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His Eminence, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani (may the Almighty prolong his life), advised the youths to acquaint themself with three books, contemplating and reflecting on his readings from them:

First and foremost is the Qur’an. It is the last message of God to His creation. He sent this message to sharpen the minds and make streams of wisdom spring from them, and also mellow the rigid hearts. He narrated stories in it as examples to its readers. One should not abandon reading this book to himself, thereby making his soul feel God is talking to him. That is because God, the Exalted, sent this book as a message to the world.

The second is Nahj al-Balaghah. This book explains the meanings of the Qur’an in an eloquent style that provokes a spirit of reflection, contemplation, learning, and wisdom. Therefore, one should read it whenever he has a chance, and imagine that Imam Ali, may peace be upon him, is addressing him directly. Also, one should pay special attention to the letter of Imam Ali, may peace be upon him, to his son, Imam al-Hasan, may peace be upon him.

The third is al-Sahifah al-Sajjadiyah. It contains eloquent supplications whose meanings are extracted from the Qur’an. There are teachings in those supplications about how one’s orientation, obsession, vision, and ambition should be. They also teach one how to call himself to account and how to scrutinize and criticize himself, particularly the supplication of Makarim al-Akhlaq (Noble Moral Traits).

As such, we would like to Introduce : www.balagha.app

Collection of 27 translations of Nahj al-Balagha in one site, with easy to use multi-lingual interface.

Android app by Zahra Apps is also available at https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... alagha.app

Inspired by Multilingual Qur'an portals, we thought it would be a good idea to have something similar for Nahj al-Balagha. Translations were available at different sites, but not at one unified portal.

We used translations which were already digitised, and where not available, we used a scanned copy, for compilation. All text is selectable and uses standard fonts available on most systems.   A list of sources for the translations is available at https://balagha.app/about

To-date all 489 sayings and 79 letters are done, together with 181 Sermons. insha'Allah, over the coming one month, the remaining Sermons will be completed;

We would like to thank the translators, original digitisers and all those who helped in one way or another to bring this project to life. Please remember their marhumeen in your prayers.

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