Fatima Zahra (pbuh)
It became certain that God created the light of Fatima (peace be upon her) out of the greatness of His light. He hung her light on the leg of the throne on a day when there was no built sky and no praiseworthy earth. To the extent that God Almighty answered the prayer of Adam (peace be upon him) when he called on God for the lights hanging on the leg of the throne, and this indicates The closeness of the status of the Companions of Lights to God Almighty and His love for them, and that they are holy spirits obedient to Him, commanding His commands and forbidding His prohibitions. Otherwise, how can supplications be answered by virtue of them, placing them in this status and divine proximity, and creating them in this form and manner? God, who are complete in God’s love, who are sincere in God’s monotheism, and who demonstrate God’s commands and prohibitions...and His proof and path and light and proof.
The sanctity of Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her)
Fatima (peace be upon her) acquired sanctity from her childhood, and even as a fetus in her mother’s womb, where she would talk to her and entertain her, and the angels spoke to Al-Zahra (peace be upon her). Indeed, God Almighty sent down our angel; To turn the mill when she (peace be upon her) was weak, as the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, said: And she slept, with her son Al-Hussein (peace be upon him) on her chest, until the end of the narration, which indicates the sanctity of Fatima (peace be upon her).
In a prophetic hadith narrated on the authority of Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, he said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, saying: “Indeed, God (Almighty and Majestic) created me and created Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein from light. He squeezed that light with a squeeze, and our Shiites came out of it, so we glorified them, and they glorified them. We sanctified and they sanctified, and we glorified and they glorified, and we glorified and they glorified, and we united and they united, then he created the heavens and the earth, and created the angels, and the angels remained for a hundred years, not knowing praise or sanctification, so we glorified them, so our Shiites glorified them, so the angels glorified them, and so did the rest, for we are the monotheists, as there is no monotheist other than us.
Fatima (peace be upon her) is a woman unlike other women. She has grace and sanctity in the sight of God (the Almighty), because she is the mistress of the women of the worlds, from the first to the last, and she is glorified and praised by God Almighty, so he is satisfied with her satisfaction and angry with her anger. Her relationship with God was of a special kind, to the point that her legs became swollen from standing to worship Him, and it reached such a degree that his Prophet and beloved Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, said about her: May her father be sacrificed for her, may her father be sacrificed for her, may her father be sacrificed for her.
When he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, came from a trip, he would come to the house of Fatima (peace be upon her) and stay there for a long time. One time, he made her a mask out of paper, a necklace, two earrings, and a curtain for the door of her house. The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, came and entered upon her, then left, and anger was evident in his face until he sat down. On the pulpit, so she thought that he only did that when he saw what she had done, so she sent for him to make it for the sake of God, and he said: ((She did, so her father ransomed her three times.
The role model in the personality of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her)
When Islam came and the beliefs, concepts, and legislation came with it through the Seal of the Prophets and the Master of Messengers, Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and when I cared about these rules and defining what is good in human behavior; In order for a person to act within the circle drawn for him, and not exceed it, it is expressed in Islam as permissible and forbidden, or obligatory, so do it, and what is forbidden, then leave it.
He was interested in the issue of embodying these rules and concepts, and this behavior proposed in Islamic legislation, and this interest on the part of the Holy Sharia represented by its Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, contributed to building human personalities that represent the perfections that God Almighty wanted for man, and moves towards them so that he becomes a human being imbued with the morals of the prophets. The guardians are considered absolute perfection, and of course a person cannot reach this degree of perfection.
Because it is specific to the saints of God, but human beings must move towards perfection and work for it, each according to his capabilities and abilities, and Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) represented the complete model of women in this behavioral aspect until she became the best and mistress of women, including the three women: (And they will be among the people of Paradise.), Maryam bint Imran, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, and Asiya bint Muzahim, the wife of Pharaoh, on the authority of Anas, who said: The Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) said: ((The best of her women is Maryam and the best of her women is Fatima bint Muhammad).
Thus, when the human personality is integrated; The result of her movement is the clear representation of God’s successor on earth, into whom he breathed his spirit and implementing the teachings of heaven and the divine laws that he intended for humankind. This is an aspect of her personality (peace be upon her). But if we take the other side of her personality, which is her scientific knowledge, we see her as a role model in the scientific movement, as she was a scholar and not a teacher. Some of the companions of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) would come to her and learn knowledge from her. On the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: And peace be upon him: So God revealed (The place where the two seas meet) saying: (I, by God, sent the two seas: Ali bin Abi Talib, the sea of knowledge, and Fatima, the sea of prophecy, to meet and communicate. I, by God, created the connection between them.).
On the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) he said: She said: Fatima (peace be upon her)... Then he turned to me and said: O Fatima, it was not revealed about you, nor about your family, nor about your descendants. You are from me and I am from you... And know that God mentioned twelve women in the Qur’an as a metaphor (Dwell in Paradise, you and your wife)))[7] Eve, (((God has set an example for those who disbelieve)))[8] Noah’s wife and Lot’s wife (((Marj al-Bahrain))) Fatima (peace be upon her)... and that God Almighty gave ten things to ten women: repentance to Eve, the wife of Adam, beauty to Sarah, the wife of Abraham, and knowledge to Fatima, the wife of Murtada.
These two narrations mentioned the knowledge of Fatima (peace be upon her) once with the expression (Fatima is the secret of prophecy), and the other stated clearly and said: (And the knowledge belongs to Fatima, the wife of Murtada), and the knowledge that Fatima (peace be upon her) has is from God, as the narration states; Because God is the owner of absolute knowledge, so man draws from it by His power, and Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) is the owner of the largest vessel, or rather the sea expressed in the narration, and she is a sea; It stings him, so she becomes the possessor of abundant knowledge, and the Qur’an of Fatima, Al-Jafr, and Al-Jami’ah attest to that, which is not a Qur’an, but rather contains knowledge of what it is.
On the authority of Abu Ubaidah, he said: Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) asked some of our companions about the Jafr, and he said: ((It is the skin of an ox filled with knowledge)), and he was asked, “What is the university?” He said: (That is a scroll seventy cubits long by the width of a human being, such as: Take the Falaj. It contains everything that people need, and there is not a case without even scratching on it.)) He was asked: What is the Qur’an of Fatima? He was silent for a long time, then he said: “You are searching for what you want and what you do not want. Fatima stayed after the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) for seventy-five days, and she was deeply saddened for her father, and Gabriel used to come to her and console her with her father, and comfort her. He tells her about her father and his place, and tells her what will happen after her among her offspring, and Ali (peace be upon him) used to write that, so this is Fatima’s Qur’an.).
This is what she (peace be upon her) taught. As for her worship, she (peace be upon her) used to worship God at night while people were sleeping, and she would continue to kneel and prostrate until the white thread could be distinguished from the black thread of dawn, and it was her habit not to pray for herself or for the believing men and women first and after that she would pray for herself. In a narration on the authority of Ubadah al-Kalbi, on the authority of Jaafar ibn Muhammad, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Ali ibn al-Hussein, on the authority of Fatima al-Sughra, on the authority of al-Hussein ibn Ali, on the authority of his brother al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon them), he said: ((I saw my mother Fatima (peace be upon her) standing in her mihrab on the night of her Friday prayer) She remained kneeling and prostrating until the pillar of dawn became clear, and I heard her praying for the believing men and women, naming them, and praying often for them, and not praying for anything for herself. So I said to her: O mother, why do you not pray for yourself as you pray for others? She said: O son of the neighbor, then the house.).
The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, said: (Fatima is the mistress of the women of the worlds, from the first and the last, and she will stand in her prayer niche, and seventy thousand angels from those close to her will greet her, and they will call upon her as the angels called Mary, and they will say, O Fatima, that God has chosen you, purified you, and chosen you over the women of the worlds.).
Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), the pioneer of Quranic pilgrimage
Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), the pioneer of Quranic pilgrimage
Days pass and ages pass, and Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) remains that pearly star whose splendor does not change or whose splendor does not fade. The good word, whose root is firmly established in the earth and whose branches are in the sky, which bears its fruit at all times, with the permission of its Lord, remains.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) was not born to die, or to stand in wax museums, or to be a theory in the isthmus of proof, or to live in written lines on folded pages, or to be at the table of discussion and research of pens, like Al-Zahra (peace be upon her).
The believers lived the life of Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her) in their words, in their behavior, in their emotions, and in their consciences, without becoming burdened by it, or becoming tired or bored. Rather, you find souls drawn towards her, just as a weaned child is attracted to its mother’s claws. This is because her perfume is the fragrance of Paradise, or because it is the unknown truth, or because it is the unknown truth. Because she is the unknown grave, the hidden secret, or her father's mother.
Perhaps this is what made Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) the title of the writing of hundreds of books, thousands of research papers, and millions of thoughts by intellectuals and half-educated people... How could it not be, when the Holy Qur’an was the first to pave the way for people to search for her by praising her in its verses and clear evidence, so she shed light on the impact of the Holy Qur’an in her well-known sermon. With (the Fadki sermon) in light of the sources of rhetoric in the Islamic era; It was not called “Fadkiya” unless it carried many meanings of sacrifice and redemption that accompanied Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) since she opened her eyes to life while she was in the people of Abu Talib.
The role of Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) did not end in Mecca, but rather extended with her migration to Medina until The last moment of her honorable life, until she did not hesitate to defend the Imam of her time, the Commander of the Faithful, Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him), and she supported him with all her existence until she was martyred, carrying with her the effects of the injustice that befell her, from the broken rib and the miscarried fetus, and words that still resonate, revealing the voice of history from her sermon. In the land of Fadak, her father was the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace), and just as the preacher in the Islamic era had sources to which he must refer in his sermon, such as the Holy Qur’an and the noble Sunnah of the Prophet, represented by the hadiths of the Noble Messenger (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace).
The Islamic orator, in his pilgrimage style, was able to employ the Noble Qur’an in his sermon so that, by speaking it to the audience, he could convince and persuade them through what his culture dictated for him to return to its source, the Noble Qur’an. Either he opened his sermon with a verse from the Holy Qur’an and built his entire sermon on it, thus benefiting from the subject of the verse in his presentation. His thoughts to the people or through quoting from the Holy Qur’an in the folds of his sermon to prove the validity of an opinion or to implement another opinion. Perhaps the quotation is in order to weave the words of the Holy Qur’an with the words of the preacher so that the speech becomes a piece of prose and a solid fabric.
The one who bears this memory, Our Lady Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her), excelled in employing verses from the Holy Qur’an to serve as part of her sermon (peace be upon her) from this source in proof and implementation through her presentation of the verses on inheritance stipulated in the Holy Qur’an, which falsify the forged hadiths about the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). And I also explained her quoting of the words of the Qur’an along with her own, in order to give the sermon a sobriety and power that is unmatched by the speech of a female orator or another preacher. I presented her words and the corresponding verses of the Holy Qur’an.
Indeed, thanks to her father, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), Islam dissolved tribal fanaticism, and sovereignty became the religion, not the lineage, and brotherhood belonged to the Most Merciful, not the fanaticism. The change in the Arab mentality inevitably required changing the thought, perception, or saying that came from it. The poet who used to distill His tongue is the poison of enmity and hatred, and the knight who was fed up with blood and body parts, and the preacher who incited discord, boasting and satire, and the rich man who traded in the livelihood of the poor, all of them stood silently listening to the call of Islam, not saying or doing anything except with the permission of the truthful and trustworthy.
This is what Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) revealed in her sermon as she pointed out: To the greatness of the Messenger the Leader (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) when she said: (And you were on the brink of a pit of fire: the taste of the drinker, the excursion of the covetous, the tomb of the calf, and the place of the feet. And you were drinking on the road and feeding on scraps and paper, lowly and despised, fearing that the people around you would snatch you away. So God saved you through Abu Muhammad.)
As we mentioned above, it has become necessary for the Islamic preacher in some places to return to the Holy Qur’an, considering it the primary source that dictates that he should return to it in a nation that has come to adhere to the religion of Islam and sees from it this book containing the foundations of the religion that includes faith in God and His Messenger and the Last Day and entrusting with what is right. Refraining from evil is a matter related to emotion and conscience. Calling for and urging it requires a strong, influential, and effective rhetorical style. This is what Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) called for in her sermon, which included the Noble Qur’an, and her use of the Noble Qur’an was nothing more than the following:
First: Using verses of the Holy Qur’an directly, the purpose of which is as evidence:
A skilled orator often needs to prove the validity of his opinion with logical evidence based on firm and certain premises, and any firm and certain evidence that amounts to the Qur’anic evidence relied upon by Al-Zahra (peace be upon her).
The Quranic verses were distributed in her sermon as follows:
A- {There has come to you a messenger from among yourselves. Whatever you have troubled is dear to him, concerned for you towards the believers, Compassionate and Merciful.} After her introduction, she opened her sermon by mentioning her father, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and she indicates that the Messenger is an Arab It is difficult and difficult for him that they fall into distress because of him, and he is keen to provide The means of happiness for you among the believers of this nation: Compassionate and Merciful are two synonymous words that mean compassion, kindness, and tenderness.
B- {Indeed, they fell into temptation, and indeed, Hell encompasses the disbelievers} This verse came after saying: (Initially you claimed to fear temptation) and it was proven by the Qur’anic certainty that the temptation you and your work is a corrupting temptation, you usurped the rights of its people in order to protect themselves from the temptation, according to your claim, and what calamity is greater Of change The course of Islam, changing its rulings, usurping the rights of the People of the House (peace be upon them), and treating them with such cruelty and harshness.
C- {And whoever desires a religion other than Islam - it will never be accepted from him, and in the Hereafter he will be among the losers.} This dangerous verse came after warning them against abandoning judgment by the Qur’an, which would be their departure from the religion of Islam, which would lead to clear loss in the Hereafter.
Second: Using verses of the Holy Qur’an for another purpose, which is refutation:
This is done by discussing the opinions of the opponent and his evidence in order to invalidate them, whether it is a refutation of the general opinions that the opponent called for or the results that he derived. Often he is forced to refute what his opponent said in order to erase its impact from people’s souls. This is what Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) reviewed for all the verses of inheritance that refute the hadith that he fabricated. A group of the Companions of the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace) attributed him to the Messenger (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace), so she invalidated that claim with conclusive evidence and clear arguments taken from the Qur’an, which that group was unable to refute, which came after her saying: (O Ibn Abi Quhafa, is there a book? By God, do you inherit from your father and I do not inherit from me? You have come to me with something strange? Did you intentionally leave the Book of God and cast it behind your backs when it says, “Solomon inherited from David” and the news of Zechariah when he said, “So give me from yourself a guardian who will inherit from me and inherit from the family of Jacob.”
It is clear from this the rhetorical ability that Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) attained by citing a Qur’anic verse for her words.
The sources of oratory were clear and evident in the sermon of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) and were distributed in a geometric manner indicating high potential and ability in the art of oratory.
The first source, which is the Holy Qur’an, began to be clearer than others in the sermon scene. This is because she was obligated to return to him in order to falsify the slandered hadith against the Messenger (may God bless him and his family and grant them peace). The sermon demonstrated Al-Zahra’s (peace be upon her) rhetorical ability and her mastery of language and literary culture, until she produced such speech, which has become a matter of controversy among researchers and historians from his time to this moment.
Yes...the sermon of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) was an improvised, organized, and coordinated sermon that included an abundance of verses from the Holy Qur’an, far from confusion in speech, and free from fallacy, evasion, clowning, and slander, and even from everything that does not befit her greatness, her unique personality, and her lofty position. This sermon is considered an eternal miracle of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), and a brilliant verse that indicates a great aspect of religious transparency and her use of the Holy Qur’an in her sermon, and the greatness and religious eloquence that the friend Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) enjoyed.
The impact of this sermon still remains to the present time. Because of its great impact on the hearts of Al-Zahra’s lovers and the family of Muhammad (peace be upon them all
Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) in the arms of prophecy and imamate
There is no doubt that Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) was distinguished by several characteristics that God Almighty bestowed upon her to make her above the women of the worlds. The descendants of the Most Honorable Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) descended from her. She is Al-Kawthar, from whom the descendants of the Most Honorable Prophet continued, and it was Surat Al-Kawthar. In reference to this, God Almighty said (Indeed, We have given you Al-Kawthar, so pray to your Lord* and sacrifice. Indeed, your affair is the amputee.
In addition to her (peace be upon her) status with God, (the Almighty) ordered the Noble Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) to marry his daughter (peace be upon him) to Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Al-Hashemi Al-Qurashi, according to what was narrated by Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, who said: “When he married... The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) - Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) - Some people from Quraysh came to him and said: You married Fatima with a small dowry. So he (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said to them: I did not marry Fatima, but God Almighty married her to her on the night he captured me at Sidra. The end, so God (the Almighty) inspired the Sidra to scatter, and they scattered the pearls and jewels on the beautiful houris. They cooed at him and bragged about him and said: This is from the confetti of Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). When the wedding night came, the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) came with his grey-haired mule and praised her.
Amaranth and said to Fatima (peace be upon her): Get in, and he ordered Salman al-Muhammadi to drive it while the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) was driving it. While he was on some road, he heard the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and found Gabriel (peace be upon him) with seventy thousand and Michael with seventy. Alpha, and he said: The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), what brought you down to earth? They said: We came to marry Fatima (peace be upon her) to her husband, and Gabriel (peace be upon him and his family) said “Allahu Akbar” and Michael (peace be upon him) said “Allahu Akbar” and the angels said “Allahu Akbar” and the Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said “Allahu Akbar.” So the takbir was imposed on brides from among those.” The most honorable Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “If God had not created Ali bin Abi Talib, there would not have been a worthy creation for Fatima”.
It can be said that Lady Fatima (peace be upon her) is the link between prophecy and imamate, that is, she is the only woman who linked prophecy and imamate, as she is the wife of the first imam, and the mother of the remaining imams, and this is a distinction bestowed upon her by God (Glory be to Him). In another narration on the authority of Imam Muhammad bin Ali al-Baqir (peace be upon him) on the authority of his fathers (peace be upon them), he said : “While the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) was sitting one day, Umm Ayman entered something in her blanket, and the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said to her: She said: O Umm Ayman, what is in your blanket? She said: O Messenger of God, so-and-so’s daughter, they took possession of her and scattered over her, so I took some of her litter.
