The Effect of Personality on Delinquency in Action According to Imam Ali (as)

Action is the constant companion of man in this world and the hereafter and through it man is able to pass the way to perfection and happiness and achieve growth and excellence; but people always face the problem of delinquency in their deeds. By a review on the noble book “Nahjol-Balagha” we can find individual, political and cultural factors for delinquency in action which in this article only individual factors have been investigated. These factors after the negligence of people in following the leader and act according divine teachings are investigated and classified in four fields: negative emotions, bad traits, attachment to hallucinations and lack of knowledge. This paper by using the library and content analysis method tries to identify individual factors based on the Quran, Nahjol-balagheh and Hdiths. And finally the result is that factors such as fear, sadness, despair, laziness, worldliness, proudness, drowning in dreams, negligence and shortcomings of knowledge, are features which the continuation of them in human personality will lead to delinquency in action.