Written by Sister Sana Fatemeh Blogger at www.husainiyouths.com http://www.husainiyouths.com/profiles/blogs/islamic-republic-and-its-stand
Islamic Republic and its stand: Before starting any discussion, I motivate myself to keep strong faith in Allah (SWT), His messengers & Holy Imams, Holy Quraan and all other books which He (SWT) revealed on His beloved Prophets(S) and invite other members to the same path of salvation. I believe that Allah (SWT) has sent Messengers so as to guide us on the right path and implement the law, which Allah (SWT) has sent down to us in various books through His Messengers. He (SWT) made all the arrangements so as to show us the way which will lead us to live happily here in this world as well as here after. These laws will automatically make ways easy for believers while at the same time, it will attract others towards it so as to accept the right ideology. On contrary, enemy of these laws will feel the heat of its truth and start joining their camp to confront it in any way or the other. In every era, Allah has sent down His Hadi (Guide), either in form of Prophet or Imam (Successor to the prophet) so as to show the divine path of its follower. After the Ghaibah (Occultation) of Imam Mehdi (ATFS), our beloved Imam, the duty of guiding and leadership has been transferred to Olemas (Scholars) of our community, who in return fulfilled their duties even by giving their blood. We have numerous examples for this. For example, Shaheed e Awwal, Shaeed e Thani, Shaeed e Salis, Ayatullah Dast Ghaib Shirazi, Ayatullah Mutahhari, etc. These scholars have worked for propagation and protection of faith and ideology so as to pass on the real message of Islam to generations. And as these were busy in propagating right, they were throne in the eyes of enemies of Islam, hence those who were on wrong path have either been martyred or imprisoned or sent to refugee. Also to stop the real message of Islam, which these scholars were propagating, enemies created fake olemas, fake channels of faith and ideologies so as to confuse believers. It was common practice of enemies to always make things turbulent so as to minimize its acceptance. But Allah is best of the Guides and He always helps those who help His religion. And hence the message of Islam is in front of us in its purest form even after lots of tactics, attacks and bloodshed by its enemies. I also invite all the human race to study the constitution of Islamic Republic which has been implemented by Imam Khomeini (RA) after Islamic Revolution in 1979, according to which, Islamic Republic will make its strategy, tie ups and decisions according to the Holy laws of Islam. On this point, I first of all make my stand clear that sole decision of making Iran an Islamic Republic is not for making life luxurious, reduced the rates of commodities, make its presence feel in Arab countries, etc. rather the main reason of Islamic Revolution is to implement the laws of Allah on the section of the earth so that we can spread it in later stage, which is also known as “Export of Islamic Revolution” (Sudur –e- Enghelaab). Now coming to the topic of discussion, let’s try to analyze and solve the points put forward by few members on this forum. 1) Comparing the present Iran v West issue to the one between the Holy Imam (a.s.) and Moawiya is not correct. The reasons for this are that the Infalliable Imams always act on the Commandments of Almighty Allah and they stand to safeguard the religion. As far as stand of Islamic Republic is concerned, as discussed above, it is written in its fundamental constitution that Iran will never stand for any benefit or will never oppose anyone (person or country or ideology) until and unless they are ordered by Quraan or traditions from Holy Prophet (S) and Holy Imams (AS). All of us know that Imams were infallible and were always following commandments of Almighty Allah, Olemas of Islamic Republic, who are although not Infallible but they are following the same path which is shown by our Imams and thus opposing enemy of Islam and implementing the law of Allah on this earth contrary to following their own personal desires. We have innumerable examples from the life of Imam Khomeini and other scholars which shows their level of faith in Allah. Although, all this need us to believe that Islamic Republic of Iran is actually based on concepts of Islam and our scholars are actually following the right path shown by Allah (SWT) and His Messenger (S). Considering that all the members over here agrees to it, as Holy Imams fought in the way of Allah whenever the conditions were favorable and when the conditions were not favorable, they opt for other way of propagation so as to make sure that the law of Allah will get implement in coming time, our scholars are also trying their level best to confront the enemy of Islam as conditions are very much favorable right now. As far as Islamic Republic is concerned, Imam Khomeini (RA) explained in his first sermon after returning from Paris in Tehran that remember that this revolution is of Oppressed and we will always support all the oppressed in this world in any possible way and the most oppressed people today are the people of Palestine and we will support them and will oppose the Zionist entity. On this announcement, majority of western countries has withdrawn their support from Islamic republic and imposed eight years long Iran Iraq war on it. Even in this situation, Allah helped Islamic republic and the result is in front of us. My dear brothers and sisters, please keep in mind that entity of Islamic Republic is nothing but a pure Islamic country based on Quraan and traditions from Ahlul Bait (AS), although they don’t claim that they have achieved it to its maximum, but they say that we are in a constant process to make Iran an Islamic Republic. Therefore the first statement of constitution of Islamic Republic is that, “the Islamic Republic is actually a small work of helpers of Imam of our time and is working in occultation of our Imam, we will surrender all the rules, laws and constitution to our Imam once He will return from occultation (Extract, not exact words). This makes clear that stand of Islamic Republic is actually through Ijtihad of all the mujtahids who are there in council of guardian and we have to consider all these mujtahids as Aadil (Just) otherwise all our ebadat (worship) will go vain. As we believe that these Mujtahids are Just and are guiding us in occultation of our beloved Imam, we have to accept that current stand of Islamic Republic against world’s power is not a wrong stand. 