Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Taqwa (purity), Zuhd (piety) and Sympathy (kindness) According To Nahjul Balaghah The Nahj al-balaghah's Recurring Themes Out of the 241 fragments collected under the title ' Khutab ' by al-Sayyid al-Radi (though not all of them are Khutab or sermons) about 86 can be classed as mawa'iz or at least contain a series of spiritual advices.
Some of them, however, are elaborate and lengthy, like the khutbah 176, which opens with the sentence ( Avail of the Divine expositions ), the khutbah named ' al-Qasi'ah; (which is the longest of the sermons of the Nahj al-balaghah ), and the khutbah 93 (called khutbat al-muttaqin, the 'Sermon of the Pious').
Out of some seventy-nine passages that are classed as ' kutub ' letters, (which not all of them are) about twenty-five, either completely or partially, consist of spiritual and moral teachings. Some of them are quite lengthy and elaborate-like letter 31, which constitutes 'Ali's advice to his son al-Imam al-Hasan al-Mujtaba ('a), and the lengthiest of all, except the famous directive sent to Malik al-'Ashtar.
Another one is letter 45, the well-known epistle of 'Ali ('a) to Uthman ibn Hunayf, his governor in Basrah. Previous Next