Associate Professor at “Philosophy Department” of Mofid University
040109
Abstract
The state of the existing religions is such that no religion has the majority in terms of the number of piouss in the world; In the sense that if we consider any religion, the majority of people are outside that religion. On the other hand, this majority is not hostile to the truth, and maybe they have gone wrong in their religion without any fault. Now the question is how to define the way of salvation so that divine justice is not questioned and all people who are really seeking to obey the truth reach salvation? Ayatollah Motahari has a special theory about this, which he calls "innate Islam". According to this theory, every person who is truly a follower of the truth and has no fault in the way of knowing the truth and not blaming it, is a person of salvation. But the question is, how much of the examples of truth are clear and obvious to all people that no one is excused from rejecting them? Ayatollah Motahari says that there are instincts for human beings that he considers all human beings to be obliged to obey. The expression and examination of the theory of "innate Islam" is the subject of this article.
