Ethics and educative principles of encountering enemies in Imam Ali's (as) lifestyle

Appropriate and systematic dealing with each phenomenon is a key to approach target and goal. One of these phenomena is behaving with enemies. If it is done in accordance with ethical principles and Islamic education, it would be one of the successful factors and real power in the battle field; however, its ignorance would be resulted in irreparable harms. Islam is the religion of education. From this perspective, achieving victory by any means is not approved and following ethics is the only way for real victory and God consent. Nevertheless, the question is how the enemies should be treated to achieve the legitimate demands? Or in other words, what principles should be followed in dealing with enemies to bring real victory and God consent? The answers to these questions based on Imam Ali’s (as) practical lifestyle are the objectives of the present paper. Accordingly, an attempt was made to examine the ethics and educative principles of encountering enemies based on the Alavi’s lifestyle through problem-oriented style and library research method.