خلاصة:
Contrary to common perception of supplication as a purely personal phenomenon، one should say that in fact it is a means of realizing the most profound and complicated forms of communication. This article tries to review some holy verses of the Quran and the Infallible narratives and traditions for the sake of looking once again at mystical and philosophical aspects of supplication and their comparison with communication studies، and examining its complicated communicative dimensions within different communicative levels with an emphasis on the prayer book of Sahifa Sajadia. The results show that the most important communicative level of supplication is of extra personal type and its most central form is of intrapersonal type، so that all its functions in interpersonal، group and social spheres are under its impact or mediated by it. The most important function of supplication at intrapersonal level is "forming، boosting and orientating it to achieve a spiritual feeling and experience"، and at interpersonal level، is to "boost norms and related values." At the social level of communication، supplication plays a role in "transmitting political، social and religious messages to large audiences." Extra personal communication that exists in supplication has by itself four levels which are connected to the ideological and devotional levels of the supplicant. The issue of verbal communication in supplication is taken into account at least at two levels. 1- What is requested from God، which signifies the type of religiosity approach 2- Aesthetic issues included in supplication language. Non-verbal communication in supplication becomes manifest in at least three domains، i.e. time، place and physical postures. Supplication in intercultural communication is shared among religions and transfers cultures and rituals. It can at the same time speed up communication among Ummah based on Arabic language and reinforce norms and related values. Political communication also shows itself in supplication at three levels of insight، inclination and political behavior
ملخص الجهاز:
For this reason, in this article, instead of determining a specific framework of communicative and cultural theories and attempting to include the concepts of prayer within these theories, an inverse movement has been attempted toward extracting communicative-cultural meaning through the analysis of passages from the supplications of Sahifa Sajjadiya, and in the shadow of these analyses, their relative connection with existing theories such as interpersonal communication, extra-personal communication, collective communication, verbal communication, non-verbal communication, etc.
Regarding the methodological framework, this article, by utilizing documentary methods and thematic analysis which will be explained subsequently, has endeavored to, while examining the supplications of Sahifa Sajjadiya, identify the necessary investigation for selecting passages that can in some way reflect cultural-communicative approaches and then, through thematic analysis, discover their essential concepts and include them under existing theories in this field.
With a little reflection on the political and social conditions and circumstances of the time of Imam Sajjad (AS), one can easily realize why he chose prayer as a weapon sharper than a sword, and by doing so, he was able to place the lofty goals of his Imamate, with full prudence and intelligence, at the disposal of the people of his era in the form of the most reliable document, so that even after fourteen centuries, the belief of many researchers in the Islamic world regarding Sahifa Sajjadiya as the third authentic document after the Quran and Nahj al-Balagha still persists.
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