Mr. Khomeini, his soul is happy, he woke us up from the sleep of ignorance
Khomeini made us understand that religion in general and Islam in particular and Shiaism are not what have been instilled in our minds from the late to the present, from mystics such as Rumi and scholars such as Ibn Sina, Naser Khosroq Badiani, Abu Rihan Biruni and Dr. Ali. Shariati with his eloquent prose and his Saharish pen, Sheikh Kalini, Sheikh Sadouq with their superstitions, and Dasgheeb Shirazi with his terrifying stories, and not the sources of imitation by copying their practical and ridiculous treatises, which is a heartwarming but completely false image of religion in the minds and thoughts of the people. We, from the illiterate common people, have drawn the term academic intellectuals
Khomeini made us understand that religious rule is one of the most terrible rules, whose people commit the most heinous and cruel crimes with complete peace of conscience and are proud of it, because they rely on the firm belief that they are carrying out the mission of God. And as a result, they think their crimes are the same reward.
Khomeini has a prominent role in the history of Iran. He introduced the people whose elites never thought about politics into the depth of political behavior.
Khomeini introduced the nature of Shia religion and spirituality and their role in practice to the Iranian people.
He tore apart Iran’s class system and brought to power those who never even in their dreams dreamed of reaching power, that is, he separated the hands of some people from the reins of donkeys and shepherd’s sticks and brought them to the table of the most important pillars of the country.
Today, after 57 years since the events of Khordad 1342 and more than forty years since the revolution of 1357, the people of Iran are standing in a place where most of them want a democratic government, the separation of religion from the government and the establishment of meritocracy and meritorious forces and the establishment of social justice. they want
Perhaps, without the revolution of 1357, the people of Iran would never have reached this level of enlightenment and intellectualism!*
Unconsciously and unintentionally, Khomeini became a bridge to pass from superstitious and traditional beliefs to progressive and modern thoughts!
Iranian people, men and women, young and old, are now among the most knowledgeable people in the Middle East in terms of political and cultural ideas.
Of course, the people of Iran really paid a lot of money to achieve this enlightenment, and it seems that the words of Kaseravi the Great were true when he said:
*”The history of Iran owed a government to the Shia brothers, to understand the reality with the depth of its existence!”*
In order for their thoughts to be refined, our people needed to see what actions the clerical community and religious claimants can take in the action stage?!.
*If non-religious intellectuals wrote thousands of books, they would still not be able to create so much enlightenment in the public opinion.
If we use Burhan Kholf and the principles of dialectics: that every phenomenon develops its own antithesis within itself. That is, if the antithesis of the secular Pahlavi government were the religious classes, the antithesis of a religious and discriminatory authoritarian government, a secular and democratic government, and He will seek justice.
Khomeini reached his ideal, which was an Islamic government, but he did not know that due to the root of the Islamic government’s wrong functioning, the separation of the government from the religion would be raised as a public demand for many generations in Iran.
Sociologist Sadruddin Kamali
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