Apart from the Holy Quran...

Apart from the Holy Quran, we do not find any other source that provides some ground for the discourses of the Nahj al-balaghah. As pointed out earlier, some scholars, because of their failure to trace back to some earlier source the notions elaborated in the Nahj al-balaghah, have questioned the authenticity of ascription of these discourses to 'Ali ('a).

They have supposed that these discourses appeared in a later period, after the appearance of the Mu'tazilites and assimilation of Greek thought, heedless of the saying: The mean earth with the sublime heaven does not compare! What ignorance to compare the Mu'tazilite and Greek ideas with the teachings of the Nahj al-balaghah ! Previous…