In the art of rhetoric, the principle of the speaker's authority (ethos) is one of the three principles of speech, which, along with the other three principles, namely pathos (arousal in the audience) and logos (logical reasoning), form the sides of the "triangle of persuasion", which has a great importance and impact on the audience. The examination and careful consideration of the content of the words of Amir al-Muminin indicates that he has used this rhetorical device in many positions and according to the time and place, and it is one of the most important reasons for the inclusion of the Nahj al-Balagha in the list of primary rhetorical works in history concerns considering such subtleties in rhetoric. The point that is raised in the meantime is that observing the principle of the speaker's authority, which in itself implies the speaker's definition and praise of his virtues, can be combined with the virtue of humility and modesty, which is the virtue of all ethical people, especially Amir al-Muminin (AS). As we will see in the examples, throughout Nahj al-Balagha, wherever the Imam had to comply with the principle of eloquence, there was an expedient that he mentioned to justify his virtues. In other words, the words of Amir al-Muminin in expressing his unique qualities are only to prove his truthfulness in his words, actions, character and way of life, which of course is in complete contrast with self-praise, arrogance and pride.

Noqūt is a rhetorical figure which has been around since the first centuries of the advent of Islam. This figure of speech was first introduced in the words of the Commander of the faithful Imam Ali (A.S.). He improvised some sentences whose letters had no dot. This figure is considered to be one of the most difficult and beautiful rhetorical figure, and it can be seen in Arabic and Persian works. The following article is going to introduce and correct a sermon which is on the praise of Commander of the Faithful (A.S.), and its letters have no dot. This sermon was delivered by Ali Qoli Mīrzā I’tizād os-Saltana (One of the Qajar princes). The writer of the sermon has talked of Imam Ali’s virtues and miracles in both prose and poetry, and meanwhile made use of two sermons whose letters have no dot and are attributed to Imam Ali (A.S.). After rereading this sermon and pointing out its references to Imam’s sermons and its adapta-tions, the corrector decodes the verses and traditions, and adds some extra explanations for each one in the footnote.

According to some narratives from both divisions of Islam, imam ali (a.s) was “Asla’a” and “Bateen” which means that he was overweight. In some parts of these narratives in forms of ziyarat, he was addressed as: “praise be upon you, O, the hairless and overweight.” These narratives haven’t been mentioned in the important sources of Shia such as the four books. But in the sources after five and sixth century, this trait has been mentioned between his other qualities. And after a while the extent of this trait got larger in Shia books that are about greatness, miracles and prayers of infallibles. But it was pointed out that this trait cannot be a virtue itself so for the sake of changing the meaning of the word, justifying and interpreting it, some looked to a few narrated quotes which can be criticized. In fact, the problem with these narrators is that they are eager to agree at any cost with every hadiths that are about the virtues of imams. However substance of that hadith is irrational or has a problem in it’s source or it’s citation. Or maybe it is even in contradiction with the manner and spiritual history of that imam. It seems that narrators of hadiths with the intention that there was someone against imam who was overweight and living lordly, they made this trait for him to say that the opponent had the same trait and virtue as well. In this article, our intention at first try to review every sources of hadiths with this content with concentration on every recitative aspect of it. Then we study the source, document and context. The main problems of these narratives are disarrangement in narration, incoherence in context, unclarified issue, narrating with different forms of adjectives in hadiths, weakness of narrators, context problems, being in contradiction with certain narrations from imam himself and his lifestyle and also contradiction with reason that this article discussed them all.

