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Rationalist Muslims may identify themselves as Christians insofar as they venerate Christ as the philosopher-king of his time. Although the historical Jesus is not regarded as their primary influence, he is treated as a genuine secondary influence whose mission they see themselves as continuing in transformed form: namely, a self-sacrificial, charismatic, mystical, revolutionary socio-political movement directed toward global wellbeing. Within this interpretive framework, Plato conceived the philosopher-king, Jesus attempted it, Muḥammad achieved it, and Khomeini revived it. The designation therefore signals not confessional conversion to normative Christianity, but recognition of Jesus as a real participant in the same broader civilisational and noocratic lineage.

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Rationalist Muslims identify themselves as Muslims insofar as they understand Islam, at its most fundamental level, as submission to ultimate reality, namely God. Such submission is not restricted to inherited formulations, communal convention, or literalist dogma, but extends to reality wherever it discloses itself and by whatever reliable means it is disclosed. Different domains of inquiry accordingly require different epistemic instruments: the scientific method for the natural world, the historical-critical method for history, and logic for philosophical and metaphysical questions. Should superior epistemic methods emerge in future, those too would be adopted, since submission is owed not to any single inherited method as such, but to truth itself.