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Spiritual Leadership and Islamic Mysticism in Anthropology of Imam

Khomeini
Seyed Rahmatullah Mousavi Moghadam
Assistant Professor and Head of Department of Islamic Sciences University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran.

Seyed Sajad Sadatizadeh *

PhD student, transcendental philosophy, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
*Corresponding author: sadatizadeh@yahoo.com

Keywords

Abstract

Spirituality
Anthropology
Illuminati wisdom
Intellectual illumination
Imam Khomeini

In spiritual discourses of Imam Khomeini, three categories, constitute the pillars of his discussion, these
categories include: human, knowledge and aspirations.
He had a unique definitions and perceptions of human. In his mysticism theory about pantheism, separating
the existence from absolute truth is impossible.
In his epistemology process, human as a most amazing events of creation has intellectual identity. In this
analysis, cognitive and perceptual aspects of human tend to spirituality. In other words; human reason will
look for self-discovery and explore the apparent aspects of existence that interpreted as truth symbol.
According to Imam Khomeini, the Knowledge should be spiritual in order to gain a high degree of
excellence and coordinated with truth. So wisdom unity or in the other words, aspirations and reasoning are
the symbols of Imam Mysticism.
Rational argument is just a question that fills out the human existence with research and creativity. In his
mystical poem, Intellect with quantitative and qualitative development will be promoted to higher levels and
pass from experience bounds. Such wisdom in imam literature called "illuminati wisdom" that had witness
and "intellectual illumination".

1.

Introduction

Design the Problem

Spirituality of Imam begins by asking a question that, what the universe password for human entering is? And we need to start from which
point? In Imam Spirituality, world has a versions of knowledge and wisdom. According to his philosophical attitude, existence truth has absolute
appearance and objective expression. In his mystic analysis, rational arguments are considered as starting point in creation strategy that it
mission is linked to the intuitive knowledge and divine wisdom .
He believed that knowledge must be spiritual and with truth placed in a same position. In the other words, the symbol of Imam Mysticism was
unity of reason and spirituality or arguments and aspirations .
Based on his vision, rational reason just is a question that makes human existence was full of concern, willingly, and creativity. Reason by
entering to the sacred realm can be spiritual .
In mystical character of the Imam, thinking was the first condition for deal with passion .
According to his attitude, Man when finds the mystical identity that has the following concerns and have a logical answer for them
1- What is the basis of human dignity and how it was achieved?
2- What is the proportion of intellect with nature, instinct and experience?
3- What is the ratio between human perceptual dimensions and his spiritual realm?
4- Who we can achieve to the "intellectual freedom ?"
5- What is the ratio between intellects, intuition and revelation in achieve to the infallible epistemic system ?
The main secret of mysticism in the imam's anthropology was the mysterious identity of human that not known without revelation and sacred
knowledge .
In this regard, he believed that, thinking makes opening the knowledge's doors and considered as a key to achieve the perfection, it also
considered as an introduction to human evolution (Forty Hadith, pg. 191).
He also says: Reason is the faith argument that has negligible impact, if by trying cannot reach to the heart (Sahifeh Noor, vol 18, p 514).
He believed that there was a significant relationship between spiritual identity formation and anthropological theory, ethical, educational,
political and spiritual system, lifestyle and human communication (Ibid, p 515).
Key Master of spiritual knowledge plan was the political system in the form of spiritual leader.
In anthropology category, Imam was a great architecture and a creative theoretician; he considered the social system as a product of governing
thought and the political system.
rom this perspective, if educational governance was a Heathen, reactionary and Man-hating regime, surely strategic component of the spiritual
life faced with challenges and contradictions. Therefore, he believed that education programs has metaphysical and divine source.to comply with
this perspective, considered the community leadership as a decisions symbol in the construction field, he believed that community leadership
must have religious identity and spiritual identity that consider as provincial government.
Discussion of "spiritual leader" is one of the latest management theories in global management system that for it components like spiritual health
have considered by scholars and thinkers .
From his viewpoint spiritual province have a place like immaculate province in the form of religious democracy, so it consider as a best context
to create the religious life.
In imam interpretation, spiritual human is the man who illusions don't dominate over his conceptual aspects. In this regard he said that, mystic
human heart when is associated with good moral and the god light finds expression in their heart so in these circumstances, the man would climb
to the higher level of spirituality (Jonod of reason and ignorance, p 171).

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This means that spiritual man because of spiritual knowledge is full of truth and spiritual grandeur, so material life components such as social
status, lust, pride and greed is less common in this people .
When human reached to the view dignity, in this state have spiritual intuition that is a higher authority than rational argument. Spiritual intuition
opens the God; in this place humans are similar to the God nature human perception to and his true identity, such human have too strong
perception and feelings.

2.

The Islamic mysticism that presented by Imam can be explained as follows:

Spiritual Leadership
Idealistic Culture
Living by Faith
Spiritual human
Against the following item :

Humanistic leadership

Secular culture

Life pluralistic

Modern or material human

Serious damage of all humanist and fantasy mysticisms are the centrality of emotion. So it seems that world humanist management has been
placed the human body at the center of educational Programs and provides the physical interpretation of the human spirit, therefore, all elements
of fantasy mysticisms are sex, violence and drugs .
The Imam mysticism contains knowledge, wisdom, peace, security and spirituality it is Self-assessment and has critical, transcendental and
pathological feature (rituals of Salat, p 200 ).
In his mystical system prove the spiritual life elements such as monotheism, Prophecy and resurrection, are the product of reason. Modern
mysticism that is the product of secular reason, by rejection the metaphysical foundations of perception, introduces the intellect as a natural
product the world (Sahifeh Noor, vol 19, p 277).
Generating the modern sense are the modern religion or the natural religion, secularism and pluralism.
Modern Mysticism, in the form of new religions like Satanism that appear in various denominations, by Imam Khomeini considered as a symbol
of darkness. Revelation reception consider as factor that represents the mental health (Javadi Amoli, Bonyan marsous, p 96).
Imam Khomeini created evolution in areas like, Political system, Value system, Ideological system, And the concept of humanity he also create
evolution in the meaning of Mysticism.

3.

Conclusions

"Spiritual world" which is the Product of change in the global management system from humanistic approach to the metaphysical approach, in
fact is the knowledge age and "spiritual leader "
That is why the western scholar's thorough extensive study recognized the Human approach in third millennium that moves towards
"spirituality", this spirituality referred to Islamic Spirituality not to the Christian Spirituality or Israel spirituality, so they know Islamic
Revolution and Imam Khomeini thought as a concrete symbol of spirituality. Imam spirituality is a compilation of wisdom, wishes, traditions
and methodologies.

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