Features of the Desired Political Discipline from the Viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei

The topic of the present paper is the features of the desired political discipline from the viewpoints of Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei which has been analyzed with descriptiveanalytical method. For the leaders of the Islamic revolution, the political discipline has been shaped with having three sides: leader and governor, people and managers. For these two dears, such a political discipline is favored whose type is firstly Velayat-e-Faqih (governance of the jurist) and secondly, whose three sides of leader, people and managers have high and supreme features according to Islam as the yardstick (which are the primacy of faith and piety). These two great thinkers have numerated the indices of the leader and governor of the perfect political discipline as: jurisprudence, piety, justice, tactfulness and management. Also, they numerate the features of the managers as: having piety, faith and self-purification, patience and persistence, self-belief and self-confidence, being a real “server” of the people, simple life, tolerating criticisms, fighting with corruption, responsiveness, keeping unity, poverty alleviation and observing social justice, and also characteristics of people as: awareness and insight, participation and presence in different scenes and elections and, supervision and unity.