My Focus on the WF System

I've summarized political thoughts of the conservative (orthodox) Shias in my last post.

Shias are not allowed to setup a political system, government or even participate in one.

By conservative Shias, I meant those ancient scholars that lived right after the time of the twelfth Imam, before and after occultation.

But like everything else in the world, ideas and thoughts evolve over a period of time.

You'll always find scholars who agree with something and then find a group of scholars who disagree with everything.

When I started posting information about the Safavid of Iran, I was hoping to cover at least the Safavid political system. Here, I was mainly interested to see how the Shii Scholars viewed the Safavid and the level of their cooperation. There seems to be some interesting developments in the Shia political thoughts in the time of safavid and before. Hopefully we can revisit this topic in the future.

Let's move back to the Wilayah al-Faqih political system.

I've come to the conclusion that it's pretty pointless to go deeply in the theoretical framework of the Iranian political system. If someone is really interested, he/she can easily find all the details. You can search about the Iranian constitution, countless sites and discussions about Wilayah al-Faqih system, books and articles about Khomeini and the Iranian revolution. I trust you to do the homework.

I'm going to only focus on the hot issues (controversies) in the wilayah al faqih political system (theoretical and implementation).

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