Author(s): Abdullah Niksirt*, Seyed Sajad Sadatizadeh
In this article, with a distinction between religion and religious knowledge, it is said that religion, unlike religious knowledge, is fixed, sacred and free from any defects, because it has a divine origin. But religious knowledge, like other types of human knowledge, is a mixture of right and wrong or true and false. Therefore, religion cannot be renewed, but religious knowledge is always being understood through continuous communication with other types of human knowledge. of course, this does not mean denying some of the eternal religious truths, but simply means that the mystical and general understanding of religious truths and teachings may change and evolve during time and under the influence of other types of human knowledge. This article also explains the two main views on religious knowledge. One of them believes in the general not partial change and evolution of the religious knowledge and claims the comprehensive transformation of all components of religious knowledge in general. But the other believes in limited and restricted change and evolution for religious knowledge and that such an understanding is not compatible with the fixed, eternal and unchangeable truths of religion! It has also been said that the political and authoritarian injunctions of the Shari'a are variable, but the non-political injunctions of the Shari'a are fixed.