Then Umm Ayman cried, and the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said to her: What makes you cry? She said: Why is her wife Fatima? She sprinkled something on her, and the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said to her: Do not weep, for He is the One who sent me with the truth as a bringer of good tidings and a warner. He witnessed the possessions of Fatima, Gabriel, Michael, and Israfil, among thousands of angels. God commanded Touba, so she scattered on them some of her garments, her silk, her brocade, her pearls, her emeralds, her rubies, and her perfume, so they took from him until They did not know what to do with it, and God has already resolved, “Blessed is Fatima’s dowry, for she is in the house of Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him)”.
At the same time, she (peace be upon her) was living with the most honorable Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in his mind, and thus we saw that the lady (peace be upon her) who only entered the school of the most honorable Prophet, and did not learn except in his house (may God’s prayers be upon him and his family), She possessed a culture that was not found in the heritage that we received from Muslims at that stage.
It can be said that the word that she is “the mistress of the women of the worlds,” meaning that she (peace be upon her) combined the elements of the personality that distinguishes women and elevated them until she was in the top positions, because the issue of being the mistress of the women of the worlds is not just a rank that is given to her without having its elements in it. It has a personality, but it has an order that is given to it through what God (the Almighty) who created it knows of the elements of this personality.
We may be inspired by some of the narrations that were reported by Imam Muhammad bin Ali Al-Baqir (peace be upon him) when he asked how long did Fatima (peace be upon her) live after the honorable Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family)? He said : “Four months later and she died when she was twenty-three years old”.
Thus, Lady Fatima experienced strong waves of pain due to the loss of her father and the usurpation of her rights. She was afflicted with illness, she was wracked with pain, and death approached her quickly, while she was at the dawn of youth and the splendor of youth. The time had come for her to meet with her father (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), who I eagerly asked to meet him.
As for the martyrdom of the lady (peace be upon her), the situation was different. Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon her) referred in his prayers when she (peace be upon her) died to different aspects. The first was that he declared his satisfaction with her, saying: “Oh God, I am satisfied with the daughter of your Prophet. Oh God, she has been lonely, so forget her.” "This is an important aspect of married life. Then he pointed out what happened to her after the most honorable Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in terms of her loneliness, as well as her injustice in terms of her miscarriage, the confiscation of Fadka and the seizure of the caliphate and the imam with this testimony, saying: “Oh God, she has abandoned her separation. Oh God, she has been wronged, so judge for her, and You are the best of judges.” He wanted to teach her fans to recognize her injustice so that it would be firmly established in their minds, and it is truly entrenched, and we pass it down from generation to generation. Then (peace be upon him) deposited the body in her grave and hid it in compliance with her will (peace be upon him).
He stood at the edge of the grave while quenching his thirst with tears in his eyes and began to eulogize her with these words :
“ Peace be upon you, O Messenger of God, on my behalf and on your daughter who is staying next to you and hastening to catch up with you! Say, O Messenger of God, about your sincere patience and tenderness for her, except that in comforting me with your great division and your terrible calamity is a place of honor, for I have covered you in the land of your grave, and I have poured out my throat.” And my chest is your soul, for we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. I have recovered the deposit, and I have taken the hostage! As for my grief, it is eternal, and as for my night, it is calm, until God chooses for me your home in which you will reside, and your daughter will inform you of the unity of your nation to digest it. So the question made her uncomfortable, and this situation did not take long The covenant, and the remembrance was not neglected from you, and peace be upon you both, a farewell greeting, neither he said nor was he tired. If he departs, it is not out of boredom, and if he stays, it is not out of bad suspicion of what God has promised to the patient.
The face of greatness in the character of Fatima Al-Zahra, “peace be upon her,” in the poetry of the poet Muhammad Iqbal as an example
The Noble Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, presented Fatima al-Zahra to the Islamic community as a perfect woman, saying: “ Many men are perfect, but only four are perfect: Fatima bint Muhammad, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, Asiya, the wife of Pharaoh, and Maryam, daughter of Imran ”. What is the aspect of perfection in her personality that was observed by an Islamic poet who has the ability to explore the beauty and strength of the human personality?
According to the Islamic perspective, women are independent in their personality and identity, and the texts embody and express this independence. Based on this principle, we can say that women bear public responsibilities in human society, just as men bear them equally. The situation may differ in the division of roles, such that one person has one role and another person has another role, and so on, but in terms of the basis of the movement of society, duties are shared duties.
The poet Muhammad Iqbal believes that Fatima Al-Zahra, “peace be upon her,” is a role model, and the role model can only be for those who are prepared to have psychological and mental abilities and a life that is suitable for emulation. The poet Muhammad Iqbal presented a picture of Fatima Al-Zahra, “peace be upon her,” inspired by her influence in her Islamic environment, and therefore it can be said “The environment represents a major source of support for the creator. Through it, his images and imagination are formed, which depend entirely on the actual influence of what is around him and what his or her mind has absorbed, so that reality interacts with what is mental, so they blend to form a wonderful image translated into special words that express special feelings...”
He says: The biography of children is only that of mothers, for when they reach sophistication, it resonates. She is a role model for mothers and a role model whose footsteps are traced by the bright moon. There is another image that Muhammad Iqbal presents, inspired by his love and attachment to Al-Zahra, “peace be upon her.” It is her attachment to the Islamic community, and her service to it with all her might, despite the scarcity of living and the ascetic life that characterized her life. We can say that Al-Zahra, “peace be upon her,” was in the marital home.
A role model for the ascetics and worshipers who came after her, whose mention is filled with the books of piety and asceticism, as he says:
When the needy complained behind her shelter, she lived up to that denial in her complaint. She tried to save him by mortgaging her veil, O Sahab, where can we compare you to its usefulness?
The poet resorts to presenting Al-Zahra Fatima, “peace be upon her,” as a pious, ascetic worshiper who abandoned the world and accepted a subsistence life. In doing so, she quotes the guidance of prophecy and follows in the footsteps of her father, the most honorable Prophet, “may God bless him and his family.” She also imitates the biography of her husband, whose biography was a form of actual embodiment.
According to Islamic teachings, he says:
The light of the fire, sanctified by its majesty, and the stars are destined to receive its light. She made beautiful patience her nourishment, and saw the honorable husband’s satisfaction as her own. Her mouth repeats, “What is your Lord,” while her hand turns its mill on the barley. Her pillow was wet with tears from her long fear and piety. Gabriel towards the throne raises her tears like dew, quenching the heavens, his Lord.
Then the poet Muhammad Iqbal moves to another feature of Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, in a quick succession of her wonderful qualities, as she is the mother of Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein, the masters of the youth of the people of Paradise.
Is the Tablet of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra considered another Qur’an?!
Question: Some of our opponents claim in one of their books, “From the Beliefs of the Shiites,” written by “Abdullah Al-Salafi,” some things: “They claim the existence of the Tablet of Fatima (peace be upon her), and among what they claim in this book is: “This is a book from God, the Mighty, the Wise, to Muhammad, His Prophet, His Light, and His Ambassador.” And as His veil and guide, the Faithful Spirit has sent down from the Lord of the Worlds, and magnify, O Muhammad, My names, and be grateful for My blessings, and do not deny My blessings. Indeed, I am God, there is no god but Me, the Severer of the tyrants, the remover of the oppressed, and the Judge of religion. Indeed, I am God, there is no god but Me, so whoever hopes for other than Whoever is virtuous of me, or fears something other than my justice, I will punish him with a punishment that I would not punish anyone else in the world... etc.”
They claim that this text is found in “Al-Kafi” by Al-Kulayni 1: 572, and also in the book “Al-Wafi” by Al-Fayd Al-Kashani, Volume One, Part 2/72.
The question is: Are these things mentioned above correct and accurate, and if they are correct, how do we respond to the opponents when they use them as evidence to distort the Qur’an and claim that there is another Qur’an according to the Shiites? Are these narrations authentic and not weak?
Answer: From His Eminence Mr. Ali Al-Hairi
The existence of another Qur’an among the Shiites is another accusation directed at the Shiites, and they are innocent of that. The Shiite Qur’an is the Qur’an of all Muslims, and it is the Qur’an that we have in our hands today, and you do not believe in another Qur’an at all. As for the Tablet of Fatima (may God’s peace be upon her): it is not a Qur’an, and no Shiite in the world believes that it is a Qur’an. Rather, the hadith of the Tablet is a famous hadith, narrated by many hadith scholars with numerous chains of transmission on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him), on the authority of Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), and on the authority of Jabir bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, and the hadith includes the presence of a tablet with Al-Siddiqa Al-Zahra (may God’s peace be upon her) that God, Blessed and Most High, gave to His Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family and grant them peace), and the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family and grant him peace) gave it to his daughter Fatima (may God’s peace be upon her) to give her good news of what was on it. And on the tablet is the name of her father, the name of her husband, the names of her two sons, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein, and the names of the guardians from her sons. So, it is a scroll containing the names of these infallible ones (may God’s peace be upon them). So where is this in the Qur’an?
Fatima Al-Zahra and the awaited Mahdi, expansion and manifestation
Imam Mahdi (peace be upon her) is an extension of the virgin Zahra (peace be upon her) and a mirror in which Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) is revealed in all her qualities. The goals of the Mahdi (peace be upon her) are the goals of Fatima (peace be upon her), his approach is her approach, and his behavior is her behavior.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) rejoices when there is a mention of her son Al-Mahdi, and her sadness is relieved when she hears his name, because without the Awaited Mahdi, the rebel seeking the blood of Al-Hussein (peace be upon him), the burden of the martyrdom of the one killed in Karbala on his mother Al-Zahra becomes intensified, and without the good news of the appearance of the Mahdi, the message of Abu Al-Zahra Muhammad remains. The Chosen One (may God bless him and his family) and the messages of the prophets are unharvested fruits .
The Muslim individual cannot get to know Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him) without getting to know his mother, Al-Zahra, the mother who is proud of her child, and the child who brags about his mother. We have seen it appropriate to address some of the connections and similarities that exist between these two great personalities in the verses and narrations.
Al-Mahdi (peace be upon him) is the descendant of Fatima (peace be upon her):
It was mentioned in the general and specific narrations of both groups that the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “The Mahdi is from my family from the descendants of Fatima” [1] , and it was narrated on the authority of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) that he said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said to Fatima “Give good news, Fatima, for the Mahdi is from you”. It was stated in the famous Hadith of the Tablet: “...And I have given you, O Muhammad, from his descendants (meaning Ali) eleven Mahdis, all of them from your descendants from the virgin, the last man among them will be saved from destruction...”.
Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him) in the statement of Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her):
Mahmoud bin Al-Walid says: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) died, Fatima (peace be upon her) used to come to the graves of the martyrs and come to the grave of Hamza and cry... I said: O Lady of Women! By God, you have broken my heart with your crying. She said: O Abu Amr! It's right for me to cry; I have been blessed with the best of fathers, the Messenger of God, and his longing for the Messenger of God.
I said: Did the Messenger of God appoint Ali as the imamate? She said: Wow! Have you forgotten the day of Ghadir Khumm? I said: That was it. But tell me what I'm telling you. She said: I bear witness, God Almighty, that I heard him say: Ali is the best person among you to succeed me, and he is the Imam and Caliph after me, and my two grandsons and nine of Hussein’s descendants are righteous imams. If you follow them, you will find them guided and guided; And if you disagree with them, the disagreement will be among you until the Day of Resurrection. I said: Madam! What guessed sat on the right? She said: O Abu Amr! He (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: The likeness of the Imam is like the Kaaba. When it comes and does not come. Then she said: By God, if they had left the right to its people and followed the family of His Prophet, no two would have disagreed about God, and it would have been inherited by one predecessor after another, and one successor after another, until our ninth Qaim from the descendants of Al-Hussein arises...”.
Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him) in Al-Zahra’ (peace be upon her) newspaper:
The Hadith of the Tablet and the Sahifa is a detailed hadith narrated by Sheikh Al-Saduq in his book (Kamal Al-Din) on the authority of Jabir bin Abdullah Al-Ansari, which states : “... Jabir said: I bear witness by God that I entered upon your mother Fatima during the life of the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and congratulated her on the birth of Hussein.” I saw in her hand a green tablet that I thought was an emerald, and I saw on it a white book that looked like the light of the sun, so I said to her: May my father and mother be sacrificed, O daughter of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). She said: What is this tablet that God gave to the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him)? It contains the name of my father, the name of Ali, the name of my son, and the names of the guardians from my children. So my father gave it to me to give me good news of this. Jabir said: So your mother Fatima gave it to me, so I read it and copied it ...:
In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful; This is a letter from God the Mighty (the Wise) to Muhammad, His light, His ambassador, and His veil... Indeed, I have not sent a prophet and completed his days and expired except that I appointed him a guardian; I have favored you over the prophets, and I have favored your successor over the successors, and I have honored you with Shablik after him and your two grandsons, Hasan and Hussein. So I made Hassan the source of my knowledge after the end of his father’s term, and I made Hussein the treasurer of my revelation and honored him with martyrdom... With his descendants I will be rewarded and punished; The first of them (Ali), the Master of the Worshipers, and... and his son is similar to his praiseworthy grandfather, Muhammad Al-Baqir, to my knowledge... those who doubt Jafar will perish... and after him I produced Moses... the one who denies the eighth one denies all of my saints... the truth of the word from me is that I will associate his eyes with Muhammad, his son and successor. After him... I conclude with happiness for his son Ali, his guardian and helper... and I will bring forth from him the caller to my path and the treasurer of my good knowledge. Then I complete that with his son, a mercy to the worlds. Upon him is the perfection of Moses, the splendor of Jesus, and the patience of Job.”
Al-Mahdi (peace be upon him) mentioned the solace of the heart of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her): Ali bin Hilal, on the authority of his father, said: “I entered upon the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) while he was in the state in which he was arrested, and found Fatima at his head. She cried until her voice rose, so the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) raised his head to her and said: My beloved. Fatima, what makes you cry?
She said: I fear the loss after you. He said: Oh my love! Didn’t you know that God Almighty looked at the people of the earth and chose one of them and sent him a message? Then he looked at one another and chose your husband and inspired me to marry him to him, O Fatima and us! People of the House, God Almighty has given us seven qualities that he did not give to anyone before us and will not give to anyone after us: I am the seal of the prophets, the most honorable of the prophets to God Almighty, and the most beloved of creation to God Almighty, and I am your father; The martyrs and the most beloved of them to God Almighty, and he is Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib, your father’s uncle and your husband’s uncle. And among us is he who has wings and flies wherever he wishes in Paradise, and he is your father’s cousin and your father’s brother and the grandsons of this nation, and they are your sons Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein, and they are the masters of the youth of the people of Paradise. And their father (By the One who sent me with the truth) is better than them. O Fatima! By the one who sent me with the truth, one of them is the Mahdi of this nation. When the world becomes chaos and turmoil, and temptations arise, and the paths are cut off, and some of them attack each other, then neither the old will have mercy on the young nor the young will respect the old. Then God will send from among them those who will open the strongholds of misguidance and uncircumcised hearts”.
On the authority of Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) who said: Fatima (peace be upon her) entered upon the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) with tears in his eyes, so I asked him: What’s wrong with you? He said: Gabriel (peace be upon him) told me that my nation would kill Hussein, so she was frightened and distressed for her, so he told her who would own one of her children, so she was content and calmed down”.
Fatima (peace be upon her) is the role model and role model of the Mahdi (peace be upon him) :
God, Blessed and Most High, has made His Prophet the role model and the perfect model that his nation must imitate and follow the guidance of his path. The Mighty One said: “Indeed, there has been for you in the Messenger of God a good example” [8] , and Fatima (peace be upon her) was a mirror of her father, emulating him. Just as no one imitated him - in his character, guidance, speech, and conduct, to the point that she (peace be upon him) resembled him in his walking and speech. It was narrated on the authority of Aisha, who said: “I have not seen anyone more similar in character, guidance, and guidance to the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in his standing and sitting than Fatima” [ 9] , The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) stated regarding his daughter Al-Zahra’ (peace be upon her) that God Almighty becomes angry because of Fatima’s anger and is satisfied when she is pleased.
It was narrated from him (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) that he said to Fatima (peace be upon her): “God becomes angry because of your anger and is satisfied with your satisfaction. Whoever harms her has harmed me, and he makes me suspicious of what harmed her, and what harmed her harms me.” [10] , and we find our Awaited Imam (peace be upon him) saying: ( ... In the daughter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace, I have a good role model”.
Fatima (peace be upon her) and Mahdi (peace be upon him) in Surat Al-Qadr:
Al-Sayyid Al-Bahrani narrates on the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of Surat Al-Qadr, he said: “The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months” meaning Fatima, in the Almighty’s saying: “The angels and the Spirit descend therein...” (And the Spirit), the Holy Spirit, which is Fatima ( Peace be upon her), “until the beginning of dawn” means: until the Qaim (peace be upon him) rises.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) is the rest of the prophets, and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) is the rest of the prophets :
After Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) delivered her famous sermon on the story of Fadak and returned to her home, the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) addressed her with words that said : “...O daughter of the elite and the remnant of prophecy”, Mrs. Hakima narrated the story of the birth of Imam Mahdi. (peace be upon him), and it stated that when the Mahdi was born and was brought to his father, Imam Al-Askari (peace be upon him), he said to him: “...Speak, O Hujjat of God and the rest of the prophets, the light of the pure, the relief of the poor, the seal of the guardians, and the light of the pious...” [14] It was narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Askari (peace be upon him) (in a hadith) that he said in describing Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him): “...in whom the word is united, and grace is completed, and God establishes the truth and destroys falsehood, so he is your Awaited Mahdi.” Then he read: In the name of God , the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) is the mistress of women and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) is the master of creation:
The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) called his wife Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) the title of “the Lady of the Women of the Worlds” in many sources, including : What was narrated by Ibn Abbas, that the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “As for my daughter Fatima, she is a lady of women.” “The worlds are among the first and the last”.
