Ma`rifat Kalami

Religious intellectuals, by distinguishing between substance and accident religion, believe that in order to reach the essence of religion, one must leave aside the externalities and requirements of the age of descent. According to them, modern rationality is one of the most important criteria for this separation. Based on this criterion, in order to accept religious teachings, modern people must evaluate them with secular rationality, and accept and preserve any doctrine that is compatible with the standards of modern rationality as inherent in religion. But if a doctrine cannot be in line with modern rationality, it should be discarded as a cross-section of religion. The current research with a descriptive-analytical approach seeks to investigate the efficiency of modern rationality in the separation of intrinsic and transverse religion. The investigation shows that modern rationality is not a suitable criterion for this separation due to its inherent flaws and limitations, as well as insisting on false foundations and assumptions such as critical realism, philosophical hermeneutics, and the distinction between noumen and phenomenon. Modern rationality, in addition to considering the presuppositions and presuppositions of the interpreter as involved in the process of understanding, believes that man is not able to fully access the truth of things and is not able to judge about religion and metaphysical issues. Therefore, the use of modern rationality as a tool to separate the intrinsic and transverse religion is not acceptable.