The path to achieve the Perfect Man

In disposition of transactional transcendent Man has unique truth, who in his nature and essence is constantly evolving and due to the movement, he passes natural, sensual and intellectual order and gets to the divine stage. Accordingly, in opinion of the Imam, in the universe those creatures can be called human which reflects God and are manifestation of the divine names and attributes. Fortunately this path and reaching this place is open for us all as path to Lord and he requires four mystical trips which lead the man from an individualist external path to collective external path and presence in politics and the management of the society and its leadership. These trips are mentioned as "The Four Journeys". Gnostics believe that the perfect man should pass "Four Journeys" with step of intuition and knowledge. Although all of those, who have reached perfect human, are not the same during these stages, and each one has certain degree and special status, but the nature of journey is for all of them.
Seeker in the first stage goes from creating to Lord, in second step goes from Lord by Lord, in the third stage goes from God to the creature with right and truth, and finally in the fourth journey he goes from creating to creation with the right. The trips have been explained with various methods in the works of the Gnostics. Imam states the four stages as follows:
The first trip is from creation to the truth (Lord) "which is the grace and the current manifestation of the Holy that for the seeker, visibility of God's beauty will be achieved after removing the veil facilities.
Second journey begins from bound right and gets to absolute right "Allah" that after [this] stage, all entities destroy for him, and all the possibility determinations are amortized, and the right (Lord) is manifested for him with position of unity. At this stage, the seeker does not see the universe and his essence, attributes and actions are mortal in the right (Lord).
Then if Divine grace and favor is for him, the third trip begins which is from the right towards the creation with the right. After that he starts the fourth trip which is the journey from the creation towards external objects. The seeker in this journey sees God's beauty in everything, and at this stage the perfect man has the law and tells the legal rulings to people to guide them and tells people about the truth and names and attributes of God and other education.
Imam, after accounting for different journeys and explaining different positions of the prophets and the saints of God in The Four Journeys, points out the status of Khatam, then he said:
All of these four trips which have been made for Khatam and all the officials that he had, in fact, the finisher of the Mohammadi Velayat, Ali ibn Abi Talib and his descendants are existing. But with the difference that the mentioned officials for Mohammadi truth is realize in originality way, and for innocent Imams it is realized in way of adherence and inheritance of Lord.
Guardianship and caliphate, two important factors in determining the size of the perfect man
One of the important issues raised in the place of the perfect man in creation is the subject of the divine Caliphate and guardianship, and in mystical topics the two are of discussion of the perfect man. According to Imam, the start of presence of caliphate of perfect human has been from hidden identity which is considered as divine aspects and of this Caliphate, universe' Caliphate begins in the world. Imam believes that the caliphate is not only the soul, roots and the beginning of Muhammad's reign, but it is the basis of the caliphate in all the worlds of existence and the originality of the caliph and the caliphate and substitution originate in the caliphate.
In the mystical vision, concept of province has levels and each prophet who has more contributions of manifestations of Divine Names will have broader and more comprehensive circle of province and he has more perfection and his law is broader. Also, seekers have levels, and each one that has more perfection and goodness in him will have more right to province than others. This tendency in the territory of the apparent province has led the Shiite community to accept political leadership of the supreme leader after centuries of absence of the twelfth Imam from three mystical, theological and philosophical, and religious perspectives them, and using inner province of Hidden Imam.
in the idea of Shiite, spiritual province of the Prophet (Peace be upon him) and Imam Ali (Peace be upon him) and Infallible Imams of Muslims' leaders are never separated from their apparent province, and remarkable Shiite scholars agree that the authorities in ruling position require to accept devise, Policy and Management of the world. They also believe about other the ruling justice that: policy and manage of the world should be in a way that it does not have the duality of this world and hereafter's position. In their religious understanding, a person who is under the dome of his soul cannot have position of province, although its apparent type.
The term of caliphate and its relationship with the province is one of the detailed discussions which Imam has engaged to, and we quote it here in brief:
The caliphate is the spirit of Muhammad's reign. The Lord is the beginning and root of it; in all realms the Caliphate has started from him and even the beginning of the Caliphate and the Caliph and the one who has been substituted to Him and the Caliphate is manifested in Greatest Name of Allah, the Lord.
So Hazrat the Greatest Name (Allah) is the originality of Caliphate and what is apparent is his Caliphate.
Summary
Iran's Islamic Revolution won and was established in ensuring the welfare and development of people and freedom and independence of the country led by Imam Khomeini. The revolution is considered as the biggest social, political and religious move in the twentieth century in contrary to the capitalist and communist political system. Imam could offer a clear picture of political-social structure based on divine province by deep understanding of pure Islam and by particular analysis and interpretation of perfect human being from philosophical, spiritual, moral perspective in realm of politics, government, society, and the roles of man in doing duties in God's mission. Practically, he made the thought and character in the form of prophetic and Alawi wisdom and the Islamic Republic based on religious and political awareness of the people. The center of this thinking, which, in turn, has created broad challenges in terms of intellectual, cultural, social and political issues in contemporary century, is derived from the thought and transcendental philosophy school. A school, which is a full mixture of intuition, reason, revelation and the Qur'an. Thus, Imam Khomeini, by the same basis, which is the spiritual look and to receive wisdom from the Lord, the universe, humanity, Islam, state and society, and also by emphasizing on the functional view knows the truth of monotheism from concepts such as Sufism management, mysticism and politics. In analyzing politics, He presupposes the same mixture and knows policy as worship and knows its dignity as guidance of people. He believes the mysticism and religion are the same, and he negates their contrast, and defines mysticism as task and orient of man-making, and a source of individual and collective salvation and happiness of mankind. His separates mysticism from inaction, inertia and introversion, and puts it in the context of society and governance. Imam has spiritual look at human and by setting revolutionary school of God's wisdom and verses and Hadithes believes that knowing human is the bases and root of all knowledge including knowing the history, society, policy, government, methods and attitudes of management and other issues.
Imam knows gaining this knowledge obligatory for the seeker who wants to know mystic. In Imam's point of view, in ontology, human beings naturally have the ability of gradual change and efforts and he is moving in the path of perfection and happiness. In terms of epistemology, the perfect man is pure symbol of the Greatest Name.
In Imam's perspective, the perfect man is a spiritual mystic element and has the high position of being divine Caliph; in a way that circle of his province equals to perfection of men and taking them to the destination, which is happiness and redemption and making material and spiritual life and to serve the people of God and establishing power and authority of God and people are of his duties.
The perfect man is as symbol and product of tie between mystics and policy in revolutionary look of Imam وand his sight is considered as a theory in establishing a virtue community and state. According to his functional look, the perfect man is not inaccessible ideal man, and he is not far from people and society; but he is present in the middle of community and leads all facilities and forces of the society in direction of material and spiritual perfection and evolution. Imam Khomeini know Caliphate and province of human in direction of caliphate and province of Imams and prophets, and he does not know their province just inner one; he does not know it separate from apparent province and thinks that the perfect man's role I policy and management of this world is needed and necessary for preparing backgrounds for the other world (hereafter).