A note from Dr. Ali Motahari;
People, the support of the Islamic revolution
From the beginning of the Islamic movement in 1942 until today, the support of this movement has been the people and their Islamic faith and their trust in the leaders of the movement and then the agents of the Islamic Republic. Imam Khomeini (may God bless him and grant him peace) aside from his spiritual and spiritual reliance on God, from a social point of view he only relied on the people, not foreign forces and not even domestic military forces; According to the interpretation of Martyr Ayatollah Motahari, the Shiite clergy relies on God spiritually and on the people socially.
This reliance on the people must still be preserved, and its requirement is to maintain the people’s trust in the government officials. Undoubtedly, as a result of recent events, this trust has been damaged and must be restored. It was necessary for the officials of the system to apologize to the people for making a bad decision and implementing it worse, but we know that there is no culture of apologizing and respecting the people in the Islamic Republic.
The more important thing is that the increase in the price of gasoline was more of an excuse for the protests, the main reason for the protests was the bad living conditions of the people on the one hand and a promise of improvement on the other hand. The main task of the agents of the system is to create hope for a better future in the people. So far, the people have resisted the evils of America and Europe well, but they say show us a vision that in two years, for example, we will reach better economic conditions and be on the path of progress and overcome our backwardness from the neighboring countries. Once they were behind us, we are making up for it.
The problems of our country do not have an economic solution, but an economic solution combined with a political solution. Relying on the internal power of the country does not conflict with improving our relations with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and even the United States. If we are concerned about the ideals of the revolution, I must say that, for example, the ideal of the freedom of Palestine is better achieved by establishing relations with Saudi Arabia and improving relations with other Islamic countries and in general with the Islamic Union than the current situation. Why shouldn’t we have a strong lobby with the US Congress using our strength and the Iranians abroad and thwart the efforts of Israel and Saudi Arabia? We should not impose unnecessary economic austerity on people. Once the enemy has occupied our land, in this case, any amount of damage and loss is possible for the freedom of our land, but in the current situation, when there are ways to overcome the current crisis, why not use them and impose unnecessary economic austerity on the people?
Unfortunately, we are following a path that results in sacrificing the Islamic Revolution for the sake of a revolutionary gesture. Revolutionism does not mean emotional and crude works. The basis is Islam, not revolution. According to Ayatollah Motahari, we should Islamize the revolution, not revolutionize Islam. Some of the words that we hear these days and some people talk about the front of the revolutionary forces and divide people into revolutionary and non-revolutionary, remind me of the interpretations of the Furqan group and the People’s Mojahedin Khalq in their propaganda pamphlets. They considered revolutionism and struggle to be the principle, not a means to realize Islam, and Martyr Motahari strongly fought with them and finally he was martyred, and they wrote in the paper they dropped at the place of his martyrdom: “Revolutionary execution of Morteza Motahari” Done”.
Today, we must move with open eyes and with the light of reason and away from emotions, while relying on our inner strength, we must open ways to improve relations with the world. In today’s world, no country, even America, can govern itself by being hostile to most of the world and building a wall around itself. We must create hope for the people in this way, then the people’s trust in the government will return to its previous level.
Source: Trust newspaper
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