An Inquiry into the Islamic Perspective of the Essence of Theocracy in the Western Political Thought

According to the western political thought, theocracy is a metaphysical thing, and as opposed to democracy, it has an air of disregard for people. It is also assumed that theocracy is a system in which people have to carry out duties incumbent on them without being allowed to determine their political future, and the affairs are run by only particular group who are regarded as representative of God and none other than this group can communicate with Him.This paper seeks to review the essence of theocracy in the western political thought and prove that the western assumption about theocracy is invalid and influenced by the authorities of the pre-Christian period and early Christianity, a period in which the authorities regarded themselves related in a certain way to God and metaphysics, relying on such ideas like divine nature, divine representation and divine will. The westernassumption stands groundless before the solid evidence and argument introduced by Islam which confirms that there is no such a deterministic state of affairs.