Freedom in the Islamic Government from the perspective of Shahid Motahhari مقاله

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Motahhari believes that this type of attitude toward religion and the fundamental rights of the people caused a kind of correlation between belief in God and submission to rulers and the deprivation of those who consider the Islamic nature of the republic to be contrary to the spirit of democracy, it is because the democracy they accept is still that same democracy of the eighteenth century. » (30) According to the Professor, the Islamic nature of the Islamic Republic in no way conflicts with national sovereignty or, more generally, with democracy and populism, and democratic principles never necessitate that a society should not be ruled by a religion or a school of thought; on one hand, the source of the error of those who consider the Islamic nature of the republic to be contrary to the spirit of democracy is that the democracy they accept is still that same eighteenth-century democracy, in which human rights are summarized in matters related to livelihood, food, housing, clothing, and freedom in choosing a material way of living. (40) From the Professor's collection of discussions criticizing "freedom from the perspective of liberal democracy," one can conclude that, in his view, democracy in its best and most efficient form is only the provider of the material interests of the people, whereas the Islamic government, in addition to this, by providing freedom restricted to the limits of Sharia for citizens, considers its primary duty to be the humanization, reconstruction, and elevation of the spiritual affairs of the people, and as its most significant distinction from liberal democracy, it replaces individualism and anthropocentrism with God-centeredness.