Besides religion is a way of life and becomes a benchmark that regulates the behavior of adherents in everyday life. Whether or not a person's actions depend on how obedient and how deep the appreciation of the religion is believed. Religion plays a very important role in regulating human life and directing it to the common good. To gain further understanding of the role of religion, we need religion because religion can preserve good and harmonious relations between people.
In more detail, the importance of the role of religion in human life can be understood that religion revives the noble value of morality. Releasing religion to humans has an agenda to revive morality to regulate human life. Religion strongly supports noble values which call for the principles of goodness, such as justice, honesty, tolerance, and help.
In the process of life that is lived by humans, religion is very supportive of acts of kindness. That is, religion not only provides morality values but also makes it a foundation of belief. Religion requires morality as part of the faith as a whole. Not only morality emphasized by religion is binding on each adherent.
Without religious assistance, it is certain that the values of virtue or morality will undoubtedly lose their meaning and will be transformed into a series of mere non-binding advice. In other words, values without meaning are merely patterned advice that is nothing more than mere suggestions or appeals, for example, spoken by a close friend of ours, while we are free to accept or reject it.
Religion gives strength in enduring the sufferings of life. Religion enlivens the strength in human beings to be able to face the various sufferings of life and acts as a strong fortress that protects it from the onslaught of despair and loss of hope. Thanks to strong faith and belief that God must provide help, every problem that arises and every deadlock encountered in his life can be solved and overcome. As a result, he will be able to avoid the undermining of hopelessness and futility.
So, in addition to the role of faith as a driving force/motivation, but it is also a factor that allows humans to be able to face and endure the trials of life with full rigidity and save it from bitterness due to natural failures and disappointments. Religion becomes a guide and guide to life. The Qur'an is a way of life that never changes every age. Although there are different interpretations in understanding it, there has never been a change in the scriptures that are believed to be true.
In fact, humans can not live without any guidelines or guidelines that become a reference in life. Therefore, he will tend to try to fill his life in any way and type of life guidelines, even though the guidelines and the values they contain are wrong and misleading. At that time, his intellectual life was not filled with sound beliefs and sound teachings. In such circumstances, religion can become a handle of life and intellectuals with sound teachings and be able to save someone from the inclination towards the futility of life.
Religion encourages the advancement of science. In addition to providing spiritual life guidelines, religion also encourages the advancement of science. Religious beliefs teach humans that unlimited knowledge is the source of the natural order that prevails in the universe (which is the basis of scientific theory), which is likened to a great book written by a very intelligent scholar. Each page, which contains a series of paragraphs and sentences, contains the light of the truth that encourages us to study and meditate on it.
Religion as an integrator, both individually and socially, in the sense that religion integrates and harmonizes all human activities, both as individuals and members of society, namely integration and harmony as individuals who are pious to God Almighty, as well as integration and harmony between humans as social beings in relation to others and their environment.