حجت الله فغانی

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamedani is an Iranian gnostic, Sufi, scientist, and poet of the 8th century AH. and a major leader of Islam religion in Central Asia that had very important role in spreading Sufism in this region. The history of origin of Sufism is shortly reviewed in this article. Disposition to Sufism in Transoxania and formation of Sufi chains in this region are analyzed and the most significant chains are presented in accordance to their influence. According to existing original sources in this field, Nakshbandiya, Qadiriya, Yasaviya and Kubraviya were the most important chains of Sufism of this area and Mir Sayyid Ali Hamedani was a powerful founder of Kubraviya in Central Asia in the 8th century AH. The relationship of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamedani with Shaykh Alaa-oddawlah Simnani, Sheykh Mahmud Mazdakani, Najmuddin Muhammad Aldakani and Shaykh Akhi Alidusti and the travels that he had made on recommendation of some of these great men to different regions, including Khatlan and Turkistan are considered in this article as well. Some of the disciples and followers of this great thinker that became leaders of Mysticism and Sufism in the following ages are introduced at the end of the article.

Cultural invasion, aiming to establish intellectual and cultural hegemony over socio-individual life of a nation through beliefs, behaviors, methods and customs, includes negation of cultural and national identity of a country. Meanwhile, counteraction with cultural invasion is divided into two categories including offensive and defensive; as well, cognition and exploitation of the cultural weak points of invader is a defensive approach for counterattack. The current paper aims to review the weak points of West's culture versus cultural invasion from the viewpoint of supreme leader (may God prolong his life) upon posing the question as: What are the West's cultural weak points in line with countering cultural invasion from the viewpoint of the supreme leader? Elsewhere, this study is an applied one in type which exercises descriptive method with the approach of content-analysis and gathers data on desk and from specialized sources. In light of the speeches delivered by the supreme leader, the outcome of the study demonstrates that the cultural weak points of the West's culture with respect to values include identity crisis, the dead-end of capitalism, wide social gap and injustice; in terms of beliefs, the former include distance from spirituality and ethics, emission of nihilism, extinction of greatness for women and unrestricted liberty; as well, in line with behavior, they include destruction of families, frustration, depression, spiritual instability, homosexuality and sexual slavery, unrestricted liberty in man-woman relations, violence and terrorism, ethical multilateralism and moral instability, and depletion of West's culture from emotion.