Rhetorical Devices in Sahifa Al-Sajjadia

Abstract

Sahifa Al-Sajjadia consists of the prayers of Imam Zeinol Abedinincluding fifty four prayers which have great importance in the religiousdoctrines. Every one, who studies these prayers and contemplates theirmeanings, can figure out the high spiritual rank of Imam Sajjad (peace beupon him).Taking Imam Sajjad’s grandeur as well as the importance of thisbook into consideration, various explanations have been written aboutit but none of them have separately defined the rhetoric of these prayersincluding meaning, statement, and speech figures. It is necessary for usto pay more attention to this worthwhile book, and the scholars andacademcs should devote more time to studying and doing research onsuch a fount as they have made an effort to succeed in the explanation ofQuran and Nahjol-Balagheh.In this paper, the figures of speech including verbal and semantic inthe Sahifa Sajjadia have been specified based on a field research.We have shown that there are many examples of the verbal andsemantic figures of speech in Sahifa. There are a lot of examples of theverbal figures of speech especially including pun and riming-prose in theSahifa, and actually there is no prayer without these features. Moreover,a lot of examples of the semantic figures of speech especially includingparallelism, oxymoron, congeries, and antimetabole in the Sahifa.