Religious Pluralism, Critique and Solution

This article aims to study one of the major issues in the field of religious researches, namely religious pluralism. According to the theory of religious pluralism all (or at least the divine) religions enjoy an equal degree of rightfulness and salvation.First, different interpretations of religious pluralism are discussed with an emphasis on the theory of John Hicks, the pioneer of religious pluralism in contemporary world.The article has reviews the basis of religious pluralism which is the phenomenon and noumen theory of Knowledge by Kant It is proved that accepting such basis leads one to agnosticism in knowing the reality. Then the other basis of religious pluralism i.e religious experience is discussed. Answering to the question raised by John Hospers on religious pluralism the author acknowledges religious experience as a source of knowledge. He also discusses the different interpretations of seeing and experience of God from an Islamic mystical perspective. The author presents a proper solution for these varying interpretations which differs from John Hicks pluralism in a number of ways. The article concludes by elaborating the Quranic view on seeing God.