As for the Awaited Mahdi, he was titled “Master of Creation.” Al-Hasan bin Shazan Al-Wasiti narrated that he said: I wrote to Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ridha (peace be upon him) : “I complain of the cruelty of the people of Wasit and their burden on me.” So he signed. In his handwriting: “God, Blessed and Most High, has taken a covenant from our guardians to be patient in the state of falsehood, so be patient for the judgment of your Lord. If the Master of creation had risen, they would have said: ‘Woe to us, whoever raised us from our resting place. This is what the Most Merciful promised and the messengers were truthful’.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) the pure and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) the pure:
Fatima al-Zahra is one of the clearest examples of the verse of purification according to the text of the Holy Qur’an, and with the acknowledgment of both the author and the dissenter. The Truth, Blessed and Most High, stated that he removed impurity from her and purified her from filth and placed her in houses that God had permitted to be raised and his name to be mentioned in them. Asma bint Umays narrated that the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) He said to her: “...Did you not know that my daughter Fatima is pure and purified?” [19] . It was narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said: “If that is the case, then be the guard of your homes until Al-Tahir bin Al-Mutahhar, the one who is absent, appears”.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) the updated one and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon him) the updated one :
Many narrations have been reported that describe Al-Zahra as the one speaking to the angels. Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) was asked about the Qur’an of Fatima (peace be upon her), and he (peace be upon her) remained silent for a long time and then said: “You are searching for what you want and what you do not want. Indeed, Fatima stayed after the Messenger of God (peace be upon her) May God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) for seventy-five days, and she was deeply saddened by her father, and Gabriel used to come to her and offer her condolences for her father, comfort her, tell her about her father and his place, and inform her of what would happen after her. Ali (peace be upon him) used to write that, so this is Fatima’s Qur’an.
As for the Awaited Mahdi (peace be upon him), many narrations have been reported that describe him as a muhaddith along with the rest of the pure and infallible Imams (peace be upon them). It was narrated on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him): Among us are twelve muhaddith scholars, the seventh of my sons al-Qa’im. Imam al-Jawaad (peace be upon him) narrated Peace be upon him) that the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) said to Ibn Abbas, “I and eleven of my descendants are modern imams”.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) is the light of the people of heaven and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) is the light of the people of earth :
It was narrated on the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in a long hadith that he said : “Then the easts and wests became dark, so the angels complained to God Almighty to remove that darkness from them, so God Almighty spoke a word and created a spirit from it. Then He spoke a word and created light from that word, and it was illuminated.” Light came to that soul and made it the place of the throne, so it flourished the easts and the wests. She is Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, and that is why she was called Al-Zahra because her light blossomed the heavens.” [24] . Al-Mufaddal bin Omar narrates on the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) who said : “When our leader rises, the earth will shine with light.” Lord, and the servants dispensed with the light of the sun, and the darkness disappeared”.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon him) both spoke in their mother’s womb :
Al-Mufaddal bin Omar narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said: “When Khadija (peace be upon her) married her to the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), the women of Mecca abandoned her, and they did not enter upon her, nor greet her, nor allow a woman to enter upon her. So Khadija felt lonely. Therefore, her anxiety and grief were wary of him (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and when she became pregnant with Fatima, Fatima, peace be upon her, was speaking to her from her womb and making her patient.”
It was the end of the night, the time of dawn, and Narjis stood terrified, so I hugged her to my chest and said the name of God over her. Then Abu Muhammad (Al-Askari) (peace be upon him) shouted and said: Read to her: “Indeed, We sent it down on the Night of Decree,” so I began to recite to her and said to her: How are you? She said: The matter that my master told you appeared, so I began to read as he commanded me, and the fetus from her womb responded to me, reciting as I read, and greeted me. Hakima said: I was terrified when I heard, so Abu Muhammad, peace be upon him, shouted to me: Do not be surprised by the command of God Almighty, for God is the Almighty. Blessed and Most High, He speaks wisdom to us when we are young, and makes us a proof in His land when we are old”.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) are both bright stars :
Abu Hashim Al-Askari asked about Imam Al-Askari (peace be upon him): “Why was she named Fatima Al-Zahra?” He said: “Her face would shine for the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, from the beginning of the day like a bright sun, and at noon like a bright moon, and at sunset like a shining star” [28] , the Messenger of God said. God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family): “The Mahdi is a man from my descendants, his face is like a brilliant star”.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) Al-Mansoura and Al-Mahdi (peace be upon her) Al-Mansoura:
Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) narrated on the authority of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) that he (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) asked Gabriel about a bright light that he saw, and Gabriel said: “Indeed, that fire is for the Victorious in the heavens and Fatima on earth.” The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him) said. Upon him and his family): “My beloved Gabriel, why is she named in the victorious heaven and on earth Fatimah? He said: She was named on earth Fatima because she and her followers were weaned from the Fire, and her enemies were weaned from loving it. Then he said: And she is in the victorious heaven, and that is His saying, the Almighty: “And on that day.” The believers will rejoice * in God’s victory. Meaning God’s victory for those who love it.
As for Imam Mahdi (peace be upon him), it was reported on the authority of Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of the Almighty’s saying: “Have you been defeated by the Romans?” They are the Banu Umayyad: “And on that day the believers will rejoice * with the help of God”: when the Qa’im rises.
It was narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Baqir (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of the Almighty’s saying: “And whoever is killed unjustly, We have given to his guardian authority; let him not be extravagant in killing. Indeed, he will be helped.” He said: “Whoever is killed unjustly”: Al-Hussein (peace be upon him). Peace); “Indeed, he was Mansour”: God named the Mahdi al-Mansour, just as he called Ahmad, Muhammad, and Mahmoud, and just as he called Jesus Christ, and he came during the visit to Ashura, “...so I ask God, who has honored your position and honored me through you, to grant me the request of your rebellion with a victorious Imam from the people of Muhammad’s household.” (May God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and it was narrated on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him), who said: “The one who rises among us will be victorious with terror, and supported with victory”.
The politics of violence against Fatima Al-Zahra... her inheritance from her father and the usurpation of her rights is an example
The meeting in the Saqifa and the battle of Aws and Khazraj on one side and the presence of Abu Bakr and some hypocrites on the other side generated consequences and calamities that befell Islam and led to corruption in the religion. But those gathered were unaware of the hidden webs that had been woven before the death of the most honorable Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family.
The result of this meeting was to remove the right from the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, to usurp Fadak and the inheritance from Fatima, peace be upon her, and to usurp her rights with a fatwa linked to an invented hadith that he had not heard from the Noble Prophet, may God bless him and his family, his daughter, his brother, and his guardian. This fatwa is not in the era of the most honorable Prophet, nor even in his law, nor in Islam. Rather, it is a fatwa that is not like it in Christianity, nor in Judaism, nor in any sect or religion in the world. This fatwa was to usurp the rights of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib and the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon them. “And their legacy, since this fatwa was political and issued by the Caliph and was unique to it, contradicting the Qur’an, the Sunnah, reason and custom, Abu Bakr issued a fatwa with it and the hypocrites of Medina supported it (1).
There are many questions that can come to mind about this topic, including: What prompted her, peace be upon her, to this continuous pursuit and continuous efforts to demand her rights? What is the reason for this insistence and follow-up on the request for Fadak and interest in those lands and palm trees, despite the high spirit and lofty status that Lady Fatima, peace be upon her, enjoyed? What is the motive for the Lady of the Women of the Worlds to undertake this expense and endure these exhausting difficulties to claim her lands, when she knows that her efforts will fail and that she will not be able to overcome the situation, nor will she be able to seize those lands from the usurpers?
The answer to such questions could be that when the authority confiscated the funds of Lady Fatima al-Zahra and placed them in the state budget, their goal was to weaken the side of the Ahl al-Bayt, “peace be upon them.” They wanted to fight Ali, “peace be upon them,” economically. They wanted Ali to be the son of Abi. He demanded a poor person so that people would not rally around him, and he would not have any importance on the economic level. This is a policy that the hypocrites wanted to implement against the Messenger of God when they said: “Do not spend on those with the Messenger of God until they disperse” (2), since the lands of Fadak did not It was not productive, but it had a large revenue, and this is what the scholar Al-Majlisi indicated in his book: “The revenue of Fadak was twenty-four thousand dinars every year, and in another narration seventy thousand dinars” (3), and in any case this is wealth. It is a wide range that cannot be overlooked in light of the unjust policy of the authorities at that time.
In addition, even if a person is ascetic in this world and desires the hereafter, he nevertheless needs money to improve his affairs, preserve his honor, maintain his ties of kinship, and spend it in the path of God, since the most honorable Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, was ascetic. Asceticism: How did he benefit from Khadija’s money in order to strengthen Islam? In addition to that, a person demands his usurped right. The matter is not devoid of one of two aspects. Either the person wins and obtains what he wants, which is what is desired and through it his goal of demanding is achieved, or he does not win in his demand, for he has shown his injustice and announced to the people that he has been oppressed and that his money has been usurped. From him, especially if the usurper is someone who claims to be righteous and pretends to be religious and pious, the oppressed person will know for generations that he is not sincere in his claim. For these reasons, Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, rose and headed towards the mosque of her father, the Messenger of God, in order to demand her rights (4).
There is a historical fact that she did not go to Abu Bakr’s house for the sake of dialogue between her and him only, but rather she chose the most appropriate place, which is the Islamic Center, and she also chose the appropriate time so that the mosque would be crowded with people of all classes of immigrants and Ansar, and she did not go out to the mosque alone, but rather She went out with a group of women as if she was on a women’s march (5), and before that it was decided to choose a place in the mosque for a few of the noble Prophet and his beloved to sit, and they hung a curtain so that Lady Fatima, “peace be upon her,” could sit behind the curtain (6).
Abu Bakr and the hypocrites prepared to listen to the protest of the most knowledgeable woman in the entire world, namely the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, Fatima Al-Zahra, and she delivered her eloquent sermon. She was improvised, organized, and coordinated, far from confusion in speech, and free from fallacy, evasion, clowning, and slander, and even from everything that does not suit her greatness and personality. The lady sat in the place prepared for her, and perhaps her entry was for the first time after the death of her father, the Great Messenger, “may God bless him and his family” (7).
In this regard, one of the researchers says: “It is enough for Fatima to lead her feet into the courtyard of the mosque, and to stand in front of the caliph with a robe and veil, and to give him a sad look, and to move a hand with palms together, and to stand for a moment and then the shadow withdraws, and she did it. History bears witness that she did it.” Her voice as she delivered her speech was heard by only a few people. What was heard was not her spoken words. What history has recorded from that speech is the meaning and it is the thought. It is rebellion against everything that exists. In the speech, she explained her father’s message, not to explain the message, but rather to explain it. To determine her position in the message and Ali from it, and she demanded the inheritance proving that she has a right to it” (8).
Then she went back to her intended words and her desired goal, which is to demand her right and complain against the ruling authority. Above all, she directed the speech to the Muslims because they pledged allegiance to the head of state, and the speech was not directed to the head of state because he is one of the two parties to the trial, and it is what is meant by quarreling and condemning, and for this reason she introduced herself to those present. As are the principles followed in trials, because it is the other party to the trial, and because it represents the family of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family.
The subject of the court was the lands and provinces that had been at the disposal of Lady Fatima al-Zahra for years, then the authority seized them and confiscated them without legal justification. That is why Lady Fatima addressed her speech to those present and said: “O people, know that I am Fatima.” It seems that she mentioned her name to the listeners, because that The name that people heard repeatedly from the mouth of the most honorable Prophet, and which is filled with prophetic emotions. “And my father: Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family,” she wanted to confirm that this honorable lineage, which has no lineage above it, seems to have known herself so that someone would not say: Why did she not declare her name? Why did she not define her personality? Why did she not mention her lineage? Thus, she completed the argument against them. She came to demand her rights and money that had been confiscated and usurped.
Then she said: “I say it again and again, and I do not say what I say wrongly, nor do I do what I do in error.” That is, I speak last and first, and first and last, and I am certain of what I say, since she does not speak unfairly, unjustly, or transgressing the limits: “Indeed, there has come to you a messenger from among yourselves, Mighty.” He is responsible for whatever you intended. He is anxious for you as a believer, Most Compassionate and Merciful.” (9)
Providing the means of happiness for you, with the believers of this nation. Rauf and Merciful are two synonymous words, meaning compassion, kindness and tenderness. Then she clarified in her statement: “If you honor him and get to know him, you will find him to be my father to the exclusion of your women and my cousin’s brother to the exclusion of your men.” Meaning, do you attribute him to him and say that he is whose father? And whose brother? So you find that I am his only daughter and he is my father, and your women do not share this pure and highest lineage with me, just as he is my husband’s brother, and none of your men shared my father’s brotherhood. Then she said: “How good is the one to whom one is attributed, may God bless him and his family,” meaning how good is the one attributed to him and the one who belongs to him. He is the most honorable of those who are attributed to him, and the purest of those who belong to him.
Then Lady Al-Zahra addressed her speech to the head of state, “O Ibn Abi Quhafa . ” Here she did not say to him: “O successor of the Messenger of God,” because the Messenger of God, “may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family,” did not appoint him as his successor, and she did not address him by the nickname “O Abu Bakr,” because it was an act of reverence for him. Rather, she said to him: : O son of Abi Quhafa. Then she said: “In the Book of God, do you inherit your father and I do not inherit my father?” It seems that she wants to say, O son of Abi Quhafa, by what law do you inherit your father if he dies or do I inherit my father if he dies?
Do you rely on the Book of God to prevent me from inheriting my father’s inheritance? . Then she confirmed in her statement, “Have you deliberately left the Book of God and cast it behind your backs?” Do you not have this Qur’an? So why did you abandon working on it and put it behind you when it says: “And Solomon became the heir of David” (10). Is this not a statement of the law of inheritance and inheritance among the prophets? Were not Solomon and his son David among the prophets? It seems that Abu Bakr and all the Muslims present understood that what was meant by her words was inheritance. In this verse, he inherited the money, and the meaning of that is that Solomon inherited the wealth of his father David, and they did not understand anything other than this, and so is the speech in the Almighty’s saying in what was taken from the news of Zechariah when He said: “He shall inherit from me and inherit from the family of Jacob” (11), meaning that Zechariah The Prophet asked God Almighty to grant him a son who would inherit money from him.
Then she said: “And you claimed that I have no favor, no inheritance from my father, and no kinship between us.” She wanted to say that you know that you are liars. You claimed that I have no share, no status, no inheritance, no kinship, and no connection, because you denied the fixed inheritance between me and my father. Every connection, relationship and kinship between me and my father. Then she said: “Has God given you a specific verse from which my father was removed?!” That is, the verses on inheritance are general and comprehensive for all Muslims. Did God exclude my father from the verses on inheritance, so there is no inheritance between the Prophet and his family?
Then she emphasized in her sermon: “Or do you say: We are people of two religions who do not inherit one another, or are my father and I not people of one religion?” It seems that she wanted to clarify an important issue in the Islamic approach in the presence of all the immigrants and supporters, that Islamic law stipulates that an infidel does not inherit from a Muslim, as she shouted against disbelief and hypocrisy as she assured them that an infidel does not inherit from a Muslim. “Or do you say that we are people of two religions who do not inherit one another?” “Do you doubt my Islam, my being a Muslim woman, and my Islamic law?
Then she emphasized in her sermon: “Or do you know more about the Qur’an and its generalities than my father and my cousin?” It seems that she wanted to say that Ali and my father know best what is in the Noble Qur’an and that the verses on inheritance are general. If they are specific to the most honorable Prophet, then the Messenger of God knows about that, and why did he inform his daughter of this specific ruling? Is it reasonable for the Most Honorable Prophet to hide this ruling from his daughter despite the intensity of her contact with him? His intense attachment to her, and the intense need to explain the ruling to her so that she would not demand the inheritance after the death of her father, the Great Prophet, may God bless him and his family. Then you say “peace be upon her,” or do you say that you are more knowledgeable about the Qur’an and its specific and general verses than the father of the Messenger of God to whose heart the Qur’an was revealed? Or do you know more than my cousin Ali Ibn Abi Talib about the city of the Messenger’s knowledge? If the matter was like this, my husband told me, but he did not order me to attend the mosque and demand my rights and my father’s inheritance.
Then she directed her speech to the head of state alone, to the exclusion of the Muslims present in the mosque: “Her neck is muzzled and carried away.” It seems that she wanted to say to Ibn Abi Quhafa, “Take it,” meaning, “Take Fadak,” as she likened Fadak to a camel with its mounts and muzzles on it. Take Fadak, ready and prepared, as was in her words. A threat, and this is like what is said to the aggressor: “Do whatever you want, and plunder what you want,” “I will meet you on the day you are gathered, for what a good judge God is, and the leader is Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and the appointed time is Resurrection,” indicating that man will see his deeds on the Day of Resurrection, and on that day judgment belongs to the One God. The Omnipotent, not for you, son of Abi Qafa, for God from whom nothing of the injustices of His servants is hidden, and that the most honorable Prophet is your adversary demanding from you the rights of his daughter Fatima, and that the Day of Judgment is the Day of Resurrection, and those who claimed falsehood and claimed what is not theirs will lose ( [12] ). Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, left and the earth shook, and a man who had usurped her father’s inheritance shouted: Remove my pledge of allegiance to me...(13).
We conclude from this that all the images that Lady Fatima al-Zahra, peace be upon her, presented to the immigrants and supporters in this issue, wanted to say that the issue was political and not religious, as it was a conspiracy against the family of the Noble Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and his family, and to fight them economically and to weaken their economic side. They wanted Imam Ali (peace be upon him) to be poor so that people would not rally around him, and that he would not have any importance on the economic level. This is a policy that the hypocrites wanted to implement against the Messenger of God when they said: “Do not spend on those with the Messenger of God until they disperse.”
( [1] ) For more details about this, see: Muhammad Baqir Al-Kajouri, Fatimid Characteristics, translated by Jamal Ashraf, (Holy Qom: Shariat Press, 1960); Mohsen bin Muhammad bin Abdul Karim bin Ali bin Muhammad Al-Amin Al-Amili, Shiite Notables, edited by Hassan Al-Amin, (Beirut: Dar Al-Ma’arif, 1983), vol. 5; Ismail Pasha Al-Baghdadi, The Gift of the Knowing, (Beirut: Arab Heritage Revival House, ed.).
