Democracy, Freedom and Secularism in the Eyes of Imam Khomeini (ra)
Subject Areas : Iranian Political Researchزهرا صداقتی نیا 1 , محمد قدرتی 2 , مقصود رنجبر 3
1 - کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی عمومی، واحد قم، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، قم، ایران
2 - کارشناسی ارشد حقوق خصوصی، واحد گرگان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، گرگان، ایران
3 - استادیار، واحد قم، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، قم، ایران
Keywords: آزادی, دموکراسی, سکولاریسم, freedom, Imam Khomeini, democracy, اندیشه سیاسی, secularism, حکومت اسلامی, Islamic government, امام خمینی, Political Thought,
Abstract :
This article tries to describe and elucidate political thought of Imam Khomeini (ra) and in order to make processes of freedom, democracy and secularism as he had in his mind. No doubt, his ideas are broad-based, integrated and logical and their elements are organically related to one another. Considering political development is one of the approaches to attain typical community concerned to Imam (ra). What is accepted is to pay attention to democracy and approval of what the majority believes in the ideas ruling over the regime. Founder of Islamic Republic of Iran by expressing that he is not opt to impose something on people of Iran, nor are Islam and Prophet (s) permitted to do so referred to likely similarity of his concerned democracy to the western type of democracy and clarified: “the democracy we want to establish is not available in west. Democracy of Islam is more complete than that of the west. “Category of freedom as primary right of mankind has been accepted in this government. Imam Khomeini (ra) believed: “There is freedom in Islam for all walks of life. Basis is national freedom and independence.” Of course, he made it clear that: “Freedom remains limited according to law; freedom ceases to mean that whoever says whatever he wishes to say.” Islamic Republic is a government based on freedom and democracy in the framework of Islam. In secularism, the followers envision that religion and anything with sanctity and spirituality must be set aside from social activities and relations. Therefore, vision and religion are placed exclusive and limited to personal matters and they are incompatible with categories of politics and society. This stream of thought must be originally sought in the positions taken by the west against religion.
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