Explaining the “cognitive and behavioral dimension” of Man's Relation with Himself in Wisdoms of Nahj al-Balaghah

One of the necessities of human life is communication, which is divided into four: communication with God, communication with oneself, communication with fellow human beings, and communication with nature. Lack of human awareness of how to establish a good and well-considered relationship in the field of four types of relationships leads to undesirable results. In the words of Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (AS), valuable and useful themes are extracted in how to establish effective fourfold communication and its rules and principles, some of which can be found in Nahj al-Balaghah. In this research, first the four relations and then how to relate to oneself in two cognitive and behavioral (practical) dimensions, according to the wisdoms of Nahj alBalaghah are studied and analyzed, based on the conceptual analysis method. The results show that most of the wisdoms of Nahj al-Balaghah refer to these two dimensions and have a practical application, which are suitable for designing a good communication model. In addition, cognitive communication with oneself (selfknowledge) has the highest frequency and emphasis, which shows its importance.