The Simile is a salient feature in Al- Imam Ali’s commandment to his son AL-Imam Al-Hassan (A.s)

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to investigate the use of simile in AL-Imam Ali’scommandment to his son AL-Imam AL-Hassan (As) and how it was employed in the rhetorical style that influences reader’s mind in reading wisdoms, advices and facts of Islamic moral lessons in order to choose the right way that pleased almighty God. Simile is the most common phenomenon in all languages in spite of their systems varieties. Arabic is a rhetorical language which is full of literary devices that help the writer paint beautiful images in his literary writing.