The lexical and ideological pragmatics in Al-Sahifa Al-Sadiqiya

Abstract

    In this study, we tried to investigate the lexical and ideological pragmatics such as the use of derivative and sensual utterances, common and standard utterances, and synonyms in enchanting verses. In every section of this study we listed Imam’s sayings concerning the topic of the research because any literary text has an ideological dimension that represent the cognition and trend of the author and his expectations of reality. Imam Sadiq (P) cared about selecting his words. For instance, we see many sensation phrases in a verse in which he asked to push the enemy’s evil, however we see cognitive content. Derivative utterances overcome sensation ones because the subject of the verse is the relationship between Imam and God. We did not find any defect in Al-Sahifa Al-Sadiqiya because Ahl Ul Bait are the origin of eloquence. imam Sadiq (P) said: analyze our sayings because we are eloquent people. Imam Sadiq (P) did not use common words that might take out the eloquence. Concerning synonyms, Imam emphasized synonyms and their meanings, which is why we see in all parts of Imam’s Verses the word “forgiveness” and its derivations. Devine forgiveness is ignoring sins and their traces. Word selection in Imam Sadiq (P) speech coincides with the content of the verses. We benefited from this stylistic linguistic analysis and from its linguistic dimension that analyzes relations between linguistic levels of the text.