present research tries to explain the relationship between human’s false beliefs about human being, universe, human dignity and the impact of such falseness by the way of looking inside nahj ul-balaghe. human’s lacking of knowledge of his position in the order of creation and also demerits of such ignorance like tendency toward materialistic pleasures, seizing the days and animalistic life and ...

In addition to being a religious book with high human and moral themes, Nahj al-Balagha is considered mirror of Arab culture literary masterpiece at the height eloquence eloquence, because proverbs in form short, concrete understandable phrases for everyone, experiences, thoughts convey ideas, Imam Ali (AS) used it facilitate understanding various political, social concepts. this article, we in...

the present paper deals with justice in general, but with social justice according to the words and deeds of ‘ali ibn abi talib. the search for justice and truth is considered as the mother of all social values. after the prophet mohamed, imam ali was the best example to great morals and ethics, including justice. he lived for justice and was very firm in his belief that everyone should have a ...

the concept of man in the different religious scriptures gives somewhat a diverse understanding towards what is the true nature of man. due to the vastness of the topic, this paper would like to limit the paper in discussing what human nature is all about from imam ali’s perspective. in doing so, it will refer to the most important source, namely the nahj al-balagha. according to the teachings ...

stylistics is one of the literary topics that the literati and writers have had a special attention to it during the past decade. literary style is a method or a special way of expressing thoughts that the writer or the narrator tries to transfer his ideas and thoughts about the realities through selecting words, terms and specific interpretations. amir-al-moemenin has expressed his intended mo...

a rhetoric method being used to show the purpose of a statement is assimilation of allegory; an assimilation whose resemblance is not out of an apparent and manifested affair and needs being paraphrased. holy quran and nahj al-balaghah which consist of the most rhetoric expressions, from critics’ point of view, use this method of illustration to describe the things that are beyond men’s underst...

the present article deals with the position and features of imam ali´s instructions to malik al- ashtar in islamic sources. it studies the sources of imam ali´s instructions to malik including sunni and shiite ones, their position in jurisprudential and exegetical sources, and their popularity in different parts of the muslim world. furthermore, taking the chain of transmission of these instruc...