Mosque Charter

To propagate, expand, and deepen the soul-enriching culture and teachings of pure Muhammadan Islam (peace be upon him and his progeny), emphasizing spiritual values through:

• Religious ceremonies

• Lectures

• Exhibitions

• Digital content production

1. Monotheistic Worldview

Strengthen religious thought, guide innate inclinations, interpret life's philosophy, and elucidate humanity's exalted status in creation through a divine-centric lens.

2. Religious Knowledge and Practice

Enhance awareness of revelation, prophethood, guardianship (Wilayah), and faith in divine justice and wisdom, facilitating religious adherence.

3. Eschatological Perspective

Elevate understanding of the hereafter in knowledge and action—duty, purpose, means, will, and social responsibility.

4. Devotion and Sanctity

Cultivate conscious worship, fortify faith, solidify righteous deeds, and sanctify lifestyles through religious obligations.

5. Pure Muhammadan Islam

Adhere to authentic Islamic foundations, counter doubts and syncretism, and combat intellectual stagnation, heresy, and sectarian division.

6. Bond with the Quran

Revive hearts and purify souls through perpetual companionship with the Quran, deeply understanding its teachings per the traditions of the Infallible Imams (AS).

7. Reverence for Religious Symbols and Traditions

Practically uphold Islamic customs, rituals, and rites to preserve societal sacred values.

8. Revival of Religious Gatherings

Host sessions on the Quran, Nahj al-Balagha, hadith, beliefs, jurisprudence, family values, cultural events, and exhibitions.

9. Tiers of Religious Education for Youth

• Spiritual Familiarity: Foster divine attachments through habitual religious acts.

• Religious Habituation: Instill devotional routines and accountability in worship.

• Religious Cognizance: Develop understanding via reflection and analysis.

• Religious Character: Manifest faith in ethics and personality.

• Spontaneous Spirituality: Pursue transcendent love and mysticism through sacred inspirations.

Introducing the mosque as a center for worship, politics, culture, education, and social activities to develop public relations and interconnected cultural institutions.

Principle 10 - The Primary Mission of Mosques

The role of educating and nurturing individuals, fostering connections between believers and society's elites, providing a suitable environment for spiritual and psychological growth, and serving as a refuge and source of peace for the faithful.

Principle 11 - Coordination and Unity

Establishing a hub to coordinate cultural and religious activities, family counseling, interest-free loan funds, and charities within mosques.

Principle 12 - Equipping Mosques with Informational Tools

Assisting in meeting the hardware and software needs of mosques and cultural complexes.

Principle 13 - Media Utilization

Employing mass media and communication tools to promote cultural, religious, political, and social activities.

Principle 14 - Holding Issue-Analysis Meetings

Organizing structured coordination meetings with imams, scholars, and experts to enhance cultural-religious collaboration and implement practical outcomes.

Principle 15 - The Social Function of Mosques

The mosque's mission is not limited to prayers; it is a center for resolving social issues in all dimensions.

Principle 16 - A Hub of Identity and Human Development in History

Reviving and positioning mosques as centers of knowledge, vital community hubs, and institutions addressing people's needs.

Principle 17 - Mosques as Centers of Judgment and Dispute Resolution

Addressing material, spiritual, legal issues, and conflicts, especially for the underprivileged, and responding to public crises and natural disasters.

Efforts to extract and refine the cultural resources of Islam and Iran, introducing and promoting them to enthusiasts of science and culture in the contemporary world, while critically evaluating and refining the cultural achievements of human societies.

Principle 18 - Understanding Commonalities and Differences

Efforts to familiarize youth with positive cultural aspects of other nations and ethnic groups, and their commonalities and differences with our own culture.

Principle 19 - Holding Analytical Meetings

Organizing scientific roundtables, seminars, and national and international conferences on cultural exchange and confrontation, and introducing Islamic culture and civilization.

Principle 20 - Understanding Methods of Cultural Invasion

Understanding the roots and methods of global cultural and communication dominance, and a philosophical understanding of Western cultural invasion and ways to counter it.

