معرفت سیاسی

Based on its particular worldview and anthropology, the life-giving religion of Islam has considered especial aims and duties for the rulers and the political systems they establish. This is because an Islamic political system must lead a society towards ideal goals. The main question followed by this article is to find out what the aims and duties of an Islamic state are. Having a descriptive method and aiming to explain the aims and duties of an Islamic state, the present article tries to expound the aims and duties of a state towards its subjects from an Islamic perspective. The outcome of this article is that since Islam wants man to attain a perfect evolution in all spheres of life – individual, social, material and spiritual and since this evolution cannot come into being without the existence of just and legitimate state, [therefore the existence of a just and legitimate state is necessary from the viewpoint of Islam].