The Metaphor of Vaghf (Dedication) about the Government

The position and structure of the government is dependent on and influenced by understanding of it by the governors and based on their understanding of the “government”, they constitute and organize its structures and relations. There exist two understandings of the “governance”: the possessive feudal governance and the Velayatieh (leadership) governance. The first one is similar to the relation between the slave and his master and the second one; the truster and the trusted. Each one of these two produces structures and behaviors consistent with their nature and become at the service of special groups of people. This paper attempts to analyze the cognitive metaphor of the “governance as Vaghf (dedication) theory” and hereby, after explanation of concepts like dedication, trust, governance and the similarities of the two notions of “dedication” and “governance”, identifies the concept of dedication and its goals and it was tried to analytically investigate the “trusts” understanding of government and introduce the resultant achievements from this metaphorical analysis.