اندیشنامه ولایت
پیاپی 1 (بهار و تابستان 1394)

This paper analyzes the position and importance of Imamate from Imam Khomeini's point of view. To show the importance of this point, some subjects  are referred to as: Imamate as a part of  religion and divine deposit, introducing the death of the unfamiliar to Imam as the death of ignorance era, nonacceptibilty of prayers without acceptance of Imamate, imamate as the face and compliment of religion. The position of Imams in the world considering the formative vilayat and legislative one are the point of discussion in the second part of this paper. As being mentioned, Imam Khomeini with his mystical approach illustrates Imams as the caliph of Allah and the formative means of divine blessings in this world. He, considering the legislative vilayat, introduces Imams just like holy prophet as possessing the divine knowledge which gives them the right of legislative vilayat.

This paper aims to analyze the two leaders` letters about the authority of the government and the Islamic leader written by Imam Khomeini, and his predecessor Imam Khamenei. The letters written due to some inquiries from Imam Khomeini and gathered based on Imam Khamenei's speeches in Friday prayers, once explaining the Imam Khomeini's viewpoints, illustrate the authority of the government and Islamic leader, Vilayat-e faqih, so extended. Explaining about these extended authorities, these letters emphasizes that if such authorities were limited, governmental issues and problems of the society as well as the country's governance would face many difficulties. Presenting these letters, giving explanation about them, and mentioning the viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamenei about faqih`s vilayate motlaqa and supporting reasons are the points being mentioned in this paper.

Shiite viewpoint about government has been affected by the holy Prophet's teachings and infallible Imams' so much so that the pyramid of power has been defined specially which is due to the divine appointment in human society.  Infallible Imams in this system are appointed by Allah. Not only has this divine leadership been considered at the presence of Imam, but also because of the necessity of the divine rules for the society, this point is highly noticed for the time of occultation, too. This is the belief of the Shiite that political and religious leadership during the time of occultation is the duty of a fully qualified and pious faqih. Considering the realities of the history of Islamic civilization, this belief has started from a simple theory and has improved to a perfect and completed one. In this paper, this process is to be analyzed.

It is inevitable to define "otherness" for knowing "self" to realize and know any kind of "identity". In this regard, Imam Khomeini's thoughts as an identifiable framework for any Muslim paid special attention to the "otherness". This paper seeks to demonstrate this process in the political speeches of Imam Khomeini and introduces defined "otherness", being based on Islamic monotheism, in his thought. This "otherness" which is consisted of violent self to global arrogance dedicates a new identity to Muslim people which would affect their earthly and heavenly lives both.

In order to continue its life as well as expand its great discourse, Islamic Republic of Iran needs to reread political thought and method of its founder and rectify the its passed ways based on this very discourse. This paper has focused on Sazandegi state`s discourse. In spite of the fact that the sub-discourse of this state, like other states, had been the result of changes in the great discourse of Islamic Republic, one may claim its considerable differences with the political discourse of Imam Khomeini. This paper refers to main differences of these two discourses as: decreasing and setting up the otherness, challenging of pragmatism and technocracy, balanced development and development pattern, different viewpoints and tendency to such categories like efficiency and justice, development and justice, freedom and development, independency and development, and type of validity of some teachings like religion and social systems.