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Here religion is viewed as irrelevant - church, mosque, and temple may exist as physical buildings but their metaphysical structure is crumbling, decaying - matter is powerfully asserting itself and spirit is obscured, veiled, eclipsed. It is not that the ties between heaven and earth have been cut, so that religion decays into either fanaticism or vague sentimentality - it is that heaven becomes inconsequential when even the religious map out their religion by means of the compass of their lower nafs, according to the politics of the age, the ephemeral measures of this world and the fleeting intellectual fashions of the time.