Islamic Republic: Form and Content in the Thought of Martyr Motahhari (may his soul be sanctified) مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

Whenever in a country, an overwhelming majority accepts a school of thought or a religion and desires the sovereignty of the laws of that school or religion, and selects executors based on the rules and regulations of that school or religion, democracy here is placed within the framework of the school and religion and loses its free and unconstrained state. " With this action, he announced to the world that "democracy" is not limited to "liberal democracy" and that the people of Iran have resolved to choose religious democracy and accept the life-giving laws of Islam as the law of government. "Freedom" and "Choice" as two important indicators of democracy In a democracy, various opinions and thoughts must be presented freely, diverse models and patterns must be explained by thinkers and intellectuals, and the possibility of choosing among different options must be available, so that then the people can select one from the provided options. 5 In the system of the Islamic Republic proposed by the Imam and his companions, true democracy must prevail, and the people have wanted Islam to be the law of their government, and they [wish to] choose the executors of the law and the rulers of society Ibid, p. Attention to the Acceptability of Democratic Thought Prior to the victory of the Islamic Revolution, Shahid Motahhari affirmed the public and innate acceptability of the thought and ideology of democracy, and considered calling it contradictory to religious belief to be an action detrimental to religion.