Formulating a New Argument in the Legitimacy of Islam, Explaining the Theory of the Density of Virtues in an Immediate Generation

Extended Abstract Throughout history, man has chosen various arguments to support his claims and his ideas. Now, it seems that inductive-statistical reasoning methods can bring new achievements to theology. The main purpose of the present study is to prove the legitimacy of the Shiite religion with an innovative approach. The study uses library resources with an analytical-exploratory method. Roy Bhaskar, the developer of the epistemological framework of critical realism, explains that the subject of scientific activity is not the study of events, rather, it is a study of the mechanisms that produce events. These mechanisms are real and independent of the existence of identifying the agent (researcher) in nature, but the result of the activity of a mechanism may not be realized or observed by the researcher. In the natural and social sciences, a randomization strategy is used to control such disturbing effects. In such a situation, the researcher tries to neutralize the effect of disturbing mechanisms by repeating the experiment or observing it in various contextual conditions repeatedly and then calculating the mean and performing statistical assumptions. Philosophers of science consider such explanations to be scientific issues and call them inductive-statistical explanations. The same process applies to historical analysis. When a theologian intends to judge the legitimacy of that religion by exploring the behavior and speech of the great men of the religion, he may encounter disturbing mechanisms. For example, the narrators may not have narrated the events accurately and completely due to carelessness, or they may have manipulated the hadith and the chain of documents due to bad motives. Due to Taqiya, Imams try to behave differently from normal conditions. In fact, these historical events took place a few hundred years ago in an open system, and it is not possible for the present-day researcher to recreate those experiences in the laboratory. But given that the behavior and traditions of 14 Shiite leaders (each of these Infallibles was the son of the previous Imam) have been reliably recorded and made available to us over 250 years, we can repeat a series of special virtues and characteristics in an immediate 14 generations. Imams have been born continuously and one after the other for two hundred and fifty years, and all of them, according to the authentic and numerous historical sources, in terms of science, piety, observing the poor, self-sacrific