NEEDS OF PEOPLE TO RELIGION AND DIVINE TEACHING

The epistemological and non-epistemological intrinsic limitations of men cause his unavoidable need to the role of religion and divine teaching. In this regard, we can divide men’s essential need into two groups of individual and social. Religion regarding individual need can play a significant role in answering his basic questions, giving the real meaning of life, guarantee moral actions, and explaining details of life Hereafter.  Concerning social needs, it especially plays an important role in explaining criterion of justice-based life and just rulership. In this regard, shortcoming of men’s logic to infer and organize the general universal rules which is based on justice highlights the role of divine teaching that some elites consider it as the philosophy of prophets’ Bechr('39')stat. On the other hand, the effective role of religion can play its role if its teaching be original, authentic, unerring, rooted in a real divine source; these features merely are present in Quran. The present article, after explanation of different types of men, by stressing on essential individual and social need of men, deals with the role of religion and divine teaching in answering these needs and Quran’s capability. the result part of the study shows that the intrinsic limitations of men is an obstacle to play the role of God by men. Therefore, the best solution to answer basic needs, realizing tendency to immortality and providing him true happiness is to attach God and follow His commands, which are in the form of divine teaching.