i had an opportunity to translate the two most famous letters of imam ‘alī (a.s.) in nahj al-balāghah (peak of eloquence), the famous collection of the preaching and letters of imam ‘alī and one of the most sacred books of shia islam after the qur‘an, from arabic into japanese. one of them is his letter to imam ḥasan, his eldest son and the second imam, and the other is an appointment letter to...

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...

This collection of sermons appears to us to be specially adapted for the purpose it is intended. It is most difficult for clergymen who officiate at Asylums to preach sermons suitable to their afflicted hearers, and great judgment is required in the selection of the subject preached. Dr. Browne has given the following judicious observations on the religious instruction of the insane: " In the e...

jāmiʻ al-tamthīlwas written in 11th century ah. by muḥammad ʻalī hablehrūdī. this book is a collection of proverbs, insights and anecdotes and some sermons associated with them. there are a lot of manuscripts of this book in different libraries all over the world. the authors have found two different forms of writing through their critical corrections. although both forms are generally similar,...

the word relation is a new concept that did not used in its today`s meaning one hundred and fifty years ago. in spite of this situation, its substitute concepts like friendliness is used in nahj ul-balāghah many times and each of them express varieties & places in general relation between human and god and other relations. on the whole, we face four relations: human relation with god, himself a...