Ayatollah Naiini and Parliament

Mirza Naiini’s defense of constitutionalism was intended to support the idea of forming a popular institution called "assembly" and thus limiting the king's jurisdiction. For him constitutionalism is not an ideal system at all, because it is an infallible Imam that has to be at the head of government. However, during occultation period this position has to be entrusted to the jurists who enjoy all the requirements, i.e. general deputies of the Imam. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a survey on the reasons behind Naiini's defending the idea of having an assembly during the period of a tyrannical regime. obviously, when we write about his idea we should rely on a descriptive method and when we want to investigate them on a rational-narrative method in order to show that the main concern of Ayatollah Naiini, an Usuli jurist, who held that proper conditions for building an ideal system were not available, was how Shiite theoretical principles could be generalized according to religious thought and demands of the time. The legitimacy of having a national consultative assembly can be established accordingly.