اندیشه سیاسى شهید اوّل

Shaykh Shams Al-Din Mohammad Ben Makki Ameli
known as the First Martyr is an outstanding Faqih from
Jabal Amel in the Ayyubids Period. Trying to spread Shiism
in an anti-Shiite environment and to have relationships with
the Sarbedaran of Khorasan in Iran, he was imprisoned and
finally martyred.
Relying on the relationship between religion and reason
and the status of reason in religious precepts, he proposes
his political ideas within the domain of the Shiite Fiqh, and
studies the origin of the state according to this perspective.
According to him, a desirable state can only be actualised by
the prophet, the Imams, and a grand Faqih possessing all
the requirements in the Period of Absence. The main point
in his ideas lies in the specific conditions that he proposes
for the dethronement of rulers. The status of people in the
arena of political power and the mutual relationship
between a person and the state are other important issues
he discusses over.