Islamic awakening and global equations
The movement of “Islamic Awakening” or Islamic awakening is a huge and comprehensive phenomenon that has been around for two centuries. In these two centuries, there have been many ups and downs in this movement and it has been accompanied by some weaknesses.
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The recent political developments in the strategic region of the Middle East have once again turned this region into a center of regional and global news. The discussion of evaluating the visit of Dr. Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran to Iraq and analyzing why and how the Iraqi people welcomed this trip and comparing it with the results and reactions of the people to Bush’s trip, which was carried out secretly and under a security fence, is one of the important developments.
Paying attention to the issues of Lebanon and Palestine and its relationship with different powers is considered important. The reason why many world powers are paying attention to the developments in the Middle East is that the future equations of the region and, accordingly, the equations of the world will be determined by this highway. The US deputy foreign minister says about the future president of Lebanon: “He must be against Syria, Iran and the resistance.” Another link in this chain of developments is the joint plan between Saudi Arabia and the United States regarding Hezbollah and the deployment of an American ship on the coast of Lebanon. The strategic impasse of the West and the Zionist regime in the humanitarian crisis and disaster in Gaza and the brutal slaughter of Palestinians is also one of the developments that provokes the attention of the public opinion of the world to join them against the causes of this incident, that is, America and the Zionist regime and its Western supporters.
These developments are in addition to the actions of the Arab Troika (Arabia, Egypt and Jordan) who, under the diplomatic management of the United States and relying on the internal actors of Lebanon, including the March 14 group and Saad Hariri, oppose the strengthening and expansion of the resistance’s thinking and seek to prevent the resistance from being transformed from the surface level. are a movement at the level of a political institution, it shows that the western powers consider the future danger of their interests from regional actors.
But the common characteristic of these actors, which causes fear and panic in the West and America and forces them to resist and confront Islamic thinking in the region, is the “Islamic Awakening” and the Islamic awakening of the Muslim nations of the region, which is inspired by the Islamic revolution and the model The successful establishment of Islamic system has come to the fore in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Therefore, this article aims to explain the Islamic awakening in the region, its trans-regional effects and the manifestations of this awakening that promises the dawn of the Islamic century.
What is the scope of Islamic heresy?
The movement of “Islamic Awakening” or Islamic awakening is a huge and comprehensive phenomenon that has been around for two centuries. In these two centuries, there have been many ups and downs in this movement and it has been accompanied by some weaknesses. This movement first emerged in specific and limited geographical areas, then during the past decades, its scope expanded and gradually expanded to the entire Islamic world from East Asia to South and West Africa and even among Muslim minorities in other countries. In the beginning, its activists were a group of religious scholars, elites and thinkers, but today the Muslim masses, both scholars and common people, have moved around the world.
With the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, the Islamic Awakening Movement entered a new stage and created a leap combined with intellectual depth in the geography of Islam, especially among the masses and the sleeping layers of Islamic societies. In such a way that the Islamic awakening came out of the state of passive defense and was placed in the position of intellectual and behavioral attack and manifested itself in the forms of currents and political institutions and even resistance movements.
The awakening resulting from the energy released from the Islamic revolution, which appeared for the first time in the form of a political system, soon entered the field of political and diplomatic management and affected other political systems of the Islamic world. In the current conditions, the powerful presence of the Islamic Awakening movement centered on the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its functioning in the form of religious democracy and under the management of political movements and currents and resistance has changed the equations of power in international relations and is in the process of organizing a new equation. which is contrary to the equations defined by liberal democracy centered on the West. This situation has clearly terrified the world’s great and hegemon-claiming powers, so that they have mobilized all their power to prevent the completion of the cycle of the new power equation in the region with the management of “political Islam” under the influence and leadership of Iran, because they This Islamic awakening, which has already taken place in the face of resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq, is considered the biggest challenge for the political and diplomatic management of the West centered on America and the most serious threat to the foundations of liberal democracy. They are considered the biggest target of the hostile policies of the West in the current situation. Taking the resistance in the form of terrorism and the obvious attempt of the West to prevent this ideological trend from turning into a political system and its emergence as a regional hegemon and warning about the Shia Crescent is actually the same concern of the US and its regional allies, which instead of rising chains due to precaution Islamists use it to divide the leaders of the Islamic Awakening and avoid facing the Islamic Awakening openly.
