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The Caliphate of Imam Ali (a.s) and his Method of rule 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Caliphate of Imam Ali (a.s) and his Method of rule 2 2023-01-11 673 Views Imam Ali , History of Shia , Imamate In this part of the article titled “The Caliphate of Imam Ali and his method of rule”, we shall look at the achievements of his government and the Caliphate after the martyrdom of Imam Ali (a.s).

Contents The Shia During the Caliphate of Imam Ali (a.s) The Transfer of the Caliphate to Mu’awiyah The Shia During the Caliphate of Imam Ali (a.s) During the four years and nine months of his Caliphate, Imam Ali (a.s) was not able to eliminate the disturbed conditions which were prevailing throughout the Islamic world, but he was successful in three fundamental ways: 1.

As a result of his just and upright manner of living, he revealed once again the beauty and attractiveness of the way of life of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a), especially to the younger generation. In contrast to the imperial grandeur of Mu’awiyah, he lived in simplicity and poverty like the poorest of people. He never favoured his friends or relatives and family above others, nor did he ever prefer wealth to poverty or brute force to weakness. 2.

Despite the cumbersome and strenuous difficulties which absorbed his time, he left behind among the Islamic community a valuable treasury of the truly divine sciences and Islamic intellectual disciplines. Nearly eleven thousand of his proverbs and short sayings on different intellectual, religious and social subjects have been recorded. In his talks and speeches, he expounded the most sublime Islamic sciences in a most elegant and flowing manner.

He established Arabic grammar and laid the basis for Arabic literature. He was the first in Islam to delve directly into the questions of metaphysics (falsafah-i ilahi) in a manner combining intellectual rigour and logical demonstration. He discussed problems which had never appeared before in the same way among the metaphysicians of the world.

Moreover, he was so devoted to metaphysics and gnosis that even in the heat of battle he would carry out intellectual discourse and discuss metaphysical questions. 3. He trained a large number of religious scholars and Islamic savants, among whom are found a number of ascetics and Gnostics who were the forefathers of the Sufis, such men as Uways al-Qarani, Kumayl al-Nakha’i, Maytham al-Tammar and Roshaid al-Hajari.