“The elements of morality in the political teachings of Imam Reza”

Ahmadifar, Mustafa; Hussein Nejad Muhammad Abadi, Hamid; Reza’ee Esfahani, Muhammad Ali; Haghpanah, Reza

“The elements of morality in the political teachings of Imam Reza”

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mustafa Ahmadifar ¹

Hamid Hussein Nejad Muhammad Abadi ²

Muhammad Ali Reza’ee Esfahani ³

Reza Haghpanah ⁴

¹ Assistant professor in Al-Mustafa International University.

² Assistant professor in Al-Mustafa International University- Mashhad.

³ Professor in Al-Mustafa International University

⁴ Assistant professor in Razavi Islamic University

Abstract

One of the important matters in the life and social relations of the mankind is how to manage the acts based on stabilization in the political power, and the principles and criteria ruling on these relations especially in the field of commanding. Islam as the last divine religion and the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as the last prophet and his family as the divine leaders have given a high position to morals in managing the social and political relations, and Imam Ali-Ibn-Musa-Al-Reda (AS) has showed during his life especially after nomination as deputy of the Calif a clear picture of necessity of using the moral-based methods in politics by adding two important elements of the social life, i.e. ethics and politics. The aim of this paper is to study morality in politics according to Imam Reda’s (AS) manner and statements and has tried to generally discuss the most important elements of this view from his perspective.

Keywords

ethics

Politics

Tradition

Imam Reda