Political Security of Individuals and Its Referent in Imami Fiqh

Security and especially political security in all modern societies, is considered as one of the main factors of the fundamental rights of individuals and has taken the essence of the human rights. Taking this importance into account, this paper seeks to reconsider political security and its most important element as the referent of security in teachings of Shiite political Fiqh. First, standards and criteria for identifying the referent of security after briefly explaining the status of the issue in security studies. Political security has three standards of "the right to adopt and express any political opinion", "the right to be elected to a political office" and "the right to elect officials and political authorities". Then we study the "referent of political security" by considering the most important issue in political Fiqh. "The right to adopt and express political opinions" is the most important proposition in political security of individuals in Imami Fiqh in that it encompasses other political rights and freedoms.