Iran’s role in Islamic awakening
Iran as a country has had an impact on international developments due to its geopolitical, geostrategic and geocultural position. These characteristics have made our country make regionalism the center of its policy. Iran was able to manage some kind of actions in the fields of intellectual influence, issuing resistance thinking and fighting against neo-colonialism and tyranny and returning to Islam in different eras. The management of the newly independent Arab and Islamic countries, respectively, during the constitutional process, the nationalization of the oil industry, and the 15 Khordad 42 movement are historical examples of Iran’s leadership role. In these periods, the effective trend was separation from the policies of the government and the rulers, which was managed by religious scholars and religious and sometimes national intellectuals. Because at these times, especially during the Pahlavi era, the government took more examples from the outside (following Atatürk’s model in Turkey). Therefore, the influence in this historical period was limited to the region and especially to Islamic countries.
The Islamic revolution, as a phenomenon that was formed on the basis of religious values with reliance on new democratic methods and methods, showed a new model of resistance and struggle against tyranny and colonialism, and manifested a new model of management in the field of power, politics and governance. And he established a new form of influencing and different from the aforementioned historical function and organized and guided a kind of revitalization process, intellectual and ideological awakening.
The Islamic Republic, for the first time, introduced the term “Islamic nation” as a revolutionary concept into the political literature of the world. In this framework, he put a new form of regionalism on the agenda and began the process of becoming a hegemonic power, which today, after three decades, has been able to define its position as the dominant model of the region. A model that despite the presence of exogenous hegemons and disturbing meddlers, was able to continue to strengthen its position and develop its influence and promote its regional sphere of influence to the global sphere of Islam. In the current conditions, the new Iran promises a new order that has faced serious and unprecedented challenges to the foundations of the existing political and security equations in soft and hard forms.
Islamic awakening as a phenomenon affected by the intellectual movement of the Islamic Republic in the present era has occurred in the form of a social movement, organization and military institutions. In addition to proving its existence and influence in the field of political and security conflicts, this current is going to become an undisputed power that plays a role at the global level. In the emergence, consistency and development of the phenomenon of Islamic awakening, there have been several fields and factors, the most important of which are briefly mentioned:
The roots and factors of Islamic awakening
۱- The entry of a new generation with revolutionary characteristics into the field of conflicts, who have a more rooted and realistic understanding of the causes of the scientific, economic and social backwardness of their societies, especially in the intellectual and cultural fields.
۲- Paying attention to religious unity and the essence of ideological cohesion and a correct understanding of the strategies of the hostile and arrogant powers to create disunity in the Islamic world.
۳- The regional and global awakening events, including the Palestinian crisis, September 11, the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ideological battle strategy of the West centered on the United States, which aims to dominate the Islamic world, have significant effects on Islamic awakening.
۴- The growth and development of mass communication tools and the development of methods of propagandizing Islam.
۵- The Islamic revolution is the main cause of Islamic awakening, it has played a special role in the awakening movement of Muslim nations. The mentioned factors are the result of the functioning of Ala-ul-Alli as the Islamic Revolution, which in the 1979s, in a movement based on public will, transformed all the political, social, intellectual and even security infrastructures of the hegemonic countries and the authoritarian agents dependent on them, and in A historical birth presented a powerful, intelligent model with effective management to the waiting minds and currents.
After several centuries, the phenomenon of the Islamic revolution brought Islam and Islamic societies out of isolation and silence. The energy released from it, as the driving engine of all movements and the rise of Islamic currents and movements, on the one hand, made the Muslim people of the region aware of their rights and abilities, and on the other hand, negated the invincibility spell of the tyranny and the octopus of colonialism and imperialism. did and this issue itself returned “boldness and self-confidence” to Muslim nations. It was in such a situation that, according to Iqbal Lahori, Tehran became the base of Muslims and the Islamic Republic became a unique factor in the revival, sustainability and development of Islamic awakening in the process of its emergence, consolidation and development inside, and in the current conditions, it became the organizing center of the new Islamic civilization. turned into
The fact that the Islamic revolution, which emerged from the heart of religion itself, has helped the revival of religion and the modernization of Islamic life in Iran and the world, has played a key role in the birth, renewal and continuation of contemporary Islamic political currents and currents in the last three decades. It is the consensus of all the political circles of the world, including Iran’s lovers, rivals and enemy countries. But the question is, why has the Islamic revolution affected the currents and movements leading the phenomenon of Islamic awakening and even contemporary political movements? And how much was this influence?
