A religious approach to the critisizablity of government and criticality of the society

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

M.A. in Public Law

Abstract

Since from a religious perspective government is
critisizable, criticism and protest are among the political
rights and freedom of the people. In addition, from a
religious viewpoint, it is the believers’ duty to try to
improve the condition of the government. The right of the
people to criticize and protest is based on reason and logic
and is religiously justifiable, too. The important point here is
that criticism as a kind of political protest should protect the
legitimacy of the political system, take place inside the
government, and want to reform the system in order to
create unity and harmony; it should not fight against the
government. Thus, to propose criticisms, one should think
of the various forms and manners of criticizing which
should be done through gradual steps. In addition,
criticizing government’s policies and actions has its own
conditions and limitations not observing which may lead to
the deviation of criticism from the right path. As a result, to
criticize one should follow its specific regularities.

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