( [2] Surah Al-Munafiqun: Verse 7
( [3] ) Muhammad Baqir Al-Majlisi, Bihar Al-Anwar, (Beirut: Al-Alami Publications Foundation, 2008), vol. 8, p. 104.
( [4] ) For more details about this, see: Muhammad Kadhim Al-Qazwini, Fatima Al-Zahra from the Cradle to the Grave, (Qom: Scientific Press, 1414 AH), pp. 290-295.
( [5] ) Al-Zamakhshari narrates that Fatima went out in the presence of her wives... until she entered upon Abu Bakr. For more details, see: Mahmoud bin Omar Al-Zamakhshari, Al-Fa’iq fi Ghareeb Al-Hadith, edited by Ali Muhammad Al-Bajjawi and Muhammad Abu Al-Fadl Ibrahim, Part 3, p. 331.
( [6] ) Ismail Al-Ansari, Encyclopedia of Fatima Al-Zahra, (Holy Qom, 2006), vol. 13, pp. 320-335.
( [7] ) Muhammad Kadhim Al-Qazwini, Fatima Al-Zahra from the cradle to the grave, (Qom: Basirati Library, 1414 AH), p. 289
( [8] ) Suleiman Kettani, Fatima Al-Zahra, Witr fi Sheath, edited by Muhammad Al-Saadi, (Iran: Laila Press, 1429 AH).
( [9] ) Surat Al-Tawbah: Verse 128.
[10] Surat An-Naml, verse 16.
[11] Surat Maryam, verse 6.
( [12] ) For more details about the explanation of the sermon of Lady Fatima al-Zahra, see: Kamal al-Din Maitham bin Ali bin Maitham al-Bahrani, Explanation of Nahj al-Balagha, (Dar al-Thaqalayn Publications for Printing, Publishing and Distribution, 1999), vol. 5; Muhammad Kadhim Al-Qazwini, previous source, pp. 374-380.
( [13] ) Kamal Al-Sayyid, and she was a friend, (Ansarian Printing and Publishing Foundation, 2006), p. 221.
Secrets and mysteries of Imam Ali’s marriage to Lady Fatima Al-Zahra
Their blessed marriage took place on the first day of the month of Dhul-Hijjah of the year 2 AH, and it is called the marriage of the two lights. This event is of great importance to the Shiites because both of them, peace be upon them, are among the greatest personalities and they are the best of creation after the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his family and grant them peace, and that the infallible Imams are the fruit of This blessed marriage, and this marriage also indicates the status of Imam Ali, peace be upon him, with the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, as he married him off with his pure wife, peace be upon her, and singled him out for this without the rest of the believers.
Marriage story:
In the first year of the Prophet’s migration, Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was twenty-four years old. It was necessary for him to get married and begin a shared life, and Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, was nine years old at that time. On the authority of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, he said: “While I was praying the dawn prayer on Friday, I heard the rustling of the angels, and behold, my beloved Gabriel was with him, and with him were seventy rows of angels, crowned, earrings, and combed, so I said: What is this rumbling from the sky, my brother Gabriel?! He said: O Muhammad! God Almighty looked at the earth carefully and chose Ali from among the men and Fatima from the women, so he married Fatima to Ali. So Fatima, peace be upon her, raised her head and smiled... and said: I am satisfied with what God and His Messenger are pleased with.
Anas said: He came to me, and the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, smiled and then said: “O Ali, God has commanded me to marry you to Fatima. I may marry her to you for four hundred mithqals of silver if you are satisfied.” Ali said: I am satisfied, O Messenger of God... Then the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, said: “May God bless you and you and make you happy and bring out of you much goodness.”
Marriage in heaven:
The Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: This is Gabriel telling me that God married you to Fatima, and forty thousand angels bore witness to her marriage. He inspired the tree of Touba: “Scatter pearls and rubies on them.” So I scattered pearls and rubies on them, so the young maidens ran to him, gathering pearls and rubies in bowls of pearls, and they were approaching him. between them until the Day of Resurrection.
Ibn Abi Al-Hadid said: His marriage to Ali did not take place until after God Almighty granted him marriage to her in heaven with the testimony of the angels. On the authority of Ibn Masoud, on the authority of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, that he said: “God commanded me to marry Fatima to Ali.”
In the narration: The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, came to Fatima, peace be upon her... and said in what he said: “By God, if my family (my household) had been better than him, I would not have married you to him (to him), nor am I your wife, but God has made you your husband.” In another narration: “If Ali had not (not created) (and it was narrated: he had not married her), there would have been no match for Fatima.”
Date of marriage:
The marriage of Al-Nurayn, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, to Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her - according to the famous in the year 2 AH was on Thursday night, and it was said: Monday.
The marriage Mahr of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her):
Her reward, peace be upon her, was four hundred and eighty Hijri black dirhams.
It was narrated on the authority of Imam al-Sadiq, peace be upon him, that the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, brought dirhams and poured them into the lap of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and he took a handful of it, and it was sixty-three or sixty-six. It was the price of the Imam’s armor, peace be upon him, so he gave Umm Ayman for household items, Asma bint Umays for perfume, and Umm Salamah for food. Ammar, Abu Bakr, and Bilal ran out with them to buy what was suitable for the house from the rest of the furniture, including:
1- A shirt for seven dirhams.
2- A veil for four dirhams.
3- (Abaya) black velvet Khibari.
4- A bed bound with tape.
5- A mattress made of Egyptian burlap stuffed with wool.
6- A pillow stuffed with palm fiber.
7- Four pieces of Adam Al-Taif stuffed with Azkhar.
8- A thin wool jacket.
9- Hijri mat.
10-- Hand mill.
11-- A waterskin from Adam.
12- Copper plated.
13- Qaab for milk.
14-Vishan for water.
15- An asphalt disinfectant.
16- Green jar.
17- Ceramic.
18- A seed from Adam.
19- Qatwaniya abaya.
20- A water bottle.
Wedding feast:
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, in the story of the marriage of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, he said: The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, called Bilal and said: (O Bilal, I married my daughter to my cousin, and I would like it to be part of the Sunnah of my nation to provide food at marriage, so go to the sheep, and take a sheep. And four or five supplies, so make me a bowl that I may gather the Muhajireen and Ansar over, and when you have finished with it, inform me of it.” If we observe the day of the birth of the Imam, peace be upon him (Rajab 13, 30 of the Year of the Elephant) until his arrival in Medina (12 Rabi’ al-Awwal, 43 of the Year of the Elephant) and his settlement until Rajab, he will have completed thirteen years of his life, and if we take the words of Sheikh Al-Mufid (may God have mercy on him) God) that marriage in the month of Muharram - as Ibn Tawus also did - will mean that he will be fourteen years old, and if the marriage is in Dhul-Hijjah of the second year of the Hijra, then he will have entered the age of fifteen years of age.
Is there a relationship between pleasing Lady Fatima Al-Zahra and observing Laylat Al-Qadr?
It is mentioned in the hadiths that the Night of Power is a great night and that it represents one of the secrets of the Creator, as it is considered better than a thousand months, and that it is the focus of attention and was mentioned in the Holy Qur’an, as emphasized by the Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and his pure family (peace be upon them).
It was mentioned in the interpretation of Noor al-Thaqalayn and al-Burhan and the Book of Bihar al-Anwar (vol. 42: 105) on the authority of the interpretation of Furat al-Kufi, with a chain of narration on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of Surat al-Qadr, he said (Fatima is the Night of Destiny. Whoever knows Fatima properly has realized the Night of Destiny).
Specialists believe that there is a relationship between Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, and the celebration of the Night of Destiny, pointing out the presence of countless evidence, foremost of which is what was reported from Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) that he said: (Indeed, We sent it down on the Night of Destiny), the night is Fatima Al-Zahra and God Almighty, Whoever truly knows Fatima has realized Laylat al-Qadr, but she was named Fatima because people have become weaned from knowing her.
There are those who believe that the relationship lies in the cosmic structure with which God Almighty created Lady Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), as the narratives indicate that God Almighty commanded His Noble Messenger to leave his house for forty days, fast during the day and pray at night, and then break his fast from the fruits of Paradise and this fruit. What our honorable Messenger says about her: “Gabriel (peace be upon him) brought me an apple from Paradise, so I ate it and it turned into water in my loins. Then I had intercourse with Khadija and became pregnant with Fatima, and I smell the scent of Paradise from her.”
While others considered that the secret to realizing Laylat al-Qadr represents the path to God’s satisfaction, basing this on the noble hadiths that confirm that God’s satisfaction is Fatima’s pleasure, and that realizing Laylat al-Qadr represents the way to escape from the horrors of the Resurrection, as the narratives indicate that loving Fatima (peace be upon her) is beneficial in One hundred places, the forefront of which is salvation from the horrors of the Resurrection, in addition to being the means to escape from the fire of Hell, because she (peace be upon her) is the means and the one who is called upon to exit from the Fire, as it was reported ((She was named Fatima because she picks up her followers and lovers from the Fire just as a bird picks up good love from love. lousy)).
Fragments about Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her
The Holy Qur’an has immortalized the mention of all of the prophets, messengers, and righteous saints of God with verses that are recited at night and at the end of the day, in honor of their positions and the sacrifices they made in reviving the divine call. Among those whom God Almighty has singled out for mention are the pure elite, the People of the House, may God’s prayers be upon them all. The commentators have mentioned the verses that were revealed for their right and greatness. I forbid them and call to emulate them and follow in their footsteps.
A brief summary of the biography of Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her:
She is Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, and her mother is the great lady: Khadija bint Khuwaylid, peace be upon her, the Mother of the Believers, and her husband, the master of the guardians, Ali bin Abi Talib, the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, and her children, the pure imams, peace be upon them. She was born to the most honorable parents who changed the course of history in the few years she was born. Peace be upon you, on the twentieth day of Jumada al-Akhirah, in the forty-fifth year of the birth of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family. An oppressed martyr died on Tuesday, the third of Jumada al-Akhirah, in the eleventh year of the Hijra. She was eighteen years old, in the age of roses and flowers.
The Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, prepared her and showed her in Medina and hid her. He buried her according to her will, in protest against those who had wronged her and usurped her rights. She, peace be upon her, was like her father in worship, asceticism, virtue, and piety. God Almighty revealed verses about her from the Wise Qur’an. The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, had nicknamed her: “Lady of the Women of the Worlds,” and his nickname was: her father’s mother. He loved her with great love and revered her with great reverence, to the point that when she entered upon him, he welcomed her and stood up in reverence for her and made her sit in his place, and perhaps even kissed her hands. He, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, used to say: “God is satisfied when Fatima is pleased and angry when she is angry.” She gave birth to the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, Imam Hassan, peace be upon him. And Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and Al-Muhsin, peace be upon him, but he fell as a result of the harm that befell his mother, and Mrs. Zeinab, peace be upon her, and Mrs. Umm Kulthum, peace be upon her.
Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, in the verse of purification:
The verse of purification was revealed to the Messenger, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, while he was in the house of Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her. Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Jarir, Ahmad, Al-Jazari, Al-Asqalani, Al-Muhib Al-Tabari, Al-Hasakani (1) and others reported on the authority of Shahr bin Hawshab and others on the authority of Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her, that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him ( And his family) and he greeted Al-Hasan, Al-Hussein, Ali and Fatima as a cloak, then said: “O God, these are the people of my household and my special ones (and in a word: my protector), remove the uncleanness from them and purify them with a thorough purification.” (2)
Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her, said: So I lifted the cloak to enter with them, so he pulled it from my hand and said: (You are good.) So the verse was revealed: “God only wants to remove impurity from you, O People of the Household, and purify you with a thorough purification.” The Sahihs repeatedly mentioned the narration of the honorable lady Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her, through sound methods and from many sources (3).
The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, clarifies that the noble verse is limited to those who are clothed, in order to exalt their status and out of preference for them over others whom he found and within the sight and hearing of Umm Salamah, may God be pleased with her, and despite her status and closeness to the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, he answered her, saying: - After pulling the cloak - (You are well). Far be it from his saying to be in vain and idle talk, as he was guided by the care of the Almighty God: (And he does not speak out of his own desire. Indeed, it is nothing but a revelation revealed) (4).
So his saying and action were in compliance with the command of God Almighty, and where you find in the hadith about the covering, it was reported that Gabriel asked God Almighty, saying: Who is under the covering? When God Almighty wanted to define the five good and pure people, He said: They are Fatima, her father, her husband, and her sons (5). In this holy hadith, we find that God began with Fatima Al-Zahra, and this indicates her high status, may God’s peace be upon her. It is clear from this that Fatima Al-Zahra, may God’s peace be upon her, is the focus of the people of God. Home, may God’s peace be upon them.
Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, is the light of God, so why was she wronged?
Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, is the ultimate example of divine light. The Blessed and Most High said: “God is the light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp.” On the authority of Saleh bin Sahl Al-Hamdani, he said, I heard Abu Abdullah, peace be upon him, say in the Almighty’s saying: “God is the light of the heavens and the earth.” “His light is like a niche.” The niche is Fatima, peace be upon her. She was a light that tyrants feared would expose them, and it is common knowledge that thieves do not steal while the light exists so that they do not expose themselves.
So they wanted to extinguish that divine light in order to steal the caliphate from the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, but they failed in that as well. It was mentioned in the Almighty’s saying: “They want to extinguish the light of God with their mouths, and God will perfect His light, even if the disbelievers hate it.” So some thugs came to burn the house of Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, and she said: “O son of Al-Khattab! Are you leaving a crematorium at my door?!” He said: Yes. She said: Woe to you, O Omar. What is this? Daring against God and His Messenger? Do you want to cut off his lineage from this world, annihilate him, and extinguish the light of God, while God has perfected His light? So he rebuked her and said: Enough, Fatima, for Muhammad is not present, nor are the angels coming with commands, prohibitions, and rebukes from God, and I am only like one of the Muslims, so choose if you want him to go out and pledge allegiance? Abu Bakr or burning you all, and you find this text in the books of both groups.
What kind of people are they and what Islam do they claim? Is this how the Messenger of God advised his descendants?! When he said: I have left among you the two weighty things, the Book of God, and my family, my household, so see how you leave me behind in them. I command that the house and everyone in it be burned!! What injustice befell Lady Fatima al-Zahra, may God’s peace be upon her, that made her cry and say: Oh God, to You we complain, for the loss of your Prophet, your Messenger, and your class, and the apostasy of his nation against us. “And they deprived us of our right that you gave us in Your Book revealed to your Prophet who was sent.”
That is, the injustice that made her cry loudly and say, “O Father, O Messenger of God, your daughter Fatima is being lied to and beaten, and a fetus in her womb is being killed.” Is this what the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, recommended when he said: Fatima is a few From me, whoever makes her angry makes me angry, and in a narration: What I dislike about her makes me suspicious, and what hurts her hurts me (6) The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, said: Whoever hurts her in my life is like the one who hurts her after my death, and whoever hurts her after my death is like the one who hurt her in my life, and whoever hurts her has hurt me, and whoever hurts me has hurt me. He harmed God (7), which is the saying of God Almighty, “Indeed, those who harm God and His Messenger, God has cursed them in this world and the hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating punishment (8).
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(1) Al-Tirmidhi, vol. 2, p. 319 - Al-Tabari, vol. 22, p. 6 - Ahmad in his Musnad, vol. 6, p. 306 - Asad Al-Ghabah, vol. 4, p. 29 - Tahdheeb Al-Tahdheeb, vol. 2, p. 297 - Dhakha’ir Al-Uqabi, p. 21 - Evidence of the Revelation
(2) Al-Durr Al-Manthur in the interpretation of the verse.
(3) Al-Tarikh Al-Kabir by Al-Bukhari, vol. 1, p. 29, Hadith 1719 - Sunan Al-Bayhaqi, vol. 2, p. 150 - Tafsir Al-Zamakhshari, vol. 1, p. 369 - Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, vol. 4, p. 183 - Tafsir Ibn Kathir, vol. 3, p. 484 - Al-Durr Al-Manthur, Tafsir of the Verse - Al-Isti’ab, vol. 2 P. 460 - The Sufficiency of the Student, Chapter of the Hundred - Mustadrak Al-Hakim, vol. 3, p. 146 - Al-Riyadh Al-Nadhra, vol. 2, p. 248 - Fath Al-Qadeer, vol. 4, p. 279 - Fath Al-Bayan, vol. 7, p. 364 - Important Chapters, p. 25 - Asbab Al-Nazul, p. 239 - Matalib Al-Su’ul, vol. 1 P. 19 - Tafsir Al-Baydawi, vol. 2, p. 245 - Explanation of Ibn Abi Al-Hadid, vol. 4, p. 11, and other sources, please review.
(4) Surah An-Najm, verses 3-4.
(5) Mafatih al-Jinan by al-Qummi: 1-4 Hadith al-Kisa (appendix at the end of the book), Muntakhab al-Tarihi: 259 Majlis 9 of the second part.
(6) Collection of Epistles by Sheikh Lutfullah Al-Safi, Part 2
(7) Al-Tafsir Al-Safi Al-Fayd Al-Kashani, Part 4
(8) Surat Al-Tawbah, verse (57)
The status of Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) on the Day of Resurrection
Furat bin Ibrahim narrated with us on the authority of Ibn Abbas, who said: I heard the Commander of the Faithful Ali bin Abi Talib say: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) entered one day to see Fatima while she was sad, and he said to her: What is your sadness, my daughter? She said: Father, I mentioned the gathering place and people standing naked on the Day of Resurrection.
He said: O my daughter, it is a great day, but Gabriel told me on the authority of God Almighty that he said: The first for whom the earth will open on the Day of Resurrection will be me, then my father Abraham, then your husband Ali bin Abi Talib, then God will send Gabriel to you with seventy thousand angels, and he will strike. Over your grave are seven domes of light. Then Israfil will come to you with three robes of light. He will stand at your head and call to you: O Fatima, daughter of Muhammad, rise to your gathering place, and you will stand secure in your splendor, with your private parts hidden. Then Israfil will hand you the robes and you will put them on, and Zufael will bring you a robe of light, with a band of pearls. It is wet, it has a golden palanquin on it, and you ride it, and Zephael leads by its reins, and in your hands are seventy thousand angels with banners of praise in their hands.
