The Relationship between Morality and Politics with Emphasis on Imam Khomeini's View

In this article, the author argues against the idea that there are three kinds of relations between morality and politics, i.e. separation of morality from politics, fundamentality of morality and subordination of politics, and fundamentality of politics and subordination of morality. He disagrees with such supposition and introduces another kind of relation giving it the title "unity of morality and politics" and considers that each one of three mentioned relations leads to disuniting the domain of morality and politics. According to the fourth view, there is only one truth to which various perspectives look differently. This view is a reflection of the universality of religion and human nature and the overlap between them.The author associates the attendance (iqbal) and retreat (idbar) of intellect with the two historical courses of truth and falsehood in man's life and considers that the ranscendence and decline of man and society is related to the either of them. The author presents at the end of the discussion an overview of the characteristics of the monotheistic Islamic society considering it as the stage of man's actual attainment of rationaldivine power. The fact that morality and politics are one and the nsamething is based on our perception of religion and man