Unitarianism Sample Clauses

Unitarianism. In contemporary Iranian society, probably few elements of culture are more fundamental than those making up the post-revolutionary IRI’s elite worldview. In the words of Pan-Islamist intellectual Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, All cultures and ideologies do adopt a definite method for their thought- practice which is determined by a definite worldview. A worldview does refer to an overall understanding of an individual about the entire existence.26 In the same vein, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, known as the chief ideologue of the Islamic revolution, set a definition for the IRI’s elite Unitarian worldview, he says A discipline or a philosophy of life consists of a series of ideas and believes. They are a kind of understanding; a way of interpretation, analysis and evaluation, for all existence; a way to present a ‘school of thought’ and the ideological foundation and standpoints of that ‘school of thought’. These create a world of existence and therefore a worldview.27 On Islamic worldview he then infuses some considerable social and political forces: When the society is divided into two classes of tyrants and tyrannised – one saturated, ill at ease with overindulgence, and yet another famished, distressed with hunger, Islam does not permit one to sit idle and be a mere spectator.28 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, known as the father of Iranian revolution, while rejecting secular worldview, opposes also a mere ritualistic one in which believers should exclude temporal affairs from their pieties. What is the point in heartfelt and sincere belief? Tyrannical and despotic regimes have always opposed Prophets and religious authorities. If religion and politics were separated – religion for worshippers, politics for citizens – Xxxxxx would not have thrown Xxxxxxx into the fire, Xxxxxxx would not have struggled against Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx would not have ordered Xxxxx killed, Xxxxx would not have burned the Christians, and the Persian and Roman emperors would not have fought against the call of Islam.29 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx in his book ‘sahye-xxxx xxxx’ adopts a definite method to determine a Unitarian worldview, he writes: Islam has teaching for individuals since their birth. It has principles for governance and family life, and moreover it imposes upon individual some imperatives to how they should live their life. These imperatives would help 26 - Xxxxxxx, A. K., 1996. ‘farbehtar az ideology’ (Sturdier than Ideology), fourth edition, p. 122, published in Iran...