When you are on your way, seventy thousand nymphs will greet you, looking at you with joy, each one of them holding a censer of light from which shines the scent of the oud without fire, and wearing jewel wreaths studded with green emeralds. They will walk to your right.
If you walk like the way you walked from your grave until you met the Houris, Maryam bint Imran will meet you in a similar number of Houris as you have, and she will greet you, and she and those with her will walk to your left. Then your mother Khadija bint Khuwaylid, the first of the women to believe in God and His Messenger, will meet you, and with her are seventy thousand angels with banners of takbir in their hands. As you approached the crowd, Eve greeted you with seventy thousand houris, and with her was Asiya bint Muzahim, and she and those with her walked away.
If the crowd is in the middle, that is because God gathers the creatures on one level, so that their feet are level, then a caller calls out from under the throne, hearing the creatures: lower your gazes until Fatima Al-Siddiqa, daughter of Muhammad, and those with her pass by, and no one will look at you on that day except Ibrahim Khalil Al-Rahman and Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him). Peace), and Adam seeks Eve and sees her with your mother Khadija in front of you, then a platform of light is set up for you in seven platforms, and between one platform to the other are rows of angels with banners of light in their hands, and the beautiful virgins are lined up to the right of the platform and to its left, and the women closest to you are to your left, Eve and Asiya.
When you are at the top of the pulpit, Gabriel comes to you and says to you: O Fatima, ask what you need, and you say: O Lord, show me Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein, and they come to you and Al-Hassan’s cheeks are dripping with blood, and he says: O Lord, take for me today my rights from those who have wronged me, and he becomes angry at that noble person and becomes angry. Because of his wrath, Hell and all the angels, and then Hell exhales with a sigh, then a group of fire emerges and captures the killers of Al-Hussein (peace be upon him) and their sons and their sons’ sons, and they say: O Lord, did we not bring Al-Hussein (peace be upon him)? God says to the denizens of Hell: Take them and their children’s children, and they say: O Lord, did we not bring Al-Hussein (peace be upon him)? So God says to the savages of Hell: Seize them by their marks with the blue of their eyes and the black of their faces.
Seize them by their forelocks and throw them into the lowest depths of Hell, for they were more severe against the guardians of Al-Hussein than their fathers who fought Al-Hussein (peace be upon him) and killed him. Then Gabriel says: O Fatima, ask what you need? So you say: O Lord, the Shiites of my children, and God says: I have forgiven them, so you say: O Lord, the Shiites of my Shiites? So God says: Go, and whoever adheres to you will be with you in Paradise. Then the creatures will wish that they were Fatimis, so you will walk with you and your Shiites, the Shiites of your son, and the Shiites of the Commander of the Faithful, their beauty safe, their faults hidden, adversity removed from them, and resources made easy for them, people fear and they do not fear. People are thirsty when they are not thirsty.
When you reach the gate of Paradise, twelve thousand nymphs will meet you. They have not met anyone before you, nor will they meet anyone who will come after you. In their hands are spears of light upon luminaries of light, their shafts made of gold and rubies, their strings made of fresh pearls, and on each guinea pig a pendant made of fine sand. When you enter Paradise, its people will meet with you, and tables of jewels on pillars of light will be set for your Shiites, and they will eat from them while the people will be in reckoning, and they will abide forever in what their souls desire. And when the saints of God settle in Paradise, Adam and the prophets below him will visit you, and in the depths of Paradise there are two pearls of one race. A white pearl and a yellow pearl. In them are palaces and houses, in each one seventy thousand houses. The white ones are homes for us and our Shiites, and the yellow ones are homes for Abraham and his family - may God’s prayers be upon them all. She said: O father, I would not like to see your day or stay after you. He said: Oh. My daughter, Gabriel told me about God that you are the first of my family to join me, so all woe is to whoever wrongs you, and great victory is to whoever helps you.
Ata’ said: Whenever Ibn Abbas mentioned this hadith, he recited this verse: “And those who believed and whose descendants followed them in faith, to them We will join their descendants, and We have not failed them in anything of their deeds For what he earned is a pledge.) [At-Tur: 21].
Forty hadiths by the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her)
A collection of golden words that are considered one of the mines of the Islamic heritage and one of the most wonderful intellectual riches in Islam. It is filled with the foundations of wisdom, the rules of morals, and the summary of experiences.
(1) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: We are his means of creation, we are his property and the place of his holiness, we are his proof in his absence, and we are the heirs of his prophets. Explanation of Nahj al-Balagha by Ibn Abi al-Hadid, vol. 16, p. 211
(2) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: O Abu Al-Hassan, I am ashamed before God to burden yourself with what you cannot afford. Amali Al-Tusi, vol. 2, p. 228
(3) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: I advise you, O Abu Al-Hassan, not to forget me and to visit me after I die. Al-Kawkab Al-Dari, vol. 1, p. 253
(4) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: O Abu Al-Hassan, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) made a covenant with me and told me that I am the first of his family to join him and it is necessary for him, so be patient with the command of God Almighty and content with His decree. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 200, pm 30
(5) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: The happy person is every happy person. The truly happy person is the one who loved Ali during his life and after his death. Majma’ al-Zawa’id, vol. 9, p. 132
(6) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: He is the divine Imam, the luminous temple, the pole of poles, the lineage of perfumes, the speaker of what is right, the point of the circle of the Imamate. Riyahin Al-Sharia, vol. 1, p. 93
(7) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Whoever greets him or me for three days, God will grant him Paradise. It was said to her: In his life and your life? She said: Yes, and after our death. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 185, pm 17
(8) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Abu Al-Hasan only did what he should have done, and they did what God is their Judge and Demand. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 28, p. 355, no. 69
(9) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: I advise you first to marry my sister’s daughter, Umama, after me, as she will be as much my son as I am, for men must have women. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 192, pm 20. Shiite Notables, vol. 1, p. 321
(10) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: The father of this nation, Muhammad and Ali, will protect their loved ones, save them from eternal torment if they obey them, and grant them eternal bliss if they stand up to them. Interpretation of Imam Al-Askari (peace be upon him), p. 330, no. 191
(11) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Our Shiites are among the best of the people of Paradise, all of our lovers, the loyalists of our saints, the enemies of our enemies, and the one who submits with his heart and tongue to us. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 68, p. 155, pm 11
(12) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Whoever ascends to God in his sincere worship, God Almighty will descend for him what is best for him. Explanation of Nahj al-Balagha by Ibn Abi al-Hadid, vol. 16, p. 211
(13) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: God made faith a purification for you from polytheism, prayer a purification for you from arrogance, zakat a purification for the soul and an increase in livelihood, fasting a confirmation of sincerity, and Hajj a strengthening of the religion. Rayahin Al-Sharia, vol. 1, p. 312
(14) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: It is better for women not to see men and not for men to see them. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 54, h. 48
(15) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said:...If he does not see me, I see him, and he smells the wind. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 91, pm 16
(16) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: I am disgusted by what is done to women. He puts a garment on a woman and lines it up for whoever sees it. So do not carry me on a visible bed. Cover me. God will protect you from the Fire. Tahdheeb Al-Ahkam, vol. 1, p. 429, Kashf Al-Ghumma, vol. 2, p. 67
(17) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: My God and Master, I ask You, through those whom You have chosen, and through the weeping of my children at my departure, to forgive the disobedient of my Shiites and the Shiites of my descendants. Al-Kawkab Al-Dari, vol. 1, p. 254
(18) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: By God, Ibn Al-Khattab, if I did not hate for calamity to befall those who have committed no sin, I would have known that I would swear to God and then find Him quick to answer. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 67, p. 249, pm 25
(19) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: By God, I will never speak to you. By God, I will pray to God for you in every prayer. Sahih Muslim, vol. 2, p. 72. Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol. 6, p. 176
(20) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: I bear witness to God and His angels that you have displeased me and have not pleased me, and when I meet the Prophet, I will complain about you to him. Sahih Muslim, vol. 2, p. 72. Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol. 5, p. 5
(21) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Do not pray for a nation that broke the covenant of God and the covenant of my father, the Messenger of God, regarding the Commander of the Faithful, Ali, and they wronged me and took my inheritance and violated my document that my father wrote for me regarding the kingship of Fadak. House of Sorrows, p. 113, Kashf al-Ghumma, vol. 2, p. 494
(22) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Here I am, there is no excuse after your Ghadir Khumm, and the matter is after your shortcomings. Did my father leave anyone with an excuse on the day of Ghadir Khumm? Al-Khasal, vol. 1, p. 173, Al-Ihtijaj, vol. 1, p. 146
(23) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: I swear to God! A duty to your world, a duty to your men. Evidence of the Imamate, p. 128, ep. 38, Ma’ani al-Akhbar, p. 355, ep. 2
(24) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: If you do what we have commanded you and refrain from doing what we have discouraged you from, then you are among our Shiites, otherwise you are not. Interpretation of Imam Al-Askari (peace be upon him), p. 320, no. 191
(25) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: If I am gathered on the Day of Resurrection, I will intercede for the disobedient people of the Prophet’s nation (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). Ihqāq al-Haqq, vol. 19, p. 129
(26) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: God forgives all sins and does not care. Tafsir al-Tibyan, vol. 9, p. 37, s. 16
(27) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: O father, I mentioned the gathering place and the people standing naked on the Day of Resurrection, and how bad it was for him on that day before God Almighty. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 8, p. 53, no. 62, Kashf Al-Ghumma, vol. 2, p. 57
(28) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Hold on to her foot, for heaven is under her feet. Hold on to her foot, and then there will be heaven. Kanz Al-Ummal, vol. 16, p. 462, no. 45443
(29) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: What will a fasting person do with his fasting if he does not protect his tongue, hearing, sight and limbs? Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 93, p. 294, pm 25. Mustadrak Al-Wasa’il, vol. 7, p. 336, pm 2
(30) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said:
Good news on the face of a believer entitles his companion to Paradise, and good tidings on the face of a stubborn person protects his companion from the torment of Hell. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 72, p. 401, 43, Mustadrak Al-Wasa’il, vol. 12, p. 262
(31) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: No one blames anyone but himself. He spends the night carrying the smell of deep water in his hand. Kanz Al-Ummal, vol. 15, p. 242, no. 40759
(32) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: Go up to the roof, and if you see that half of the sun has set, let me know so I can pray. Evidence of the Imamate, p. 71, s. 16, Ma’ani al-Akhbar, p. 399, within H. 9
(33) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: The neighbor, then the house. Illal al-Shara’i, vol. 1, p. 183, Bihar al-Anwar, vol. 43, p. 82, vol. 4
(34) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: A man has more right to the chest of his animal, the chest of his bed, and prayer in his house, except for the imam around whom people gather. Musnad Fatima, pp. 33 and 52, Majma’ al-Zawa’id, vol. 8, p. 108
(35) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: More than reciting the Qur’an and praying, for it is an hour in which the dead person needs to be revived. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 79, p. 27, no. 13
(36) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: A nation that killed the son of its Prophet’s daughter was disappointed. The City of Miracles, Part 3, p. 430
(37) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said:....And forbidding drinking alcohol is to keep oneself away from impurity, avoiding slander to protect oneself from the curse, and refraining from stealing as a sign of chastity. Ihqāq al-Haqq, vol. 19, p. 129
(38) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: By God, if they had left the right to its people and followed the family of his Prophet, there would not have been any disagreement after a successor until our Qaim, the ninth descendant of Al-Hussein (peace be upon him), would arise. Bihar Al-Anwar, vol. 36, p. 352, no. 224
(39) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: There are three things I love from your world: reciting the Book of God, looking at the face of the Messenger of God, and spending for the sake of God. Nahj al-Hayat, vol. 1, p. 271
(40) Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) said: O Allah, bless Muhammad and his. Blessings be upon our father Adam and our mother Eve.
The life of the great friend Fatima Al-Zahra?
It is difficult to talk about distinguished personalities, due to the greatness of the human values and lofty goals they hold. In order to discover some of the merits of this or that great man, we need pauses for thought and contemplation before delving into probing that personality. How can we do that? The attributes of sunlight are invalid.
This is if we know that talking about prophets, messengers, and their guardians is of that type, given that these personalities represent the pinnacle of morals and the highest ideals of humanity, and they have the honor that Almighty God bestowed upon them, which makes them distinct from other human beings in morals, behavior, and human values.
For example, the most honorable Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah (may God bless him and his family), if we go over the chain of prophets and messengers since God Almighty created Adam (peace be upon him) and deposited that light in him, and commanded his angels and the inhabitants of his heavens to prostrate to Adam in honor of that light, so he prostrated. Whoever prostrates and disbelieves, whoever disbelieves.
These lights graduated and moved from a lofty core to a pure womb, step by step, passing through the messengers and prophets, Noah, Abraham, and Ishmael (peace be upon them), and the prophets, the Hanafi, the monotheists, and the righteous among them, until that light settled in the core of the Hanafi monotheist, Abdul Muttalib Ibn Hashim. And every link in the chain of this honorable lineage is monotheist and true to God, and this is confirmed by reason and common sense, and the noble prophetic hadiths that were reported from the conveyor, the trustworthy spirit, the revelation of heaven (may God bless him and his family), as most scholars reported in their chains of transmission and authentic books, and sound history bears witness to that.
This elite is chosen by God Almighty to be a proof of God’s successors on earth, in conveying and achieving the goals of the law of heaven on earth, and they are the ones who carry those bright divine lights that God Almighty deposited in the loins of Adam (peace be upon him). And with the blessing of that light, the fire of Nimrod made coolness and peace upon his friend Abraham, and with that light, God Almighty saved his Messenger Noah and his ship from drowning, and from that light, God Almighty opened the sea for Moses bin Imran, and saved him and his companions from drowning and from the tyranny of Pharaoh and with the nine signs, and because of that light. God Almighty gave miracles and signs to His messengers and prophets, and saved them from the tyrants of their time and their pharaohs. Then that light split into two parts, one of which was deposited in the loins of Abdullah, and the second part was deposited in the loins of Abd Manaf Abu Talib, the two sons of Abd al-Muttalib (1).
Thus, the wisdom of the Creator, His Majesty’s Power, willed to divide this light and organize this matter, and there is absolutely nothing to do with man or coincidences, nor destiny and destiny. Rather, it is a divine will and the will of the unity of existence that brings together all the attributes of perfection, beauty, and majesty, required that, His Majesty’s Power.
Then the first light emerged in the master of beings and the most noble of creatures, Muhammad bin Abdullah the Chosen One (may God bless him and his family), to move and settle and become that pure breeze, Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her). The second part of the light emerged and settled in the master of the monotheists, Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him).
The splitting of this light from the loins of Abdul Muttalib bin Hashim into two lights was only for the sake of them meeting again and uniting in Ali and Fatima (peace be upon them). And here lies the secret, so that the situation will be cleared. The two meadows of the two seas meet, and between them is an unobstructed isthmus, from which emerge pearls and coral, namely Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein, peace be upon them.
Her birth (peace be upon her), but what is known among the Imami scholars is that her birth (peace be upon her) was on a Friday on the twentieth of the month of Jumada II, in the fifth year after the mission. Among them are Ibn Shahr Ashub in Al-Manaqib 3/357, and Al-Kulayni in Usul Al-Kafi 1/ 458, Al-Majlisi in Bihar Al-Anwar 6/34, Hayat Al-Qulub 2/149, Al-Muhaddith Al-Qummi in Muntaha Al-Amal 1/94, Ali bin Isa Al-Arbali in Kashf Al-Ghumma 2/173, Al-Tabari in Dala’il Al-Imama, p. 10, and Al-Fayd Al-Kashani in Al-Wafi 1/173.
Most common scholars said: She (peace be upon her) was born before the mission. Abdul Rahman bin Al-Jawzi said in the book Tadhkirat Al-Khawas, p. 306. Biography scholars said, Khadija gave birth to her and the Quraysh built the Sacred House five years before the Prophethood. He said: Muhammad bin Yusuf al-Hanafi in the book Nazm Durar al-Samatain, p. 175, was born while the Quraysh were building the Kaaba.
Al-Tabari narrated in Dhakhair Al-Uqabi, p. 53, on the authority of Ibn Abbas: Fatima was born, and the Quraysh were building the house, and the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) was thirty-five years old. Abu Al-Faraj said in the book Muqatil Al-Talibeen, p. 30: The birth of Fatima (peace be upon her) was before the prophethood, and the Quraysh were building the Kaaba at that time.
Among her names (peace be upon her) and her titles and nicknames, we mention some names: Abu Jaafar Al-Qummi enumerated the names of Fatima (peace be upon her) according to what Ibn Shahr Ashub reported from him in his virtues, and they are as follows: Fatima, the virgin, the horse, the free, the lady, the virgin, Al-Zahra, Al-Hawraa, the blessed, the pure, the pure, the satisfied, the satisfactory, the updated, the greatest Maryam, the greatest friend. In heaven, it is called: Al-Nuriya, the Heavenly, the Kind.
Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: [My grandmother] Fatima has nine names with God Almighty: Fatima, the truthful, Al-Zahra, the pure, the pure, the contented, the pleasing, the blessed, and the updated. She was called Al-Zahra and Al-Batoul. She was called the mother of Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein, the mother of her father, and the mother of the Imams. The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: I named my daughter Fatima because God weaned her and her lovers from Hell. She (peace be upon her) was martyred on (3) Jumada al-Akhirah 11 AH, and according to the narration (13) Jumada al-Awwal, and it was said otherwise.
Her burial place (peace be upon her): Medina, and the location of her grave (peace be upon her) is not yet known, due to what she recommended to the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon her) before her death, to bury her at night and hide her grave (peace be upon her).
(1)- Biography of Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her. Hussein Al-Shakri.
A summary of the noble hadiths about the virtues of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her)
1- Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) was asked about Fatima: Why was she named Zahra? He said: “Because when she stood in her niche, her light would bloom for the people of heaven just as the light of the stars would bloom for the people of the earth.”
2 - The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Fatima is a part of me. Whoever is pleased with her has pleased me, and whoever is pleased with her has insulted me. Fatima is the dearest person to me.”
