Identifying Cognitive Components of Social Capital from Imam Khomeini Point of View

This study aims to identifying components of social capital in cognitive and mental dimensions from Imam Khomeini point of view, in Sahifa Noor book. Research method is qualitative and consists of inductive content analysis. For this purpose, from 22 volumes of Sahifa Noor book, 15volumes are selected and in order to make a relation between these books and social capital concepts, and by taking notes from library resources through classification processes, Coding and theme making, they have been analyzed. Results show "god centeredness", "Islam centeredness", "trust", "reliability", "rule orienting and believeing that god monitors us", are important factors of social capital's cognitive components from Imam Khomeini point of view. The authors of the article concluded that Imam Khomeini has recommended people and officials according to the commands of God and emphasis on the necessity of increasing trust and social integration and the practice of the laws.