جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "occultation era" در نشریات گروه "علوم سیاسی"

One of the doubts that are widely levelled against the intellectual foundations of the Islamic government, especially the issue of the guardianship of the Muslim jurisconsult, is that the formation of the government during the Period of Occultation causes people to be pessimistic about Islam and such pessimism about Islam carries with it a massive corruption. Because in this period, due to the absence of Infallible Imam, with the establishment of a religious government, mistakes are made by government officials, and people tend to ascribe their mistakes to Islam and become pessimistic about Islam. In addition to the fact that the mentioned doubt does not correspond to any of the Four Proofs, it is also against the life-style of the Infallibles and some realities in the period when the Infallibles were present, and even run contrary to some rules of the principles of jurisprudence, for example, with the rule “المیسورلایسقط بالمعسور” which says “that which is easy should not be abandoned due to what is difficult”. The mentioned doubt has been analyzed and criticized based on the above evidence.

Some believe that a religious government during the Occultation Era does not have the necessary legitimacy. The proponents of the idea have presented reasons most of which refer to the absence of the twelfth Imam per se and the existence of narrations that have pictured any uprisings or restorative movements as useless, inefficient and even illegitimate. The present study is aimed at indicating that the absence of the twelfth Imam per se may not be a reason for the illegitimacy of the religious government but a religious government can set the stage for the messianic culture. It will also show that despite the existence of narrations that reject the legitimacy of an uprising during the Occultation Era, there are genuine narrations in the narrative reference books that refer to the legitimacy of the movement. By drawing a comparison between the two categories of narrations, it may be concluded that some of those uprisings, including Imam Khomeini’s uprising that led to an Islamic government, were legitimate in case of having the conditions of an uprising.