The Role of Political and Cultural Elites in Social Damages

Undoubtedly, society is the room of human perfection and happiness; but this room has been suffering from damages during his life, which has created problems on the path to human happiness, identifying the influential factors in this issue is one of the requirements of the scientific society. Accordingly, using descriptive-analytical method and focusing on historical documents and evidence such as Nahj al-Balagha, the elite's influence on social harm has been discussed in this paper. Given that sedition is one of the most important examples of social damages and in some way the source of many other damages, it is considered as the subject of the study to show, through historical and social evidence, how political and cultural elites can put society and its values at risk and ruin.