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From Salih Mirzabeyoglu's "The State of Grandsublime" (I am the editor of this work): ISLAM AND STATE Islam is tightly connected to the state, just as the soul is integrated, inseparably, with the body; it is inextricable, and an organ system can never be imagined without it. • Is it imaginable that Islam, which embraces the whole universe, excludes the state, which is the aggregate of material and spiritual values of the human community? • Now that "people" are the External (Zahir) of the absolute Truth (Haqq) and the absolute Truth (Haqq) is the Inward (Batin) of "people," the unique principle of an Islamic state is the absolute Truth (Haqq), and the sovereignty uniquely belongs to it. • People in Islam are boundlessly, truthfully and excellently free as the slaves of (submitted to) the Right (haqq) and the Truth (haqiqat), and by the same token, boundlessly, truthfully and excellently dependent. • Therefore, Islam is the connecting bond of the most advanced form of statism, in the purest and most excellent sense, with the most improved freedom at the same time and in the same place. • The state in Islam, in the sense of distributing rights assessed by the absolute Truth (Haqq) for individuals, is the weakest of slaves and is also the most powerful of bosses, in the sense of collecting the rights of the absolute Truth (Haqq) from individuals. • In Islam, there is no form of government; but there is the spirit of government. Sublime and flawless Islam has no connection with systems such as dynasties, republics or other earthly form and cadre preferences, which are too simple and primitive. • It is certain that the major principle of Islam, from the point of view of the purest spirit of the administrative essence, is the access to the most organized order behind a great and central personality, who is selected, embraced and obeyed by the whole society and nation. That leader is like an imam with his congregation behind him, who together face the absolute Truth (Haqq). Thus the state, under the head of this personality, who is an "Islamic president" (Ululamr), will be the most superior and advanced one of all other forms of state and administration according to "time and place", and of all forms of state, and will be most alienated from the dynasty form. • The head of the Islamic state is the most mature and most advanced Muslim personality. Behind him is the Master of the Universes, the Beloved of God; and behind the Beloved there is Allah, with His absolute Commands and Will. THE ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION Islamic revolution has the all-embracing goal of an organization and form of state as a whole, which has the value of an independent ideal. The name of this goal is "THE GRANDSUBLIME STATE" and its organization. • The Grandsublime State symbolizes a progress and innovation, incomparable with all samples ranging from Ancient Greece to those of today. It is the final and most superior breakthrough, which has collected the best of each and all forms of the state, be it the dominance of individual, social or exclusive class will, which have been experienced throughout history. It is a remarkable breakthrough that is tightly connected to the principle of Consultation (Shura) as well. • The aforementioned forms of state, which have been experienced throughout history, that is, the dominance of individual, social or exclusive class will, can be categorized in three major groups: absolutism, republic or single-party dictatorship. This Grandsublime ideal of ours is an embodiment of perfection, formed against all relative advantages and disadvantages of those forms of state, and is thus improved by refinement of their advantages, and leaving all their disadvantages as they are. • The state and organization ideal after the second half of the Twentieth century, perhaps for the whole of humanity, is bound to learn from and gain nourishment from our ideal of the "Grandsublime." After experiencing the ailing liberalism, the fallacious communism, and the crippled fascism, the goal of the future, perhaps all around the world, shall be to adopt this branch of the Islamic Revolution. • The essential idea of this cause, which its side of organization is finely embroidered in the Ideological Knitting of the Great East, is simply submission of that community to the command and will of the most superior heroes of spirit and mind. To put this in other words, the goal is to establish the hegemony of noble minds from every field just like the scholarly dominance of doctors in a hospital. • Here is the smallest criterion of this enormous cause: in order to elevate the people to the true sovereignty which is beyond their own selves, there is no other way than enslaving them to the absolute Truth (Haqq), and submitting and binding the aimless crowds to the will of the devoted enlightened ones. This is an apparent servitude and submission that is in fact a complete and idealistic sovereignty. All forms other than this one only seem to give freedom to the peoples' material and quantity-related interests and characteristics. However, in fact, they are nothing but illusional daily comforts that deprive people of their own true meaning and quality. And now, in the Twenty-first century, people have sadly experienced these illusions, become burned out in each one's crisis, and