تركيب ابعاد سياسي و عرفاني در شخصيت امام خميني (ره )

The Fusion of the Gnostic and the Politica 1 in the Personality and Life of Imam Khomeini.

Gnosticism and politics constituted two aspects of Imam Khomeiniʹs personality. In fact Imam Khomeiniʹs political and personal lives were the outcome of the interaction between these two aspects. The author in the present article makes a contrast between the four journeys that furnish both the subject and the title of Mulla Sadraʹs Asfar al-Arbaʹa, a work with which the Imam was intimately acquainted. He argues that if the impertinence of speculating on the spiritual progress of the Imam be forgiven, it may be suggested that his period of primary emphasis on gnosticism and associated matters corresponded to the first and second journeys described by Mulla Sadra, and that his involvement in the political sphere and his leadership of the Islamic Revolution were analogous to the third journey. What is certain that the unique insight the Imam displayed at critical junctures during the revolution and the early years of the Islamic Republic cannot be explained purely in terms of political sagacity; a clarity of vision was at work which enabled him to see beyond the immediate conjuncture, and it may be permissible to describe this capacity as a witnessing of the af al as they became manifest in the political sphere. If this characterization is justifiable, it becomes plain that the Imam generally refrained from overt political activity until 1962 not only because of an unwillingness to dispute the quietist attitude of the senior ulema of the day, but also because an essential process of inner preparation was underway. It was the Imamʹs own progress toward "the source of magnificence" that enabled him to lead a revolution that was like a collective suluk of the Iranian people.