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believer abandons the love for Satan. Truly he is a
this temporary and illusionary manifest enemy unto you”.
world, as well as deceit and (Qur’an, 2: 208)
self-love, the believer can
embark on the journey of Imam Khomeini mobilized
repentance, detachment, believers against corruption,
remembrance, and contemplation. evilness, and moral deviation
This path goes beyond the through the evocation of the
apparent religion and the teachings of the prophetic and
hypocritical actions that Imami figures. This was
people who pose as believers highly effective in terms of
perform. Rather, it is through political mobilization and
even gathered the attention of
constant perfection, repentance
from sins, and abstaining other ideological forces
from passions and desires that opposing Pahlavi after 1963.
one can reach the state of the In esoteric terms, Imam
spiritual wayfarers; But Khomeini evoked these
because there is a humanizing narrations as a hermeneutical
project that descends directly movement in politics and a
from God, there is also a political movement in
dehumanizing project tied to religion. It was necessary for
Satan as the enemy of the context where religious
humankind. classes faced opposition by
The Holy Qur’an says: both the regime and Modern
“O! you who believe! Enter ideologies, (Martin, 2004: 100)
into peace altogether, and and it was also a call to action
follow not the footsteps of for quietist or non-political
