“The encountering of Shiite Scholars with Rulers with an emphasis on Imam Khomeini’s viewpoint”

Imam Khomeini believed that most of the Shiite Scholars were against the illegitimate regimes following the Ahle Beit’s manner. According to Sharia, nobody is allowed to set up a government without the permission of the prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) and Imams and they just permitted the Faqihs to establish a government. Thus any other kind of government is unlawful and it is forbidden or Haram Except in the cases of emergency, or for protecting the public interest or in the cases the possibility of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil (According to other point of views). However, some of the scholars at both the age of Ahl e Beit, and other times entered the courts and served in order to protect the interests of the Shiite. They accepted the Government positions just when they could do something in favor of the Shiite. They humiliated themselves in front of people for the expediency of society. In contrast, many of the Ahl -e- Bait’s descendants and their followers and other scalars in Islamic realm revolted against the government and even some of them martyred in this path. Imams supported the rebellion of their times in secret. In addition, it is true that the Shiite scholars have a good relationship with kings of Safavi dynasty or Mongol period. In the last century, since the tobacco uprising and Constitutional Revolution and after that in the Iraq Revolution and in the time of Reza Shah and after that, Brave clergies and Shiite scholars had Precedence over others, to led the insurgences and uprising. However, we do not accept any excuse from scholars and should charge them for cooperation with Governors because Entry of scholars to an illegal Government has the worst effect on people’s religion and belief.