have remained unable to reach their goals within the framework of those. • For all the world communities that began to break into pieces and split off because of the lack of ideal, we believe that this very cause promises "an absolute ideal beyond ideal itself," as well as the ideal of social order to which they will submit. • Like the doctors' submission to science and their unyielding attitude to any arbitrary decision, the real intellectuals, whose virtue and pride consist only of faithfulness to the Right (haqq) and truth (haqiqat), are institutionally named as the "Sublime Assembly." Behind the raised platform of the assembly, one will read this sentence written on the wall: "Sovereignty belongs to the absolute Truth (Haqq)"; and the law is this Truth's law and the state is this Truth's state. And the embodiment of the ultimate and central position of the state is the Grandsublime, who is the only individual that represents the state in his personality as a symbol and focus, and dependent on the Truth in every aspect. THE STATE The form of state and government in the Islamic revolution, which we connect to the real and profound believer who is distinguished from his opposites and false copies with his concept of Sharia, Sufism and Reason and is subject to these, is a sheer matter of invention and origination (ibda) left to the liberated and advanced Reason. In this cause, this liberated and advanced Reason, while always being faithful to the main criterion, will follow the historic adventure of social organizations and administrative orders, and is one-hundred percent free to select or invent the most true, best and finest form. • Humanity knows three types of administration, which obtain all the authorities under the dominance of an individual or a society or a class: Sultanic dynasty, republic and class administrations centered around various social system plans or levels, namely monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy. Ancient history witnessed the first sample; new history the second sample; the newest history the third, or pure or mixed samples of all or two of them. In the most ancient history, we know that there were samples possible to consider within the first, second or the third. • In brief, until this day, humanity has not been able to find a form of regime, other than these three, that will represent a center of order to administer themselves within the framework of tribe and nation. • The reduction of humanity to one of these three units or sometimes the invention of possible mixture of these forms of state and administration within one another, demonstrates that the purpose is not in the forms but in the spirits that they are tied to, with everything consisting simply of the fundamental collection of the main idea system that is believed. • The form of the state and the government can never be the essential aim. It can only indicate the most appropriate and worthy form, like a substance reflecting the spirit or an expression of quantity reflecting quality. Only within this perspective might it own a number of elements which can be considered as in its framework or not. • The essential aim, whatever it is, can be served even by a sultanate rule that does not consider that the central influence and authority are simply free means of his own ego (Nafs) and arbitrariness; it can also be served by a republic; and likewise, it can be better and more effectively served by a class dominance that has a specific criterion and a certain idea of system. • Therefore, the state concept in the Islamic revolution, according to the profound and real believers' consideration, has no relation to any form, yet it is an ever-searching and renewing, abstract and general criterion that will never compromise the spirit of Islam and its system of fundamental criteria. • When it comes to administering masses, like a doctor healing his patient without asking the patient whether he should treat him or not, the state concept in the Islamic revolution, according to the profound and real believers' consideration, is realized through a guiding intervention and from the central position of the Right (haqq) and Truth (haqiqat), which is beyond individual, clique, or class-like characteristics. The focus of sublime manifestation and the uniquely ideal and unprecedented form is, as indicated at the beginning of the Ideological Knitting of the Great East, the "Sublime Assembly" and the "Grandsublime" ideal, which we consider as the most improved level of the republican form. This ideal is an innovative and progressive world-wide movement with its faithfulness to the stable and absolute fundamental criterion, which is as old as past eternity and as new as future eternity. Within the thousands of years' old human experience, this ideal has collected the good from each form but rejected the bad as an invention of central wisdom and truth. • Think about the miserable, non-comprehensive minds that consider Islam without perceiving its eternal scope while judging soulless "Muslim" generations who have represented Islam as dead cliches and residual information. Let us all see how foolish it is for them to describe us as reactionary or sultan-supporters just after this completely new ideal! • The state concept in the Islamic revolution, according to the profound and real believers' consideration, is a position of will and