اندیشنامه ولایت
پیاپی 5 (بهار و تابستان 1396)

Monotheistic ideals are not only comparable to reality but are the reality itself in its highest levels and therefore change and variation in peoples and societies depends on change and variation in these ideals. Religious leaders and their opponents have both emphasized the ideals. The former group has strived toward preserving; strengthening and fulfilling these monotheistic ideals while the latter has resolved upon demolishing these inspiring ideals of the society. The logic behind this contrasting movement is that ups and downs of societies’ movement and their rise and fall depend on the ideals on which they have pinned their hopes. Considering the critical role of these monotheistic ideals in elevation and advancement of societies, the cultural, educational and training organizations which are in the front line of defense are required to design and develop a system and a comprehensive and effective program to perform their role in preserving, strengthening and fulfillment of these ideals. Words and actions of the supreme leader of the revolution on one hand have defeated the enemies invading these ideals and on the other, have made the nation aware of the weight of these ideals.

Every governmental system - to find peoples’ satisfaction, achieve efficiency and survive - stands in the need of righteous, expert and committed managers. This requires strengthening faith-related foundations and religious beliefs in managers which brings about continuous self-control and self-supervision in them and, in turn, helps them to hold these qualifications. This can also serve as necessary and supplementary project in supervising and controlling those governmental agents and power-owners that are exposed to deviation. Also, securing the society and government requires an intelligent center for collecting, analyzing and processing the received news and then changing them into useful information on the basis of which serious decisions are made. In Alavi’s doctrine, the government is goal-oriented and toward the elevation of society, development and deepening spirituality and training godly human beings. Therefore, occasional and undetermined but systematic control and intelligent supervision of agents who have critical role in public cultural engineering is strongly emphasized. In this logic, pious socialization starts from the circle of political and managerial elites in a targeted manner and then flows into the society. Recruiting spies and establishing intelligent networks and information look-over for inspecting governmental domains and then making decision on the basis of trusted information is a course of action that can be derived from the managerial policy of Imam Ali (a). The current research has relied on commandments and managerial behavior of Imam Ali to delve into continuous supervision and control of managers as an imitating and normalizing culture.

Realizing the goals of Islamic revolution requires accurate and wise theoretical understanding of authorities, elites and the whole people of nature of the Islamic revolution and its relation to Islamic republic. Authorities and elite community of the country have offered various understandings and explanations of this topic, believing in each of which exerts great effects on government’s future policies toward fulfillment of the goals of the Islamic revolution. Considering the critical role and position of the authority of jurisprudent and leadership of Islamic society, the current research is an attempt to shed light on the nature of the Islamic revolution and its relation to Islamic republic in the view of Imam Khamenei.The results of investigating current viewpoints and philosophical foundations and content analysis of the words of Imam Khamenei showed that Islamic revolution is a continuous, boasting, advancing movement toward perfection which is endowed with a collection of human and Islamic sublime values which are the integral part of the Islamic republic. Therefore Islamic revolution and Islamic republic coexist peacefully both in body and spirit. In other words, the Islamic revolution has not ended with its victory and lives his life in the body of the Islamic republic as a spirit.

The fate of livelihood or the knowledge of home economy is also known as the life knowledge, economy knowledge and social knowledge which helps people who are living in a society and are dealing with economical and social affairs to act effectively.  Aimed at explaining the quality of the effect of fate of livelihood on the spiritual elevation of the organization, the current research has adopted a descriptive-analytical framework, used library sources and enjoyed Quranic verses and tradition to define the concepts and uncover the duty of government in securing the livelihood and then considering the livelihood conditions of the state employees, underscore the importance of the knowledge of home economy on spiritual elevation of individuals and organization. The research has concluded that organizations, for promoting spirituality of individuals and then the organization, are charged with the duty of instructing their employees the knowledge of home economy.

Investigating the difference between faith and belief, it was found that in the view of Imam Khomeini “belief” is the level of knowledge, insight and understanding about everything while “faith” is the level at which belief is confirmed by heart and put into practice. In other words, belief and faith are different concepts. According to Imam Khomeini, belief and knowledge is different from faith because after acquiring knowledge, it is required to undergo religious mortification, think and remember God in abundance, suffer isolation and bring truth into heart to make heart divine and then belief is changed into faith. The supreme leader, Imam Khamenei, also holds the same distinction and believes that acquiring religious knowledge and level of belief is the second priority while faith is more important and is acquired through resorting to holy Quran and the household of the prophet. He also believes that “faith” informed with knowledge is enduring, productive, deliverer and the ideal one in Islam which, in addition to heartily confirmation, brings about commitment and practice. He adds that such a faith denies imitating and dogmatic faith. The only difference between Imam Khomeini and Imam Khamenei is that the former believes in faith as confirmation by heart while the latter believes that further on than confirmation, commitment and practice is required.

Cultural wealth of Persian language and literature which is abundant in delicacy and beautifying and its un-dissolved integrity with Islamic doctrines has put this language at the service of propagating Islam and deepening religious and spiritual beliefs for centuries. The various functions of Persian language and literature in deepening and propagating religious spirituality has become manifest in different literary genres especially in poetry, prose and instructional literature. The supreme leader who is familiar with literary techniques and finenesses has devoted continuous attention to this language and emphasized enormous capacities and capabilities of this language. Besides, this faithful language and Muslim revolutionary poets and writers have played a critical role in awakening people in ups and downs of the revolution. Persian prose and poetry with its exclusive characteristics can serve Islam and propagate and deepen spirituality in the country and beyond it in the world.