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                  -  Un-Islamic  deeds  by               -  Instead  of  quantitative
                  the clergy will break the              expansion, the clergy must
                  clergy and Islam.  (Imam               put  efforts  in  scientific
                  Khomeini,  1999,  Vol.  6:             and  moral  boost.  (Ibid,

                  539)                                   Vol. 19: 2)
                  - Wrong deeds by teachers              -  The  more  the  clergy
                  in  the  society  will  push           braces for material benefits,
                  the  clergy  to  failure.              the  more  its  spirituality

                  (Ibid, Vol. 10: 24)                    will be weakened. (Ibid: 25)
                  - The clerics outside power            -  The  loss  of  quality  of
                  must help the government               life  of  scholars  will

                  instead  of  sitting  down             result  in  the  elimination
                  and  complaining.  (Ibid,              of Islam and the Islamic
                  Vol. 15: 336)                          Republic. (Ibid: 137)

                  - A wise scholar reforms
                  the environment he lives               As  described  above,  the
                  in  and  a  corrupt  scholar        Imam  Khomeini  maintains

                  will corrupt his surroundings.      that  the  main  mission
                  (Ibid: 484)                         assigned  to  an  Islamic
                  - Undermining the clergy            government  is  to  make
                  and  division  in  the              endeavors for training humans.

                  clerical rank risk distancing       Governments cannot remain
                  people  away  from  the             indifferent vis-à-vis people's
                  clergy. (Ibid, Vol. 18: 18)         beliefs      and      morality.
                                                      Therefore, by envisaging such
                                                      a large-scale and long-term
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