execution of a magnificent and totally new ideal; one which is absolutely subject to the greatest Prophet and requires exact submission from all others to the representation of the Right (haqq) and the Truth (haqiqat). Just as the state progresses in its position to be submitted to, its submission to the absolute Truth (Haqq) and the People also increases. It is also this state which submits administrative authority to the most sublime superiors of their own fields of that society. ARISTOCRACY OF INTELLECTUALS Throughout history, every revolution has been based on a social class. The great French Revolution relied on the bourgeois class, the communist revolution on the workers' class, and so on. Classes like soldiers, priests, and feudal estates had been the bases of certain regimes within certain times and spaces in history. • The history of revolutions considers the revolutions (and likewise the types of states and administrations) that were not supported by one or another social class; abstract and ambiguous like a spirit deprived of substance on which it will emerge. Classes, throughout history, have always been the lever of ideas and causes. • In fact, the social classes, like space that is the mirror for manifestation of time, are the grounds of embodiment for abstract causes. Without a class, it is unimaginable to subjugate the spirit and idea and turn them into a type of cadre. • On the other hand, the concept of class in the Islamic revolution is based on the masses, which are centered around the most superior human qualities; that is, embracing all of humanity, not on this or that organization of a clique acting on advantage and ambition of privilege and bossiness. Thus, the class in the Islamic revolution hopes for the cadre of exemplary personalities who will ferment the masses into humanity-wide extent; not for groups that will limit themselves with their own specific characteristics. This cadre has a specific class name: the true and superior class of intellectuals. • Thus the cause of class in the Islamic revolution, on the one hand, will go beyond the narrow and miserly framework of the concept of class; which will indicate an immense scope embracing all of humanity. In order for abstract ideas not to be rendered irrelevant or suspended, they should absolutely possess a cadre of "trustees" in the concrete flow of life. Although the concept of class, at first, suggests something harmful as its first feature, the concept of class in the Islamic revolution, on the other hand, will instead be enhanced by its second and beneficial feature. • Class in the Islamic revolution is a quality that is non-existent when it exists or existent when it does not exist. It is non-existent in its narrow and miserly sense and is existent in the sense that it forms the center of the main "Becoming" and represents the cause on concrete grounds to the extent that it covers all humanity. Within the necessity of manifestation of time in space, the class in the Islamic revolution, that we honor as the material support and that was made into a unrestricted clearness through considering the criteria preventing its narrowness and miserliness, is, namely, the noble class of true intellectuals; long-suffering nobles of ideas. • The right to a dominant class, which, before all of humanity, we regard boundless and all-embracing and that we rely on, is obtained through suffering minds and throes of comprehension. In other words, what we understand this kind of intellectual class to be is this: the ones whose minds have suffered and who have received pains of comprehension, like they were poisoned by the most dreadful one; not the ones within the implication of crowds of completely thickheaded, useless, reluctant and snobbish intellectuals who prostitute this noble concept. • Karl Marx says that in the capitalist order, the collected capital and obtained profit is actually accumulated by means of the violated rights of robbed workers whose "labor" was not paid for at all! This doctrine, a total failure in essence but completely true superficially, can be converted into the center of truth as the following: "The accumulated mistakes and faults of the meandering regimes resulted from the unsought "labor" and unrealized activities of ignored intellectuals." • Our criterion holds and will always hold superior the difference between an "Imam al-Ghazali" (a great Islamic scholar) and a poor shepherd; and it does never waver in the belief that the order under the dominance of these intellectuals will warrant the rights of this poor shepherd and even his poor goats more securely than themselves: for they are the ones who have gone beyond their own interests and who have annihilated themselves in the ultimate manifestation of the Right (haqq) and justice. • A regime that regards an Imam al-Ghazali and a poor shepherd equal in terms of quantity is as fallacious as the regime of pharaohs that dooms him to carry the stones to the pyramids. In other words, there will be neither individuals' dynasties nor their arbitrary rulings. It is because of all this that the principle, "Sovereignty does not belong to people but to the absolute Truth (Haqq)!" will be held invaluable by the noble minds that annihilate themselves in the absolute Truth (Haqq). It is this cause, along with the struggle that organizes them, in which the delivery of prerogatives, in the name