Ignorance is The Only Devil

The first idea that split humanity into two was between those who believed in the unmanifest or those who believe in the spirit and those who do not believe in the unmanifest ie : the materialists , this is the first division and we don’t know whether the “spirituals were first and then the emergence of the materialists split them into two or whether the materialists were first before the spiritualists . This division between the two is the first “Sectarian division” and is similar to the division between the two Muslim sects : Sunnis and Shi’as or any two other sects .

 The truth of the matter is that these two ideologies are not necessarily excluding each other; for as is the case with the man whose work for his material self does not contradict his work for his spiritual self , so is the case between the material person and the spiritual person, they really do not have contradictory and exclusive ideologies . Imam ‘Ali had explained this in his famous saying : work for this world as if you lived for ever and work for the here after as if you were dying tomorrow”.
So we address the two sects as we addressed the Sunnis and Shi’as . We tell them : You have a common enemy that is ignorance. And ignorance is not nothing, it is the cause of many deaths and calamities and sorrows which we all have to live with , so we might correctly say: ignorance is the devil and both sects will not disagree about that.


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