The first of two volumes of a comprehensive exposition of Islamic political theory by the renowned scholar Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi, which deals with the importance of recognizing Islam as the basis of any just political theory, methods of implementing such a theory by the government, and comparing and contrasting this Islamic system with the system predominant in most Western and secular nations.

Under the legislation aspect of the Islamic political theory, the topics discussed include:

The important questions in the realm of Islamic polity
The importance and exigency of discussing the Islamic political theory
The station of politics in religion
Freedom in Islam
Freedom and its limit and boundary
The structure and form of government
The status of laws in the religious system
Law and the difference in outlook and origin
The criterion of the law's credibility
The difference in outlooks of Islam and the West on values
The fundamental difference in the outlooks of Islam and the West on law
The West's materialistic outlook on law
The Islamic government, challenges, and cultural plots
The difference between the divine and atheistic cultures in the realm of law and freedom
The relationship between religious legislative lordship (rububiyyat-e tashri'i), and sovereignty and legislation
The requisites of legislation and its station in Islam
The distinctive features of Islam in the realm of politics and government
A new portrait of the station of law and government
Islam and democracy
The essence of the unity in humanity and the citizenship of citizens