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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) Existential Unity What was at a distance in it was merged in a unity whose sides are perpetuity and eternity.

Literature is originality in thinking, sense, imagination and taste, and it conncts between its author and other creatures in an absolute exsitential unity; then it expresses itself with a life rising on principles of this unity, and with an aesthectic style, which is a living incarnation of the interaction between the author and the cosmos. As science has been dividing, art has been uniting.

When science was seeing things as they are creatures that should be separated and scattered, art was looking at things as they are creatures divided outwordly by integrated in their sources and reality which leads to the idea of cosmic comprehensiveness and complete association among the different existence aspects. Literature has but this comprehensiveness!

If philosophers have discerned existence unity during late periods, the literary man had discerned it since man has been, and since the seeds of art and sensations of literature had been at his bottoms. That is because the evidence of philosopher is his reason and syllogism both of which are limited considening the living human structure. The evidence of an author is his feeling and inspiration, both of which is a quick flaming appearance of whole exitence.

Then, the philosopher’s viewpoint at the cosmos as an interacting integrated unity is but a superficial view in comparison with the author’s one. The philosopher witnesses, watches analogizes then records. His mean is the mind alone; the mind is a thing of the living human, rather say it is a side of him.

The author interacts with the cosmos and life in a direct, continuous interaction as he senses and ask inspiration with his mind, feeling, imagination, temper and taste as a whole, namely with his whole existence. He is, therefor, prior and deeper. So the author is the philosopher’s master: his master and guide since he has existed and his master and guide forever!