Mystical Vision of Islamic Revolution in the discourse of Martyr Mortaza Motahhari

As we know, Ayatollah Mortaza Motahhari was one of most distinguished revolutionary activists. He also was one of the main intellectual communicators between Imam and various strata of Iranian society and moreover one of the architects of Islamic revolutionary ideology. Motahhari was introducing the concept of Islamic revolution to the large sections of the Iranian society by all available means. He tried to explain purposes and goals of Islamic revolution and demonstrate it‟s uniqueness. In a quite short space of time Motahhari successfully managed to examine and analyze the very phenomenon of Islamic revolution then drew an integral vision of this phenomenon and brought it home to the people.Speeches and interviews delivered by Motahhari were the earliest experience of theoretical reasoning of the revolution. Motahhari as the chief thinker (motafakker) of revolutionary-minded Shi‟a Ulama strikingly and vividly conveyed the main point of the Islamic revolution which was laying its way through political chaos and instability.The central point of Motahhari‟s attempt to theorize on Islamic revolution was well-grounded but understandable explanation of its “essence” (mahiyat) to the vast masses of Iranian people through substantiation of it‟s Islamic nature. Motahhari like social theoreticians of Marxism attempted to analyze such aspects as essence, factors, motive forces, reasons, conditions, social base, goals and purposes of the Islamic revolution although reviewed all these elements of revolutionary process in light of its unique and exceptional nature and accentuated points which were more indicative of it‟s essential dissimilarity with all known political and social revolutions launched in other countries.