Jurisprudential Principles of Maintaining the Goverment System in Imam Khomeini's Political Thought

One of the important topics in political thought is maintaining the system. Having an analytico-descriptive method to analyze the state jurisprudence components, the study investigates the principles of maintaining the Islamic System in Imam Khomeini’s political thought. Imam Khomeini believes that political provisions are in line with maintaining and flourishing religion while the government system is a power to execute the religious provisions and to show flexibility in some emergency cases and conditions based on its specific principles and limitations but in a temporary state. For him, maintenance of the system is among the most important duties and in conflict with other provisions, maintenance of the system is more important than other provisions in regard to governmental decree, expediency of the system, and secondary provisions.