The Nature of Qur’ānic Training in Faḍl Allāh’s Viewpoint

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Faḍl Allāh considers religion as a training device by which one can be rescued from weakness and achieve power. In his view, the role of religion tends towards practicality with a spirit of devotion and use of dispositional prerequisites. Also, the religious training can come to fruition and produce godlike and powerful human beings through impressive God-seeking mechanisms with such characteristics as devotion, practice of piety, risk-taking, development of faith and reinforcement of action, attempting to unveil realities, increasing the quality of actions, following the instructions of the trainer in relation to community-improvement, pointing out the relation between difficulties and deviations, and imposing restrictions on the offenders.