Muslim great thinkers، including Shia scientists and Sunni scholars have recognized this truth that Imam Ali (AS) excelled in all Islamic sciences، including grammar، rhetoric، jurisprudence، Qu’ran and hadith sciences، ethics، kalām، hikma، and Islamic theosophy throughout history. Ethics is defined as a science which discuses about knowing good and evil in order to enable the mankind to choose the former. Thus، it has a privileged position among sciences. The same is through about researches in this field. The present paper is an attempt to introduce this knowledge، enumerate some moral virtues and vices، and examine them from two aspects; i. e. individual behavior and social behavior. Also، some sub-branches of individual behavior such as piety، truthfulness، and honesty and some sub-branches of social behavior such as beneficence، paying deposit، humility، and justice as well as Imam Ali’s theoretical and practical attitudes towards them are studied. The findings suggest that Imam Ali (AS) inherited Prophet Muhammad’s thoughts and sought to leave an impact on contemporary and future generations through them.

Imam Ali chose Kufa as the base of Caliphate in 35 AH/655 AD. Since the newly established city with a totally emigrated population reflected a variety of political, social and cultural viewpoints, events of Kufa both shows the situation facing Imam Ali in that period and helps understanding his words and sayings. Studying circumstances of Kufa during reign of Imam Ali as the social and cultural context of his words will therefore guide us to discovering the reasons of the diversity in his words about people of Kufa and help us better understand what he said. This paper aims to explore characteristics and traits of people of Kufa as described by Imam Ali in Nahj al-Balaghah. Imam Ali has praised them in some occasions and blamed them in some other. This paradox in Imam’s words in fact reflects the mixed stances taken by the people toward events of the time. The present paper intends to explore the reasons of this diversity in Imams words by considering the social, political and cultural circumstances of the time.

The purpose of this study was to present a conceptual model of successful marriage based on the life style of Imam Ali (AS) and Sediqeh Tahereh (SA).

In this fundamental study, content analysis methodology was used.

For this purpose, all available resources in this field were studied and led to the identification of the core themes of the research that include individual virtues, couples virtues, social virtues and religious virtues. Each of the core themes was related to the main themes and to the sub themes provided with examples of each of the themes.

The results from this study indicates that there is a match between subsidiary themes based on world-view, interest, easy marriage, intimacy, mutural respect, empthay, understanding, cooperation, social and political similarity, being responsible, commitment, holiness of couple relation, marital satisfaction are effective factors in successful marital factors in Imam Ali (A) and Sedigheh (SA) way of life. Based on the recognized factors, conceptual model of marriage based on the lifestyle of Imam Ali (A) and Hazrat Sedigheh (SA) was designed.

The congratulatory hadith with the words: Peace be upon him is among the clear texts on the imamate of Amir al-Mu'minin, peace be upon him, and one of the proofs and definitive proofs of the meaning of Molly in the frequent hadith of me is the current Mollah of Mollah. Ash'ari theologian Qhoshji, in his explanation of Tajrid - like some other Sunni theologians - has made a lot of effort to answer this hadith from arguments based on the directness of this statement of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, in the caliphate and Imamate without seasons of Amir al-Mu'minin, peace be upon him. The most important evidence for denying the clear texts on the Imamate of Amir al-Mu'minin (AS), including the "Hadith al-Thanna'a", is the action of the Companions to appoint a caliph. This article, which is mainly based on Sunni sources, after explaining the citation of the hadith al-Tahni'ah as a clear text on the immediate caliphate of Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (A.S.), answers in detail the doubts of Ghoshji and examines the authenticity of the actions of the Companions.

The financial Corruptio of agents has been one of the permanent challenges in all governments. This issue in line with the fulfillment of economic justice is constantly considered by the Islamic instructions. In regard with the specific position of Amir al- Momenin (PBUH), the study of his discourse and conduct in this regard is of great significance. To achieve this purpose, the article has described the verities of financial Corruptios, the why of their occurrence and the how of dealing with them by Imam Ali (PBUH) through the descriptive-analytical approach. The findings of this research state that most of the financial Corruptios in time of Imam Ali (PBUH) originated from the negligence of previous governors and the reflection of Imam has been guidance and no tolerance toward them. Accordingly, the protection of Muslims’ properties along with the guidance of people, the provision of religious awareness as well as the ground of reformation without ignoring the failures in addition to the appropriate dealing with them have been followed in the conduct of that holiness.