Principle 21 - Sociology of Identity Crisis

Understanding the true nature of individuals, including essential characteristics and the objective and subjective foundations of collective identity in Iran, and its impact on cultural exchange between Iran and the world.

Principle 22 - Mechanisms of Transferring Cultural Norms in Society and Ways to Counter Cultural Infiltration

Poverty, family conflicts, membership in groups that provide a weak and unstable foundation to the audience, and a sense of belonging to society.

Principle 23 - Propaganda, Media, and Cultural Invasion

The role of propaganda in transferring the values of consumer society and the negative groundwork laid by Western media through satellite programs.

Principle 24 - Cultural Social Work as an Effective Method to Prevent Cultural Invasion

Increasing the effectiveness of cultural messages through cultural social work methods by creating intra- and inter-group relationships among different segments of society.

Principle 25 - Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong

Evaluating the performance of the system of enjoining good and forbidding wrong in dealing with manifestations of cultural invasion, and holding roundtables and meetings to analyze current issues.

Principle 26 - Iranology

Proposing and exposing the motives, goals, mistakes, missteps, and biased aspects of foreign Orientalism and Iranology.

Principle 27 - Deepening Perspectives

Deepening human insight in the scientific encounter with cultures and manifestations of civilization, and cultural exchange and dissemination in positive aspects of social life.

Formation of beneficial habits and completion of moral education with emphasis on observing levels of spiritual refinement and piety, and practicing self-restraint and self-improvement.

Principle 28 - Self-Knowledge

Awareness of humanity's inherent dignity and existential nobility, recognizing stages of the soul's progression and regression in the path of liberation from satanic temptations and attainment of human perfection.

Principle 29 - Growth and Self-Improvement

Moderation of instincts, refinement of emotions, health of intellect and soul, and spiritual tranquility on the path of moral perfection and proximity to divine pleasure.

Principle 30 - Etiquette of Social Interaction

Contemplation of desirable social conduct and companionship customs, honoring virtues and sincerity while strengthening the social spirit in moral/spiritual domains.

Principle 31 - Seizing Opportunities

Utilizing youth's potential in life's brief journey through self-discipline, reliance on God, self-confidence, worship, and pursuit of felicity.

Principle 32 - Exemplary Models

Studying the conduct of supreme role models and emulating virtuous behavioral patterns from the school of Ahl al-Bayt (AS).

Principle 33 - Harmony of Hearts

Cultivating peace, purity, honesty, empathy and solidarity to achieve heartfelt unity and strengthen brotherhood.

Principle 34 - Social Ethics

Maintaining inviolable social norms like trustworthiness from society's perspective.

Principle 35 - Religious Character Formation

Manifestation of religious culture in adolescents' personality and moral conduct.

Principle 36 - Honoring and Preserving Sanctities

Encouraging mutual respect, preservation of dignity, and honoring one another in individual/collective speech and behavior.

Scientific and practical commitment to establishing supreme values, sustaining Islam's educational and cultural movement, and gradually eliminating superstitious and deviant customs.

Principle 37 - Honoring Manifestations

Utilizing the beautiful manifestations of Islamic culture and civilization to promote supreme values and remove obstacles to youth development.

Principle 38 - Confrontation and Struggle

Systematic confrontation with rigid traditionalism and sectarianism in accepting/rejecting subcultures based on Islamic standards.

Principle 39 - Superstitions and False Beliefs

Intellectual and practical efforts to combat superstitions, false accusations of apostasy, and moral corruption among youth.

Principle 40 - Verbal and Behavioral Culture

Educating target communities on methods to establish supreme values and Sharia-based norms.

Principle 41 - Cultural Development

Promoting Islamic values/norms while gradually eliminating superstitious and deviant customs.

Principle 42 - Prevention

Preventing the formation/growth of immoral and corrupt gatherings in Islamic society.

Principle 43 - Cultural Expansion

Creating academic environments and holding discussions on youth's role in cultural development.