of the Right (haqq), and which are irrelevant to individual interests, will target the "classless class" that will support the Islamic revolution; that is, the "class" of people superior to all classes. SUBLIME ASSEMBLY In the ideology of the "Great East", instead of parliaments whose samples are known around the world, there is the "Sublime Assembly" working on behalf of society, and representing their will. • The "Sublime Assembly" is built by eminent "action" people of the nation who have works, discovery, insight, composition, and causes in; religion, thought, arts, science, politics, positive knowledge, commerce, military, administration, and labor: in short, in every field that organizes the searching moves and intellectual sufferings of human mind. • The "Sublime Assembly" means to purify the nation within the framework of a cadre comprising the most advanced thinkers and the greatest executors. • The "Sublime Assembly" means, just like a patient under the supervision of a doctor, keeping the nation under the sovereignty of the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat) by way of the dominance of the workers of soul and intellect, who have had pure and abstract intellectual suffering. • The "Sublime Assembly," which can be described as the authority of real intellectuals in their nation, is nothing but submission to the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat), within the hands of superior beings who do not have selfishness or self-conceitedness, be it as an individual or as a particular body. The "Sublime Assembly" is the framework not of the ruling, but of the subjugated. • The only consideration that cannot be tolerated, even for a single moment by the "Sublime Assembly," is the vegetative freedom and aimlessness stemming from this sort of consolation: "People want it that way." A despotism that has only quantitative expectations of vote and tendency, and thus, subjugates quality under the disguise of freedom, is completely adverse to the "Sublime Assembly." The concept of freedom that is perceived by the "Sublime Assembly" is, let us repeat it once again and a thousand times more; submission to the truth (haqiqat). • The members of the "Sublime Assembly" can be at least 40 years of age or 65 years of age and biologically and spiritually and perfectly healthy. With all his private life, all of his activities, and the tests he has passed all the time against life and events, he keeps himself under the complete and absolute supervision and inspection of the nation and the "Sublime Assembly." He completely and exactly realizes the most sincere and genuine representation of the pole of faith he is attached to, both in idea and morality. He leads a life with entrancement and love. He does not lead a petty individual-driven and ego-driven life. He remains beyond all professional political craft and all kinds of self-seeking and influence. • The set of personal characteristics of the members of the "Sublime Assembly" have been well defined in a most detailed and explanatory fashion. The "Sublime Assembly" has the eternally subtle criterion of attention and sensitivity that immediately excludes any member who diminishes his superior qualities or, let alone staying the same, does not always improve and enhance these superior qualities. • Just as in national assemblies, the center of whole will power and decision of the community is the "Sublime Assembly." Each and every measure of the "Sublime Assembly" is a law, and each law is first attached to the main system as practical judgments to be applied on behalf of an ideological unit which does not have any inconsistency in itself, and then to the essential focus, that the main system also belongs to. • The "Sublime Assembly" is first comprised of a "House of Founders." After that, all the members of the Assembly, unless there is a reason that demonstrates even the smallest inappropriateness seen or found concerning any member out of the certain reasons which cover the whole Assembly members, will remain members forever. A vigorous old age is not an obstacle. • After the foundation of the "Sublime Assembly," the other members elect one of the members of the Assembly as the "Grandsublime." • The "Grandsublime," elected by the Assembly, is the president of the state and the name of the state is the "Grandsublime State." • The "Grandsublime" is elected for a term of five years. • The "Grand Sublime," announces and assigns new members, in case a member ceases to exist in the Assembly, due to the reasons such as death, serious illness or upon a wish or notice given to decline. • The "Sublime Assembly," assigns a moral degree and a rank, without being restricted by a specific number, to the eminent leading figures of the country: "Candidate to the Sublime Assembly." The owner of this degree of the greatest value and reward continues to demonstrate worthiness to his degree, although he does not have any right to represent it. A smallest amount of unworthiness before this degree results in the termination of the right to the "Candidate to the Sublime Assembly." The "Sublime Assembly" selects a new member from among these candidates. • The number of the "Sublime Assembly" members is exactly one-hundred and one, and each of these members is in the position of representing the whole country. • The "Sublime Assembly" members are the ones who were selected