Transcendent Power in the Mahdavi Political System in the Thought of Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani

The basic issue of politics is power, and the waiting for the reappearance of Imam Mahdi is the issue that the era of Islamic power is waiting for. The current research aims to explain the transcendent power in the Mahdavi political system, focusing on views of the prominent Mahdavi scholar, the late Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani. In this regard, using the triangular theoretical framework of the internal system, the effective system and the ultimate system, which was one of the initiatives of one of the Muslim thinkers, the sources of power as the internal system, the agents of power as the effective system, and the goals of power as the ultimate system have been examined. This issue has been explained based on the method of implication that is presented in principles of jurisprudence (Usul Fiqh). Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani divides the power into two parts, permissive and inherent, and classifies it into five categories, and considers the power of Hazrat Waliasr (Imam Mahdi) as permissive and from God. The findings of the study suggest that he has analyzed the Mahdavi political system from the birth to the reappearance of Imam Mahdi and as well as formation of the Mahdavi political system with an approach to power, and considers the Mahdavi political system to be the manifestation of all the Divine Names.