Principle 44 - Characteristics of Shia Culture

Familiarizing communities with Shia culture's distinctive features in Islamic history and its connection to the finality of prophethood.

Principle 45 - Foreign Subcultures

Emphasizing Islam's capacity to appropriately adopt beneficial elements from foreign subcultures.

Deep understanding of Islamic politics based on absolute divine sovereignty, recognizing legitimate political methods for administering an Islamic society, implementing social justice, and practical approaches to establishing truth and nullifying falsehood.

Principle 46 - Guardianship and Leadership

Acceptance of guardianship (Wilayah) and obedience to leadership in strengthening political positions, uniting with the Islamic Ummah to consolidate revolutionary ideals, stabilize governance pillars, and guarantee the future of the Islamic movement.

Principle 47 - Political Insight

Enhancing knowledge and deepening understanding of political issues, political analysis methods, and adaptive management approaches.

Principle 48 - Religion and Politics

Comprehending Islamic politics rooted in divine sovereignty, recognizing legitimate political methods for administering society, executing social justice, and practical truth-establishment.

Principle 49 - Nobility and Freedom-Seeking

Cultivating spiritual nobility and love for freedom while rejecting all forms of oppression in human relations according to divine standards.

Principle 50 - Safeguarding Ideals

Protecting sacred values and ideals of the Islamic Revolution, maintaining revolutionary spirit, and promoting awareness of the Islamic movement.

Principle 51 - Global Politics

Understanding international political norms, positions of global organizations, and fundamentals of international relations while preserving political independence and rejecting global arrogance.

Principle 52 - Knowledge and Skill Acquisition

• Mastering psychological security and emotional refinement

• Learning civic principles and social regulations

• Practicing social discipline while experiencing intellectual freedom

• Developing future planning skills and social personality refinement

• Gaining life experience and healthy living principles

• Strengthening creativity and individual initiative

• Cultivating social responsibility and commitment

• Acquiring expertise for societal service and leadership qualifications

To refine and extract the cultural resources of Islam and Iran, introducing and promoting them to enthusiasts of global knowledge and culture, while critically evaluating and purifying the cultural achievements of human societies.

53. National and Religious Unity

Understanding the foundations of Iran's authentic national and Islamic identity, emphasizing methods for achieving cultural independence, strengthening national/religious unity, and fostering patriotism.

54. Prominent Figures and Sages

Recognizing eminent scholars and sages—particularly Iranian Muslim thinkers and scientists—studying their lifestyles, intellectual struggles, and contributions to human civilization.

55. Country Studies

Examining the beliefs, rituals, and intellectual traditions of nations, religions, and schools of thought, identifying commonalities, differences, and the validity of religious and non-religious ideologies.

56. Cultural Exchange and Confrontation

Extracting and refining Islamic and Iranian cultural heritage, promoting it globally, and critically assessing other civilizations' achievements.

57. Mythology Studies

Exploring the cultural characteristics, spiritual capacities, and human aspirations reflected in the mythologies of world nations.

58. Learning from History

Analyzing the rise and fall of past civilizations to understand divine laws and social patterns governing human life for wisdom and experience.

59. Governance of Values

Commitment to establishing supreme values, continuing Islam’s educational and cultural movement, and eradicating superstitious and deviant customs.

60. Revival of National Industries

Strengthening and expanding traditional industries to enhance local craftsmanship and revive national heritage.

To strengthen ideological awareness and consolidate determination in recognizing enemies across various dimensions (individual, social, domestic, and foreign), while organizing appropriate responses and mobilizing resources to confront adversaries from a position of strength.

61. Strengthening Resolve

Fortifying the determination of younger generations to continuously identify and combat enemies of Islam and the nation.

62. Cultivating Vigilance

Preventing and countering apathy and complacency among youth regarding national and global Islamic affairs.

63. Youth Mobilization

Facilitating the organization and mobilization of young forces to establish a unified front against imperialism and Zionism.

64. Understanding International Arenas

Educating youth about political, cultural, and military treaties within the strategic polarization framework of the contemporary world.