3 - Among her titles (peace be upon her): her father’s mother. It was said: mother means origin and originality. Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) with her pure children, the infallible Imams (peace be upon them), their stances, their sacrifices, and their sacrifices gave authenticity to her father’s message (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), so Islam is Muhammadan in origin and Husseini. Survival and all of them are one light, so they became the origin in the continuity of the Muhammadan message, as the most honorable Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein.” And Fatima Al-Zahra, the Lady of Women (peace be upon her), was the mother of her father. 4 - On the authority of Zaid bin Musa, with his chain of transmission, on the authority of Ali (peace be upon him), who said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Fatima was created a mermaid in the form of a human, and the daughters of the prophets do not menstruate” (1).
5 - On the authority of God, Blessed and Most High: “O Ahmed, if it were not for you, I would not have created the heavens, and if it were not for Ali, I would not have created you, and if it were not for Fatima, I would not have created you” (2).
6 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family): “If Al-Hassan were a person, he would be Fatima. Indeed, she is greater. Indeed, Fatima, my daughter, is the best of the people on earth in terms of character, honor, and generosity” (3).
7 - On the authority of Al-Hussein, on the authority of the Messenger of God (peace be upon them both), who said: “Fatima is the joy of my heart, her two sons are the fruit of my heart, her husband is the light of my sight, and the imams from her children are trustworthy to my Lord and His rope is stretched between Him and His creation. Whoever adheres to Him will be saved, and whoever neglects Him will fall in love” (4) .
8 - On the authority of Abu Jaafar, on the authority of his fathers (peace be upon them): “Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, was named (the pure) because of her purity from all impurity and her purity from all impurity, and she never saw a day of redness or postpartum bleeding” (5).
9 - On the authority of Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him): “God forbade women to Ali as long as Fatima lived; Because she is pure and does not menstruate” (6).
10 - On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan Musa bin Jaafar (peace be upon them): “Poverty does not enter a house in which the name of Muhammad, Ahmed, Ali, Al-Hassan, Al-Hussein, or Fatima among the women (peace be upon them)” (7).
11 - On the authority of Al-Rida (peace be upon him), the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family) said: “When he ascended me to heaven, Gabriel (peace be upon him) took my hand and admitted me to Paradise. He gave me some of its freshness, and I ate it, and that turned into a sperm in my loins, so when I descended to The earth fell in love with Khadija and she became pregnant with Fatima (peace be upon her). Fatima is a human houri. Whenever she longs for the scent of Paradise, she smells the scent of my daughter Fatima (8).
12 - On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan III (peace be upon him): The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “I named my daughter Fatima because God Almighty weaned her and those who loved her from Hell” (9).
13 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in a long hadith: “On the leg of the throne is written: There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein are the best of God’s creation” (10).
14 - In the interpretation of Noor al-Thaqalayn and al-Burhan and the book Bihar al-Anwar (11), on the authority of Furat bin Ibrahim al-Kufi, on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of Surat al-Qadr, he said: “Fatima is the Night of Destiny. Whoever knows Fatima properly has recognized the Night of Destiny.” She was named Fatima because people were weaned from knowing her. The prophethood of a prophet was not complete until he acknowledged her virtue and love, and she is the greatest friend, and the first centuries revolved around her knowledge.
15 - On the authority of Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) that he said: “{Indeed, We sent it down in the Night of Decree} (12) The night is Fatima al-Zahra, and God’s destiny, so whoever truly knows Fatima has recognized the Night of Destiny, and she was named Fatima because the people were weaned from knowing her.” (13). And yes, what has been said: The niche of the light of God, glory be to Him, His Majesty, the olive tree of His blessings. It is the pole of the circle of existence, and a point that when it descended, its multiplicity increased. It is the second Ahmed and the Ahmed of its era. It is the element of monotheism in its pillars. Thanks to the one who singled out the emeralds, may God grant you a virtuous young man, I mean Ali, the best of the people in the world. * * * God honored Jumada al-Akhira, so it became a luxurious Jumada, and the months of the year boasted of it as it brought the pure virgins. And look at the twenty of them to see the apparent joy of the guide over him, and make it your Eid, for Islam is a fragrant remembrance of her name on the throne :16 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) that he said: “When God Almighty created Adam, the father of mankind, and breathed into him His spirit, Adam turned to the right of the throne, and in the light there were five ghosts prostrating and kneeling. Adam said: O Lord, have you created anyone from clay before me? He said: No, Adam. He said: Who are these five ghosts that I see in my form and image? He said: These five are your children. If it were not for them, I would not have created you. These are five for whom I created five of My names. If it were not for them, I would not have created Heaven, Hell, the Throne, the Throne, the Heaven, or The earth, nor the angels, nor mankind, nor jinn. I am the Praiseworthy, and this is Muhammad, and I am the Most High, and this is Ali, and I am the Breaker, and this is Fatimah, and I am Ihsan and this is Good, and I am the Benefactor and this is Al-Hussein. I wish by My glory that no one comes to Me with the weight of a mustard atom out of hatred for one of them except that I will bring him into My Fire. I don't care. O Adam, these are my elite among My creation. By them I save them and by them I destroy them. If you have a need of Me, then entreat with these. Then the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: We are the ship of salvation. Whoever clings to it will be saved, and whoever deviates from it will perish. So whoever has a need for God, let him ask people of us. The house” (14).
17 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) he said: “God created me and created Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein before He created Adam (peace be upon him) when there was no built sky, no praised earth, no darkness, no light, no sun, no moon, no paradise, no Fire, then Al-Abbas said: How was the beginning of your creation, O Messenger of God? He said: O uncle, when God wanted to create us, He spoke a word from which He created light. Then He spoke another word and created a spirit from it. Then He mixed light with the spirit and created me. He created Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein. We used to glorify Him when there was no praise and sanctify Him when there was no sanctification. When God Almighty wanted to create He created him and separated My Light and created from it the Throne. The Throne is from My Light and My Light is from the Light of God, and My Light is better than the Throne. Then He separated the Light of my brother Ali and created from it the angels. The angels are from Ali’s Light and Ali’s Light is from the Light of God and Ali is better than the angels. Then He separated my daughter’s Light and created the heavens from it. And the earth, so the heavens and the earth are from the light of my daughter Fatima, and the light of my daughter Fatima is from the light of God, and my daughter Fatima is better than the heavens and the earth, then he split the light of my son Al-Hassan and created from it the sun and the moon, so the sun and the moon are from the light of my son Al-Hasan and the light of Al-Hasan is from the light of God and Al-Hasan is better than the sun and the moon, then He separated the light of my son Al-Hussein and created from it Paradise and the beautiful maidens. So Paradise and the maidens are from the light of my son Al-Hussein, and the light of my son Al-Hussein is from the light of God, and my son Al-Hussein is better than Paradise and the beautiful maidens. (15) 18 - The Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) said: “I, Ali, and Fatima.” And Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein on the Day of Resurrection will be in a dome under the Throne” (16).
19 - On the authority of Abu Jaafar (peace be upon him) in a long hadith: “Obedience (peace be upon her) was required of all of God’s creation, from the jinn, mankind, birds, beasts, prophets, and angels” (17).
20 - On the authority of Mujahid: The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) came out, holding Fatima’s hand, and said: “Whoever knows this has known her, and whoever does not know her, she is Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, and she is a part of me, and she is my heart, and she is my soul that is between my two sides. Whoever hurts her has hurt me.” And whoever harms me has harmed God” (18).
A summary of the noble hadiths about the virtues of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her)
1- Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) was asked about Fatima: Why was she named Zahra? He said: “Because when she stood in her niche, her light would bloom for the people of heaven just as the light of the stars would bloom for the people of the earth.”
2 - The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Fatima is a part of me. Whoever is pleased with her has pleased me, and whoever is pleased with her has insulted me. Fatima is the dearest person to me.”
3 - Among her titles (peace be upon her): her father’s mother. It was said: mother means origin and originality. Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) with her pure children, the infallible Imams (peace be upon them), their stances, their sacrifices, and their sacrifices gave authenticity to her father’s message (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), so Islam is Muhammadan in origin and Husseini. Survival and all of them are one light, so they became the origin in the continuity of the Muhammadan message, as the most honorable Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein.” And Fatima Al-Zahra, the Lady of Women (peace be upon her), was the mother of her father. 4 - On the authority of Zaid bin Musa, with his chain of transmission, on the authority of Ali (peace be upon him), who said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “Fatima was created a mermaid in the form of a human, and the daughters of the prophets do not menstruate” (1).
5 - On the authority of God, Blessed and Most High: “O Ahmed, if it were not for you, I would not have created the heavens, and if it were not for Ali, I would not have created you, and if it were not for Fatima, I would not have created you” (2).
6 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family): “If Al-Hassan were a person, he would be Fatima. Indeed, she is greater. Indeed, Fatima, my daughter, is the best of the people on earth in terms of character, honor, and generosity” (3).
7 - On the authority of Al-Hussein, on the authority of the Messenger of God (peace be upon them both), who said: “Fatima is the joy of my heart, her two sons are the fruit of my heart, her husband is the light of my sight, and the imams from her children are trustworthy to my Lord and His rope is stretched between Him and His creation. Whoever adheres to Him will be saved, and whoever neglects Him will fall in love” (4) .
8 - On the authority of Abu Jaafar, on the authority of his fathers (peace be upon them): “Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, was named (the pure) because of her purity from all impurity and her purity from all impurity, and she never saw a day of redness or postpartum bleeding” (5).
9 - On the authority of Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him): “God forbade women to Ali as long as Fatima lived; Because she is pure and does not menstruate” (6).
10 - On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan Musa bin Jaafar (peace be upon them): “Poverty does not enter a house in which the name of Muhammad, Ahmed, Ali, Al-Hassan, Al-Hussein, or Fatima among the women (peace be upon them)” (7).
11 - On the authority of Al-Rida (peace be upon him), the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family) said: “When he ascended me to heaven, Gabriel (peace be upon him) took my hand and admitted me to Paradise. He gave me some of its freshness, and I ate it, and that turned into a sperm in my loins, so when I descended to The earth fell in love with Khadija and she became pregnant with Fatima (peace be upon her). Fatima is a human houri. Whenever she longs for the scent of Paradise, she smells the scent of my daughter Fatima (8).
12 - On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan III (peace be upon him): The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “I named my daughter Fatima because God Almighty weaned her and those who loved her from Hell” (9).
13 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) in a long hadith: “On the leg of the throne is written: There is no god but God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God, and Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein are the best of God’s creation” (10).
14 - In the interpretation of Noor al-Thaqalayn and al-Burhan and the book Bihar al-Anwar (11), on the authority of Furat bin Ibrahim al-Kufi, on the authority of Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him) in the interpretation of Surat al-Qadr, he said: “Fatima is the Night of Destiny. Whoever knows Fatima properly has recognized the Night of Destiny.” She was named Fatima because people were weaned from knowing her. The prophethood of a prophet was not complete until he acknowledged her virtue and love, and she is the greatest friend, and the first centuries revolved around her knowledge.
15 - On the authority of Abu Abdullah (peace be upon him) that he said: “{Indeed, We sent it down in the Night of Decree} (12) The night is Fatima al-Zahra, and God’s destiny, so whoever truly knows Fatima has recognized the Night of Destiny, and she was named Fatima because the people were weaned from knowing her.” (13). And yes, what has been said: The niche of the light of God, glory be to Him, His Majesty, the olive tree of His blessings. It is the pole of the circle of existence, and a point that when it descended, its multiplicity increased. It is the second Ahmed and the Ahmed of its era. It is the element of monotheism in its pillars. Thanks to the one who singled out the emeralds, may God grant you a virtuous young man, I mean Ali, the best of the people in the world. * * * God honored Jumada al-Akhira, so it became a luxurious Jumada, and the months of the year boasted of it as it brought the pure virgins. And look at the twenty of them to see the apparent joy of the guide over him, and make it your Eid, for Islam is a fragrant remembrance of her name on the throne :16 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) that he said: “When God Almighty created Adam, the father of mankind, and breathed into him His spirit, Adam turned to the right of the throne, and in the light there were five ghosts prostrating and kneeling. Adam said: O Lord, have you created anyone from clay before me? He said: No, Adam. He said: Who are these five ghosts that I see in my form and image? He said: These five are your children. If it were not for them, I would not have created you. These are five for whom I created five of My names. If it were not for them, I would not have created Heaven, Hell, the Throne, the Throne, the Heaven, or The earth, nor the angels, nor mankind, nor jinn. I am the Praiseworthy, and this is Muhammad, and I am the Most High, and this is Ali, and I am the Breaker, and this is Fatimah, and I am Ihsan and this is Good, and I am the Benefactor and this is Al-Hussein. I wish by My glory that no one comes to Me with the weight of a mustard atom out of hatred for one of them except that I will bring him into My Fire. I don't care. O Adam, these are my elite among My creation. By them I save them and by them I destroy them. If you have a need of Me, then entreat with these. Then the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: We are the ship of salvation. Whoever clings to it will be saved, and whoever deviates from it will perish. So whoever has a need for God, let him ask people of us. The house” (14).
17 - On the authority of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) he said: “God created me and created Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein before He created Adam (peace be upon him) when there was no built sky, no praised earth, no darkness, no light, no sun, no moon, no paradise, no Fire, then Al-Abbas said: How was the beginning of your creation, O Messenger of God? He said: O uncle, when God wanted to create us, He spoke a word from which He created light. Then He spoke another word and created a spirit from it. Then He mixed light with the spirit and created me. He created Ali, Fatima, Al-Hassan, and Al-Hussein. We used to glorify Him when there was no praise and sanctify Him when there was no sanctification. When God Almighty wanted to create He created him and separated My Light and created from it the Throne. The Throne is from My Light and My Light is from the Light of God, and My Light is better than the Throne. Then He separated the Light of my brother Ali and created from it the angels. The angels are from Ali’s Light and Ali’s Light is from the Light of God and Ali is better than the angels. Then He separated my daughter’s Light and created the heavens from it. And the earth, so the heavens and the earth are from the light of my daughter Fatima, and the light of my daughter Fatima is from the light of God, and my daughter Fatima is better than the heavens and the earth, then he split the light of my son Al-Hassan and created from it the sun and the moon, so the sun and the moon are from the light of my son Al-Hasan and the light of Al-Hasan is from the light of God and Al-Hasan is better than the sun and the moon, then He separated the light of my son Al-Hussein and created from it Paradise and the beautiful maidens. So Paradise and the maidens are from the light of my son Al-Hussein, and the light of my son Al-Hussein is from the light of God, and my son Al-Hussein is better than Paradise and the beautiful maidens. (15) 18 - The Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) said: “I, Ali, and Fatima.” And Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein on the Day of Resurrection will be in a dome under the Throne” (16).
19 - On the authority of Abu Jaafar (peace be upon him) in a long hadith: “Obedience (peace be upon her) was required of all of God’s creation, from the jinn, mankind, birds, beasts, prophets, and angels” (17).
20 - On the authority of Mujahid: The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) came out, holding Fatima’s hand, and said: “Whoever knows this has known her, and whoever does not know her, she is Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, and she is a part of me, and she is my heart, and she is my soul that is between my two sides. Whoever hurts her has hurt me.” And whoever harms me has harmed God” (18).
Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) in Surat Al-Kawthar.
Surat Al-Kawthar occupied a large area of Islamic literature, which confirms that what is meant by Al-Kawthar is Fatima (peace be upon her). The context of the verse is in contrast to Al-Sha’in, who is an amputee and has no offspring. Unlike the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), he has Al-Kawthar, meaning many offspring. Fatima (peace be upon her) and what happens to her offspring. The reason for the comparison is the large number of offspring, otherwise the comparison would be distorted, and affirmation and denial do not respond to one thing. This does not contradict the interpretation of Al-Kawthar that it is a river on the Resurrection with which the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) will water his nation. The speech is in The source of the revelation of the verse, and both groups agreed on that.
Al-Allamah Al-Tabarsi said in his interpretation of Jami’ Al-Jami’, according to the Almighty’s saying: (Indeed, We have given you Al-Kawthar) He said: It is the abundance of offspring and offspring, and this was evident in his descendants from the children of Fatima (peace be upon her), as their number is not limited, and their number is connected to the praise of God until the end of time, and this matches what It was mentioned in the reason for the revelation of the surah, which is that Al-Aas bin Wael Al-Sahmi named him the amputee when his son Abdullah died, and the Quraysh said: Muhammad is patient, so it is an outlet for the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) for what he found in his great soul in terms of their actions and destruction. Al-Fakhr Al-Razi went to this by saying: Al-Kawthar is his children (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) because this Surah was revealed in response to those who criticized him for not having children, so the meaning is that he gives him offspring who will remain over time, so look how many people of the Household he killed, then the world is full of them and there is no one left of the Umayyads in this world to be cared about (2 Indeed, statistics indicate that one-sixth of the population of the Arab Maghreb, for example, are from the children of Fatima (peace be upon her), among the Hasani masters, that is, a percentage of five million out of a total of thirty million.
This is the most evident of the characteristics of Al-Kawthar referred to in the noble verse, since that giving was due to his (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) thanks to his Lord and the establishment of prayer, supplication, and praise for Him, the Almighty. It is no secret that the reality of the river called Al-Kawthar is connected to it, may God’s peace be upon her, because between the interpretation and the apparent connection there is no permanent connection. It is hidden that the boasting of it (peace be upon her) by God Almighty to His Prophet over his enemy gives indications of its validity, since the verse is in the position of explaining the dignity of the Prophet (may God bless him and his family) in the eyes of God Almighty, and this dignity of his is linked to his possession (peace and blessings of God be upon him and his family) of the best creation described by God. God Almighty with Kawthar - that is, abundant goodness - and this can only be achieved if the source of boasting is of absolute, complete and perfect goodness.
In memory of the martyrdom of the pure friend Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) 13/Jumada Al-Awwal.
Her honorable lineage: Al-Zahra Fatima is the daughter of Muhammad bin Abdullah (may God bless him and his family) and Khadija bint Khuwaylid, may God be pleased with her.
Her pure birth: She was born to the most honorable parents known to human history, and no one in the history of humanity had the effects that her father had, which changed the face of history and pushed humanity far forward in just a few years, and history has not spoken of a mother like her mother, who gave everything she had to her great husband. And his wise principle, in exchange for the guidance and light he gave her.
* Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) experienced the ordeals of conveying the divine message from her early childhood. She was besieged with her father and mother and the rest of Bani Hashem in the people, and she was - at the beginning of the siege - only two years old. As soon as the siege was lifted after three lean years, she faced... The ordeal of the death of her caring mother and her father’s uncle when she was at the beginning of her sixth year, was her father’s comfort in bearing burdens and facing difficulties and adversities, comforting him in his loneliness and supporting him in what he experienced from the tyrants of Quraysh and their cruelty. She migrated with her cousin and Al-Fawatim, to Medina at the honorable age of eight. She remained at the side of her father, the Great Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), until she married Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him), and formed the most honorable house in Islam after the house of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), as she became the pure vessel of the pure prophetic lineage and the generous donor to the family of the Messenger of God. (May God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) Al-Mayameen.
* Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) presented the most wonderful example of a model wife and high motherhood, in the most critical moments of Islamic history, which wanted to chart the path of immortality and supremacy in a pre-Islamic environment and tribal customs, which rejected the humanity of women and considered the girl a disgrace and a disgrace, so he followed the example of Al-Zahra - and she was the daughter of the Message. The glorious Muhammadiyah and the birth of the unique divine renaissance - to set, with her individual, marital and social behavior, a real and practical example that embodies the concepts and values of the message in a realistic way. Al-Zahra proved to the entire human world that she is the perfect human being who was able to bear the stamp of femininity, thus being a major divine sign of God’s great power and wondrous creativity. He gave Al-Zahra Fatima the greatest share of greatness and the fullest share of majesty and splendor.
* Al-Zahra gave birth to the virgin Ali Al-Murtada: the lords of the youth of the people of Paradise and the two sons of the Messenger of God (Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein), the two great imams, and the two honorable ladies (Zainab the Great and Umm Kulthum), the two patient warriors. She miscarried her fifth son (Al-Muhsin) after the death of her father in the events of the attack on her house (Beit Al-Resala). It was the first sacrifice that this struggling, martyr mother gave after her father in order to protect her father’s message from deterioration and deviation.
* Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) participated with her father and her husband, may God’s prayers be upon them both, in the most critical moments and in all kinds of crises, so she supported Islam through her efforts, struggle, clarification, and upbringing for the people of the House of the Message whom the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) entrusted with the mission of supporting Islam after his death, so she was the first of his family to follow it. After a bitter jihad, he spread out in the fields of jihad with the polytheists and eliminating the plans and conspiracies of the hypocrites, and he manifested himself in educating Muslim women as well as in standing up to the deviants. She was truly a symbol of heroism, jihad, patience, martyrdom, sacrifice, and altruism, to the point that she surpassed in all these meanings the masters of the ancients and the latter in the shortest period. A period of time that a person can travel towards the highest peaks of perfection.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) in the hadith of the Master of Messengers (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family): (God is angry with Fatima’s anger and satisfied with her satisfaction) (1) (Fatima is a part of me. Whoever hurts her has hurt me, and whoever loves her has loved me) (2). (Fatima is my heart and my soul, which Between my sides) (3). (Fatima, Lady of the Women of the Worlds) (4).
Some of the manifestations of her oppression, may God’s peace be upon her:
Attack on the house of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her): Imam Ali (peace be upon him) refused to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr, and declared his discontent with the ruling regime, so that it would become clear to the world that this government, which the first man in Islam after the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) turned away from, does not represent the caliphate. The realism of the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family), and so did Al-Zahra Fatima (peace be upon her), so that people know that the daughter of their Prophet is angry with them and condemns them, so there is no legitimacy for this ruling.
On the other hand, Imam Ali (peace be upon him) began a negative jihad against the usurpers of the legal right, and a number of the evacuated companions of the Muhajireen and Ansar and their chosen ones and those whom the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) praised for their virtue despite their awareness of the facts of matters, stood with Imam Ali (peace be upon him), such as: Bin Abdul Muttalib, Ammar bin Yasser, Abu Dharr al-Ghafari, Salman al-Farisi, al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad, Khuzaymah of the Two Shahadas, Ubadah bin al-Samit, Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman, Sahl bin Hanif, Uthman bin Hanif, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari and others, among those who were unable to control it. They were demagogic, and were not intimidated by the threats of the group that held the reins of the caliphate, led by Omar Ibn al-Khattab.
There were some believing tribes surrounding Medina, such as: Asad, Fazara, Banu Hanifa and others, who witnessed the pledge of allegiance on the Day of Ghadir (Ghadir Khumm) that the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) made for Ali (peace be upon him) under the command of the believers after him, and they did not stay for long until They heard about the Prophet’s (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) joining the Supreme Comrade and pledging allegiance to Abu Bakr and his position on the platform of the caliphate. They were astonished by this incident and refused to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr completely and in detail. They abstained from paying zakat to the new government, considering it illegitimate, until the fog of the situation cleared. They, despite their Islam, would perform prayers. They perform all rituals.
But the ruling authority saw that it was in its interest to put an end to such people who pose a threat to the existing rule, as long as the opposition of Imam Ali (peace be upon him) and his companions represented an internal danger to the Islamic State. Then Abu Bakr and his supporters felt the danger surrounding them and their rule through the escalation of opposition if not They immediately stop this opposition movement by forcing the head of the opposition (Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him)) to pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr.
Fatima (peace be upon her) thought that no one would enter her house without her permission, so when they came to Fatima’s door (peace be upon her) and knocked on the door and she heard their voices, she called out at the top of her voice: (O father, O Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family), what did we find after you from Ibn Al-Khattab and Ibn Abi? Qahafa, I have no acquaintance with people who attended a worse presence than you. You left the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) funeral in our hands and you broke off your affairs among yourselves. You did not consult us, and you did not return to us a right.
When the people heard her voice and crying, they left crying, and their hearts were about to crack and their livers would burst, and Omar remained with a group of people, and Omar called for firewood and called out at the top of his voice: By the One in whose hand is Omar’s soul, it will come out or I will burn it for whoever is in it. Then it was said to him: O Abu Hafs, there is Fatima in it, so he said: Even if. So they brought out the Imam (peace be upon him) dragging him to the shed where Abu Bakr was sitting, while he looked right and left and called out (By Hamzatah, and there is no Hamza for me today, and Ja’farah, and there is no Ja’far for me today)!! They passed by the grave of his brother and cousin, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and he called out: (Son of a mother. Indeed, the people have oppressed me and were about to kill me). It was narrated on the authority of Adi bin Hatem that he said: By God, I have never had mercy on anyone as I had mercy on Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon him). When he was brought, dressed in his robe, they led him to Abu Bakr and said to him: Pledge of allegiance! He said: (Then if I do not do so, then his mouth?) Omar said to him: Then, by God, I will behead you. Ali said: (Then, by God, you are killing the servant of God and the brother of His Messenger.) So Omar said: As for Abdullah, yes, and as for the brother of the Messenger of God, no, so he said: (Do you deny that the Messenger of God God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) made me a brother with him?!) An intense dialogue took place between the Imam (peace be upon him) and the ruling party.
At that time, Lady Fatima (peace be upon her) arrived and took the hand of her two sons, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein (peace be upon them). The only Hashemite woman left and went out with her, wailing and wailing. Fatima (peace be upon her) said: (Leave my cousin!! Leave my husband alone!! By God, I will uncover my head.) And I will put my father’s shirt on my head and pray for you, for Salih’s camel is not more honorable to God than me, nor is her camel more honorable to God than my son.)
While she was receiving the pure resting place of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), Al-Zahra began seeking help from this present absent person: (O my father, O Messenger of God! (May God’s prayers be upon him and his family) what did we find after you from Ibn Al-Khattab and Ibn Abi Quhafa? Her words left only hearts cracked with grief and eyes cracked. Tears flowed). The Rape of Fadak: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) died and Abu Bakr seized power, ten days had passed and the matter was settled for him; He sent to Fadak someone to bring out the representative of Fatima, daughter of the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family).
It was reported that Al-Zahra sent to Abu Bakr: Do you inherit the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) or his family? He said: Rather, his family. She said: What about the share of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family)? He said: I heard the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) say: (Indeed, God gave His Prophet a meal.) Then he took it and gave it to the one who would rise after him, so after him I was appointed to return it. To Muslims.
It was narrated on the authority of Aisha that Fatima (peace be upon her) sent to Abu Bakr asking him about her inheritance from the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and at that time she was asking for what the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) had in Medina and Fadak and what remained of the fifth of Khaybar. Abu Bakr said: Indeed The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: We do not inherit anything. What we leave behind is charity. The family of Muhammad only eats from this money. By God, I will not change any of the alms of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) from the state they were in during the era of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and I will do to them what the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) did. Abu Bakr refused to pay. Something from her to Fatima (5).
On the authority of Abu Jaafar (peace be upon him) he said: Ali said to Fatima (peace be upon them): “Go and ask for your inheritance from your father, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). She came to Abu Bakr and said: Why are you withholding my inheritance from my father, the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family)?” Did you remove my representative from Fadak, and the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) assigned it to me by the command of God Almighty? He said: God willing, you are only saying the truth, but bring witnesses to that. Then Umm Ayman came and said to him: I will not bear witness - O Abu Bakr. So that I can use as evidence against you what the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said, I ask you by God, do you not know that the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: (Umm Ayman is a woman from the people of Paradise)? He said: Yes, she said: I bear witness that God Almighty commanded the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) (so give the relative his due), so he made a ransom for her as a reward by God’s command, and Ali (peace be upon him) came and testified to the same, so Abu Bakr wrote to her. A book and he handed it to her, then Omar entered and said: What is this book? Abu Bakr said: Fatima claimed Fadak, and Umm Ayman and Ali testified for her, so I wrote it for her. So Omar took the letter from Fatima, spit in it and tore it, so Fatima came out crying.
It was narrated that Imam Ali (peace be upon him) came to Abu Bakr while he was in the mosque and said: (O Abu Bakr, why did Fatima withhold her inheritance from the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) when she owned it during the life of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family)?) So he said. Abu Bakr: This is the spoils of the Muslims. If she provides witnesses that the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) made it hers, otherwise she has no right to it. Then the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him) said: (O Abu Bakr, do you rule over us contrary to God’s rule over the Muslims?) He said. : No, he (peace be upon him) said: (If there is something in the hands of the Muslims that they own, and then I claim it, who do you ask for proof?) He said: Beware of asking for proof. He (peace be upon him) said: (So what about Fatima? I asked her for proof for what was in her hand. You possessed it during the lifetime of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and after him, and you did not ask the Muslims for proof of what they claimed as witnesses, as you asked me about what you claimed against them?)... So Abu Bakr remained silent.
Omar said: O Ali, leave your words, for we cannot stand your argument. If you bring just witnesses, otherwise it is spoils for the Muslims and neither you nor Fatima have any right to it. Imam Ali (peace be upon him) said: (O Abu Bakr, do you read the Book of God?) He said. Yes, he (peace be upon him) said: (Tell me about the Almighty’s saying: (God only desires to remove uncleanness from you, O People of the House, and to purify you with a thorough purification.) About whom was it revealed? About us or others?) He said: Rather, about you. He (peace be upon him) said: (So if That witnesses testified against Fatima, the daughter of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), for an indecent act. What were you doing to her? He said: I used to impose punishment on her just as I impose on the women of the worlds! Ali (peace be upon him) said: (You were, then, in the eyes of God, one of the unbelievers.) He said: Why? He (peace be upon him) said: (Because you rejected God’s testimony of purity and accepted people’s testimony about it, just as you rejected God’s ruling and the ruling of His Messenger that he made a ransom for it and claimed that it was spoils for the Muslims, and the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: The proof is upon the one who claims, and the oath is upon the one who claims it. He denied) so the people murmured, and they denied each other, and said: He spoke the truth, and God is against me (6).
History of her martyrdom (peace be upon her):
There is no doubt that the death of Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) was in the eleventh year of the Hijra, because the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) performed the Farewell Hajj in the tenth year, and he died at the beginning of the eleventh year, and historians have agreed that Lady Fatima (peace be upon her) had She outlived her father for less than a year, although she was in the prime of her youth and was in perfect health during her father’s lifetime. Yes, they differed greatly on the day and month of her death.
It was narrated that she lived after the Prophet (may God bless him and his family) for six months. It was said: ninety-five days. It was said: seventy-five days or less.
On the authority of Imam al-Sadiq (peace be upon him): (She was arrested on Jumada al-Akhirah on Tuesday, the third day of the month, in the eleventh year of the Hijra).
On the authority of Imam Al-Baqir (peace be upon him): (She died when she was eighteen years and seventy-five days old).
On the authority of Jaber bin Abdullah Al-Ansari: The Prophet died when she was eighteen years and seven months old at that time.
Abu Al-Faraj Al-Isfahani said: The death of Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) occurred after the death of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) for a period that varies in amount. Many say six months, and few say forty days, but what is confirmed in that is what was narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Baqir (peace be upon him). ) She died three months after the Prophet.
The discussion on this great personality is long and cannot be summed up in brief. May peace be upon her on the day she was born, on the day she was martyred, and on the day she is resurrected alive, and she bears all the badges of honor and eminence, and upon her are garments of dignity. 1 / 535. (2) See Al-Sawa’iq Al-Muharraqah: 289, Al-Imamah wal-Siyasah, p. 31, Kanz Al-Ummal: 12 / 111, Khawasat Al-Nasa’i: 35, and Sahih Muslim: The Book of the Virtues of the Companions. (3) See Fara’id Al-Samatin: 2 / 66. (4) Al-Mustadrak on the Two Sahihs: 3/170, Abu Nu’aym in Hilyat al-Awliya’: 2/39, al-Tahawi in Mushkil al-Athar: 1/48, Sharh Nahj al-Balagha by Ibn Abi al-Hadid: 9/193, and Al-Awalim: 11/141 and 146. (5) Explanation Nahj al-Balagha: 16/217. (6) Al-Ihtijaj by Al-Tabarsi: 1/234, Kashf al-Ghumma: 1/478, and Sharh al-Nahj by Ibn Abi al-Hadid: 16/274.
The love of the Noble Prophet (PBUH) for Fatima Al-Zahra (PBUH)
Love is the attraction of the lover’s heart to the beloved, and it is a feeling that stems from the nature that God has placed in man because of the perfections possessed by the beloved.
The higher these perfections are, the greater and greater the love the lover has for his beloved.
But when we reach the love that the most honorable Prophet had for Fatima al-Zahra, we become unable to reach its full truth and essence, and we are not exaggerating if we say that it is beyond the power of the pen, the tongue, analysis, and clarification.
Because the perfections and virtues of the Beloved - which is Lady Zahra - cannot be limited or even reach the ultimate goal of reality. The love of the Most Noble Prophet for Zahra (peace be upon him) was not only a father’s love for his daughter, but rather it was a love mixed with glorification, sanctification, and annihilation in her, may God’s prayers be upon her.
Al-Zahra (peace be upon her) reached such a level in the heart of the most honorable Prophet that he declared over and over again, “May her father be sacrificed for her” (1).
What greatness and sublime status did she (peace be upon him) reach in order to redeem the best of God’s creation himself? He declared this on more than one occasion.
Here we can publicly review a few of the perfections of the great Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, thereby reaching a degree of understanding and knowledge of this great love.
Fatima’s satisfaction, God’s satisfaction, and her anger is His anger:
The Noble Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: Fatima is a part of me. Whoever makes her angry has made me angry.
He (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: God is satisfied when Fatima is pleased and angry when she is angry (2).
If we contemplate the two noble hadiths, we will find that the most honorable Prophet linked Al-Zahra’s satisfaction with God’s satisfaction. One of them is dependent on the other. Perhaps God’s blessings upon her are the only creatures known for this specificity. If we take this hadith alone, it will become clear to us that Al-Zahra’ is an existence that cannot be reached by a human being to its ultimate meaning.
In a second reference, it is that the most honorable Prophet links Al-Zahra’s anger to the anger of God Almighty, and from this standpoint, the Most Honorable Prophet made her a measure of God Almighty’s anger and indicated that no one would reach her status except her.
Perhaps his great emphasis on this matter was due to his knowledge of what would happen to her after him, so he wanted to complete the argument for the people and show them that Al-Zahra was an existence above all other existences, or as Imam Hassan Al-Askari (peace be upon him) put it: (We are God’s proofs over His creation, and our grandmother Fatima is God’s proof over us.) (3)
Al-Zahra is the best of creation after the Noble Prophet (PBUH)
The Noble Prophet and the imams of the Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, declared the superiority of al-Zahra over all the prophets and imams - except for Imam Ali, who was equal to her in virtue, status, and stature.
We mention some narratives that indicate this matter
On the authority of Salman (may God be pleased with him) that he asked the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family): “Who is the best of God’s creation?” So the Prophet pointed to the two good men and said: The grandfather of these two. Salman said: Who is after their grandfather? He said: The father of these two and the mother of these two. Salman said: Then who is after them? Their mother? He said: These two (4).
And on the authority of the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him), in a long hadith, he said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: O Ali, God looked to this world and chose me over the men of the worlds, then he looked the second time and chose you over the men of the worlds, then he looked the third time and chose Fatima over the women of the worlds. Then the fourth came and chose Al-Hasan, Al-Hussein, and the Imams from her descendants (5).
Likewise, it was reported on the authority of Salman in a long hadith that he quotes from Lady Al-Zahra, in which he said.... Fatima (peace be upon her) said: O Messenger of God, which of these whom you have named is better?
Then the Messenger of God said: My brother Ali: the best of my nation, and Hamza and Jafar. These are the best of my nation after Ali and after you, and after my son: and my grandsons, Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein (6).
There are many, many stories, but we will suffice with this amount
It is also clear that the Prophet and Imam Ali had declared that Fatima al-Zahra is better and earlier than the Imams - who are better and earlier than the previous Prophets - and all the Imams were created from her light, and this perfection - and the perfections of Al-Zahra are countless - is enjoyed by Al-Zahra, which makes the most honorable Prophet bend down to kiss her. Her hands and head are honored and glorified.
