Document Type : REVIEW PAPER

Authors

• Awatef al-Fadhali (Saudi Arabia) ¹
• Dr. Seyyed Ali Tabatabaei Najafi (Lebanon) ²

¹ Graduate in Islamic Shariah, Department of Jurisprudence and Education, Faculty of Jurisprudence and Law, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran

² Lecturer in Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Al-Mustafa International University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

There is no subject over time, as important as dialogue. This importance has multiplied many ‎times in our time becausethe means of communication and talk shows have increased even ‎satellite channels have become widespread. The unsuitable things and misguiding ideas an ‎perverted beliefs broadcasted by these channels do not only affect our children, whether we like ‎it or not, rather they burn everything and everybody in our communities as well due to the ‎feelings of hostility and discrimination fed by these channels.‎ In contrast, the dialogue remains the most important mean to encounter those misguiding ‎attacks on one hand, and to spread guidance and the light of truth on the other hand. However it ‎has its certain provisions and conditions, as they say , as is the case in any scientific work ‎intended to be based on sound technical grounds so that it may be fruitful and achieve the ‎required goals and objectives. Here comes the discussion about manners of dialogue and its ‎ultimate necessity. We, by grace of Allah, have a great cultural, intellectual, ideological, social ‎and political wealth based on the bases which are logical, Islamic and cultural and morally ‎correct, which are represented by the Holy Quran and pure progeny of the Prophet (peace be ‎upon them). They are our school and shelter in this life filled with fierce waves of wind which ‎storm Islam from all sides. It is our duty to follow them and arm ourselves with their ideology ‎and culture while facing the counterparty, in order to reach the truth in a technically right, ‎peaceful and objective way which is based on bases of dialogue and its right manners by means ‎of clear evidence and proofs, as Allah says {and argue with them in the best manner}( An-Nahl, ‎‎125).‎ The research approach that we have chosen in this article, is composed of description and ‎analysis, thus it is a analytical-descriptive approach. It is the approach generally used in most ‎Islamic and social sciences.‎ The most important results of our research and investigation in this article, include the ‎following:‎ 
‎1.‎ Dialogue is the key element in any informational interaction even if this ‎interaction may be between minimum two people.‎ 
‎2.‎ ‎ Based on the previous fact, the importance of dialogue in exchange of ‎information and foundation of thought and civilization becomes clear. ‎ 
‎3.‎ Due to the extreme importance enjoyed by the dialogue, there must be special ‎rules and regulations that control that element so that it may become fruitful and ‎achieve the goals envisaged from it.‎ 
‎4.‎ The best thing from which one can derive the foundations of dialogue and its ‎manners is the Islamic culture represented the Holy Quran and its counterpart, that is ‎the AhlulBayt (Peace be upon them).‎ 
‎5.‎ The most important foundations of dialogue in the Islamic culture are: sincerity, ‎respect and objectivity etc.‎

Keywords

• Dialogue
• Manners
• Islamic culture
• Quran
• Ahlul Bayt
• The Style of the Dialogue
• The ‎Foundations of Dialogue‎

Main Subjects

• Political Science and International Relations