scientific journal Political Sociology of the Islamic Revolution

Abstract During the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the slogan "Esqlal, Freedom, Islamic Government" was first raised. This slogan was changed to "Esqlal, Freedom, Islamic Republic" by the leaders of the revolution in December 1357. This change is an indication of the twin belief in religious government and democracy in the thought of Imam Khomeini (RA) and other leaders of the Islamic Revolution. He does like Ayatollah Beheshti. The turning point of this was the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran on April 12, 1358, in which Ayatollah Beheshti was one of the influential figures in the establishment and drafting of its constitution. In this article, we examined the theory of religious democracy in his thought. After examining the category of political system in the thought of Ayatollah Beheshti and comparing the data with the proposed frameworks for the religious democratic system, the results and findings of the research indicate the belief in the basis of divine-popular legitimacy in the theory of religious democracy in the thought of Ayatollah Beheshti. Our research method in this article has been descriptive-analytical and we have used the library method to collect information.

Abstract The findings of the research indicate that Ayatollah Beheshti believed in a system called ummah and imamate, whose leadership is the responsibility of the innocent in the age of presence and the guardian of the jurist in the age of absence. But a jurist in the age of occultation must be accepted by the Ummah in addition to having the conditions mentioned in the Shari'i texts. ]n order to verify the management ability, courage, resourcefulness and awareness of the current conditions, there is a need to appeal to an expert in the aforementioned matters to recognize that this goal is achieved with two-level elections. According to Ayatollah Beheshti, the legitimacy of the ruling of the jurisprudence in the age of absenteeism is based on the selection theory of the province, according to which, in order to achieve legitimacy in leadership, in addition to the existence of jurisprudence and justice as the right of Allah in him, it is also necessary to accept the people as the right of people. These two conditions are necessary in addition to the acceptance of the people, and in the absence of any one of them, the legitimacy of the political system will not be completed. The mentioned article was written based on the analytical descriptive method and the library method was used to collect its information.