The Specificities of the Straight Path

The straight path (al-Ṣīrāṭ al-Mustaqīm) is another expression for the route of true worship; that is to say, the specificities of the worship of God are identical with the characteristics of the straight path. Similarly, the acts and rituals of the revealed law or religion with which man should comply in the course of his thralldom correspond to the manifestations of the straight path. These specificities consist in correspondence to rational standards, the following of the truth, moderateness, clarity and unity of the path. In this context, we have highlighted the necessary consequences of these specificities one by one, the problem of pluralism and the difference between ‘Ṣiraṭ’ and ‘Sabīl’.