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Hazrat-e Fatemeh (SA)
The great lady,
Hazart-e Fatemeh Zahra (SA) was the dear daughter of the Prophet, Mohammad
(SW). Some Shiite scholars believed that she was born on 20th
of Jamadi-ul-Sani, 5 th A.H. But the majority of Sonnah research scholars
declared that her birth had happened 5 years before Be’sat (Prophet’s a
postleship). By the God’s will, prophet (SW) named her “FATEMEH”. She also
had some other appellations like: Zahra, Batool, Tahereh, Razieh, Maryam-e
Kobra, and Sedigheh.
In her
childhood, she contemplated the Mecca’s pagans’ great animosities,
and
also suffered 3years in the place named Sha’be Abitalib under a very
difficult condition.
Her mother,
Hazrat-e Khadijeh (SA) died in 10th A.H. immediately
after the death of Aboutalib, the sincere friend and supporter of the
Prophet Mohammad (SW). This great grief caused that She and Hazrat-e Ali
(Pbuh) and the Prophet (SW) named that year “Om-ul-hozn” which meant the
Grief year. On 13th of Be’sat (the prophet’s apostleship) on
the Prophet’s order, his family and companions immigrated to
Medina.
During the
time Medina was the deponent of many wars between the Prophet and
the pagans, in and out of the country. Hazrat-e Fatemeh (SA) married to
his cousin, Hazrat-e Ali (Pbuh), who was one of the most important
characters in Medina. Since Hazrat-e Ali (Pbuh) was always at wars,
especially for the ten years after the immigration to Medina, so she
accomplished all the responsibilities of the family.
Though
Hazrat-e Fatemeh (SA)’s life was full of troubles and sufferings but the
death of Hazrat-e Mohammad (SW) was the most grievous one. The event,
which was the beginning of the more bitter troubles such as the pagans’
outrages upon the decency of their family. Those events motivated her to
be the great supporter for Hazrat-e Ali (Pbuh). Her speeches in Medina
mosque, and the addressees to Ansar and Mohajer’s women, to persuade them
to support Hazrat-e Ali (Pbuh) could be mentioned as
examples.
Hazrat-e
Fatemeh (SA) died soon after the death of his father because of the
imposed spiritual and physical sufferings. She was buried in a secret
place according to her will.
LESSONS FROM
THE HAZRAT-E FATEMEH ZAHRA’S LIFE AND CHARACTER
Her
Excessive Passion for God
The Prophet
Mohammad (SW) asked his daughter: “ Dear Fatemeh! What do you wish for?
Now here is an angel who has the God’s message to grant you whatever you
want.”
Hazrat-e
Fatemeh (SA)said: " I would like to be the God’s
servant and my desire is only to see the wonderful appearance of
God."
Her “Fearing” of the Divine
Punishment:
When the Verses of
punishment were sent down to Hazrat-e Mohammad (SW), he and his companions
cried hard. Hazrat-e Zahra (SA) asked the reason for crying and the
Prophet (SW) recited the Verses to
her.
Hazrat-e
Fatemeh (SA) fell on the ground fearfully and said: “ Woe to the person
who will enter the Hell.”
Her
eagerness to acquire knowledge:
Her father was
the best teacher of humanity, morality, Islam and the unity of God .She
learned a lot of things from her father and her husband [Ali (Pbuh)].She
gathered them all and wiht the help of her husband wrote a book named
"Mos-haf-e Fatemieh".
Her unadorned appearance:
Salman
Farsi said: “ Once
I saw Hazrat-e Fatemeh(SA) with a plain cover. It made me wonder and I
thought the daughters of the Iranian kings and the Rome Caesars sat on the
golden seats and wore embroidered clothes but why did the daughter of the
Prophet (SW) wear such plain dress and cover?
Hazrat-e Fatemeh responded: “
Oh! Salman, on the Day of Resurrection, God will
provide us with golden seats and adorned clothes.”
