Religious Experience and Religious Interpretation

Among the important kinds of religious experiences one can refer to the interpretational experience.Using a descriptive and analytic procedure, this article seeks to study this sort of religious experience from the Islamic point of view, explaining and analysing the essential Quranic insights into these kinds of religious experience. The article first gives conceptual explanation for the interpretational experience and goes on to mention its reliation to religious explanation and then divides the explanations into rational and irrational ones, showing that religious interpreatations are rational.In addition to the above issues, the article seeks to cast light on the interaction between the interpretational experience and human states and emotins, the relation between the interpretational experience and certain essential Islamic doctrines, including Unity of Divine Acts and Divine Names, and gives some curious remarks on the erroneous character of interpretational experience and its objectivity.