The role of Maximum Absorption and Minimum Rejection in Preventing Religious Deviations based on Nahj al-Balaghah’s Teachings

One of the most important sources for obtaining religious teachings concerning maximum absorption and minimum rejection in preventing religious deviations is the practical seerah (life) of the infallible imams, particularly Imam Ali (AS). In this case, it is very important to find out what factors were used by Imam to form the government and face different intellectual and ideological tendencies. This article, by focusing on the noble book of Nahj al-Balaghah, used the library method to collect data from first-hand sources. The authors used the analytical descriptive method to analyze the data and investigated the role of maximum absorption and minimum rejection in the thought and life of Imam Ali (As). Based on the obtained results, factors such as kindness, criticism, and consultation, freedom and human dignity, justice, and tolerance in maximum absorption; staying away from ostentation, discrimination, and greed, fraud and hypocrisy, unjust religious prejudices, ignorance, and cynicism in minimum rejection all play a very special role in preventing religious deviations.