by the absolute Truth (Haqq), not people. THE GRANDSUBLIME AND THE ASSEMBLY All the power balance, as its all-representative extent is attached to the same root-ideology, is between the "Grandsublime" and the "Sublime Assembly." The "Sublime Assembly" finds in the "Grandsublime" the unification of execution and representation of its own spiritual personality selected by their own hands; and the "Grandsublime" finds his cadre in the "Sublime Assembly;" the members comprised, gathered and supervised under the superior virtues, before his unification of execution and representation. • In this respect, the "Sublime Assembly," on the contrary of the purposelessness of the quantitative fluctuation of the masses' votes, follows the path in which it is always assigned to the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat), and always in the process of further maturation and self-construction. Meanwhile the "Grand Sublime," selected by the Assembly and head of the Assembly and the state, accommodates, in the most harmonious way, the features of the will of the Right (haqq), with the meaning that the Right (haqq) and truth (haqiqat) are superior to the nation. • The "Sublime Assembly" is the conscience; the "Grandsublime" the will. • Thus, there are formed two main centers which inspect and are accountable to each other; as it is needed by the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat). The unity that results from the combination of ideas and works of these two centers keeps in its hand the ordered freedom which democracy could not and would not reach, and the free discipline which could not and would not be accomplished by all the other forms of state contrary to democracy. This is done without hurting either the right or the left wing. • The "Grandsublime," along with the "Sublime Assembly," will approve of each member who joins and each member who leaves. The "Grandsublime" will supervise and protect the individually distributed and bodily combined spirit of the Assembly against the Assembly itself on behalf of the nation and leave judgment to the "Sublime Assembly." • On the other hand, the "Grandsublime," within all his life, activities and tasks, is subject to the supervision of the "Sublime Assembly" and its task of truth protection. • It should be thus understood that the goal is simply this: before the balance of the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat), which is beyond everybody, to be able to attain and operate the ideal harmonious order, in which all the elements are always subject to and dominant to one another at the same time for the sake of the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat), and within which they all witness and inspect one another. • There are two aspects in one man or one man in two aspects; his self and again his self that supervises himself. • If the "Sublime Assembly" finds the "Grandsublime" in an unexpectedly negative and contradictory situation, it has the right to overthrow him with seventy-five percent (majority) of the votes of the Assembly, and the right to announce one of the other Assembly members as "Grandsublime" until the ultimate will is realized. • The "Grandsublime" does not have the right to directly repeal the "Sublime Assembly." However, if there is some sort of corruption in which the "Sublime Assembly" gathered around unexpectedly negative and contradictory inclinations that start to spread among the members, he can immediately submit the case to arbitration of the nation, in order to settle the dispute between him and the "Sublime Assembly." In order to call for arbitration, a minimum forty percent of the "Sublime Assembly" members must be in agreement with him. In case the judgment of the nation is on behalf of the "Grandsublime," it makes those members, who had agreed with the "Grandsublime," valid. The rest of the members are immediately eliminated and then the Assembly will assign new members to vacant seats. If the judgment of the nation is against the "Grandsublime" then the decision overrules him and results in a new presidential election. • The Assembly is assigned with carrying out and realizing only the national will in extraordinary circumstances such as, when the national will needs to be realized; for example, the election of the "Grandsublime" every five years. • The government who is going to be accountable firstly to the "Grandsublime," then by way of the "Grandsublime" to the "Sublime Assembly," is selected by the "Grandsublime" from among the people outside of the "Sublime Assembly." • The government is removed immediately from power with a vote of no confidence when this issue gets (1 more) vote from the "Sublime Assembly's" voting on it. • From the "Grandsublime" to any member of the "Sublime Assembly" and to every member of the government, no one has the privilege to personal immunity or to act irresponsibly before the law. For example, if spitting onto the ground is unlawful, according to the law of good manners and decency legislated by the "Sublime Assembly," law enforcement officers hold the offender equal, be it the "Grandsublime" or a "Sublime," or the head of the government, or a street cleaner. THE GRANDSUBLIME The "Grandsublime" is not an ordinary head of state in its rough and general sense. He is instead a profound and intricate social symbol; a perfect sample. • The mature individual, to whom