Why economic jihad?
In the first year of Hijri, Islam showed its political manifestation with the formation of the government in Madinah, and the Prophet (PBUH) tried to bring the comprehensiveness of Islam to the surface with his tireless efforts.
For ten years, the political, economic, and cultural theory of the Prophet’s government was experienced in the domestic and international arenas, but it was a short time for all its aspects to be developed, at least one period of rule was necessary for the people to understand all aspects of a religious government. but the flow of Saqifa and then many problems that appeared on the path of true Islam blocked the achievement of the lofty goals of the Islamic government.
With the establishment of the rule of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, there was a government in the name of Islam for nearly six hundred years, which had nothing in common with the Islamic government of the Prophet, and even a deep angle was created over time that misled even Islamic scholars and experts.
In the short time they had, Imam Baqir and Imam Sadiq, peace be upon him, worked on theorizing the intellectual foundations of pure Islam and presented a new scientific mentality to societies interested in new scientific, religious, philosophical, and governmental methods, but unfortunately with the emergence of many evils which was created within the religion, even revolutions and religious movements could not provide a single method that could prove the ability of Islam to manage human life.
With the emergence of the Renaissance in Europe and the distancing of the elites and intellectuals from religion and the export of this thinking to Islamic societies, the distance between religion and life slowly spread as a belief among the thinkers and innovators of religious societies, in such a way that even revolutionaries and religious scholars They also lost the claim of forming the government or considered it impossible during the absence of Imam Asr (AS).
The communist revolution of Russia and the theories presented by Lenin and Stalin strengthened the mentality that religion cannot govern the world, but religion is the opium of nations, and even acted as a strong brake on the speed of revolutions and hindered transformation in human societies. And it can not only help scientific and economic growth, but it also produces stagnation and laxity and causes social decline; therefore, in order for a revolution to achieve its results, it must fight religion at the same time as it fights tyranny.
This idea managed the separation of religion and politics and did not allow politicians and fighters to come to the field in the name of religion in the field of transformation.
At the end of the 20th century, Imam Khomeini came to the field as a man and tried to bring the real concept of the Wilayat, which is guardianship and spiritual sovereignty, to the scene by proposing the theory of Jafari Islam and Alevi Wilayat. He came to the field and while rejecting tyranny and fighting arrogance, he proposed Islamic government in the form of Islamic revolution as a national slogan; In this way, he created a new spirit in the body of the community of Islamists and religious believers. This slogan was spread to all parts of the world in a short period of time and caused the collapse of the communist system. The regime that had perceived the danger of the development of Islamic government through war and separatism and hypocrisy and influence and help the government of the supporters of liberal democracy and negation. The practical possibility of having the Imam’s thought and… was able to block the speed of the revolutionary movement of the Islamic Republic in the direction of bringing the society to a religious ideal city and not allow it to prove the practicality of religion.
In the meantime, the ingenious leadership of Hazrat Ayatollah Azami Khamenei Madzaleh He was able to confront the cultural impotence, the software movement, the science and technology movement, the production of native science and the escape from translational sciences, especially in the field of humanities, and led Iran to create a decade of progress and justice, and the public belief of thinkers towards Strengthen all-round resistance to the lofty concepts of pure Islam.
Now with the theme of economic jihad as the central slogan of 2013 A new horizon has been opened to defend the slogan of the power of Islam to manage the life and livelihood of the people of the world. If the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran and our Muslim people can show the world a practical example of a government Islam in an economic jihad, all the slogans of liberal democracy and all the slogans Communist and socialist and all claims arising from the renaissance have been refuted and in a situation where the world is severely suffering from economic problems and the claimants of the global economy have raised their hands and proved their inability to the nations; They will experience a new and successful method that will speed up this trend towards dear Islam and will pave the way for the realization of a single global government by Hazrat Mahdi AJ.
Of course, as the leader of Shah Bayt said, this success depends on the following factors:
۱- Jihadi spirit
۲- Establishment of spirituality
۳- The country is not affected by marginal issues
۴- Maintaining national unity and cohesion
