Understanding the levels of concept of leadership in contemporary religious poetry

The difference of religious poems with other is their content; then the main approach in criticism of this poetry, should be criticism of content. The main issue in this criticism is measurement of the understanding and poet‟s belief to the foundations of religion. The main beliefs of Shiite and its difference with other religions are mainly the concept of leadership. Then measurement of the level of knowledge and understanding of the concept of leadership and the depth of belief to this knowledge are as a decisive in content criticism of Shiite poems. In this paper, it is tried to study the various levels of this knowledge and to suggest the solutions of measuring the depth of poet‟s belief. In this research, the understanding of the concept of leadership is divided into 10 levels: The minimalistic Approaches: 1.Imam: historical character. 2. Imam: political leader. The theological and Doctrinal Approaches: 3. Imam: a virtuous man. 4. Imam: beloved in god and people. 5. Imam: deserving to leadership and caliphate. The mystical Approaches: 6. Imam: light and top truth. 7. Imam: truth of Quran. 8. Imam: present at the creation. 9. Imam: able to join and unity. The exaggerated Approaches: 10. Change Imam to God (exaggeration).In this paper, extraction of levels of poets „belief based on the Quran and Shiite Hadith and contemporary poems are selected in research.