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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) Style and Oratorical Genius Such an eloquence if it speaks of rebuke it will pounce on the tongue of storm violently! And if it threatens spoil and spoilers it will explode into volcanoes having lights and sounds. And if it calls for contemplation, it will associate with your source of sense and origin of thought and so it drives you to what it wants and connects you with the cosmos fitly.

Form incorporates with meaning as heat does with fire, light with the sun, air with air; you are not before it but like a person before the flood while it slopes, the sea as it surges and the wind as it encircles. But when he speaks to you on the splendour of existence and beauty of creation it writes, on your heart, with an ink of the stars of the sky. Some expression has the gleam of flash, and the smile of the sky during the nights of winter. This is as to the subject.

As for style, Ali bin Abi Talib is the magician of performance literature can not be without style, and the structure is innate to meaning, and the image is not less than the substance. And which art with its conditions of directing is less in concern than the conditions of the subject. Ali bin Abi Talib’s portion of artistic taste, or the aesthetic sense, is rare in existence.

This taste was the natural controlling measure for his literary disposition, as for his disposition, it is one of those who have talent and originality, who see, hence feel and realize then their tongues start ahead with what their hearts surge and the perceptions of their sens to show in a spontaneous rush. Therefore Ali’s literature was charactarized by faithfulness and so was his life. Faithfulness is but the first feature of the unique art and the measure of style which does not deceive.

The conditions of rhetoric, which is the fitness of speech for the situation, has not come together for an Arabic literary man as they had for Ali bin Abi Talib. His composition is an ideal for this rhetoric after the Quran. It is succinct with clarity, strong, vigorous, perfectly harmonized related to what is between its expressions, meanings, aims agreement, sweet, in tone at the air, having a musical effect. It eases and softens at positions which do not need hardship.