What is the philosophy behind the need to Religion?

The need of human to religion can be described from different angles.

We all know that mankind is a social being and it is almost impossible for him to live alone, because of different needs that he has and he cannot make everything that he needs prepared, especially nowadays due to the different needs, so he has to live within a society. In the society there are different people with different emotions and various needs and wishes, and if everyone wants to look after his/her wishes, in a lot of cases, it will lead to collision.

So it is obvious that such a society needs a law to prevent the rights of its citizens from being transgressed. And this is the reason that is mentioned for the need of human to law, but the question here is that who can make a law for the society and individuals? Can the individuals of the society make it? We agree that the wise and knowledgeable individuals of the society who are expert in different fields, can make it, but we know that the intellect of the people is not able to understand everything from this world well, and this is one of the main reasons that the man-made laws differ from the previous ones and something new is added to them or deleted from them, so we need a source which is more thorough than the intellect and no one is more knowledgeable for such issues than the one who has created us and for this very reason, He is more aware to all aspects of our personalities. For example the introducer of a product is more aware to that product than anyone else. It must be added to it that because we have accepted by logical reasons and we believe that the human does not have just material aspects and there are other complicated aspects that can never be understood even through the consult with the wise people, and our creator is aware of all of our aspects.

So the laws of our creator is not only for welfare and perfection of this material world, but He also has showed us the path to the eternal and everlasting welfare, because we believe that there are realms after death and this short life compared to those worlds, is nothing. And the religion is a way to the perfection of the life in this material world and the hereafter.

It must be added that we are not against man-made law like the laws which are made for driving, we respect them and observe them, but we say such laws are incomplete and not enough and they just talk about some aspects of the life of human, but the complicated personalities of man is not just these material aspects.

We believe that religion is a kind of guidance, the guidance toward perfection, and this guidance has some parameters that one of the most important of them is “knowledge” that contains some items like:

-Knowing God and His attributes.

-Knowing the world and the reason beyond its creation.

-Knowing the mankind and the reason beyond his creation.

-Knowing the path toward that goal of the creation.

-knowing the equipment for this journey and the way to obtain them.

-knowing the dangers of the path of perfection and the ways to overcome them.

And religion is a complex which contains these items. And the reason that religion is forever is because the religion is a way for fulfilling our needs and as long as our needs are there, religion is needed.

 

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Source:

Tahoor.com