It becomes hard and violent in other positions especially...

It becomes hard and violent in other positions especially the hour of speaking on hypocrites, trickers, and this world seekers at the expense of the poor and the oppressed, and holders of lost rights. Ali’s style is frank like his heart and mind, faithful like his intention, so it is not surprising to be a method for rhetoric. Ali’s style reached a level in sincerity that even rhyme became above artificiality and affectation.

So it is, despite the plentifulness of interchanging, rhymed sentences, far from artistry and nearer to be of overflowing disposition. Look to this rhymed speech and what it contains of soundness of disposition: “Allah knows the uproar of beasts in the deserts, the sins of people in seclusions, the clashes of whales in deep seas and the popple of waters by stormy winds”.

Or to this speech of one of his sermons: “So is the sky and the air, the winds and the water, so look at the sun and the moon, vegetation and plants, water and stone, the succession of this night and day, the springing of these seas, the large number of the mountains, the height of their peaks, the diversity of these languages, and the variety of tongues…etc”.

I plea to you to keep this rhyme which flows spontanously then he decorated them with piercing stars and ran through them a shining sun and an effulgent moon in a revolving orbit and a moving ceiling…etc.” If you try to change a rhymed word in all these wonders with another unrhymed one will know how its shining fades and its beauty faints, and taste loses its originality and accuracy which are the evidence and measure.

Rhyme in these Allawiyan speeches is an aristic necessity which disposition requires, that disposition which intermixed with artificility highly as if they are of one metal which changes into poetry, having rhythms and tunes accompanying meaning with verbal images of their atmosphere and nature.

There are marvels in Imam’s rhyme which add melody on melody, in a nice way and dissolves the effect in effect in refrains which nothing is more rhythmical on hearing than them, or more loved in reverberation. An example of that is what we have mentioned of his rhymes before.