espite the rational and traditional necessity of establishing a religious government during the Occultation period, the occurrence of some potential failures and inefficiencies in religious government and the incomplete implementation of religious teachings in it for any reason, with the notion that failures and shortcomings will be attributed to religion, has prompted some to reject religious governance, arguing that religion should stay out of governance to protect its reputation and avoid having failures and inefficiencies blamed on religion.
This notion is sometimes raised regarding the very establishment of a religious government and sometimes presented with reference to the performance of the Islamic Republic system as an example of religious government in the present age. In this writing, using deductive and analytical methods, we examine the response to this claim and prove that such a prescription stems from a misunderstanding of religious government, improper expectations from it, ignoring realities, and incorrect analysis of failures, and is based on a kind of imaginary and unrealistic idealism.