NAHJ AL FASAHAH HEIGHT RHETORIC

The Height of Rhetoric or the noble book entitled “Nahj Al-Fasahah” is an unparalleled treasure of the eloquent wise sayings of the Holy Proph-et of Islam (P.B.U.H.). It was first collected by the late Abulghasim Pay-ande and published in 1957 A.D. as an Arabic-Persian edition, containing traditions. It has been widely in use by both the public and the elite since then for deriving guidance from the Holy Prophet’s ocean of lore to pave the rocky paths of man’s life. The motive to reconstruct the book into an English edition rose from the fact that most of the previously-published English renderings of the Holy Prophet’s sayings were either extracted from certain specific sources not endorsed by all Islamic sects, or were incomplete in terms of the boundless number of traditions coming down to us from the Holy Prophet of Islam (P.B.U.H). Thus, the translator embarked on the achievement of the great goal of translating “Nahj Al-Fasaaha” as docu-mented on many a Shiite and Sunnite source. In so doing, a number of translation strategies were employed as mentioned below: