Strategic Studies Quarterly

Abstract

Based on the belief in human dignity, Islam sets its final aim as the humankinds to be furnished with the God’s ethic, spiritual evolution and eternal salvation, all of which can be obtained by supremacy of the good over evil and through awareness and freedom. According to Islam, the human being has got two aspects, namely, material and spiritual aspects and realization of salvation is subject to freely preference of the spiritual aspect against mundane aspect. Therefore, Islam has a value based judgment towards humankind and society. In this way, two main pre values exist, namely, eternal salvation through nurturing and primacy of the spiritual aspect of the existence and awareness and freedom in choosing between good and evil as the condition of realization of salvation. These two pre-values are the main pillars of meta-theoretical framework of the Islamic political thought and its main subjects including security.

Abstract

The Shiite Jurisprudents are looking at the expedience through the Jurisprudence perspective and for them it is a requirement for Sharia and also recently for legitimacy of the Islamic government. In fact, ranking the expedience’ elements, according to the Shiite jurisprudence, has some obvious implications with regard to political, social and cultural security.  However, to comprehend those implications, one should be well aware of the relationship between expedience and security. Two kinds of relationship have been differentiated; longitudinal relationship based on substitution of one of the elements instead of the others, the undesired implications of which can affect the triple references of security, namely political, social and cultural.  If this trauma is recognized, it can lead to lateral relationship based on combination of the triple elements of the expedience which in order to meet and guarantee a balanced security environment, it prescribes some theoretical and practical requirements. This kind of relationship is based on Sharia and a timely and contextually dynamic understanding of Jurisprudence which comprises core of this paper’s hypothesis.