65. Awareness and Prevention

Promoting comprehensive awareness to prevent indifference and complacency among youth regarding Muslim community issues.

66. Enemy Recognition

Emphasizing the importance of recognizing enemies in personal and social life, and the necessity of confronting them from a position of strength.

67. Resilience Building

Enhancing resilience against challenges and maintaining steadfastness against all forms of threats.

68. Cyber Threats

Identifying cyber threats targeting national assets, information exchange platforms, and critical industries.

To establish logical and principled methods for deeply understanding human cultures and relationships, fostering harmonious interactions.

69. Loyalty and Disassociation (Tawalli & Tabarri)

• Accepting the guardianship of Ahl al-Bayt (AS)

• Practicing mercy and kindness among believers

• Disavowing enemies of the faith

70. Enemy Awareness

Strengthening ideological vigilance against adversaries (individual/social/foreign) and mobilizing resources to confront threats from a position of strength.

71. Etiquette of Friendship

Cultivating:

• Compassion and tenderness

• Mutual affection

• Rejection of harshness, violence, and grudges

72. Peace and Philanthropy

Promoting:

• Social reconciliation

• Global peace initiatives

• Mental wellbeing preservation

Permitting defensive warfare only when necessary

73. Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil (Amr bil-Ma'ruf)

Implementing:

• Wise advocacy methods

• Kind admonitions

• Constructive debates

To protect individual/collective rights

74. Jihad and Martyrdom

Disseminating:

• Culture of sacred struggle

• Karbala-inspired heroism

• Ashura's spiritual calendar

75. Community Engagement & Socialization

1. Cultural Understanding

• Deep comprehension of social norms

• Logical relationship frameworks

2. Social Integration

• Gradual assimilation of cultural patterns

• Adoption of societal values

3. Cultural Adaptation

• Group harmony through mutual adjustment

4. Social Norms

• Behavioral standards based on shared values

5. Social Values

• Ideal conduct models respected by society

6. Involuntary Socialization

• Family/community influence on cultural adaptation

7. Socialization Methods

• Indoctrination (information/behavior transmission)

• Imitation (emulating others' conduct)

To blend knowledge and experience with dynamism and diligence for nurturing innate talents, manifesting inherent capabilities, and creating conditions for human progress that invites divine blessings.

76. Work and Initiative

• Promoting a culture of diligence and innovation

• Highlighting the virtue of lawful livelihood

• Encouraging productive employment

77. Mobilization Culture

• Preserving the spirit of simplicity and self-sufficiency

• Resisting materialism and extravagance

78. National Jihad

• Uniting collective efforts for national development

• Harnessing youth potential with divine support

79. Self-Reliance

• Strengthening self-confidence through job creation

• Reducing unemployment via entrepreneurship

80. Professional Skills

• Adopting advanced technologies for economic independence

• Enhancing technical competencies

81. Production Culture

• Valuing manufacturing over consumerism

• Practicing economic moderation

82. Contentment

• Living within means while maintaining dignity

• Fulfilling needs through God-conscious means

83. Talent Development

• Creating programs to identify and nurture gifted individuals

84. Creativity

• Fostering innovative thinking and mental growth

85. Dynamic Effort

• Merging knowledge with action for human flourishing

To strengthen the spirit of service and cooperation, benevolence and sacrifice for others, and persistent effort in serving creation while expressing gratitude to the Creator.

86. Social Commitment

• Active participation in determining political/social destiny

• Strengthening personal responsibility

• Developing individual character through social roles

87. Rights and Duties

• Understanding fundamental social rights and obligations

• Avoiding abnormal behaviors in social interactions

88. Order and Discipline

• Substituting personal preferences with rule of law

• Adopting disciplined habits and civic regulations

89. Consultation and Council (Shura)

• Learning principles of collective decision-making

• Rejecting hasty judgments and authoritarianism

90. Social Solidarity

• Strengthening bonds of affection among generations

• Maintaining Islamic unity through divine connection

91. Service and Sacrifice

• Cultivating selfless service to humanity

• Continuous effort in serving others as divine gratitude

92. Social Justice

• Establishing equitable social systems

• Building monotheistic society based on:

• Brotherhood in faith

• Equality in creation

To support latent potentials in scientific/cultural fields by identifying hidden talents and properly guiding scientific innovations toward addressing societal needs and improving quality of life.