the entire jurisdiction is delivered within the highest human level, is to minimize "his self" to the smallest scale in terms of authority, for the sake of mature harmony which he is to combine with Allah, his conscience and his nation. The symbol monumentalized by the "Grandsublime" is this very representation and personification of this meaning. • The "Grandsublime" is the major and perfect sample, and who is the sum of all the parts of his nation. Therefore, his authority before the Right (haqq) and the truth (haqiqat) is equal to this total, whereas the freedom he has for himself is less than the smallest part of this total. • All the manners and activities of the "Grandsublime," excluding his own words, will announce the fact that he is the most decent, most knowledgeable and clever person of his entire nation. • The "Grandsublime" can not and does not give an order contradictory to the corpus of rules built by the "Sublime Assembly" in each and every area with the fullness due. However, his each and every order is another law which is indicatory and complementary to law. In case there is a field which is not mentioned in the law, the order of the "Grandsublime" is definitive. • The government is replaced with one single command of the Grandsublime. • Be it the greatest or smallest unit, all of the governmental system works on behalf of him. • Administration of Justice works on behalf of him and justice is distributed on behalf of him. • The "Grandsublime," along with all executive bodies and means, is the head of the army with all its branches. The Commander-in-Chief is directly the deputy of the "Grandsublime." • It can thus be seen that the "Grandsublime" is the ideal individual who fills the great position of social will and executive authority, which is called "Grand Chief" (Ululamr) in Islam, in such a way that, being under an obligation to destroy and exclude his own ego (Nafs), he does not involve anything related to self-interest or ambition into it, even the smallest amount. The "Grandsublime" himself will become more submissive like a slave than anything and anybody before the sacred scales of divine justice and the meaning of the pole of the faith and truth he represents, which enslaves everything and every one in the most advanced freedom. The "Grandsublime" will first overwhelm himself under the boundless meaning he represents, and then, within the representative limits of the universe of meanings he is attached to, he will not avoid promoting his mortal being to the extreme and in the most glamorous and mighty and magnificent expressions, but without giving any credit to his mortal being. The glamorous expression of mightiness and magnificence of the "Grandsublime" belongs not to himself, but to the universe of meanings he and his entire nation are attached to, and to his nation, onto which it then is reflected. • Regardless of the subject related, the most troubled and anguished member of the society is legally authorized to question the "Grandsublime" at any moment to see whether or not he suffers equally or whether he has the solution to end his misery. This opportunity, which is available in every house belonging to citizens and might invite the worst punishment for the ones who offend, in case of an abuse even of the minor kind, is an emergency call which is forbidden to be used for pleasure. • The "Sublime Assembly" can reassign the "Grandsublime" who was elected for five years. • The "Grandsublime" who is not re-elected, unless he exceeds the age limit, will return to his seat in the "Sublime Assembly." THE GRANDSUBLIME GOVERNMENT The "Government of the Grandsublime State" is comprised of one Prime Minister and an adequate number of deputies. • The term "Deputy" is directly in relation to the "Grandsublime." They are in fact his deputies. • The ministries, each with three undersecretariats attached to them, accomplish the most complicated and fullest volume of duty within their areas of responsibility and which are within the scope of a few ministries. • Each undersecretariat has at its command the various organizations of general directorates in accordance with the scope and nature of the duty it embraces. These general directorates have a scope equal to that of current ministerial organizations and especially significant due to the fact that they are arranged in a way that they prevent the superabundance of the ranks. • In the chain of command and staff management units of each ministry, a minister and three undersecretaries are employed. The three undersecretaries of each ministry demonstrate a complete unison; just as all the undersecretaries of the other ministries are equally harmonious within the governmental corpus. The undersecretaries are to be selected by their professional capability, as opposed to the ministers who are to be selected by political means, and both of them will be required to have equal compositional and harmonious spirit. • The general policies of the government are represented by the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister; and as attached to the Council of Ministers as a whole and to their own ministries individually, the internal system of the government is represented by the Council of Undersecretaries headed by the Undersecretary of the Prime Minister. The Council of Undersecretaries always convenes with the command of Council of Ministers. • Authority