Islamic awakening in recent decades in Islamic countries and among Muslims in other countries is a phenomenon that has created a surprise. The study of this phenomenon and its investigation and analysis have long been on the agenda of the powers that have been afraid of it, and they are also in order to understand and recognize the Islamic awakening and find ways to confront and destroy it or isolate it. this wave They have started extensive efforts. Meetings, conferences, roundtables, interviews and scientific seminars with the company of experts and thinkers in order to identify as much as possible the increasing religious tendencies show only a part of this effort. Ordering books, theses and calling for articles is another public part of this effort .
In the hidden part of this story, there are definitely hundreds of security and operational study projects on the agenda of the intelligence-security services of the powers opposed to Islam and are being implemented, and sometimes some of these operations have been revealed for some reason. This extensive effort, in line with the victory of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, was pursued with greater sensitivity and intensity in order to limit this development and prevent the further spread of Islamic awakening. In the first years of the victory of the revolution, the leaders of the domineering countries took a position and attacked against the revolution and took the way to confront it. Because the experts and theoreticians of these countries realized that the Islamic revolution of Iran has a fundamental role in fueling the flame of freedom, seeking independence, seeking Islamic identity and expanding and deepening it in other countries. .
The effect of the Islamic revolution on Islamic awakening
Many experts in the phenomenon of contemporary Islamic movements believe that the Iranian Islamic Revolution has been one of the important and influential factors in advancing the process of awakening and awareness of Muslims and the increase of effective activities in Arab and Islamic societies. The theory of Islamic countries being influenced by the revolution is based on the words of the leaders of the liberation movements and their example from the Iranian revolution and the study of developments and events that have occurred in Islamic countries. Imam Khomeini himself was aware of this point and was proud of it. “The sound of the great Iranian revolution resonates in Islamic countries and other countries…” This same point was asked by a reporter a month before the revolution: “Question: Do you think that the events in Iran have spread to Turkey as well?” be Answer: Iran’s sacred movement is an Islamic movement, and it is obvious that all Muslims in the world are influenced by it.
Muslims’ self-awareness, especially in Islamic countries, of their own power, returning to the Qur’an, relying on the rich Islamic culture, and drawing inspiration from the Iranian revolution was not an easy issue for those in power to digest. Alexander Hick says: “In my opinion, more dangerous than these (international problems) are the consequences of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, which has taken hold in Iran and is now threatening Iraq and the stability of all moderate Arab regimes in the region. “If this phenomenon gets out of control, it will endanger the interests of the superpowers in the most dangerous way.” The inspiration of Muslims from Iran has been significant in the compilation of books and the circulation and sales volume of these books, as well as in the media and press. .
Mujibur Rahman Shami – Journalist
“No one believed that the principles of Islam would be practical in the current era… The Iranian revolution gave a new life to Islamic thought and proved that Islamic principles are still applicable and can be the basis of today’s society. “The most important work of Imam was that dictatorship is not allowed in Islam. People have the right to choose and their rights cannot be neglected.”
Hassan Suleiman – imam of the mosque in Cape Town, South Africa
“Taking inspiration and modeling from Iran, especially in Cape Town, played a great role in overthrowing the apartheid regime…”
He considers the Imam’s influence on countries as a result of Islam: “The origin of the thoughts of the revolution was Imam Deen Mubin Islam. Undoubtedly, these thoughts and Imam’s leadership gave Muslims, especially the youth, the motivation to fight…”
In his book “Imam Khomeini’s New Solution of the Islamic World”, Dr. Shaghaghi considers the method of the Iranian revolution to be effective and for the continuation of the struggle, he introduces the Islamic revolution of Iran as worthy of following. In a part of the book, he introduces Imam as follows: “It was the manifestation of a new movement that proposed Islam as an ideology to solve all aspects of life and its problems through the establishment of an Islamic government.” When intellectuals and fighters turned to nationalism and left-wing schools of thought to continue their work and justify their followers, he considered the Islamic revolution as a new example of human civilization which: “He announced the end of laic ideas and all other types of ideas that wanted to replace Islam.”
The supreme leader of the revolution described the hadith of this incident as follows: “Before the Islamic revolution, in many countries, including Islamic countries, groups and youths and dissidents and freedom seekers entered the field with leftist ideologies, but after the Islamic revolution, they became the basis of liberation movements and movements. became Islam Today, in every part of the vast world of Islam, where a population or a group moves with the motivation of freedom and opposition with arrogance, the basis and rule of their work and their hope and structure is Islamic thinking.
