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               74  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (32): 61-97, Autumn. 2022
               people but to communicate              creature, the universe as the
               with  God,  the  creator,  by          divine       communications,
               worshiping Him.                        and to God  as  his  Creator.
                  I    created     jinn    and        Dialogue  in  this  procedure
                  humankind        only      to       has  a  great  role  to  build

                  worship Me. (Quran, 51: 56)         communication  with  all
                                                      engaging parties.
                  Worship  itself  is  a  form

               of    communication         and            3.  Mutual
               dialogue        with      God.                Understanding
               According         to      some         Dialogue  of  the  honored

               exegesis  of  the  Quran               human  being  with  other
               worship  in  this  verse  is           people      from      different
               Knowing         God.      (Ref:        nation  and  ethnic  group

               Tabatabaei, 1955)                      leads us to our origin from
                  The process of Knowing              a  single  man  and  a  single
               God requires us to start our           woman that is the departure

               spiritual  journey  within             point     of     human       for
               ourselves  to  discover  the           communication  and  being
               inner  world  that  is  for            together.

               Imam Ali is a great world;                This  special  kind  of
               and the external world, the            engagement facilitates mutual
               horizons.                              understanding        for     all

                  This  long  contemplation           members       of     humanity.
               necessitates  human  being             Thus, dialogue can contribute
               to  connect  meaningfully              to stable, peaceful relations
               with himself as the honored            between different groups to
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