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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Political Dimension of Religion in Shiism Preface " According to Islam, from the very beginning, State and Government are assumed to take as basic principles the religious thinking and ideas.

In accordance with the definition given by the Iranian theologues: "Religion is equivalent to a complex of rules, which together with the essence and the moral substance, essays to correlate the acts of government with ideas of divine inspiration, to answer all needs in the political and the development of social life sphere." According to Muslim religion, the religious rule stands for the vital duty to aspire to Good and to avoid Evil, aspect which involves the social organization and the cooperation between people in order to accomplish its future tasks.

Unlike in Occidental society where P^gmatism and Rationalism prevail, in Islamic society, religion and Politics are interdependent and they cannot exist without each other. In the process of studying and defining religion towards social action, the founder's role takes an important aspect: "Religion is an ordinary symbolic binding, which through belief and religious ceremonies received from the creator; it can secure connection and permanence at the same time".

E.DURKHEIM offers a first sociological definition of religion: "A religion is a solidary system of beliefs and relative practices of sacred acts, namely, acts separated from the forbidden ones (beliefs, practices) which unify all believers in the same spiritual community, which is called church." According to Islam, religion consists of "the totality of fundamental beliefs which refer to human nature and universe and apply to human life." Etymologically speaking, the word Islam means "obedience" and "obedience" signifies submitting God's commands.

Submitting means applying God's orders. The basic principles of Islamic belief are God, angels (malaaikah), books (kutubullah), messengers (rusulullah), Day of Judgement (yawmuddin), predestination (al-qadr), and life after death (akhirah). The holy book of Islam is the Quran, which represents the main source of religious thinking in Islam and the traditional source as well of which formal and external aspects of religion derive.

The seven principles are classified in three basic elements: o Tawhid (God's oneness) is the most important part of iman (belief). According to this element: "God is omniscient and almighty.