Editing Ali Shariati (section)

===Commitment to democracy===

To better explain the commitment to democracy, he first divides between two concepts.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} One of them is Syasat and the other is politics. Syasat is a philosophy by which the government would be responsible for changing and building society. Syasat is a progressive and dynamic thing. The aim of the government in the philosophy of Syasat is to change social foundations, institutions and even societal norms, including culture, morality and desires. In simple words, Syasat entails the construction of the people's existence.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} On the contrary, there is no construction in politics. In other words, politics follows from the people. Politics does not construct the experience of people. Of course, Shariati prefers Syasat over politics because the former is more progressive. He considers making humanity (ensan sazi) important. His [[utopia]] is constructed with three concepts of [[Gnosis]], [[Equality before the law|equality]] and [[Political freedom|freedom]]. Commitment democracy appeared out of his lecture in Hoseyniyeh Ershad, a famous lecture with the name of [[Ummah and Imamate]]. According to him, an Imam wants to guide humans not only in political, cultural and social economic dimensions but also in all existential dimensions. He believes that an Imam is alive everywhere and every time. On one hand, Imamate is not a metaphysical belief but a revolutionary guide philosophy. He added that an Imam has to guide people not according to his desire like a dictator, but according to Islamic ideology and authentic values.<ref name="Sayyed Javad Imam Jomeh Zadeh, Hosein Rouhani 2007 59–78"/>{{clarify|date=May 2017}}