Capacity of Supplications of Ahl Al-Bayt Concerning the Anthropological Foundations of Humanities

The distinction of supplications in comparison with other remarks and words of Ahl al Bayt can be drawn in three aspects: largeness of audience, richness of contents, and creating new capacities towards interpretation of the Holy Quran. Researchers have sought in this article to survey and derive the significations existing in supplications of Ahl al Bayt in terms of definition of human being, as well as unveiling and explaining the anthropological foundations of humanities. Following the descriptive analytical method, the present article establishes the point that a category of anthropological foundations of humanities can be deduced by the very act of supplication of human being before Allah, and establishment of a special communication between human being and God. Another category of these foundations can be derived from the contents and teachings of supplications through the same method. Results and Analyzing the contents and messages of supplications, the article came to the conclusion that the most significant anthropological foundations of humanities derived from supplications are the foundation of divine orientation of human being, responsibility, trustworthiness of human being before God, being influenced by the type of education and rearing he receives, and finally the foundation of multiplicity and distinctions of human beings and differences in their characters.