نقدپذيري حكومت و انتقادورزي جامعه در نگرش ديني

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

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 believersʹ 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 governmentʹs 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.