Basically, humans have limited knowledge in many things, both about the visible and the unseen, and also the limitations in predicting what will happen to him and others, and so on. Because of these limitations then man needs to need a religion to help and provide spiritual enlightenment to his self.
Man needs religion not just for his own goodness before God alone, but also to help himself in the face of various problems that sometimes can not be understood. It is here that man is hinted at by his self and his nature that Substance is superior to his Self, All-Great, as the anthropologist explains that religion is a response to the need to overcome the failures arising from the inability of humans to understand the events or Events of various kinds can not be accurately known (Sulaiman dan Albuny, 1984 :
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Apart from that religion also gives a signal to man and nature that there is a superior Substance, the All-Mighty Substance, in which man needs to rely on Him through the medium of religion. In other words, it is necessary to rely on and take (tawakal) to Him through religion because religion becomes a place for us to complain and communicate with God. Our submission to God is based on a doctrine that man can only try, God determines.