The Historical Authenticity of Imam Ali (AS)'s Speeches about the Creation of Man and Animals and Criticizing the Spurious Doubts

From the time the Nahj al-Balagha was compiled by Seyyed Razi till now, a lot of spurious doubts have been sown about its attribution to Imam Ali (AS) and its compiler. Documenting the detailed descriptions of Imam Ali (AS) about the creation of creatures as their argument, some of the Sunni critics claim that the style of Imam Ali (AS)’s speeches is of the Abbasid era, and that such descriptions were not common in Imam Ali’s life (AS). However, after studying different literary, narrative, and historical texts as well as the historical analyses of their climate , the researchers have come to the conclusion that not only was this style in describing creatures common in the age of Imam Ali (AS), but also it had been common prior to his life among the Arab poets and orators. Hence, the words of critics and their opinions are considered and classified, and consequently criticized based on the historical documents. Furthermore, their spurious doubts prove to be groundless, for they have merely been raised to undermine the credibility of the Nahj al-Balagha.