Using Philosophy for Knowing God and Deepening Religious Knowledge

Using rational and philosophical thinking plays a unique and determining role in proving God's existence and understanding the most basic religious knowledge. Recognizing the basic part of religion, such as proving the existence of Almighty God and the necessity of prophethood and religion's inclusion of pieces of knowledge necessary for human's achieving felicity and perfection are among subjects available to the reason per se; all of them are provable just by reason. Therefore, rational and philosophical recognition are the only support for the most fundamental religious knowledge. Thus, without rational and philosophical reasoning, the main part of religion is deprived of intellectual defense. For this reason, the Holy Quran invites people to thinking and reasoning; this would also support basing religious knowledge on rational and philosophical reasoning. Accordingly, the separatist claim that 'recognizing religious knowledge is based on human nature and needless of rational and philosophical reasoning' is a baseless and wrong claim that cannot be proved.