Backgrounds and causes of influence of Islamic movements from the Islamic revolution
In response to the impact of the Islamic Revolution on the evolutionary process of Islamic awakening, one should pay attention to the many political and cultural commonalities between Iran as the factor and political movements as the affected stimuli, including these commonalities:
۱- Ideology and common opinion: Although the Islamic revolution was a Shiite revolution, it had essential unity with other Islamic cores and movements in the principles of religion, monotheism, prophecy, resurrection, Qibla, and the Qur’an, and the behavior and performance of the revolution for several decades also showed the seriousness and capability of Iran in defending the boundaries and loopholes of thought. He showed Islam and clear, independent positions based on the revival of the Islamic Iranian religion, strengthened their trust and deepened their belief in the religious sincerity of the Islamic Revolution.
۲- Common enemy: The Islamic revolution as the standard of the Islamic front and the Muslims and the Islamic movements in the face of the western front centered on the United States have a common enemy that seeks to dominate the geographical boundaries and marginalize the ideology of the Islamic religion.
From the very beginning, the Islamic Revolution defined the formation of its foreign policy based on the slogan of neither east nor west for liberation movements, and by officially declaring support for liberation movements and turning it into a legal principle, it introduced itself as a sincere leader. The leaders of the Islamic movements followed the example of Imam (RA) who said: “Today, our common enemy is Israel, America and the like, who want to destroy our dignity and oppress us again. Get rid of this common enemy.”, they declared their agreement with the anti-colonial and anti-arrogance goals of the leader of the Islamic Revolution.
۳- Projecting the idea of Islamic unity: The plan of Muslim unity as the key to the victory of the revolution, its continuation and expansion to the Islamic world was an effective factor in the tendency of Islamic movements to Iran. In the beginning, unity became the working model of the currents as a symbol of victory from the Islamic revolution, they realized that a single and coherent will can solve problems, Iran has always been the origin and herald of unity, the reference point of the currents for managing the process of unity.
۴- The management of Middle East crises such as Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq was by Iran: The Islamic Republic of Iran has always defended the resistance front and the Palestinian people and the interests of the Islamic world with authority and independence and by accepting a lot of political costs. The management of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lebanon in the form of Hezbollah and in Palestine in the form of Hamas and Islamic Jihad has been successful as a resistance front, and under the artistic tact of the Islamic Republic and the performance of the resistance currents, the Islamic world and the Arab geography are leaving after 6 decades. It is isolation and passivity, while the terrifying front of Christian Zionism centered on America and Israel is in the most difficult political situation in the history of the leadership of the region.
The rational and effective functioning of the Islamic Republic has made the movements trust Iran as a center of management and an efficient model. In such a way that the movements consider their movement proudly influenced and inspired by Iran’s example.
۵- The model of religious democracy: Another factor is to show a new model of political management under the title of religious democracy and religious management in Iran. During the management of the political system influenced by Islam, Iran has been able to become the superior scientific power of the region. To prove its independence and authority in the management of internal, regional and global crises and after centuries as a third world country to present a kind of new order in a hegemonic position to the world and challenge all political and security equations.
Dimensions of effect (what is effect)
What effect did the Islamic Revolution have on the Islamic political movements and the awakening of the Muslims? In response to this question, we can refer to numerous and diverse works with political, cultural and security dimensions:
A- Political effects: One of the achievements of the Iranian Islamic Revolution was the renewal of the political life of Islam in the geographical area of Islam, which was centered on political currents and movements, but the depth of this phenomenon should be sought in the text of the Muslim mass, which has been manifested in three forms in the current conditions.
