Shabestari even suggests that there has been a divine providence for a separation of religious values and secular realities: In his book, Naghdi Bar Ghera'at e Rasmi az Din A Critique of the Official Reading of Religion, December, 2000 Shabestari pursues his critique of religious absolutism as hermeneutically naive and realistically unworkable.
He regularly organized international conferences on the theme of Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Shabestari argues that distinguishing the eternal values , from the changeable instances and applications in religion needs a kind of knowledge that is not, itself, contained in the rules developed in Islamic jurisprudence.