| NAME | FATIMA BINTE MOHAMMAD |
|
FATHER'SNAME |
MOHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) |
| MOTHER'S NAME | KHADIJA BINTE KHOILID |
| DATE OF BIRTH | FRI, 20th JAMADI UL AAKHIR |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | MAKKAH |
| HUSBAND'S NAME | ALI IBNE ABI TALIB (A.S) |
| SON'S NAME | HASAN, HUSSAIN |
| DAUGHTER'S NAME | ZAINAB, UMME KULSOOM |
| FAMILY NAME | UMMUL HASAN,UMMUL AAIMMA |
| TITLE | ZEHRA, SIDDIQA, KUBRA,TAHIRA, RAVIA, MARZIA,BATOOL, MOHADDISA. |
| AGE | 18 YEARS |
| MARTYRDOM | 3 JAMADI UL AAKHIR / 15 JAMADIUL AAKHIR / 13 JAMADI UL AWWAL. |
| BURRIED AT | JANNATUL BAQI (MADINA) |
This Great Lady was the only daughter of the Holy Prophet (saww) and Hazrat Khadijah. She was born in Makkah on Friday, 20th Jamdi-ul-Akhar in the 5th year after the declaration of Prophethood (615 AD).
She was married to the great personality, the 1st Imam, Imam Ali (as). The marriage ceremony took place on Friday, 1st Zilhajj 2 AH.
As a daughter, she loved her parents very much. As a wife, she was very devoted. As a mother, she cared for and brought up wonderful children that they have left marks on the face of the world.
Sayings of Fatima Zehra (A.S.)
The following sayings are taken from Fascinating Discourses of the
14 Infallibles (AS), Islamic Propagation Organization, Translated by
Javed Iqbal Qazilbash Ansariyan Publications
1.
Praise and Eulogy is for Allah for the blessing and bounties
which He has bestowed. And thanks to HIM upon what He revelated
(to His servants) And Praise is for HIM upon the common boons
and blessings which He bestowed upon His servants without their
request And upon the comprehensive and complete blessings which
He granted to all and sundry and gave it to us, consequetively.
Those graces and favours which are uncountable.
And are irredeemable and uncompensatable due to their
plentifulness of number. And the imagination of their end is out
of the reach of human mind.
He invited the servant to thankfuness for the sake of the
consequetive and continous enhanecment of blessings. And opened
the door of euloqy and Praise (of Allah) upon them so that He
may make his favours and beneficiences great and plentiful for
them.
2.
I testify that there is no Diety (Lord) except the sole and
matchless Allah. And the testification of the singleness of
Allah is a word that Allah has declared sincerity (as) it's
reality, and made the hearts the centre of it's contact and
union. And has made the specifications and research of the
oneness of Allah's station obvious and evident in the light of
meditation. The Allah Who can not be seen by the eyes and
tongues are unable and baffled to describe His virtues and
attributes. And the intelligence and apprehension of man is
helpless and destitude from the imagination of his howness.
3.
Allah made all the beings without previous matter and sample and
shape and pattern. And made them wear the dress of life by His
main and mights and created them according to His Devine will
and Intention short of it that He might have neeeded their
creatlon or have wished any benefit for Himself from their
shaping and sketching except this that he wanted to give a proof
of Hls wisdom and make the people (creations) aware about His
obedience and submisslon and invited them to his servitude and
worship and make His Invitation grand and ostentatlous.
4..
Allah fixed the reward for His obedience and torment for His
insubordination and disobedience so that He may restraln His
servants from His wrath and fury and lead them to His paradise.
5.
And I testify that my father Mohammad (SAW) is the apostle and
the servant of Allah. And Allah selected and chose him before
appolnting him at the post of Prophethood. And He named him
before choosing and selecting him. And chose him before envoying
and delegating him. Then all the creations were hidden and
covered in the covers of unseen and were hidden amid the screen
and curtain of fear and fright and stayed near the last and
final border of non entity (nothingness) for Allah was aware of
and knew the end of matters and because of Hls encompassing the
incidents of times and ages and His knowledge of the
predestinates.
Allah appolnted him (as apostle) so that he may complete and
finalise His matter and Implement His order and materialise His
decreeds and predestinates.
6.
Allah saw nations and groups had various different sects in
their religion and scattered and staying on the verge of the
fires of differences, busy with the their idol worshipping. They
denied God with all the signs and symbols of HIM. (IRFAN) So
Allah illuminated the darknesses through my father Mohammad
(SAW) and removed the darknesses from their hearts, removed
(cured) the blindness of the eyes.
