IMAM ALI (S) - SUNSHINE OF CIVILIZED ISLAM - (P/B) by: Muhammad Husayn Tahmasebi

Edited by: Abdullah Al-Shahin

So long as three great problems of the world; the degradation of man through indigence and pauperism, the corruption of women through hunger, the ignorance and poverty existing on earth, are unsolved; so long as spuriously creating hells amid the civilization on earth and social suffocation is possible in any part of the world, the personality of Imam ‘Ali (as) and his speeches and maxims collected in Nahj al-Balaghah cannot fail to be of use.
Although the history says that Imam Ali was the fourth caliph of Islam but according to the reliable traditions of the great scholars of Sunni and Shia, the Prophet of Islam had appointed him as his successor and also his executor.
He was educated by the Prophet since childhood and had accompanied him step by step and at the time when the verses of Qur’an would come down from Heavens he was present with the Prophet and he perceived the interpretation of the verses directly by the Prophet (s).
Therefore he learned the whole virtues and the good qualities, and consequently his words and deeds conformed to the Holy Qur’an and the Holy Qur’an acted upon him more than anyone else.
He who likes to understand Islam has to study Imam Ali’s life carefully to react to the stimulus of civilized Islam.