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        "id": 1627351,
        "msgid": "the-martyrdom-of-ali-larijani-the-path-to-happiness-and-the-embedded-philosophy-of-suluk-1774021874",
        "date": "2026-03-20 22:24:29",
        "title": "The Martyrdom of Ali Larijani: The Path to Happiness and the Embedded Philosophy of Suluk",
        "author": "Nashih Nashrullah",
        "source": "REPUBLIKA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "The death of Ali Larijani, Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary, is portrayed as a profound philosophical statement amid modern survivalist calculations. In his final X post, Larijani quoted Imam Husain, viewing death as happiness and life with the unjust as humiliation, especially under a US bounty threat. This act challenges Hobbesian logic, elevating honour, justice, and truth above mere preservation of life, echoing Imam Husain's stand at Karbala.",
        "content": "<p>In a world increasingly governed by profit-and-loss calculations,\nwhere life is often reduced to mere survival, the death of Ali Larijani,\nSecretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, presents a\nphilosophical narrative that is hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Larijani was not only a senior Iranian political figure and\narchitect of Iran\u2019s policy and military strategy, but also known as a\nphilosopher who understood Islamic philosophy as well as the thought of\nImmanuel Kant.<\/p>\n<p>In his final moments of life, he chose to affirm a worldview on life\nand death that is no longer common in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>The day before his death, on his X account, he wrote a quote from\nImam Husain: \u201cI do not see death except as happiness, and I do not see\nlife with the oppressors except as humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid real threats to himself, where the US had offered 10 million\ndollars for information about him, that sentence can no longer be read\nas mere rhetoric. It must be interpreted as an existential statement, a\nchoice of position in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>We live in an era inherited from the logic of Thomas Hobbes, who\nviewed humans as fundamentally striving to preserve their lives.<\/p>\n<p>In this framework, it is said that the fear of death is the basis of\nsocial order. The state exists to protect life, and life itself becomes\nthe highest value.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it is not surprising that in the modern world, almost all moral\nchoices ultimately boil down to one question: does this make us safer to\nlive longer?<\/p>\n<p>However, what Larijani demonstrated, and long before him Imam Husain\nat Karbala, is that there is something higher than mere survival. There\nis a kind of life that loses its meaning when preserved at too high a\nprice, namely the price of honour, the price of justice, and the price\nof truth.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/the-martyrdom-of-ali-larijani-the-path-to-happiness-and-the-embedded-philosophy-of-suluk-1774021874",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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