If the government is a republic...

If the government is a republic, these issues should no longer be raised, and whatever the people have chosen should be granted official status. Refuting the abovementioned skepticism and stating the Islamic viewpoint on the form of government Unfortunately, this skepticism is reflected in our own newspapers and magazines and presents the Islamic government in Iran as self-contradictory and religious despotism.

As such, we need to tackle these issues lucidly and examine their bases from the Islamic viewpoint. Once we say that our system is an “Islamic republic”, does ‘Islamic’ mean that the form and structure of government have been determined by God and introduced in the Qur’an, traditions, and at least, in the conduct of the Holy Prophet ( s ) and the pure Imams ( ‘a )?

If the Islamic nature of the system does not imply that its structure has been introduced by God—just as pieces of evidence show—then what is the criterion for the Islamic nature of the system? No one claims that Islam has mentioned the specified form and structure of government.

It is not claimed in the Qur’an and traditions, the conduct of the Infallibles, the words of the late Imam (q), the Supreme Leader and other leaders of the system that the Islamic government is a government whose structure and hierarchy of power have been determined by God and the leaders of religion, and that Islam, for example, has ordered that the wali al-faqih must be the highest authority and then the president, and that the three powers must be separated from one another.

So, if its organizational structure and the separation of powers are not Islamic, the Islamic nature must be sought somewhere else. The impossibility of presenting a fixed government structure At this point the skeptics say: Is the non-specification of the structure and form of government not an indication of Islam’s shortcoming? Is Islam not a complete religion and has it not indicated all the individual and social needs of man? Then, why has it not specified the form of government?

In reply, we have to say that Islam, which administered a small society within a short period during the time of the Prophet of Islam ( s ) also wants to administer the most complex and extensive human societies and even a global government, so, it cannot present a specific and fixed structure of government.