About
Her prayer:
There are a lot of
narrations about Fatemeh Zahra(SA)’s prayers, especially about the prayers
in which She had conversations with God. She was the best
worshiper.
She was the
companion of Her husband:
In difficult
situations caused by the death of Hazrat-e Mohammad (SW), She told Her
husband: “My dear Ali! I sacrify my life for you, I will always remain
with you. I am in consort with you in all your happiness or troubles and
sufferings
Her behavior
with her children:
Hazrat-e Fatemeh (SA)
strove to bring up Her children as the brave and virtuous ones in the
society.
Why Was
She Martyred?
She was
the symbol of womanhood. She embodied in her translucent personality all
those qualities that made her a paradigm of virtue.
The
Prophet saluted at her door. The celestial angels sang her praise. Even
God Almighty called her the blessed fountain of Kowsar and vouchsafed her
virtue in the Verse of Purity (Holy Qua’an 33:33).
Yet we
see a strange sight at her threshold following the passing away of her
father. A group is clamoring with democratic abandon, threatening to burn
down her house if her husband does not come out and acknowledge the vote
of the gathering at Saqifa Bani Sa’da.
Was it
a demonstration of freedom of expression and thought by the Arabs of
Medina? Were they right in questioning the divine decree of
Wilayat-a-Mutlaqa to which they had so solemnly sworn allegiance at
Ghadeer Khum only a few months before? Or was the devil at work to create
dissent and mislead a great nation yet again, as he had done before with
the followers of the Prophets, such as Moses (SA) and Jesus (SA), in the
absence of these divinely appointed personage?
These
are the questions that spring to mind when we see the pathetic situation
of Medina in the months immediately after the departure of Prophet
Mohammad (SAWA).
Power
was now in the hands of people who had fled the battle scenes in the time
of the Prophet, or had accepted Islam only for political gains. They were
now bent upon a destructive course by transgressing the limits set by
Allah.
Fatemeh
(SA), tried to awaken them to the injustice and corruption which was in
its embryonic stage. She cautioned them against the violations of the
principles of social justice that was to permeate the Islamic
administration so painstakingly built by her father, but to no avail. She
warned:
“O’
Muslims! You have been advised not to leave us, not to leave the Prophet’s
family alone and keep distance from the axis of Islam (Imamate), otherwise
you would be confused and vanquished…
“He
(the Prophet) left a book that contains secrets as well as understandable
and applicable subjects, but Quran is waiting for someone (Imam) to
whom it can reveal its secrets, open the doors of knowledge and narrate
what is to be read and heard.
“O’
Muslims! How can you reach destination from the black and white (mere
letters) of Quran, unless there be an enlightened, chaste and well
informed scholar (Imam)…
“Rest
assured of the coming sedition. Get ready for a splitting sword and a
cruel aggressor, perpetual embarrassment and tyranny of the
unjust…”
They
did not listen. Greed for political power had made them blind and
oblivious to divine commandments. The miscreants went ahead and battered
down the door of Fatemeh on Fatemeh herself.
The
Prophet’s daughter was seriously injured. Although she attained immortal
martyrdom, her warnings proved prophetic, especially when we see the
tyranny of the Umayyuds and Abbasids that followed the “democratic vote”
of Saqifa and the splintering of Muslims into parties and sects.
A PART OF IMAM
KHOMEINI (Rh)’S MESSAGE ABOUT
HAZRAT-E FATEMEH
ZAHRA (SA)
If Hazrat-e Fatemeh
were a man, she would be a Prophet. If she were a man, she would be on the
place of the God’s Prophet. She was the essence of humanity
. She was a divine
creature who appeared in human body…
…Hazrat-e Fatemeh
(SA) was a woman who came up to all the prophets’ hopes and desires. She
manifested all the honorable character and prestige. She was not an
ordinary woman. She was a divine woman and the sign of humanity …She is
the pride of the world. |