Abstract

In this book, Al-Zamakhshari (d. 538 AH) took care to convey a message consisting of a set of sermons and wisdom that he extracted from his life’s journey.
From the first moment I read the book, I admired his aesthetic, graphic style in creating his phrases and alternating them between length and shortness, and he focused on the characteristics of the word he chose in the structure of his book.
It is a small book that he filled with wisdom and valuable sermons and madethem in the form of articles, and under each article there is a sermon and wisdom, numbering one hundred articles, which came in a beautiful and solid rhetorical style, in which Al-Zamakhshari’s rhetorical abilities were demonstrated and in which he was a display of his literary talent As for the approach of the book, it dealt in each article with a profound wisdom or sermon that differed from the other sermon. For example, the wisdom of guarding the tongue differs from other sermons, such as persevering in the pursuit of knowledge and piety. The difference lies in the content, not in the style and approach followed in the book.
His phrases were rhyming and short, and most of them were metered and rhymed in order to give the sermon spark and make it easy to memorize and read, all of this by condensing the meaning and sparing the pronunciation, and this is eloquence in itself. The nature of the research required that it be divided into two sections in which the texts are explained rhetorically according to:

The first topic: the science of meanings.
The second topic: the science of rhetoric.