Exploring Contributory Factors to Inactivity and Posing Mentally-posited Obstacles in Creating Modern Islamic Civilization from the Viewpoint of Grand Leader, Ayatullah Khamenei

In the thesis of modern Islamic civilization as put forward by Grand Leader Ayatullah Khamenei, one of the emphasized pivotal points in his thought is the mentally-posited obstacles in creating a modern Islamic civilization into which no research has ever been made. Drawing upon a descriptive-analytic method, this article aims to identify the factors causing inactivity in creating a modern Islamic civilization, basing its discussions on ÝAllÁmeh ÓabÁÔabÁÐ’s theory of mentally-posited concepts as well as the teachings of the Holy Quran and certain Islamic sources, trying to provide an answer to the question, “What factors has the Grand Leader, Ayatullah Khamenei, introduced as the mentally posited-obstacles in achieving a modern Islamic civilization?” The findings of the present research shows that inattention to identity considerations and multiplicity of ideational divisions as well as changing and unchanging needs whose results would be infiltration, dependence, insecurity, self-deprecation and imitation along with inattention to the needs of what he calls pre-society and post-society and the way in which mentally-posited knowledge stands in relation to social realities and faces diversities of the modern Islamic civilization in discrediting the principles of the Islamic Revolutions, the Imam Khomeini’s line, Islamic life-style and, last but not least, discrediting the necessity of countering the enemy’s threat are the main causes of stagnation or inactivity in creating modern Islamic civilization.