Imam Banyan has shaken the material values in the world. The communist leader of a distant country, with high material power and many advances, says: “Please give me a book about Islam so that I can read it “
… Today, a member of the parliament of a materialistic country that has been governed on the basis of dialectical materialism for seventy years tells me: “With the blessing of your imam, in the parliament of my country, the speeches start with “Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim”. The Imam was determined to export the experiences gained from the revolution to the world and was confident that Islam would conquer the key strongholds of the world: “We export our experiences to the whole world and the result of struggle and defense We transfer the oppressors to the fighters of the right path without the slightest expectation, and certainly the product of the export of these experiences is nothing but the blossoms of victory and independence and the implementation of Islamic rules for the closed nations. All Islamic intellectuals with knowledge and awareness should walk the ups and downs path of transforming the world of capitalism and communism, and all freedom seekers should, with clarity and enlightenment, follow the path of slapping the face of the superpowers, especially the United States, on the people of the Islamic countries and the third world. draw I say with confidence that Islam will humiliate the superpower. Islam will remove the big obstacles inside and outside its borders one after another and conquer the key strongholds of the world.
Although the Islamic awakening was formed in Iran before the revolution, and in the last two centuries in different countries, but if we draw the Islamic awakening in a curve, the Imam can be drawn at the peak of this curve during these 200 years. Considering the Imam’s unique leadership in confronting the powers and leading a revolution to victory and leading the wave of Islamic awakening and facing its problems, examining the problems and obstacles of this phenomenon from the perspective of that great man of history is of great importance. The analysis and investigation of these obstacles, based on the Imam’s findings, should be considered as a valuable achievement for the followers of Islam, experts and leaders of Islamic movements. .
Obstacles to Islamic awakening
1Distortion of Islam and inversion of religious concepts
With the gradual distancing of the Islamic societies from the main and original Islamic concepts and teachings and the transformation of the primary message of Islam demanding justice, this school slowly fell from growth, became perverted and turned to decline. Valuable concepts such as justice, installments, jihad, Hajj Ibrahimi, martyrdom, famous thing, etc. Due to being a danger to the powerful, it was either distorted or forgotten. And instead of that, topics such as predestination and predestination, the occurrence or antiquity of the Qur’an, and issues of this kind, become the most important topics of religious and Islamic thinking for years; The religious concerns of the people have been controlled by such topics and have become a focus for occupying thinkers .
On the other hand, sectarian and Arab tendencies, the entry of Greek ideas and non-Islamic culture, inspiration from Western education and worldview, isolated Islamic ideals. Later, these issues led to the idea that Islam is not compatible with the contemporary era .
Most of the educated people, unaware of the rich assets and reserves of their Islamic culture, saw the key to the development and even salvation of the society in the adoption of western sciences, values and philosophy. In a meeting he has with some officials, the Imam points out that the enemies have seen their salvation in the fact that Islam does not exist in these countries or at least does not have content. Although they have not been successful in the first part, they have succeeded in making Islam meaningless.
Therefore, many people who have been looking for the revival of religion and religious thinking in the society started by revising some of the key concepts of Islamic thought which had caused confusion and stagnation due to wrong interpretations. People like Seyyed Jamal, Mohammad Abdo, Mohammad Iqbal, Dr. Ali Shariati, etc., because of this discovery, chose such a method at the top of their activities. In response to the question of the roots of the revolution, Imam refers to the original content of Shiism: “Question: I imagine that what is happening today in the life of a mass movement in Iran, its roots can be found in a kind of Shiite renaissance. Can you describe what activities, debates and struggles have formed your activity in the last thirty years? Answer: One of the inherent characteristics of Shiism from the beginning until now is resistance and rebellion against dictatorship and oppression, which can be seen in the entire history of Shiism, although the peak of these struggles was in some periods of time. In the last hundred years, there have been events that have had an impact on the movement of the Iranian nation today. The constitutional revolution, the tobacco movement, etc., are very important…”
“… Islam is the religion of Mujahideen people who seek truth and justice, it is the religion of those who want freedom and independence, it is the school of anti-colonial fighters and people. But they have introduced Islam in a different way… in order to take the revolutionary and vital nature of Islam from it and not allow Muslims to be in the effort and movement… they have propagated that Islam is not a comprehensive religion, it is not a religion of life. It does not have systems and rules for society. He has not brought the style of government and the laws of government. Islam is only the rules of menstruation and puerperium, it also has morals, but it has nothing about the life and management of the society…” Imam’s efforts to popularize the government and create a republican system from the position of a scholar of Islam and a thoughtful mujtahid, for many It was fresh and surprising. What he thinks about women and their role in the society, government jurisprudence and ijtihad, rejection of stonewalling and regressives and the holy of Maaban, barefoot Islam, etc., caused the re-introduction of Islam in the scene of human life, especially in the Islamic world, and breathed a new spirit into it. .
” All the conspiracies of the world-eaters against us, from forced war to economic blockade, etc., have been so that we do not say: Islam is responsible for the society and we must take permission from them in our issues and actions.
