Methodology of responding to doubts about Martyr Motahari in the book Mutual Services of Islam and Iran

Document Type : Research

Author

Qom Seminary

10.22081/iqiri.2025.72775.1204

Abstract

With the changes in the intellectual space of society and the creation of new problems and doubts, we need new methods to deal with them. For this, we need innovation. One thing we should pay attention to is that before innovating, we should study the works of the scholars of that science so that we do not end up doing the same thing again, because it is possible that a scholar has already used that method, and by creating an opportunity to criticize and examine the methods of those scholars, we can take a firmer and faster path to innovation. The purpose of this article is to reread the preface and the first part of the book Mutual Services of Islam and Iran to extract the methodology of how to respond to doubts by Professor Motahari so that this scholar's method can be used in responding to doubts in theology. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical. In this book, Professor Motahari explains the problem in the first stage to respond to doubts. And the second stage deals with answering the problem, each stage having several steps. In response to doubt, Professor Motahari considers it important to explain the problem, and for this reason, he explains the different dimensions of the problem to make the audience think and at the same stage of explaining the problem, the audience receives part of their answer. In the section on answering the problem, he first enters into the discussion with the audience's logic and leads the audience step by step in a logical manner, and finally transforms the audience's logic into transcendent rational logic (the authenticity of truth).

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