The Mahdi Times October 2011 | Page 19

We do not need democracy. We need an answer to this question. Are we allowing the Right Person to come out of his occultation? Say NO to democracy. Denounce it. Reject it. Shun it. We have no use for it. If you want to justify democracy, do not do so by claiming that Sayyid Khomeini propagated it. We all know that Iran is a theocracy. It is not a democracy. The democracy Khomeini talked about was, in his own words, “different from all other kinds of democracy.” He advised that the nominees of the process must be carefully scrutinized and be fully moral people.  “A single ogling look at a nonMahram woman takes him out of being Adil.” (Imam Khomeini’s interview with Prof Hamid Algar, Sahifyeh Nur, volume 11, page 133, 7/10/1358). conditions on them. As for the critics who say “if not democracy then what?” In the Quran it says:  [7.96] And if the people of the towns had believed and guarded (against evil) We would certainly have opened up for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they rejected, so We overtook them for what they had earned.   Should the Ummah unanimously have decided for the rule of Allah, then Imam Ali (as) would have been the first Khalifa. As they persisted in Saqifa, they got the Abu Bakr they deserved. And in our case? We chose Taghoot instead of Imam instead of Imam e Zamana (ajf). It was our collective trial.Those of us who do Even if we consider that Imam Khomeini have knowledge should not fail it. did allow elections for a time, he put strict [10.35] Say: Allah guides to the truth. Is He then Who guides to the truth more worthy to be followed, or he who himself does not go aright unless he is guided? What then is the matter with you; how do you judge?  Mahdi Rules!!!