The Examination of Taqlid Pathology in the Religious Beliefs from the View of the Holy Quran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant professor at University of Isfahan

2 A PhD student of the Quran Sciences & Hadith

Abstract

The narrative of history of human social life indicates that in all human communities, a group with the economic, religious and political skills is believed that they are elite and they guide the other people. The role of the religious scholars and intellects in the orientation of common people are important and unique. The holy Quran also with welcoming this outward reality with mentioning different samples has pathologized it and has tried to reduce the social thought gap by the repeated request for thinking. From the view of the Quran, following religious elites does not cause to eliminate responsibility in the presence and watching of God and all people are responsible for their adopted religious approach (acts). For this, all people repeatedly have been invited to rationality and thinking over the revelation texts, beside the consciousness of the religious concepts, the divine book is the criterion for recognizing truth from untruth in the elites' claims. In the Quran reasoning, intellectual dependence of the common people on the elites is fault and disagreeable and it is the duty of all people to advance their consciousness and rationality in the religious proofs being presented by the community leaders in order to set themselves on the right path and follow the pious elites consciously to the eternal welfare.

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