چکیده:
Since the last decade of the 20th centaury, our understanding of the Molecular and Cellular mechanisms that underline human ageing process has increased significantly. Scientists are currently putting forward a set of provoking questions to the scientific community such as: Is there a limit to the length of the human life? How much longer human life can be extended? These questions stem from the wealth of knowledge gained from immense scientific research through different biological disciplines, namely, Genetics, Developmental Biology, embryonic and adult stem cell, tissue engineering, signalling protein, Biomedical and Human genome projects. The promises of these researches have raised huge expectations about its ultimate goal: longer healthier human lives; it is a very fast moving target. Today the retention of youth, the preservation of beauty and the defiance of death are billion-dollar industries in the West.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Scientific Research on Longevity and aging process: There are numerous conventional research papers on longevity, stretched to the beginning of the 20 th century and beyond, cited by prominent authors in explaining the scientific basis for possible potential long life for human being, among those are Ayatollah Amini (1996), Ayatollah Muhammed Baqir Sadar and Ayatollah Mutahhari (1982), Ayatollah Muhammed Baqir Sadar (1981), Ayatollah Muhammad Saddeq Sader (2004), Alhakem (1996) and Gulpaygani, (2000).
To overcome greed, to transcend narrow concepts of the person and limited self –interest, to join in the thrill and satisfaction of unparalleled era of creativity; the alternative is to share responsibility for our own destruction and the end of human experiment" The disastrous implications of the advancements in technology, along with the associated social disintegration, led prominent scientists and philosophers to predict that the decline of the current civilisation is imminent (Ahmed, 2005).
I may finish my paper by referring to some of the very relevant traditions narrated by some of our great Imams that reflect the very much needed divine global leader to solve humanity’s problems (Mugahi, 2006): Testimony to Islam over the Entire Earth: Imam Ja’far ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq (peace be upon both of them) said: "When al-Qa’im makes his advent, not a single place of land will remain except that the call to the testimony of, ‘There is no creature worthy of worship except for Allah and indeed Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah’ will be given (there)."