tem in Threats Posed to National Product in Islam’s Political Sys View of Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shahabadi

Islamic economy places emphasis on manufacturing national product and meeting domestic demands within the national boundaries. Many thinkers and scholars have writtenand spoken about this need. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shahabadi is among the scholarswho has doubly s tressed supplying goods within the Islamic nations. In his Shazrat al-Ma’arif he has explained various aspects of manufacturing national product. This paperintends to apply an analytical-descriptive method and use library documents to find anappropriate answer to the following ques tion: What are the national product threats ineconomic views of Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shahabadi? Some findings of the paperindicate that manufacturing national product is in direct relation with political power andnational dignity so that inattention to meeting economic demands in Muslim nations,will pave the ground for economic dependency and impose ins tability on the pillars ofIslamic government. Some national product threats in Islam’s political sys tem accordingto Ayatollah Shahabadi are the following: sinking into indolence and luxury, discord ineconomic activities, mismanagement in public treasury, thirs t for welfare by citizens,dependence of national economy on foreign goods and indus tries, discounted loans andusury, export of unprocessed natural resources, lack of gratitude for God’s Grace, capitalaccumulation and creating obs tacles to manufacturing sector, economic conflicts.