BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The research under the name: "Religious intellectual components influenced by Sufi literature" aims to compare the words of the people of knowledge and tariqat (in poetry) with religious intellectual components in contemporary Iran, such as: rationality, tolerance and Tolerance, pluralism, religious democracy, gender freedom and equality before the law and things like this-which are mainly the result of modernity and today"s world-have been matched and from this point of view, how and the extent of the productivity of religious intellectuals from the legacy of ancient Sufi literature present to the reader. METHODOLOGY: The search method in this research was analytical-descriptive. Based on this, by using library resources and taking notes from reliable scientific sources, the intended goals have been pursued. FINDINGS: Among the findings of this research, it is possible to mention: familiarity with the flow of religious intellectuals as well as their intellectual components-in three generations-in the contemporary era. Another thing is that the intellectual flow from the first generation that starts with Mohammad Taqi Shariati, Mehdi Bazargan and Seyyed Mahmoud Taleghani to the second and third generation namely Ali Shariati, Mohammad Mojtahedshabestari and Abdul Karim Soroush and several others, what intellectual (ideological) stages have they gone through and finally the generation How have the Soumis been able to adapt today"s intellectual components, which mainly originate from the Western world, with the thoughts and teachings of the people of the Iranian Tariqat and knowledge, and in a re-interpretation they offer to their society. CONCLUSION: What was obtained from the above research is, in short, that: the current of religious intellectuals is the continuation of the path of religiosity and idealism that was formed after the arrival of Islam in Iran. The intellectualism of the current generation began with the appearance and presence of personalities such as Seyyed Jamal Asadabadi, Mohammad Abdo and Mohammad Bagher Sadr and was continued by Mohammad Taqi Shariati, Ayatollah Taleghani, Professor Morteza Motahari, and then Ali Shariati. With the emergence of Ali Shariati, Abdul Karim Soroush, Mohammad Mojtahdshabastri, Seyed Mustafa Mohagheg Damad, Gholamhossein Ebrahimdinani, etc., this movement experienced its third generation and despite all the differences of opinion and tastes that existed among these people, they were in agreement on several things, such as: Many articles of the declaration of human rights, ideological and political tolerance, pluralism, freedom and equality of rights of individuals and minorities, gender equality of men and women in the law, etc. Of course, Motahari, Taleghani, and Ebrahimi, moderate religious people, and others such as Soroush, Mojtahdshabastri, and Malikian, who are more avant-garde, have appeared.