Assessment Ostad Motahari and Iqbal Lahuri's viewpoints regarding the fall of Islamic reflections and methods for reviving them

With a comparative approach, the present paper assesses the reasons behind the downfall of Islamic thinking in the world of Islam which resulted in the downfall of Muslim countries according to the viewpoints of Ostad Motahari and Iqbal Lahuri. The author assesses several local and international issues which caused the deviation and fall of Islamic viewpoints. There are several commonalities between the theories of Iqbal and Ostad Motahari. Among them are the presence of the foreigner's reflections in different forms, invasion of colonizers and having non-Islamic understanding of the religious teachings, dogmatism and so forth. In the end, the author explains common positions and strategies in the form of religious reflections, Ijtihad and empowering Islamic for governing Islamic society.