"Rational Life" as "Progress"

There has always been a serious ques tion among researchers and politicians on whatthe progress is and what its components are. Various research works have been carriedout for finding logical answers to the above ques tions, each picturing an ideal society andprogress in some way. "Clean life" is perhaps the mos t important picture that has beencreated as inspired by the Holy Quran. This picture, too, is so general that practicallyleaves no image before the researchers and proponents of progress. This paper intendsto find a proper answer to the ques tion of progress in view of Allameh MohammadTaqi Ja’fari through a descriptive and analytical method. Results of the s tudy indicatethat Ja’fari’s "rational life" to the s trength of a theory is the bes t answer to the ques tionof progress, thanks to its intentional and extensional relations with clean life and idealsociety. Rational life gives us both logic of social order leading to progress and properinteraction for realizing this goal. Rational life is a theory where religion, philosophy andhuman experience meet, from among them the role of religion in picturing and realizingthe progress is quite outs tanding.