Interpretive Tendency of Existentialism in Allameh Jafari`s Description on Nahj al-Balaghah with an Emphasis on the Meaning of Life

The issue of the meaning of life is the concern of contemporary man, on the one hand and on the other hand, Allameh Jafari considers human life as the result of his goals in life. The problem of research is that in the contemporary era, meeting a multitude of interpretive works on existential issues such as man and the emphasis on the originality of existence, freedom and choice, human responsibility, death, loneliness, hope, desire, peace, meaning of life indicates that a fundamental change in the style of interpretive research has occurred and a new interpretive approach called the existentialist approach has been formed. To better explain this interpretive tendency, in this article, one of its important components, namely the meaning of life in the translation and interpretation of Nahj al-Balaghah by Allameh Jafari, has been examined. The method and technique used of this research are descriptive and library-based. Therefore, this article intends to show one of the interpretive tendencies of Allameh Jafari by addressing the existential issue of the meaning of life in the explanation of Nahj al-Balaghah.