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Manners of Dialogue in the Culture of Ahlul-Bayt (S.A.W.W)
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Author: Awatef al-Fadhali
Supervising Professor: Syed Ali Tabatabaei Najafi
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Reccive: 19/4/2013 Accept: 28/10/2013
Abstract
There is no subject over time, as important as dialogue. This importance has multiplied
many times in our time because the means of communication and talk shows have
increased even satellite channels have become widespread. The unsuitable things,
misguiding ideas and perverted beliefs broadcasted by these channels not only affect our
children, whether we like it or not, but also they burn everything and everybody in our
communities as well due to the feelings of hostility and discrimination fed by these
channels.
In contrast, the dialogue remains the most important means to encounter those misguiding
attacks on one hand, and to spread guidance and the light of truth on the other hand. However it
has its certain provisions and conditions, as they say, as is the case in any scientific work
intended to be based on sound technical grounds so that it may be fruitful and achieve the
required goals and objectives. Here comes the discussion about manners of dialogue and its
ultimate necessity. We, by grace of Allah, have a great cultural, intellectual, ideological, social
and political wealth based on the bases which are logical, Islamic and cultural and morally
correct, which are represented by the Holy Quran and pure progeny of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon
Them)
. They are our school and shelter in this life filled with fierce waves of wind which storm
Islam from all sides. It is our duty to follow them and arm ourselves with their ideology and
culture while facing the counterparty, in order to reach the truth in a technically right, peaceful
and objective way which is based on bases of dialogue and its right manners by means of clear
evidence and proofs, as Allah says: “And argue with them in the best manner.” ( An-Nahl, 125).
The research approach that we have chosen in this article, is composed of
description and analysis, thus it is an analytical-descriptive approach. It is the
approach generally used in most Islamic and social sciences.
The most important results of our research and investigation in this article include the following:
1. Dialogue is the key element in any informational interaction even if this interaction may
be between minimum two people.
2. Based on the previous fact, the importance of dialogue in exchange of information and
foundation of thought and civilization becomes clear.
3. Due to the extreme importance enjoyed by the dialogue, there must be special rules and
regulations which control that element so that it may become fruitful and achieve the goals
envisaged from it.
4. The best thing from which one can derive the foundations of dialogue and its manners is the Islamic
culture represented by the Holy Quran and its counterpart, that is the AhlulBayt (Peace Be Upon Them) .
5. The most important foundations of dialogue in the Islamic culture are: sincerity, respect
and objectivity, etc.

Keywords: Dialogue, Manners, Islamic Culture, Quran, AhlulBayt (AS), The
Style of the Dialogue, The Foundations of Dialogue

1. Graduate in Islamic Shariah, awatef.hf@gmail.com.
2. Professor of Department of Islamic Studies, tabatabainajafi@gmail.com.