Anwar-e Ma`rifat

Undoubtedly, one can reach a deep and comprehensive understanding of religious spirituality and determine its position and value in the face of non-religious (secular) spirituality only when the foundations of such spirituality are fully explained. These foundations can be examined in ontological, epistemological, anthropological, teleological, and axiological dimensions. Using an analytical-descriptive method and focusing on one of these foundations, namely the epistemological foundations of spirituality, this article has attempted to explain the role and value of human endogenous cognitive resources, i.e. intuition, nature, and reason, as well as the exogenous source of revelation in the formation and orientation of spirituality. Furthermore, considering the fundamental challenges that exist in the rationality of non-religious spirituality, it examines the role of rationality and realism in religious and genuine spirituality, the communication mechanism, and the impact of rationality on the insight, tendency, and action dimensions of spirituality. Finally, considering the views of religious and spiritual intellectuals who have distinguished worship and reason and considered the combination of the two as impossible, it has responded to some of the doubts in this regard.