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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist Introduction In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful All Praise be to God, the Lord of the worlds And may His blessings be upon the best of His creation, Muhammad and His Descendants. The subject of the governance of the jurist (vilāyat-i faqīh [^1] ) provides us with the opportunity to discuss certain related matters and questions.

The governance of the faqīh is a subject that in itself elicits immediate assent and has little need of demonstration, for anyone who has some general awareness of the beliefs and ordinances of Islam will unhesitatingly give his assent to the principle of the governance of the faqīh as soon as he encounters it; he will recognize it as necessary and self-evident.

If little attention is paid to this principle today, so that it has come to require demonstration, it is because of the social circumstances prevailing among the Muslims in general, and the teaching institution in particular. These circumstances, in turn, have certain historical roots to which I will now briefly refer.

From the very beginning, the historical movement of Islam has had to contend with the Jews, for it was they who first established anti-Islamic propaganda and engaged in various stratagems, and as you can see, this activity continues down to the present. Later they were joined by other groups, who were in certain respects, more satanic than they.

These new groups began their imperialist penetration of the Muslim countries about three hundred years ago,[^2] and they regarded it as necessary to work for the extirpation of Islam in order to attain their ultimate goals. It was not their aim to alienate the people from Islam in order to promote Christianity among them, for the imperialists really have no religious belief, Christian or Islamic.

Rather, throughout this long historical period, and going back to the Crusades,[^3] they felt that the major obstacle in the path of their materialistic ambitions and the chief threat to their political power was nothing but Islam and its ordinances, and the belief of the people in Islam. They therefore plotted and campaigned against Islam by various means.