پژوهش های اجتماعی اسلامی
سال:1393 | دوره:20 | شماره:2 (پیاپی 101) |تعداد مقالات:11

This note scientifically tries to investigate one of the national security dimensions with the subject of the cultural security from the Nahj al- Balagha view. The cultural security is really preserving the traditions, values, conventions and national identity. The aim of this paper is to study the backgrounds of creating the cultural security in the society and its pathology from the point of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) with respect to his sayings in Nahj Al-Balagha. With the thematic studying (examination) of Nahj Al-Balagha and with studying books and articles which are codified about the different dimensions of security specially the cultural security, the most important factors creating the cultural security are: the enhancement of intelligence and knowledge, beliefs, extending encouraging good and discouraging bad, tawalla (love of, obedience to, alliance with or loyalty to Imams and their cause) and tabarra (dissociation from, disobedience to, renunciation and abandon of the imams ‘adversaries) , creating a right model and Alavi’s culture, preserving the past true virtues, immunizing through strengthening the family institute and expanding marriage and self-esteem and establishing justice and preventing poverty and unemployment in the society. The most important obstacles to the cultural security are: constituting the uncertainty and doubt in the cultural system, cultural invasion, and eclecticism, the lack of qualification of the heads of governments and their excessive luxurious life and ambitions in the worldly life. Undoubtedly, acting according to the Imam Ali’s orders protects the society against the cultural aggression which is one of the enemy’s weapons in order to overthrow the government from the view of the supreme leader of Iran.

There are standards to study the scientific growth by countries. Every year, the scientific growth by countries with respect to the statistics and figures are studied and estimated by the national and foreign professional organizations. This paper is going to study the scientific growth in Iran in the last two decades with regard to the international standard parameters which are provided by the credible databases. Then, it analyzes the mutual relation of legal and economic growth and the degree of its effectiveness on scientific growth in this field. In the last two decades, Iran has an outstanding (significant) growth in science which has made progress and development in Iran from this perspective in the world. But contrary to the other countries, this scientific growth has an inconsiderable (little) effect on the economic growth in Iran. One of the important reasons is the absence of attention to the humanities in this area and also the absence of constant and right relationship between scientific sections and economic sections. It can be lessened the incredible gap between these two areas by the

Islam seeks nobility and authority for Muslims in all fields includes economic area and production is preliminary step toward this main goal. For this, Islam has considered a special role for production and invites Muslims and his followers to take activities in different areas such as farming products, animal husbandry products, and industrial products and also the commerce of the products in these sectors in order to be promoted and be distributed. It is necessary to be chosen perfect and accurate methods and strategies to achieve the production growth and self-sufficiency of Muslims and being independent from blasphemy countries. This research with analytic- descriptive method and with precious sayings of the noble prophet (Peace and Blessings Be upon Him and His Household) and infallible Imams and with using the Quranic verses tries to define the priorities for production from the point of Islam to attain the economic growth and authority of Muslims. The aim of this note is to encourage producers to consider the priorities for production.

Peace is the spiritual (mental) balance and the absence of anxiety and anxiousness which are resulted from confronting problems and difficulties tactfully. Peace in its different types (naturally, mentally and religious belief) is from well-being components, which emerges in two forms: spiritual (mental) peace and social security. Because all human common activities are to achieve peace this paper aims to present peace factors from the perspective of Islamic teachings and has reported some of them which are: religious belief which is the main peace factor that the other factors are beyond this shadow; zikr (the remembrance of Allah), supplication, prayer, fasting,haj which are the instances of worshiping God and cause the individual and social peace; repentance, relying on Allah, hope in Allah, patience and familiarity with the Quran are the moral and spiritual instances of beliefs; purity, innocent, friendship with the fair and comforting which are social instances of belief and creating spiritual and mental peace of individual and society.

The successful economic experience of some countries which directly happened under the influence of the cultural elements in the last recent decades clearly shows the importance and position of the culture in the economic development. The Islamic culture teachings are full of the elements which if they are institutionalized it will containa bright and promising future in economy. The positive effect of the religious persuasion on the economic growth and development; generally the motivating role of the religious teachings and its emphasis on the factors such as the importance of work, the importance of science, conscience at work, order and discipline, God’s reward for the positive economic and also their role in economic healthy activities beside setting the accompanied rules which cause the economic growth and development. However, some of the distorted and deviational religious writings which have been presented as religion during the human history are: factors of society lag and deemed untrustworthy factors in religions and unreliability. From the other side, Islam has considered all necessities and necessary circumstances for occurring production growth and effective use of nature. These instruments and means are divided in two types: legal instruments and mental and cultural factors. Moral factors in Islamic culture (contrary to the crooked thinkers) have direct and positive effects on the economic development, if they are analyzed and determined correctly and the public act according to them. Meanwhile, this paper states the cases of cultural effects on the economic development it analyzes some of the moral factors.