Then here are these words...

Then here are these words, delicious to the ear and taste alike: “I am a new day, and I am a witness upon you, hence do through me what is good and say what is good.” If we say that Ali’s style has frankness of meaning, eloquence of performance, soundness of taste, we indicate to the reader to return to this Masterpieces of Nahj Al-Balaghah to see how Ali’s words explode from sources whose bottoms are for in their material, and in which a wonderful artistis dress it undulates and runs.

Take thses nice expressions of his speech: “Man is hidden under his tongue” and his saying: “longanimity is a kinsfolk”, or his saying: that whose trunk softened his branches thickened or his saying: “Every container beeomes narrower with what is put in it except the container of knowledge as it becomes wider, or his saying “if a mountain loves me, it will crumble” or in these wonderful sayings: “knowledge guards you, while you have to guard wealth. Many a man is enchanted by good speech of him.

When this world advances to anyone (with its favours) it attributes to him other’s merits; and when it turns away from him it deprives him of his own merites” All people should be equal in right before you. Do good and do not despise any part of it because the small part of it is big and the little amount of it is much. The warehousers of wealth have perished although they are alive no rich person has been relished with but with which a poor has suffered of hunger.

Then listen to this expression which reaches the peak of artistic beauty as he wanted to deseribe his ability in disposing of kufah city however he likes he said: “Nothing (is left to me) but kufah I grasp it and spread it out). You can see, in these sayings, an originality of thought and expression; this originality which always accompanies the true literary man and He does not miss it unless he has missed the literary charcacter itself.

Ali’s style reaches the peak of beauty in oratorical situations, namely the situations in which his vigorous sentiments break out, his imagination glows hot pictures of the events of life that he had experienced popple in it. Thus rhetoric fills his heart, and flows out on his tongue like the outflowing of seas. His style is characterized, in the situations like these by repetition seeking avowal and influence, and the use of synonyms, the choosing of lucid resounding words.