2) The present Iran issue is a diplomatic stand-off, which looks like it's a religious war but in reality it's not a religious war. It's more of a propaganda war between two opposite media power-houses. It's a diplomatic stand-off between two extreme ideologies. On one hand we have the West which wants to deny Iran it's fundamental right to develop nuclear weapons for protection of its territorial integrity. On the other hand, we hear rhetoric from Iranian media which wants Israel to be wiped off from the map of the world. >From above discussion, it is clear that the existence of Islamic Republic is all on religious ground and its nothing to do with any other kind of stand, It is agreed that this war is propaganda war, then there is no harm in showing our stand and according to norms of propaganda war, the more stable and strong whose stand is.. he will be considered as winner. Although this stand will come cost us lots of psychological pressure and burden and on this even point, Allah helps us through His Holy Book, Al-Quraan: WAL LADHINA JAHADU FINA LA NAHDIYANNA HUM SOBOLANA.. Those who strive hard in our way, surely we will guide them. INNALLAHA YUHIBBUL LADHINA YUQATELUNA FI SABILEHI SAFFAN KA’ANAHUM BUNYANUM MARSUS 61: 2-3: Surely most favorite group among you in front of Allah is one who stand steadfast in His way like a wall of Metal. Now, if we do believe in verses, then we can proceed with discussion ahead, otherwise we have to think again on our faith as we have first accepted Islam and agreed to its terms and conditions. Iran’s comments on wiping of Israel from the face of world doesn’t means that Iran wants to kill all six million people living over there, rather it actually means that Islamic Republic will strive for the freedom of complete Palestinian lands, which actually means removal of Israel and converting it to Palestine. After that it will be duty of Palestinians and Jews to settle their matter of peaceful living but all that will be in country of Palestine, not the current Israel (occupied Palestine). This is also a kind of diplomatic stand as we totally don’t agree with the existence of Israel, how come a responsible country will ignore the rights of oppressed Palestinians and accept the oppressor, Israel? 3) Iran needs these weapons to safeguard itself from the treacherous Arabs, rather than from Israel. Iran wants to use the nukes as a defense mechanism and it has no aggressive intent to destroy Israel. The US dollar fed Arabs are a bigger threat than Israel because they have evil motives to wipe out the only remaining Shia power center in the world. It is well known among everyone that Islamic Republic promotes the thinking of “Unity among Muslims” and its stand is never hypocrite. If we think that Islamic Republic consider its Arab neighbor as its enemy, then the unity statement will be a kind of hypocrite stand. Although, it is agreed that Islamic Republic never agreed on the legitimacy of Arab Rulers and always opt for implementation of pure Islamic laws in these countries. As discussed above, enemy of Islam will try in every way or the other to disconnect the relations of Islamic Republic with other world and make their stand turbulent in common masses, they are also trying to portray that Arab nations doesn’t agree with the existence of Government of Faqih (A Shia government) in Iran and hence they dis- associate themselves from any kind of tie up with any Shia Regime. This is also a kind of Psychological warfare by the enemy of Islam. At this point of time, we need to be smart and judge the policy of enemy smartly and I hope that all our capable members are very well versed with all these stands of Islamic Republic. Here is comment from Arab League chief, Amr Musa, who says that Iran is entitled using nuclear energy: http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/74689/ This shows that Arab don’t consider Iran as its enemy rather we all believe that we all are brother in faith. 4) The predictions for a war breaking out in near future are baseless. The American economy is in such bad state that they cannot even dream of starting a war, let alone fighting a war. As it is very well said by brother that the predictions of war are baseless, then the question posed by Brother Mustafa is answered in itself. He is worried about the future of Iran in case there is a war. So Brother Mustafa, just calm down, nothing will happen to Islamic Republic. 5) We, as common people know only what the two rival government- controlled media let us know. Who knows there may be diplomatic dialogues already taking place between the two warring camps? Only time will tell but we need not worry, Allah is with us. As we agreed that the government of Iran is actually a Islamic Government and its stand is actually a JUST stand which is always in favor of Oppressed and against Oppression, we have to believe that the media controlled by Islamic Republic is not a liar as the media controlled by enemy is. Surely Allah is with those who are with truth. I know, this post is really a longer one but I think, to answer the queries, this post will help a bit. I know I am not capable enough to answer to all queries put forward by our esteemed and learned members, but this is just a try from my side so as to make stand of Islamic Republic clear to everyone of us. I also apologize to our esteemed members, in case I have hurt feelings of anyone in my posting. I pray to Allah (SWT) to give us acceptance of truth and respect for each other and solve our disputes so that we all can accept truth in its purest form. Taken from: http://www.husainiyouths.com/profiles/blogs/islamic-republic-and-its-stand --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "shiagroup" group. 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