A Stylistic Study of Linguistic Aesthetic Expressions in Al-Imam Muhammed Al-Baqir s (A.S.) Recommendations

This study investigates the aesthetic stylistic devices used by Al-Imam Mohammed Al-Baqir (A.S.) in three wills. Consequently, it tries to achieve the following aims:(1) Investigating the types of aesthetic devices used.(2) Showing the most dominant stylistic devices used along with their frequencies, and (3) Identifying the role of these devices in delivering the intended meaning. It is hypothesized that: (1)The semantic aesthetic devices are the more frequent ones used by Al-Imam (A.S) than others. (2)Parallelism is the most dominant device in Al-Imam s wills. (3)The aesthetic devices contribute to the interpretation of the theme. The following procedures are followed: (1) Reviewing the literature about linguistic aesthetic expressions represented by phonological, semantic, and syntactic devices. (2) Analyzing the wills of Al-Imam. Al-Baqir (A.S) to determine the frequency of occurrence of the aesthetic devices and their functions. The three wills analysed are: The Address of Inattention of Imam Al- Baqir (A. S), his Will of Knowledge and his Will about the World . It is found out that all the aims above are validated.