Muhammad Taqi Bahjat: Difference between revisions

Ayatollah Bahjat had important positive views about politics. With regard to governments during the period of the [[Major Occultation]], he says that it is an obligation to create an Islamic government and we have the ability to administer the country. He emphasized the formation of an Islamic government during the Major Occultation, provided that all divine laws are performed, and are never suspended on pragmatic grounds. Unlike scholars who held that before the [[appearance]] of [[Imam Mahdi (a)]], social and political responsibilities of the [[Infallibles (a)]] should postponed, Bahjat believed that during the Major Occultation, Shiites should be politically active. Thus he considered it as an obligation for some believers to carry out such political tasks. His argument was based on the assumption that there are rational and religious reasons to the effect that Islam should remain alive until the Dooms Day, and no religion except Islam is accepted by God.

Though there is no trace of Ayatollah Bahjat in the documents regarding the [[Islamic Revolution of Iran]] in 1979, he was always a supporter of the Revolution and was influential on some clergies who joined the Revolution. In the early 1960s, he emphasized that [[Pahlavi]] was destroying the religion. One day someone asked him: "Is it not probable that Ayatollah Khomeini is being too radical against the [[Shah]]?" Bahjat replied: "Is it not probable that he is being too modest?" Muhammad Hadi Fiqhi says, when Ayatollah Khomeini went on exile, he said in his lectures: "Is there no one to kill these governmental authorities?" Moreover, he always had friendly relations with [[Imam Khomeini]] and exhibited good will to him and the Revolution.