Allamah Tabatabaii on the Theory of Salvation in the Qur’an

Salvation and redemption are one of the most important and far-reaching issue of different religions. After the definition of salvation i.e. man’s desired situation, the first question proposed for study is how to achieve that situation. There is some specific definition of salvation in every religion. All religions have come to rescue mankind from the current undesirable situation taking him into an ideal desirable one. They also study how to attain that desirable situation, yet to come. Indeed, all religions carry a message and call to all human beings in order to help them achieve salvation and redemption, the scale of such a message is the distance between the ongoing situation and the ideal one. Of course, the way how to invite and call people is different in different religions. Having examined Allamah Tabatabaii’s viewpoint through a descriptive-analytic method in their research, the authors go to draw the conclusion that religions are one with Allah without any discrepancy. The true faith is one identical divine tradition to meet man’s innate nature in the course of man’s demand for salvation and happiness. In its core unity, divine faith wears the clothes of multiplicity, since different specific faiths appeared through different prophets due to different capacities and interests of different societies in the course of their development. According to this view, all divine religions provided man with salvation in their particular time. Based on the faith and good deeds of their followers, all religions helped them achieve salvation and redemption.