The Necessity of understanding the Holy texts (sample Research of Letter 28 of Nahj ul-Balaghah)

Subject Areas : Nameh Elahiyat

Sayyid Muhammad Mahdi Jafari ¹ , Elaheh Weisi ² , Mryam Haji Abdul Baqi ³ , Hamid Reza Mustafid ⁴

1 - Professor, Shiraz University, Department of Persian Language and Literature
2 - PhD student in Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
3 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
4 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch

Received: 2021-12-22 Accepted : 2021-12-22 Published : 2021-04-21

Keywords: culture, act, Scriptures, Nahj ul-Balaghah, Hadith understanding,

Abstract :

The intellectual and cultural heritage of any society is the highway of its life that passed down from generation to generation, and each generation according to their needs offers interpretations for it. As Islam is one of the religions based on revelation and text-based; Naturally, the religious culture derived from it is known by the; the text of the Qur'an and the hadiths of the Prophet and other infallible Imams. At the same time with the progression of science, our understanding of the scriptures needs to be appropriate and in line with it. Holy books such as Nahj al-Balaghah when studied as a "text", they can get closer to the reality of human life and reach the ability to adapt to it, and thus better understanding and greater utilization of them be obtained. The need to examine this issue becomes clearer when the position of Imam Ali should be considered as an intellectual and cultural model. So far, a lot of research has been done on Nahj al-Balaghah but its understanding as a text, Its historical background, culture and conditions of its time and the style of expression in Nahj al-Balaghah is concentratedly, However, paying attention to these issues along with the study of Hadithdocument and jurisprudence provides a basis for achieving a "scientific understanding" of the text. This study examines the 28th letter of Nahj al-Balaghah from this perspective in order to determine the validity of the text and to utilize of its cultural intellectual context.