It may be said that the Imamate necessitates the preference of the Imam over Al-Zahra. We say that the conclusion comes after the text, not before it, and the texts declare its superiority.
Secondly, if we said that the Imam is better, then Ibrahim would be better than Al-Zahra, and he is an Imamate mentioned in the Qur’an and proven, and this is false because Imam Al-Sadiq said that he achieved what he achieved after acknowledging and pleading with her, peace be upon her (7).
Likewise, the consensus of the nation is that Adam, Yunus, and other prophets, peace be upon them, pleaded with the five people, including Fatima al-Zahra.
Thirdly, this statement is similar to those who say that a woman is more modest because she wears the hijab, and this is false because the man was not addressed with the hijab, nor is it one of his specialties. Imamate is preaching, leadership, and jihad, and this was not addressed to women in order to be a reason for preference. The differentiation in imamate is between men, not between men and women, and the differentiation between them is On the basis of the text and what is similar to it. Likewise, when Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was asked: Are you better than the mother of the Prophet Adam or Abraham? Thus, he answered: “I,” and he never declared that he was better than Fatima, peace be upon her, because she was equal to him in virtue and status.
Salman Al-Farsi narrated a long story that states: How Imam Ali never turned his back to Al-Zahra and used to sit in front of her so that she would tell him the knowledge of what was and what will be.
Likewise, it is narrated on the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq, on the authority of his fathers (peace be upon them), who said: When Fatima approached death, Al-Zahra cried.
The Commander of the Faithful said to her: O my lady, what makes you cry?
She said: I cry when you meet me after me.
Al-Zahraa Hawraa Ansia:
Imam Al-Askari narrated on the authority of his fathers, on the authority of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib (peace be upon them), who said:
The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: When God created Adam and Eve, they strutted in Paradise, and Adam said to Eve: God has not created a creation that is better than us. They thought that they were the best of what God created. So God inspired Gabriel, “Bring my servant the highest paradise,” meaning Adam and Eve were in Paradise and did not see the highest paradise
When they entered Paradise, they saw a maid on one of Paradise’s carpets, and on her head was a crown of light, and in her ears were earrings of light. The heavens shone from the light of her face.
Adam said: My beloved Gabriel, who is this maid who made heaven shine with her beautiful face?
Gabriel said: This is Fatima, daughter of Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and she will be one of your progeny’s prophets who will be at the end of time.
Adam said: What is this crown on her head?
Gabriel said: Her husband is Ali bin Abi Talib.
Adam said: What are the earrings in her ears?
He said: Her two sons, Al-Hassan and Al-Hussein,
Adam said: My beloved Gabriel, will you be created before me?
He said: They existed in the mysterious knowledge of God before you were created - meaning before you were created, O Adam - four thousand years (8).
Al-Zahra was a hurrah from the highest paradise. She descended to earth in a human form when the most honorable Prophet ate from the apples of Paradise, and for this reason he would always say that when he longed for Paradise, I smell my daughter Fatima because she was created - that is, her human body - from Paradise.
After we have shown some of the perfections of Al-Zahra, peace be upon her, we can know a small part of the extent of the love that the Most Noble Prophet had for her and how much he revered and venerated her and demonstrated the high status of her and the majesty of her value before God Almighty.
We can know the extent of the misguidance that took hold of the nation in the era that followed the death of the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). It was truly the worst and most heinous in the entire history of humanity. The apostasy that occurred after the death of the most honorable Prophet was sufficient to uproot everything that the Prophet spent his life planting in it. People have values, principles, and morals. This apostasy was the main reason that made the nation in whose midst Fatima, peace be upon her, attack her home while they looked on, and her rights were taken away from her while they remained silent.
Peace be upon her the day she was born, the day she was martyred, and the day she is resurrected alive.
Writer: Nour Al-Mayahi
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(1) A reference to the hadith of the silver bracelet, which was mentioned in the killing of Hussein by Al-Khwarizmi and other books
(2) The hadith with these words was reported by more than fifty scholars of hadith and Sunan from both groups, such as Al-Bukhari, Sunan Ahmad, Al-Kafi, and Al-Bihar.
(3) Atyab Al-Bayan fi Tafsir Al-Qur’an / Volume 13 / Page 225.
(4) Fatimiyah Characteristics, vol. 1, p. 562.
(5) Amali al-Tusi, p. 50 / - Al-Khasal - Sheikh Al-Saduq, p. 207).
(6) The book of Sulaym bin Qais, p. 565, 1st edition. Kamal Al-Din, vol. 1, p. 263, 24, 10.
(7) Narrated by Sheikh Al-Tusi in Misbah Al-Anwar.
(8) The chain of transmission is from the Golden Chain, which is the best and strongest chain of transmission, narrated by the scholar Al-Majlisi in Al-Bahar. And Al-Arbali in Kashf Al-Ghumma.
Lady Khadija, mother of Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon them, and the best of the Messenger of God’s women
She is Mrs. Khadija bint Khuwaylid bin Asad bin Abdul Uzza bin Qusay bin Kilab bin Kaab bin Luay bin Ghalib bin Fahr.
Accordingly, Lady Khadija traces her lineage to the great Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) through his great-grandfather (Qusay).
Among the shrines of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her):
One of the matters agreed upon by everyone is that Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) was the best of the women of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). This was stated by the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) more than once, and this only indicates the high status of her and the majesty of her value (may God’s peace be upon her). ).
On the authority of Aisha, she said: Whenever the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) mentioned Khadija, he would not tire of praising her and seeking forgiveness for her. So he mentioned her one day, and I felt jealous, so I said: May God compensate you for your old age!!
She said: I saw the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) become very angry, so I fell into my hands and said: Oh God, if you remove the anger of your Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), I will no longer remember her in a bad way as long as I remain.
She said: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) saw what I received, he said: How did you say? By God, you believed in me when the people disbelieved, you sheltered me when the people rejected me, you believed me when the people denied me, and you provided me with a child where you denied him.
She said: Then he left for a month in the morning (1).
In addition to all of that, there are many things that indicate the high status of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her). We point to some of them:
1: God Almighty’s selection of her, as He made her one of the chosen women.
On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan I (peace be upon him) who said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “God chose four women: Mary, Asiya, Khadija, and Fatima” (2).
2: She (peace be upon her) was the first of the women to convert to Islam and believe in the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and the first to pray behind him (may God’s prayers be upon him and his family) (3).
On the authority of Afif, who said: I was a merchant, and I came to Mina during the Hajj. Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib was a merchant, so I went to him to buy some of it and sell it. He said: While we were there, a man came out of a hiding place to pray, and he stood facing the Kaaba. Then a woman came out and stood up to pray, and a boy came out to pray with him, so I said: Oh. Abbas, what is this religion? We do not know what this religion is?
He said: This is Muhammad bin Abdullah, who claims that God sent him and that the treasures of Chosroes and Caesar were being claimed for him, and this is his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, who believed in him, and this boy, his cousin Ali bin Abi Talib, believed in him (4).
Al-Sayyid bin Tawus narrated on the authority of the book The Will by Issa bin Al-Mustafad, on the authority of Imam Musa bin Jaafar (peace be upon him), who said: I asked about the beginning of Islam: How did Ali (peace be upon him) convert to Islam and how did Khadija convert to Islam?
He said: “You refuse except to seek the foundations of knowledge and its beginnings, but by God, you will ask to understand them.”
Then he said: “I asked my father (peace be upon him) about that, and he told me: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) called them, he said: O Ali and O Khadija, you have submitted to God and submitted to Him, and he said: Gabriel is with me calling you to the pledge of allegiance to Islam, so submit to Islam in complete submission and obey as a guide.” .
They said: “We did and we obeyed, O Messenger of God.”
He said: “Gabriel is with me saying to you: Islam has conditions, covenants, and covenants, so begin it with what God has stipulated upon you for Himself and for His Messenger, that you should say: We bear witness that there is no god but God alone, who has no partner in His kingdom, that He has not taken a son, nor has He taken a consort, one sincere God, and that Muhammad His servant and Messenger, He sent him to all people before the Hour, and we bear witness that God gives life, causes death, raises, humbles, enriches, impoverishes, does whatever He wills, and resurrects those in the graves.”
They said: “We witnessed” the hadith (5).
3: Al-Bari singled out his greetings for her. The holiness of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) in the eyes of God Almighty was such that he, the Almighty, singled out his greetings for her.
In the hadith, Gabriel came to the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and asked about Khadija, but he did not find her. So he said: If she comes, tell her that her Lord will bestow upon her peace (6).
It was narrated that he came to the Prophet Gabriel (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and said: This is Khadija. She has brought to you a vessel covered with human beings, food or drink, so if she comes to you, read peace upon her from her Lord and from me, and give her good tidings of a house in Paradise made of reeds without noise or fatigue (7). .
4: God and Gabriel gave her the good news of a great house in Paradise, as mentioned in the previous noble hadith.
5: The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) often praised Lady Khadija (peace be upon her), as mentioned in the hadith about Aisha.
In addition to that, Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) was dear to the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and enjoyed a special place in his heart, as he (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) loved her very much, cherished her, and appreciated her honorable positions, and there is much evidence of that, Of which:
An old woman entered the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and he treated her kindly. When she came out, Aisha asked him, and he said: “She used to come to us during the time of Khadija, and a good covenant is part of faith” (8).
On the authority of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (peace be upon him), he said: “The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) mentioned Khadija one day while he was with his wives, and he cried, and Aisha said: What makes you cry over one of the red old women of the Banu Asad family?
He said: She believed me when you lied, and she believed in me when you disbelieved, and she gave birth to me when you were sterile.
Aisha said: I still draw closer to the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) by mentioning her (9).
On the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), he said: “When Khadija (peace be upon her) died, she made Fatima (peace be upon her) seek refuge with the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) and go around him and say: O father, where is my mother?
He said: So Gabriel (peace be upon him) came down and said to him: Your Lord commands you to recite Fatima’s greetings and say to her: Your mother is in a house made of reeds, with gold heels and red rubies on the pillars, between Asiya and Maryam bint Imran.
Fatima (peace be upon her) said: Indeed, God is peace, and from Him is peace, and to Him is peace” (10).
On the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Maimun, on the authority of his father, he said: I heard Ibn Abbas say: (The first to believe in the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) among men was Ali (peace be upon him) and among women was Khadija (peace be upon her)) (11).
Indeed, the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) - as in history - called the year in which Lady Khadija and Abu Talib (peace be upon them) died “the year of sadness” (12), and this is the best evidence of his (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) respect for them.
Book: Mothers of the Believers by Mr. Muhammad Al-Shirazi
Prepared by: Qais Al-Amri
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(1) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 512.
(2) Al-Khisal: Part 1, p. 225, Chapter Four, H. 58.
(3) See Mustadrak al-Wasa’il: vol. 6, p. 455, chapter 4, h. 7221
(4) Bihar Al-Anwar: vol. 18, p. 208, b. 1.
(5) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 18, pp. 232-233, B1.
(6) Rawdat al-Wa’izin: Part 2, p. 269, Council on the Virtues of the Family of Muhammad, peace be upon them.
(7) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 508.
(8) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 16, p. 8.
(9) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 16, p. 8.
(10) Al-Amali by Al-Tusi: p. 175, Al-Majlis Al-Sad, vol. 46.
(11) Al-Amali by Al-Tusi: p. 259, Tenth Council, no. 467.
(12) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 16.
Lady Khadija, mother of Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon them, and the best of the Messenger of God’s women
She is Mrs. Khadija bint Khuwaylid bin Asad bin Abdul Uzza bin Qusay bin Kilab bin Kaab bin Luay bin Ghalib bin Fahr.
Accordingly, Lady Khadija traces her lineage to the great Prophet Muhammad (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) through his great-grandfather (Qusay).
Among the shrines of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her):
One of the matters agreed upon by everyone is that Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) was the best of the women of the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family). This was stated by the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) more than once, and this only indicates the high status of her and the majesty of her value (may God’s peace be upon her). ).
On the authority of Aisha, she said: Whenever the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) mentioned Khadija, he would not tire of praising her and seeking forgiveness for her. So he mentioned her one day, and I felt jealous, so I said: May God compensate you for your old age!!
She said: I saw the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) become very angry, so I fell into my hands and said: Oh God, if you remove the anger of your Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), I will no longer remember her in a bad way as long as I remain.
She said: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) saw what I received, he said: How did you say? By God, you believed in me when the people disbelieved, you sheltered me when the people rejected me, you believed me when the people denied me, and you provided me with a child where you denied him.
She said: Then he left for a month in the morning (1).
In addition to all of that, there are many things that indicate the high status of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her). We point to some of them:
1: God Almighty’s selection of her, as He made her one of the chosen women.
On the authority of Abu Al-Hasan I (peace be upon him) who said: The Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) said: “God chose four women: Mary, Asiya, Khadija, and Fatima” (2).
2: She (peace be upon her) was the first of the women to convert to Islam and believe in the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family), and the first to pray behind him (may God’s prayers be upon him and his family) (3).
On the authority of Afif, who said: I was a merchant, and I came to Mina during the Hajj. Al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib was a merchant, so I went to him to buy some of it and sell it. He said: While we were there, a man came out of a hiding place to pray, and he stood facing the Kaaba. Then a woman came out and stood up to pray, and a boy came out to pray with him, so I said: Oh. Abbas, what is this religion? We do not know what this religion is?
He said: This is Muhammad bin Abdullah, who claims that God sent him and that the treasures of Chosroes and Caesar were being claimed for him, and this is his wife, Khadija bint Khuwaylid, who believed in him, and this boy, his cousin Ali bin Abi Talib, believed in him (4).
Al-Sayyid bin Tawus narrated on the authority of the book The Will by Issa bin Al-Mustafad, on the authority of Imam Musa bin Jaafar (peace be upon him), who said: I asked about the beginning of Islam: How did Ali (peace be upon him) convert to Islam and how did Khadija convert to Islam?
He said: “You refuse except to seek the foundations of knowledge and its beginnings, but by God, you will ask to understand them.”
Then he said: “I asked my father (peace be upon him) about that, and he told me: When the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) called them, he said: O Ali and O Khadija, you have submitted to God and submitted to Him, and he said: Gabriel is with me calling you to the pledge of allegiance to Islam, so submit to Islam in complete submission and obey as a guide.” .
They said: “We did and we obeyed, O Messenger of God.”
He said: “Gabriel is with me saying to you: Islam has conditions, covenants, and covenants, so begin it with what God has stipulated upon you for Himself and for His Messenger, that you should say: We bear witness that there is no god but God alone, who has no partner in His kingdom, that He has not taken a son, nor has He taken a consort, one sincere God, and that Muhammad His servant and Messenger, He sent him to all people before the Hour, and we bear witness that God gives life, causes death, raises, humbles, enriches, impoverishes, does whatever He wills, and resurrects those in the graves.”
They said: “We witnessed” the hadith (5).
3: Al-Bari singled out his greetings for her. The holiness of Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) in the eyes of God Almighty was such that he, the Almighty, singled out his greetings for her.
In the hadith, Gabriel came to the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and asked about Khadija, but he did not find her. So he said: If she comes, tell her that her Lord will bestow upon her peace (6).
It was narrated that he came to the Prophet Gabriel (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and said: This is Khadija. She has brought to you a vessel covered with human beings, food or drink, so if she comes to you, read peace upon her from her Lord and from me, and give her good tidings of a house in Paradise made of reeds without noise or fatigue (7). .
4: God and Gabriel gave her the good news of a great house in Paradise, as mentioned in the previous noble hadith.
5: The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) often praised Lady Khadija (peace be upon her), as mentioned in the hadith about Aisha.
In addition to that, Lady Khadija (peace be upon her) was dear to the Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and enjoyed a special place in his heart, as he (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) loved her very much, cherished her, and appreciated her honorable positions, and there is much evidence of that, Of which:
An old woman entered the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) and he treated her kindly. When she came out, Aisha asked him, and he said: “She used to come to us during the time of Khadija, and a good covenant is part of faith” (8).
On the authority of the Commander of the Faithful, Ali (peace be upon him), he said: “The Prophet (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) mentioned Khadija one day while he was with his wives, and he cried, and Aisha said: What makes you cry over one of the red old women of the Banu Asad family?
He said: She believed me when you lied, and she believed in me when you disbelieved, and she gave birth to me when you were sterile.
Aisha said: I still draw closer to the Messenger of God (may God bless him and his family) by mentioning her (9).
On the authority of Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), he said: “When Khadija (peace be upon her) died, she made Fatima (peace be upon her) seek refuge with the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family) and go around him and say: O father, where is my mother?
He said: So Gabriel (peace be upon him) came down and said to him: Your Lord commands you to recite Fatima’s greetings and say to her: Your mother is in a house made of reeds, with gold heels and red rubies on the pillars, between Asiya and Maryam bint Imran.
Fatima (peace be upon her) said: Indeed, God is peace, and from Him is peace, and to Him is peace” (10).
On the authority of Abd al-Rahman ibn Maimun, on the authority of his father, he said: I heard Ibn Abbas say: (The first to believe in the Messenger of God (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) among men was Ali (peace be upon him) and among women was Khadija (peace be upon her)) (11).
Indeed, the Messenger (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) - as in history - called the year in which Lady Khadija and Abu Talib (peace be upon them) died “the year of sadness” (12), and this is the best evidence of his (may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family) respect for them.
Book: Mothers of the Believers by Mr. Muhammad Al-Shirazi
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(1) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 512.
(2) Al-Khisal: Part 1, p. 225, Chapter Four, H. 58.
(3) See Mustadrak al-Wasa’il: vol. 6, p. 455, chapter 4, h. 7221
(4) Bihar Al-Anwar: vol. 18, p. 208, b. 1.
(5) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 18, pp. 232-233, B1.
(6) Rawdat al-Wa’izin: Part 2, p. 269, Council on the Virtues of the Family of Muhammad, peace be upon them.
(7) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 508.
(8) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 16, p. 8.
(9) Bihar Al-Anwar: Part 16, p. 8.
(10) Al-Amali by Al-Tusi: p. 175, Al-Majlis Al-Sad, vol. 46.
(11) Al-Amali by Al-Tusi: p. 259, Tenth Council, no. 467.
(12) Kashf Al-Ghumma: Part 1, p. 16.