The genius of Imam Ali

In every aspect of human souls, there is a meeting place with the biography of Ali bin Abi Talib - may God be pleased with him, because this biography addresses man wherever the eloquent discourse directs him, in the biographies of heroes and greats, and arouses in him the strongest forms of compassion that human history has aroused and sites of lesson and contemplation.
In the biography of Ibn Abi Talib, there is a gathering of passionate emotion, and a feeling that aspires to mercy and honor, because he is the martyr, the father of martyrs. His history and the history of his children take place in a long series of battles of jihad and defeat, and they appear to the observer from afar, one after one, as old men who were distinguished by the dignity of gray hair, then majestic by the merciless sword, or young men who were hastened while still in the prime of life, being prevented from the comforts of life, and sometimes even from food and water. ...
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad