فصلنامه مطالعات انقلاب اسلامی
پیاپی 18 (پاییز 1388)

Futurology is the process of introducing a complex of views towards the future and possible ways to make the future. The better understanding of those views we have, the better decisions for the future we can take. Islamic Revolution, looking to the future and passing through vicissitudes of the past three decades, finds its way hoping for the future.The need for a view towards future is vital not only for the impression Islamic Revolution has had inside Iran but also for international effects it has had on attitudes, structures and intellectual movements, which have been opportunities or challenges for Islamic Revolution and basis for our understanding of future challenges for Iran.The main question is that Islamic Republic, with its religious nature and global approach, and the especial position it has acquired through three decades, would face what challenges in the future.

Mortaza Motahari illustrated the desired future of Islamic Revolution. Focusing on Islam and Islamic values, he suggested that Islamic Revolution would continue if only four principles of social equality, independence, freedom and Islamic morality would be preserved. He believed that a vivid future would be brought just by learning from the past. Mentioning historical experiences, he stressed on recognizing challenges, obstacles and dangers, and on making effort to eliminate them. He also emphasized the importance of training a faithful society and a generation loyal to the ideals of Islamic Revolution. He declares these are necessary, yet not enough, to accomplish the truth of Islamic Revolution.

The 1979 Islamic Revolution was a momentous event, causing enormous changes in different subjective and objective fields in the world, affecting global equations, and changing the directions illustrated by the superpowers of the world.This article examines how important the role of Islamic Republic in changing the global equations was, whether Islamic Revolution did play a significant role in international relations, and what the place of Islamic Revolution in future global system would be.The author discusses the position of the West and the Communist countries briefly and separately, and elaborates the challenges before them. He, then, counts Islamic Republic of Iran privileges in the world calling them significant in the future of its international role. He suggests that Iran requires plans and actions, as the twenty-year prospect document, to save an appropriate international role.

The future of Islamic Revolution is a complex subject, and certainly a matter with considerable importance which has been hotly debated by those who support or reject the revolution. The major question is what will happen to Islamic Revolution and how it would develop or meet its obstruction in the future.The author presents a discussion on three current attitudes toward the above questions and analyzes the future, considering a comparative and analytical reasoning based on the current events in Iran. The attitudes include unconditional continuation, unconditional transformation and conditioned continuation of Islamic Revolution. He thoroughly differentiates between Islamic Revolution and Islamic Republic, and stresses the former being associated with unconditional continuation and the latter with conditioned continuation.

One way to understand the importance and nature of a great revolution as Islamic Revolution of Iran is through comparing that with other revolutions in the world. Considering political situation, international support, and military and economic condition of that time, this essay tries to make a comparison between Islamic Revolution and four great revolutions: 1789 of France, 1917 of Russia, 1949 of China, and 1962 of Algeria. The comparison shows that contrary to those four countries, the-1979-Iran, or better to say Pahlavi Regime, was in a good shape considering the economy, international support and military conditions. However, legitimacy and acceptability of all these four governments and Iran of that time was not popularly in good condition.

This article focuses on how Islamic Republic could survive throughout internal and external conspiracies. The author firstly mentions the activities which are done to stabilize the Islamic Republic in Iran, and then, he reviews obstacles the Islamic Republic has faced. Focusing on the activities which needed to be done, and had been done, one would assume that they were essentially helpful in stabilization of Islamic Republic, and removing the obstacles they had made the foes disappointed.

"Promotion of Good" and "Prevention of Evil" are of most significant Islamic teachings which have direct and strong influence on other Islamic notions. Leaving these two in social and religious life of people in the last days is considerably important to be studied. Their refinement and expansion in the Post-Appearance era may present fine visions of that time. In this essay, the article number 7, of Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution is reviewed and fulfillment of the government is observed. The main question to be answered here is the position and significance of "Promotion of Good" and "Prevention of Evil" in three eras; the last days, ruling time of Islamic republic of Iran, and the Post-Appearance era.