the ` jahiliyah ' life, tell us that there is an ideological abnormality and deviation from the faith of monotheism.

This problem is regarded as the basic center and general rule for all ignorant beliefs beginning from the ancient nations, mentioned by the Holy Qur'an and ending with the ignorance of Arabs, Greeks, and including our modern, material civilization. Therefore, man, in these ignorant societies, is abnormal and deviated in his thinking, understanding, and even in his explanation of existence and life. This ignorant man always thinks about material things, while he refuses moral and spiritual values.

That is because ignorant thinking concerning the universe and life is simple and primitive. This kind of thinking has made ignorant societies unable to recognize the existence of Allah and believe in His Apostles. Also this material thinking has made them unable to believe in One Allah, having perfect attributes and being far above the qualities of the created world.

Therefore, these ignorant societies turn to inactivity, refusing belief in the Creator, and believing in primitive images as idols to be worshipped instead of Allah. These images take on the cloak of godhood in these societies, and all morals are based upon satisfying the requirements of these images. Emotional and Psychological Deviation Throughout its different periods, ` jahiliyah ' (global ignorance) stood on devious emotional and psychological principles.

That is because the pure innate and sound psychological trends do not accept abnormality and deviation. Rather they accept the idea of righteousness and behavioral balance, and they help belief to flourish. However, an ill and complicated personality always inclines towards straying from the line of psychological righteousness and balance which belief follows.