2Rulers of Islamic countries
One of the obstacles in the awakening movement is the rulers and heads of Islamic countries. They think the establishment of pure Islam is against their personal and government interests. “The problem of Muslims is Muslim governments. It is these governments that have brought the Muslims to this day…” (16) “The black and shameful record of the painless rulers of Islamic countries is indicative of adding pain and suffering to the half-life of Islam and Muslims.” “We hope that this movement of Iran will clarify the issues to all nations… The nations are with us now, if they remove the spearhead from these nations, remove it from Iraq, I don’t know, remove it from Turkey, all with one voice. They agree with us. The bayonet has taken the front, but Iran broke the head of the spear, Iran stood…” The imam considered the deviant Islamic governments to be the cause of the evil powers that enter to deceive the people from the path of Islam. .
3Division
Contrary to the opinion of some concerned people, Imam Vahdat does not see unity as a tactic or an expedient tool to advance the political goals and objectives of the revolution. He has defined unity as an Islamic principle and considered the necessity of success in the fight against the main enemy and the success in getting rid of the current miserable situation of Muslims dependent on solidarity. With all his devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt, he is not willing to participate in the divisive gatherings that are formed to support the Ahl al-Bayt. Above that, the Imam sought to create a united Islamic front: “I declare clearly that the Islamic Republic of Iran invests with all its heart in reviving the Islamic identity of Muslims all over the world and has no reason not to invite the Muslims of the world to follow the principles of seizing power in the world and prevent the ambition and greed of those with power and money and Do not take the deception. We must plan to advance the goals and interests of the Iranian people. We must work with all our hearts to deal with the problems and issues of Muslims and to support the fighters, the hungry and the deprived… We must prepare ourselves to face the united front of the East and the West, the powerful Islamic and humane front. With the same name and emblem of Islam and our revolution, it should be established and the lordship of the deprived and the barefoot people of the world should be celebrated. The dirty hands that are trying to create differences between Shiites and Sunnis have been trying to “limit the impact of the Islamic Revolution and prevent the spread of its effects in the Sunni areas of the religion (both its oil sectors and the countries that are at war with Israel).”
In order to realize the goal of the unity of Muslims, the Imam used the available facilities and in this regard, he raised the issue of Palestine, Holy Day and the Ibrahimi Hajj, etc. .
4– Petrification and sacred immobility of facades
The imam mentions the holy faces as one of the obstacles to Islamic knowledge and awakening, and for the spread of pure Muhammadan Islam, they consider it necessary to recognize these torchbearers of stonewalling and stupidity and to fight against them. “… America and arrogance have people up their sleeves in all fields. In the mosques and universities, I have pointed out the danger of the sacred faces many times, they are destroying the content of the revolution and Islam with their forgery. With the guise of being right and in favor of religion and the state, they introduce everyone as irreligious. We must seek refuge in God from these evils… Today the world is thirsty for pure Mohammedan Islam…”
By pretending to worship and asceticism, which are the characteristics of this group, these people have inflicted the biggest blow on the body of religion throughout history. The great example of this group was Marqin, during the reign of Hazrat Ali (AS). Faces adorned and pretending to religion and asceticism, which dealt a big blow to the body of justice of Ali’s government. The danger of this group should not be underestimated. They easily become the tools of the enemies of Islam. Islam has suffered the biggest blows during its history from these holy faces. They are easily deceived and easily provoked and they accept the rumor soon and then they feel obligated. !
“…Today, the Muslim society has become such that fake saints prevent the influence of Islam and Muslims and attack Islam in the name of Islam… They spread their spirit and thoughts in the name of Islam in the society…”
5Intellectuals
In the same way that stonewalling and stagnation prevent awakening from the Imam’s point of view, attachment to the East and West and losing oneself before them prevent nations from getting closer to Islam. … Today is the time for the nations to become the light of their intellectuals and to save them from the pretentiousness and language in front of the East and the West. Today is the day of the movement of the nations. But in some cases, they advise intellectuals not to consider following western data as the standard of intellectualism. They consider the correct introduction of Islam as their duty and consider intellectuals to play an essential role in the continuation of a just government. And on the other hand, they criticize intellectuals; Indifference to Islam, Westernization, self-loathing, lack of knowledge about Islam, cutting people off are among the issues that the Imam points out to this group. .
6– Affiliated mullahs
Imam, while fully supporting the authentic and committed clergy, has very sharp criticisms of the clerics who are related to the court and power. Imam, while expressing his disdain for impolite and committed clergy, considers them worse than Savakis. These are the best tools that willy-nilly fulfill the goals: “Planning a dispute between Islamic religions is one of the crimes that have been perpetrated by the powerful who benefit from the differences between Muslims and those who do not know about God, including the preachers of the sultans who turn black from the sultans, and it is fueled every day. They beat and tear the nuts, and at every stage they come up with a plan to create discord in the hope of destroying the basis of unity among Muslims. “… we are trapped by some people who claim Islam, some who are at the head of the clergy of some countries… they blaspheme us… unfortunately, they are in mufti’s clothes… These actions are against Islam and against the wishes of the superpowers… If the sultans preach and do not destroy our unity, we will win, God willing.
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