Social Seditions and the Working Methods of Dealing with Them

Sedition in social fields means turbulence, division, conflict, and even killing. According to the Holy Qur’an, sedition is more serious than killing. Based on the Qur’anic verses and traditions, the world of Islam will pass through seditions and plots, but God the Almighty and His Messenger have already shown the way out of them. Thus, if we look at the issue of sedition from a historical perspective, the roots of social sedition can be taken to be in the conflicts and disputes over the rule and the succession of the Messenger of God (may peace be upon him and his progeny) to whose consequences the Qur’anic verses and traditions have given admonitions. To overcome these plots and seditions, there would be no way other than returning to the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and Itrah (the Infallible Imams), the real successors of the Prophet. From among the working ways to confront the seditions and plots one can enumerate the following: the authority of the Islamic ruler, recognition of the capacities of the Muslim community such as the heads of the nomadic tribes, people-based organizations, and the like, illuminating preaching of the Muslim scholars, deep insight into the enemies’ plots and full awareness of the beliefs and thoughts of the Islamic denominations. These working ways along with contemplating the Qur’anic verses and the traditions narrated by both Sunni and Shi’a scholars can help to deal with seditions and plots. This research has been conducted drawing upon library method as well as descriptive -deductive approach.