93. Foundational Knowledge

• Mastering fundamental principles of modern sciences

• Adapting technologies within Islamic cultural frameworks

94. History of Sciences

• Studying research methodologies of pioneering scholars

• Developing perseverance in scientific inquiry

95. Research Methodology

• Mastering theoretical/practical research methods

• Applying systematic approaches to natural phenomena

96. Applied Research

• Prioritizing solution-driven studies

• Developing educational software/digital content

97. Contemporary Tech Adoption

•Benefiting from global scientific advancements

• Establishing digital libraries

98. Science Festivals

• Recognizing top talents and inventors

99. Scientific Development

• Encouraging youth toward groundbreaking research

100. Specialized Workshops

• Equipping labs/digital resource centers

Enhancing media literacy is not merely a social cost but an investment in a healthier society for future decades. In other words, media education today immunizes the next generation and plays a crucial role in fulfilling the "Jihad of Clarification" (Jihad-e Tabyin).

101. Understanding Media

• Comprehending how media messages are constructed

• Identifying media biases, misinformation, and propaganda

• Recognizing omitted narratives in media storytelling

• Designing and distributing media messages as a tool for Jihad-e Tabyin

102. Popularizing Media Literacy as the Foundation of Jihad-e Tabyin

• Family’s Role: Promoting and institutionalizing media literacy

• Religious Institutions’ Role: Critiquing and improving media literacy through mosques, religious gatherings, seminaries, etc.

• Cognitive Science’s Role: Explaining and advancing media literacy

• Weak Media Literacy: A breeding ground for fake news and rumors

• Media Literacy for Children & Youth: Essential for critical thinking

103. Localizing Media Literacy Theory

• Conceptualizing indigenous media literacy frameworks

• Islamic teachings on media awareness and ethics

• The link between Islamic moral education and media literacy

• The necessity of improving media literacy

104. The Necessity of Media Literacy

• Poor media literacy spreads harmful content

• Information and media as therapeutic tools (information therapy)

• Different approaches to media literacy

• Defining media literacy and its dimensions, especially in digital/social media

• Recognizing various media types and their models

105. Media Awareness Framework

• Understanding media literacy and social responsibility

• Policies, strategies, and programs emphasizing social accountability

• Practical, development-oriented actions in media literacy

• Empowering society through media awareness

• Outcomes of responsible media engagement

106. Jihad-e Tabyin and Media Art

• Strengthening cultural centers for revolutionary media activism

• Disseminating accurate, up-to-date perspectives to guide public opinion—especially youth—toward Iran’s achievements and capabilities

• Expanding the reach of revolutionary truths via ethical, rational, and logical media strategies

Promoting public sports to maintain vitality and well-being, fostering bravery and integrity, and achieving physical and mental health for adolescents and youth.

107. Purpose-Driven Sports

• Structuring sports programs as a means for healthy, joyful recreation

• Avoiding the idolization of sports in daily life

108. Chivalry (Fotowwat) and Manliness

• Cultivating courage, honor, and justice-seeking through traditional sports aligned with religious values

109. Self-Defense and Martial Arts

• Enhancing physical/mental resilience against life’s hardships and social harms

• Training in combat and defensive sports

110. Harmony and Teamwork

• Fostering cooperation in team sports and social solidarity

• Rejecting individualism and selfishness

111. Public Sports

• Encouraging mass sports for fitness, vitality, and moral integrity

112. Achieving Glory

• Upholding national pride in international arenas

• Winning accolades to promote divine and human values

113. Group Activities

• Organizing camps for:

• Sports & martial training

• Pilgrimage & tourism

• Youth social development

114. Physical Health and Spiritual Joy

• Prioritizing bodily health and spiritual vitality

• Sustaining youthful energy for lifelong productivity