Analysis of the Contents of Nahj-al-Balaghe Based on Quintet Criteria of the Fourth Axis of the Second Step Announcement of The Islamic Revolution (Justice and Combating Economic Corruption)

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 Paying attention to justice and attempting to materailize it through combating economic corruption is one of the particularly fumndamental tasks of the Islamic System. One of the rich Islamic sources in the field of demanding justice and explaining obvious stances in seriously countering corruption and injustice is the glorious book of Nahj-al-Balaghe which is the book of the Islamic Republic. This research is intended to analyze the contents of Nahj-al-Balaghe baed on the sixtet criteria of the Fourth Axis (justice and combating corruption) of the Second Step Announcement of The Islamic Revolution and it has been written in a qualitative manner and it is of descriptive-analytical type. Firstly, a number of 5 criteria of the Foorth Axis of the Announcement has been extracted emphasizing the economic justice and combating corruption and economically corrupt people, and then for each one, a number of criteria were explained using the principle of semantics. In the next step, while analyzing and reviewing the content, concept, reason and the
meaning of sermons, letters and advice of Nahj-al-Balaghe, were extracted for the criteria of “ the necessity of combating the economic corruption” 36 examples,
  for the criteria of “preventing and combating the corruption of authorities” 46
examples and for the criteria of “the necessity of seriously countering corruption and corruption makers” 36 examples and for the criteria of “economic cleansing of the agents combating the economic corruption” 35 examples and for the criteria
of “the effects of combating the economic corruption in order to restore justice in the society” 37 examples. Therefore; it is concluded that the axis of justice and combating corruption of the Second Step Announcement of the Islamic
Revolution, inspired by 200 examples from Nahj-al-Balaghe, has overlaps which is inferred that the Supreme Leader has been completely inspired from the Book of Nahj-al-Balaghe in codifying and explaining this strategic announcement
 

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