Abstract
Investigating the regional policies of the western world in the past three decades makes it clear that the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran has made fundamental changes in these policies. Now, the question raised here is whether the Islamic revolution of Iran is a divine tradition that could change the equations of the western world in the region? (Question). The hypothesis of the present article is that the revolution of the Iranian nation and its victory over the Pahlavi dynasty, which cannot be explained in terms of the theories of materialist thinkers, was a divine tradition (Hypothesis). To substantiate this claim, we first deal with the nature and causes of divine traditions. After that, by linking the features of the Islamic Revolution of Iran to the concept of the divine tradition of assistance, we prove that the victory of the revolution of the Iranian nation has been a divine tradition. Then, the changes made in the equations of the West after the victory of the Islamic Revolution are enumerated (Methodology). The present article seeks to prove that, by using religious guidelines, we can have a correct analysis of the social events like the Islamic Revolution of Iran (Objective). By proving this issue, we can come to the conclusion that divine traditions are always present and fixed in the destiny of human societies, and sometimes contrary to the humans' will, the changes in human societies occur in accordance with divine traditions (Findings). DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n51p96
Highlights
The Holy Quran, as the richest source of divine and Islamic sciences, has introduced the traditions dominating the universe and human destiny and has beautifully expressed Allah's behavior towards humans
Theda Skocpol, the famous theorist, wrote an article called "Rentier State and Shia Islam in Iran's Revolution", in which he clearly confessed that his previous analyses of the whys and hows of revolutions are questioned with the advent of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and that this revolution is quite different from the revolutions in France, Russia and China
We seek in this article to present a new analysis based on religious beliefs by investigating the what and why of divine traditions and comparing them with the features of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and by investigating how the westerns' equations in the Middle East and prove that the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution of Iran was done by help of Allah in accordance with divine traditions
Summary
The Holy Quran, as the richest source of divine and Islamic sciences, has introduced the traditions dominating the universe and human destiny and has beautifully expressed Allah's behavior towards humans. Since we deal in this research with the social divine traditions, we can define them as behaviors that Allah primarily or reactively does toward human communities based on its own special expediency. The social divine traditions can be explained in the following way: there is a general perspective in Islam saying that any movement and change is within the power of the Almighty (see Kahf:). The social divine traditions can be explained in the following way: there is a general perspective in Islam saying that any movement and change is within the power of the Almighty (see Kahf:39) It is divine will which determines the destiny of human communities. Social divine traditions reflect the performance of human communities, in that Allah will consider a good tradition for them if they are along a good path, but a horrible tradition for them if they are stepping along the corruption path. Another point about social divine traditions is that they come into being as soon as the conditions of these traditions are provided; that is, they do not occur once or twice only (Tousi, 1371, Vol 8:362)
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