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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) Truthfulness of Life And this truthfulness is a pledge of, and to, you, since it is the spirit of beauty and right, and the will of able, triumphant life! Perhaps the most prominent of the aspects of cosmic justice, in the world of inanimate and animate, and in whatever relates to the nature of existence, and features of creatures, is the absolute pure truthfulness.

Perhaps truthfulness is the pivot of the earth, the orbit, the night and day. With truthfulness alone the four seasons follow one another, rain falls, and the sun shines. With it as well, the earth keeps its word when it grows what is above it: each in its time: no advancement and no delay. With it the codes of nature and the laws of life are established.

The wind does not flow except with truthfulness, bloods do not ran through veins except with truthfulness, and the living creatures are not born except by a faithful sincere law. This absolute pure truthfulness on which the law of survival encircle is the first and greatest fountain from which the justice of the cosmos flows and to which it returns.

And since Ali Ibn Abi Talib was very keen on observation of the truthfulness of existence, highly interacted with it, he made his first concern with people is to purify them on the ground of what he conceives, senses and sees. Purification in its right meaning and remote significance is not but the deep sense of the value of life and character of existence.

And since this meaning is the unique significance for the great purification, truthfulness to the self, and to every material and spiritual being, is the pivot on which purification encircles, as we have seen it to be the pivot of cosmic justice. Hence, many of the bases, over which people agreed without thinking over the great codes of existence, are renounced as apart of sound discipline, whereas people assume them as disciplinary bases due to their mere agreement upon them.

Thus, too, whatever disagrees with the spirit of the right, the spirit of goodness, and that of beauty, is banished from sound discipline of purification. Disciple based on other than its great principles, is a superficial collusion over ugly lying. It is, in its remote principles, a deep sense of beautiful faithfulness, which makes it integrate honestly with the uprising of flowing victorious life.