۱- Choosing Islam as the ideology of struggle and resistance
۲- Trying to achieve the Islamic government (presenting the plan of the Islamic government)
۳- The role of the revolution on political movements and intellectual currents in different layers of Islamic societies.
B- Cultural effects: Islamic movements and active currents influenced by the text of the people of Islamic societies have accepted the revolutionary rituals and slogans of Iran such as jihad, martyrdom and sacrifice as the basic principles of their struggles. According to the spokesman of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the meeting with the Imam (RA), with the advent of your (Islamic) revolution, our great Muslim nation understood that its path is jihad and struggle. The intifada is a ray of light and a reflection of the great victories of your revolution, a revolution that brought about the biggest change in our era.
The slogans of Lasharqiyah and Lagharbiyya, Allahu Akbar, Hihat Man al-Zillah, Alamut al-Amerika and Israel,… and other slogans with a religious tone are among the export slogans of the Islamic Revolution, which movements and currents always rely on in their movements and marches. It has a content as broad as a political and resistance model in dealing with the events and its factors, it has penetrated among the young generation of Muslims and has proven its positive effect and efficiency.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution, as a phenomenon with a transnational character, crossed geographical borders and at the macro level, culture, politics and the system governing international relations underwent fundamental changes. Meanwhile, the geography of Islam was particularly affected. Among the manifestations of these effects:
۱- The revival of Islam on the world stage and the increasing trend of people to embrace the religion of Islam.
۲- Reviving freedom-loving and independence-loving feelings in the oppressed and deprived people of the world.
۳- The trend towards religion, the collapse of Eastern Bloc thoughts and ideas and the challenge of liberalism, humanism and Western Bloc thoughts.
۴- Strong and bold trend towards hijab and its emergence as an active and challenging movement for western, liberal and secular countries.
۵- Disrupting the old political and security equations and proving the ineffectiveness of the hard and soft strategies and plans of liberal democracy and capitalism centered on the historical hegemonic powers in the region and the world.
The effect of Islamic revolution on American security strategies
The Americans, or rather, the Christian Zionist Front, defined and presented the Greater Middle East (New Middle East) plan with several specific goals, under the pretext of the September 11 incident, in order to stabilize and continue the political, security, and economic hegemony over the region and maintain the status quo in international relations; The center of gravity of this plan was the geography of Islam, and the Middle East was the starting point for the establishment of this plan with the following goals:
۱- Dominating oil centers and regional governments to provide cheap, reliable and continuous energy process
۲- Ensuring the security and domination of the Zionist regime over the Middle East region
۳- Curbing or diverting Islamic movements to prevent the development of their influence
۴- Subversion or containment and limitation of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the driving engine of Islamic awakening
But these goals themselves were subject to other factors;
۱- Understanding and awareness of the depth of Islamic awakening and concern about the transformation of this intellectual movement into power directors and managers and politicians of the future.
۲- Worrying about the dominance of the Islamic awakening agents as the political and security hegemonic powers in the Middle East region as the heartland of the Islamic world and the defining point of future equations.
۳- The role of some regional leaders and regimes in the Islamic world in strengthening the concern about the growth of Islamism.
۴- The role of Western and Zionist media and companies in introducing Islamic awakening as terrorism and a symbol of violence.
۵- The most important reason is the emergence of the idea of Christian Zionism as a model of belief and ideology with the characteristics of extremism, intellectual and political rigidity, which follows an ideological and crusade war.
America, which sought to manage the crisis and challenges of the Middle East with pre-designed strategies and plans, faced an unprecedented failure. America’s strategy was manifested in the two faces of iron fist politics and soft war or cultural battle relying on media and election tools. In both forms, it faced a serious challenge and was completely unsuccessful, the experience of Afghanistan and the re-emergence of the Taliban, the experience of Iraq and the rise of the Shiite majority with Islamic orientation, the experience of Palestine and the strengthening of the political and social position of the Islamic political movement Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and finally the experience of war. The 33 days and the historic defeat of the Zionist regime and American ideas were among the objective evidences of the strategic failures of the United States in achieving the predetermined goals.
