Hezbollah of Lebanon, the practical development of the theory of Velayat al-Faqih, by resolving the dual conflict of Ummah-Imamat with the State-Nation

Esmaeli, Mohammad Mehdi

Hezbollah of Lebanon, the practical development of the theory of Velayat al-Faqih, by resolving the dual conflict of Ummah-Imamat with the State-Nation

Document Type : Original Article

Author

mohammad mehdi esmaeli

Faculty member, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, in the well-known tradition of Shiite jurisprudence, the marja’iyyah had its own community of faithful followers, regardless of geographical boundaries. After the establishment of the religious system in the Islamic Republic of Iran based on Shiite political thought, the dual conflict of Ummah-Imamat versus the State-Nation became a serious challenge for the new government in various fields. The various fields of this duality emerged in matters related to foreign policy and relations with the deprived and oppressed while respecting the internal sovereignty of nations, to the defense and military fields. One of the most important aspects of this problem is in relation to Shiites living in other countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, and the Republic of Azerbaijan, which are naturally mostly numerically majority with Shiites, and the Islamic Revolution has inherently had the greatest impact on these societies. This article examines the Hezbollah model in Lebanon, and is written with the hypothesis that Hezbollah in Lebanon, by understanding the environmental conditions and inspired by the political thought of Imam Khomeini (RA) and Imam Khamenei (may God protect him), was able to establish a major connection in using the leadership of the jurist in Iran while being present in the Lebanese governing organizational structure as a political party, and became a reliable model in resolving the conflict between the two models of Ummah-Imamat and State-Nation.

Keywords

Ummah-Imamat

Lebanon

Hezbollah

State-Nation

Wilayat-Imamat

Subjects

Theoretical foundations of the Islamic Revolution

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