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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Masterpieces of Rhetoric Methood (nahj Al-balagha) The Goodness of Existence and Revolutionary Nature of Life Very often do we see him make the revolutionary nature of life entirely out of the goodness of existence, and the goodness of existence is the whole result of the revolutionary of life! And the revolution said: I am the puller down, the builder! It is not the right of the just cosmos but to be compassionate good.

It has no nature but to grant gifts. It does not take what it has given except to give it back good and new. The goodness of existence is an entity of its entity, and an essence of its essence. And Ali’s knowledge of it is this knowledge. And his sense of its good is his sense of its justice, no less, no more on that knowledge he spoke of this good, and increased the speech, and we have mentioned several things from his sayings about the good of existence.

Perhaps what we have mentioned of these true masterpieces could be summarized now in a word he said as if he summed up his doctrine, which believes in the goodness of existence: Allah is not more generous about what He is asked than him about which He is not asked.” If we know that the word ‘Allah’ means in its maximum sense, for the ancients of the belief of spiritual and intellectual originality, the centre of existence and cosmic connections, we know what universal, comprehensive goodness is the good of existence which gives you beyond what you ask, then it increases!

And because man, who assumes himself a tiny body, is a representative of this greater world as Ibn Abi Talib says, so he must be as well a picture of existence with its good, as he is its picture with its justice. If existence gave you beyond what you ask of its blessings it so it takes the initiative for a need of its nature to be good. And if you were a picture of it, then you are more in need of making good to people than people of need for it.

And this is what Ali ascertains in his saying: “doers of favour to its rendering are more in need than those to whom it is renderd. And this is what he ascetains too in a phrase he refers whenever he speaks about practicing good among people: “The better in that is the beginer”.