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Glimpses of the Nahj al-Balaghah

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Glimpses of the
Nahj al-Balaghah


by :

Martyr Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari


Introduction
Nahj al-balaghah and the Present-Day Islamic Society
A LITERARY MARVEL
Two Distinctive Characteristics
Literary Beauty and Elegance
Influence of 'Ali's Oratory
The Opinions of Ancient and Modern Scholars
Modern Perspectives
The Nahj al-balaghah Among Literary Classics
'Ali's Versatility
The themes of the Nahj al-balaghah
A Glance at the Varied Problems Covered by the Nahj al-balaghah
Philosophical Notions Concerning metaphysics
The Value of Study of the Natural Phenomena
Purely Rationalistic Problems
The Divine Essence and Attributes
The Divine Essence
Divine Unity an Ontological, not a Numerical Concept
God, The First and the Last; the Manifest and the Hidden
An Appraisal
The Nahj al-balaghah and Philosophical Concepts
The Nahj al-balaghah and Western Philosophic Thought
God's Remembrance
Levels of Devotion
Nights of the Devout
The Profile of the Pious
Night Vigils
The Spiritual Experience
Purging of Sins
Moral Remedy
Intimacy and Ecstasy
Justice, a Supreme Value
Indifference to Injustice
Justice Should not be Compromised
The Rights of the People
The Church and the Right of Sovereignty
The approach of the Nahj al-balaghah
The Rulers are the People's Trustees Not Their Lords
The Nahj al-balaghah's Recurring Themes
The Themes in Spiritual Advices
Ali's Logic
Taqwa
Taqwa is Immunity not Restraint
Taqwa as Immunity
A Reciprocal Commitment
Zuhd and Piety
Islamic Zuhd and Christian Asceticism
The Zahid and the Monk
Zuhd and Altruism
Sympathy and Kindness
Zuhd and Freedom
Zuhd And Spirituality
Zuhd, Love, and Worship
The Contradiction Between the World and the Hereafter
Zuhd: Minimum of Intake for Maximum Output
The World and Worldliness
'The World' in the Quran and the Nahj al-balaghah
Freedom and Bondage
The Existentialist Viewpoint
Does Evolution Involve Self-Alienation?
Forgetting and Losing the Self
The Discovery of the Self and of God
Worship and the Rediscovery of the Self
The Primary and the Secondary
A Tradition


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