Boasting and defamation are the tools of the religious Machiavellians

Rahmatullah Bigdali

One of the important questions raised in moral philosophy is: "Does the goal justify the means?" That is, is it permissible to reach the goal by any means?" The Italian politician Machiavelli (1469-1527 AD) was of the opinion that the goal justifies the means and any means can be used to achieve the goal!

The justification of the means with the goal, the work tool of the religious Machiavellians

brag
Religious Machiavellians have opened a chapter in this field under the title of boasting. Bragging means telling lies, lying and slandering. The religious Machiavellians have introduced boasting into the knowledge of jurisprudence and considered it one of the justifications for lying and slander!

A group of jurists, referring to a hadith whose content is in definite conflict with the spirit of religion, the teachings of the prophets and the way of the pure Imams (a.s.) and the clear ruling of reason, have deemed it permissible to lie and slander those whom they consider to be heretics. To throw them out of the eyes of the believers!
According to the religious Machiavellians, slandering and lying to the heretics is not only not forbidden, but also causes reward in the afterlife!
Religious Machiavellians use two terms Mahdur al-Dam and Mahdur al-Erz to advance their goals!

Mahduraldam
In the traditional jurisprudence of Mahduraldam, it is said that someone whose blood lacks respect and anyone can shed his blood without the need of a trial and without giving him the right to defend himself!

Mahdur al-Erz
Religious Machiavellians have made a title on Mahdur al-Dam under the title of Mahdur al-Erz.
According to them, Mahdur al-Ariz is someone who can be defamed without trial and without given the right to defend himself! Religious Machiavellians say that observance of morality is only for the believers, and only the same believers. But if people, according to them, suffer deviation in belief (heresy in religion) or deviation in action (faq), they become "Mahdur al-Ariz". And their reputation lacks respect and lies, backbiting, slander, and objection to any untrue and unethical relation to them is permissible, and it is not considered a sin and has a reward!

Religious Machiavellians consider all people without religion, followers of religions and even other Islamic religions, heretics, sinners, dissidents and even their critics to be dead!

Religious Machiavellians, when they are placed in the seat of government, call any difference in political views a deviation in religion, and any criticism of the ruler's opinion as opposition to the leadership, enmity with the Imam of the Time and the Prophet, and polytheism against God, and first they call the critic Mahdur al-Erz and then Mahdur al-Dam!

Religious Machiavellians believe that political critics should be removed from people's eyes by any means! From lying, irreligion, financial corruption, acts against morals and public modesty to dependency and espionage for foreigners and enemies!
The more and deeper the influence of the critic's words, the wider and more intense the extent and type of lies and slanders about him by the official and unofficial agents of the Machiavellian rulers.

This is while the Almighty God instructs the Holy Prophet (PBUH): "Pray to the mustache of your Lord with wisdom and the preaching of goodness;
Invite to the path of your Lord with your wisdom and good advice." (Nahl, verse 125)

Imam Ali (a.s.) said to those who compared his politics with Muawiya's politics: "I swear by God, Muawiya is not more political than me, but he (to advance his personal goals) tricks and commits all kinds of sins, and if I I was not averse to tricks and tricks, I was one of the most political people." (Nahj al-Balagha, Sobhi Saleh, p. 318)

Imam Sadiq (a.s.) said: "A man wrote to Hussain (a.s.): Advise me with two words? The Holy Prophet wrote in the answer: Whoever seeks something by disobeying God, what he hopes for will be lost sooner, and what he flees will come to him sooner." (Kilini, al-Kafi, vol. 4, p. 117)

Professor Shahid Morteza Motahari says about this: "One must use the right for the sake of the right. Even if we know that an unjust and incorrect word will make all sinners repent, at the same time, Islam does not allow us to do such a thing. Islam does not need wrong ways and lies in its own way. Mixing truth with falsehood destroys truth. And it does not have the right to remain with falsehood... One of the ways that harm religion from various aspects is not observing this principle. Just as our goal should be holy, the means we employ for it should also be holy."

The end of the word is that Imam Ali said: "Whoever wins through sin is not victorious, and whoever wins through evil and oppression is defeated." (Nahj al-Balagha, Sobhi Saleh, p. 533)