Imaging of the Future in National Vision on the Teachings of Islam

Future images represent some kind of collective consciousness of expectations, fears, and hopes. Future images help to shape actions and the most fundamental future questions are related to future images, their formation and consequences. The perception of different images of future leads to different behaviors and reactions in present. Every action is associated with a future image. Future imagination in Islam can be reviewed in two levels: individual and societal. Based on this fact, if religion has future-oriented nature, a religious person would also have this nature and finally the society would move to this direction. Perfect human and justice society have been reviewed in individual and societal levels, respectively. The identification of these factors determine the importance of future imagination in Islam and the position of celestial foresight- leading to consciousness imagination- reveals significant points about future and its features in Quran and narrations of Imams. Concepts about time and uncertainty, and also looking and acting on the teachings of religion about imagination could be considered for assumptions formulation and modeling in this field. This article aims to answer the question that what are components of individual and social imagination from Islam perspective, and what is the role of these components in formulation and realization of twenty-year vision of country development.