🔤Literature & Rhetoric
Lectures by writers and dialogues by poets and rhetoricians
محاضرات الأدباء ومحاورات الشعراء والبلغاء
Author: أبو القاسم الحسين بن محمد المعروف بالراغب الأصفهانى (المتوفى: 502هـ) (d. 502)
About this work
يتناول كتاب "محاضرات الأدباء ومحاورات الشعراء والبلغاء" للراغب الأصفهاني موضوعات تتعلق بالأدب والبلاغة، حيث يركز على مفهوم العقل والعلم والجهل وما يتعلق بهم. يتناول الكتاب أيضًا محاورات بين الأدباء والشعراء والبلغاء، مستعرضاً فضائل العقل وضرورته في تحقيق الفضائل الأخرى، ومستعرضاً أيضاً مساوئ الجهل والحماقة. كما يشير الكتاب إلى أهمية التقوى في حفظ العقل، ويناقش صعوبة اجتماع العقل والجد، ويحذر من اتباع الهوى.
Translation
The book “Lectures of Writers and Dialogues of Poets and Rhetorics” by Al-Ragheb Al-Isfahani deals with topics related to literature and rhetoric, as it focuses on the concept of reason, knowledge, ignorance, and what is related to them. The book also deals with dialogues between writers, poets, and rhetoricians, reviewing the virtues of reason and its necessity in achieving other virtues, and also reviewing the disadvantages of ignorance and foolishness. The book also points out the importance of piety in preserving the mind, discusses the difficulty of combining reason and seriousness, and warns against following whims.
Topics covered
- Al-Ragheb Al-Isfahani and his book “Lectures of Writers”.
- The opening of the book
- The first limit is in reason, knowledge, ignorance and what is related to them
- (1) What was said about reason, foolishness, and the condemnation of following inclinations
- What limits the mind and its children, and foolishness and its relatives
- Praise reason and condemn foolishness
- The virtues need reason
- Insulting those who have manners without reason
- The mind's need for literature
- Loss of reason leads to loss of piety
- The virtue of their meeting
- The pride of mind
- Lack of mind and his family
- The virtue of accompanying rational people
- Wise people find comfort in the company of ignorant people
- Forbidding the company of an ignorant person
- Using reason and ignorance with their families
- A sane person is ignored
- It is difficult to treat a fool
- The tired of the wise and the rest of the ignorant
- Described as mind
- Described as foolish and ignorant
- Preferring seriousness over reason
- The difficulty of combining reason and seriousness
- Being serious is part of the mind
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