The Explanation of Nature and Reason of Religion in Tabatabaei's Thought

Allamah Tabatabaei considers religion as a definable fact from different aspects, and pays attention to its conceptual, structural and teleological definition. Based on this, for Tabatabaei, religion is a kind of method concerning social life that Human as social being takes it for getting happiness, and since, human’s life is not restricted to mundane life, this method is included of knowledge and laws that cover human mundane life and the hereafter happiness. The reason and necessity of religion, for Tabatabaei, is explained by his analysis of religion based on theory of human innate, human social identity and the hereafter life. Tabatabaei’s explanation, although, is adequate based on philosophical anthropology and human’s sociological analysis but is referred and inspired by religious texts. Therefore, religion is as the removing people’s disputes, and as the only provider of the laws of human’s happiness and encompassing of moral rules that have confidential guarantee through believing in divine origin and resurrection.