Consequences of Islamic awakening for America
۱- The Americans introduced their plans for the Middle East region with the slogan of human rights and democratization, and in realizing it, they sought to strengthen their position in the public opinion of the Islamic world, but they failed to achieve this goal.
۲- America, within the framework of its regional hegemony consolidation policy, sought to suppress the original Islamic awakening trends, but today the original Islamic trends in all Islamic and Arab countries, especially the target countries of “Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq”, have become the most important political and social forces in the Arab world. Authentic Shia and Sunni currents have formed the resistance front against American hegemony by relying on the rational and efficient tactics and methods of the Iran-centered Shia world.
۳- The third point is that the Islamic awakening has caused a crisis of legitimacy and political acceptability for the political, cultural and even security bases of America and its agents in the region.
۴- The more important point is that; The emergence of Islamic awakening has caused the stability, durability, and effectiveness of Western strategies at the international level and crisis management on the part of the United States and its allies to be disturbed. It is for this reason that the Christian Zionism front has mobilized all its resources to change its conflict with the Islamic world and the resistance front, which is at its decisive point, in its favor. Knowing these intentions of the West, the resistance imagines the future as a result of the final confrontation with the West.
Pathology of Islamic awakening
It has been more than three decades that small and large organized and organized groups under the title of Islamic movements based on and believing in Islam have appeared at the local, national, regional and international levels. This movement, which also benefits from the support and collective awareness among the masses of their communities, has been strongly placed in the focus of countries and intellectuals’ attention due to their actions that have left a deep and wide impact. One of the important and thought-provoking issues regarding the Islamic awakening is the damage and calamities faced by them, which has created many challenges for the original process of Islamic awakening.
The founder of the Islamic Revolution, in examining the harms and disasters of Islamic awakening and Islamic political movements, refers to several key harms as concrete examples:
۱- Distortion of Islam and turning religious concepts upside down by the leaders
۲- The political orientation of the rulers of Islamic countries (secular, national religious, monarchy, following the great powers)
۳- Fossilization and intellectual stagnation of the holy views
۴- Elites and intellectuals of religious and national views
۵- Sectarian and ethnic divisions and differences
۶- Worldly-minded mullahs dependent on the powers
۷- Relying on radicalism and possessing illegal and illegitimate methods and favoring extremist methods under the guise of Jihad, which has caused the destruction of the face of authentic movements and has imposed many costs on the Islamic world.
۸- Major lack of planning of Islamic movements and not having a theorized strategy and strategy, of course, in some cases we have witnessed the presence of strategic thinking among the awakening movements, among them the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement, which have brought many benefits to themselves and the Islamic world and had an impact. It has an unprecedented effect on the formation of international fluid equations that is in the transition to the new order.
result:
Islamic awakening as a collective awareness based on the public will and influenced by authentic Islam under the management of the Islamic Republic has turned into political behavior and organized in the form of a political idea. The theorization of this intellectual movement has passed the formulaic stage and has emerged as a political model. So, the conditions have completely changed compared to the last decade. The situation of regional equations in its forward movement is in line with the interests and interests of Islam and Islamic movements and is being established completely to the detriment of the West. This growing wave of movement aims to break the movement barriers of the West to reach a religion-oriented society. This issue itself has caused a change in the balance of power among the Islamist movements in favor of the Shia movements with the cultural support of the Islamic Revolution.
The final point is that a new intellectual front and political behavior has been formed between authentic Islamic currents and movements with America and its affiliated currents, and a kind of cultural, ideological and political battle with America has taken place. The Islamic world is in the final stage of the battle with the West, a decisive stage that requires tact and artistic and self-centered management.
As a symbol of the liberalism front, the West is in the final stage of its political and managerial function, and at the peak of its growth curve, it has begun its decline. For this reason, it is in a position of passive defense, but the awakening movement, at the beginning of its revolutionary rise, quickly experiences an evolutionary movement, a movement that is getting closer to its ideal vision as it progresses, and for this reason, unlike liberalism and the Western Front, which All the political, intellectual and even military dimensions are in the position of deliberate criticism and attack, the Islamic awakening with complete self-confidence is destroying the political and legal foundations made by the West in the region.
Writer: Ali Hassan Heydari
Source: Basirt site