of the Religious Affairs and the Commandership in case of military action and the Commandership-in-chief in peace have an autonomous position above the government, yet are after the executive and representative rights of the "Grandsublime" in those areas. When the Council of Ministers gather for a meeting headed by the "Grandsublime" or, if required, when they are invited to gather by the Prime Minister as the representative of the "Grandsublime," these two position-holders take part with the right to introduce their opinions to be considered as the most important words and ideas. • Organizations like the Court of Appeals, State Council, and Court of Accounts have no active position or rights in the political domain of the state and the government, for they employ the authority obtained from the laws in the relevant topic and are autonomous in every sense before the Council of Ministers, and always after the "Grandsublime." • The members of the Council of Ministers are assigned by the Prime Minister, who is to be selected from among the "Sublime Assembly" by the "Grandsublime," on condition that the Prime Minister submits it to the approval of the "Grandsublime." Autonomous state institutions (above the scope of the government) are always appointed by the "Grandsublime." • All the governmental body, together with all the branches of government, is subject to any sort of supervision and inspection of the members of the "Sublime Assembly." • The main criterion in terms of organization is as follows: The first and foremost essential quality is to carry out the state administration and leadership of the society by means of a "council (Shura)," built by the most capable and eminent individuals of the nation, and to regard this "council" as the truest representation of the nation. This should happen without voting; voting is acceptable only when it is applied under extraordinary circumstances, which is again almost impossible. The rest is simply quantity and material dimensional-related details. Quantity and outer mold can always be modified in accordance with the requirements. What cannot be changed is the spirit and the quality. The purpose is to keep the equivalent of this spirit and quality, with master architects sculpting the outer mold and organization. MINISTRIES The Ministry of Education will have three undersecretariats: "Science and Fine Arts," "People's Decency and its Houses," and "General Education." • The Ministry of War also will have three undersecretariats: those of "Land," "Marine," and "Air." • The Ministry of Economy will consist of these three undersecretariats: "Industry," "Trade," and "Agriculture." • The Ministry of Finance will have these three undersecretariats: "Budget and General Balance," "Taxes and Stamps," and "Banks and Monopolies." • The Ministry of Health and Care will comprise the three undersecretariats of "Healing," "Beautification," and "Reproduction." • The Ministry of Justice will consist of these three undersecretariats: "Courts," "Reformatories," and "Laws." • The Ministry of Press and Propaganda will have the three undersecretariats of "Press," "Propaganda," and "Tourism." • The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will consist of these three undersecretariats: "Orient," "Occident," and "Intelligence." • The Ministry of Domestic Affairs will comprise the three undersecretariats of "Civil Organization," "Municipalities," and "General Law Enforcement." • The Ministry of Regulation will have the three undersecretariats of "Organizational Regulation," "Regulation of Labor," and "Insurance and Retirement Fund." • And the Ministry of Public Works will consist of the three undersecretariats of "Establishments," "Roads," and "Transportation Vehicles."
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This is called spreading the word
Spreading the word, in more ways than one, by posting various chapters of a book/essay under different OD topics. I will not bother to read this one having read through the other two. This should be posted as a pointer to a URL.



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Here are the PDF links
[quote=englishman]Spreading the word, in more ways than one, by posting various chapters of a book/essay under different OD topics. I will not bother to read this one having read through the other two. This should be posted as a pointer to a URL. [/quote] For the PDF version of the whole book, here are the links: http://www.yeniakademya.org/grandsublime.pdf http://www.geocities.com/yakademya/grandsublime.pdf
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"The New World Order is shaped like a bobble of ideas and institutions, from democracy and liberalism to the United Nations and the European Common Market, it is a hegemonic system in which the United States and Europe, although competitively, share the v




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As I promised...
As I promised in the other sections ("Conflicts" and "Democracy&Power"), I will give you a URL :) I am waiting for my webmaster to come tomorrow morning.
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"The New World Order is shaped like a bobble of ideas and institutions, from democracy and liberalism to the United Nations and the European Common Market, it is a hegemonic system in which the United States and Europe, although competitively, share the v