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He believes that the justifies the means, then
purpose of moral action is to chaos in the society will be
get closer to God Almighty grown. (Misbah Yazdi, 2013: 216)
and give direction to the inner According to Ayatollah
powers and inherent talents Misbah, the desire for power
and spiritual tendencies of is instilled in man, and man
man such as power, pleasure, seeks power as long as he
perfection, happiness, etc. lives; (Ibid, 1997, Vol. 2:
(Jørgensen and Sohrabian 135-136) but it should not be
Parizi, 2021: 93-119) forgotten that the more power
a person has, the more
Therefore, according to
Ayatollah Misbah, power is powerful his creator is. (Ibid,
2011: 477)
an instinctive ability in the Therefore, he does not
path of perfection and the separate ethics from politics
ultimate goals of man. and puts forward the priority
Ayatollah Misbah believes of moral issues over all other
that power is not a bad thing; issues and in line with the true
In society, power should be perfection of man.
used against oppressors who
violate the rights of others 5. Machiavelli considers the
and are not satisfied with moral act to be the act that
anything, but the use of power brings a person closer to the
must also have a law. goal and perfection and
Obtaining the goal does not makes him a perfect person.
justify any means, but the This goal is the strength of
means must be appropriate to man. Therefore, according to
the goal. Every common sense Machiavelli, the current morality
acknowledges that if the end
