The Role of Piety in the Positive Dimension of Strengthening National Security within the Framework of Divine Traditions

Piety in the conventional literature of defense and political studies is the concept of abandonment. From the Renaissance onwards, the element of piety was generally removed from politics, power, security, and defense. However, after many criticisms of hardware discourses such as realists as the mainstream of power and security, in the last three decades we have seen the emergence of soft discourses, and in this regard, concepts such as identity have opened a special place in power and security. Nevertheless, spiritual issues such as ethics and piety, which have strategic value in the Islamic discourse, are still not considered and research in this field is not yet prominent. Hence, the main question of the present article seeks to answer how piety is effective in strengthening and strengthening the positive dimension of national security? The method of reasoning in this research is deductive and in the theoretical framework of divine traditions and the method of secondary analysis has been used as a complement. The  findings of the research indicated that  that piety as a central sign of spirituality and faith as a divine social tradition affect the elements of social capital of a political unit and thereby strengthens the foundation of positive security by solving the problem of accountability (efficiency) and citizens' demands . The reverse is also true; That is, the inevitable result of the decline of piety is the decline of social capital, after which the foundations of the positive dimension of national security will collapse.