INTENTIONALITY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN THE PAROLE OF IMAM SAJJAD (PEACE BE UPON HIM): SELECTIVE PHONOLOGICAL LEVEL.

Abstract

To discern the loci of beauty and creativity within a text, the speaker must explore its phonetic structures, given their significant importance. These structures harbour emotional and spiritual potentials, embodied through language and released as expressive musical sounds. Texts imbued with rhythmic patterns and musical chimes are not intended solely to display aesthetic beauty; rather, they convey additional meanings that reveal the speaker’s intentionality in delivering a particular message to the audience. The aim is to achieve communicative interaction, influence the recipient, and persuade them. In addition to the aesthetic dimension created by these harmonious vocal modulations, their alignment with semantic meanings contributes to enhancing the psychological and spiritual interaction between speaker and listener.

This is evident in the discourse of Imam al-Sajjād (peace be upon him), particularly in his supplications, where he articulated his purposes through a range of vocal phenomena consistent with their contexts. These phonetic divisions coalesce and harmonise to produce varied meanings at times signifying humility and brokenness before Almighty God, and at other times extending the tone to convey longing and hope. Such qualities draw the listener’s attention, as the Imam crafted them in a refined, sensitive style, distancing himself from ordinary speech, thereby causing his audience to be deeply affected and engaged with these aesthetic and artistic values.