7.
My father (Mohammad (SAW) ) stood up with (his) guidance among
the people. And saved them from perversion and aberration, and
turned their blindness into enlightenment and guided them
towards the firm redligion. And called (invited) them to the
straight way.
8.
You the servants of Allah, are the ones to maintain His
injunctions and prohibitions, and the carriers of His religion,
and His relevation, and the trustees of Allah upon your souls,
and the propagators of His religion among the other nations.
9.
Oh the servants of Allah! (beware) the real leader from Allah,
is present among you and the commitment has previously been made
to you and the remaining and left over of the prophet hood has
been appointed for your guidance.
That is the speaking book of Allah the truthful Quran, and a
beaming and gleaming light, in which all the secrets and facts
about the completion of man and his prosperity have been
exhibited and illuminated. It guides from darkness towards light
of guidance. It s followers are the subject of envoy of others.
10.
The book of Allah is the guide of it's followers towards the
pleasure of Allah. Listening (carefully) to it leads to the
salvation. The enlightened and conspicous evidences and proofs
of Allah can be obtained through it. And (also the knowledge) of
His interpreted intentions and fear invoking constraining
prohibitions. His sufficing testimonies and conspicous
arguments, and desired virtues and allowed endowments and gifts
and obligatory devine laws. (can be obtained from it)
11.
Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and
infedility).
12.
And (made) service the cause of your getting distant
(purification) from pride (egoism).
13.
And rendered alms for the purity of your soul and flourishment
and expansion of your sustenence.
14.
And rendered fasting for the maintainance and firmness of your
sincerity.
15.
And Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of
the religion.
16.
Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting
together and harmonization of the hearts.
17.
And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the
houshold of the Prophet (SAW)) for the security of society's
system and our Immamate as a safety from seggregation and
disunity).
18.
And (Allah made) Jahad (holy war), the honour and glory for
Islam and abjectness and humbleness for the infidels and the
hypocrites.
19.
And (Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward.
20.
And (Allah caused) commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil
for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks
(public).
21.
And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional
(shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
22.
And Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and
cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
23.
And Allah made law of retaliation (revenge for homicide) as the
security of blood (from being shed).
24.
And Allah executed the vow performing as a medium for
forgiveness.
25.
And (Allah rendered) the correct use of weights measure (units)
a medium for stoping from selling less (than actual).
26.
And (Allah rendered) prohibition from drinking wine the cause of
taking distance from contaminations (evils).
27.
And Allah made the prohibition to accuse someone of adultery a
protection (shield) for avoiding (His) curse.
28.
And (Allah made) refraining from theft for the sake of
positiveness and affirmation for modesty.
29.
And Allah prohibited polytheism for the sake of (bringing about)
sincerety in (His) adoration and worship.
30.
Certainly, an apostle has come to you from among yourselves;
grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively
solictious respecting you; to the believers (he is)
compassionate, merciful.
So if you assay and recognise him you will find he is my father
not the father of your women and the brother of my cousin, (Ali
a.s) not that of your men. And how nice a relation I have to
him. So he propagated his prophetic (mission). He always used to
turn his face from the polytheists.
And fought against them till he beat them up. He would invite
people towards Allah by wisdom, and beautiful admonition. He
broke the idols and scattered the aggregation of polytheists in
a way that they ran away (from the battle fields), so that
finally the hidden secret of oneness of Allah became manifested
by him.
And he made the logic of religion reach the ears ((of the
people) and settled down the foam of the camels of satan and
turned the salogan yelling of those devils silent. And downed
the agents of hypocrisy and mutual commitments of the infidels
got dissolved till such time that, you (people) spoke to a group
of enlightened and modest men with the words of oneness of Allah
and sincerity.
31.
You were on the edge of a fire ditch, and were a cup of drink
and the morsal of a greedy one and a firebrand of every hastey
one and were being trampled on (by other nations) and drank from
the contaminated waters gathered over in ditches and your energy
(food) was (secured by) the leaves of trees and desert grass.
And for your abjectness and abasement you were always afraid
that those arround you might abduct you in the winking of an
eye. So, Allah liberated you (of these misfortunes) through my
father Mohammed (SAW). Inspite of it that he (SAW) was involved
and at war against the intrepid and the hungry wolves of Arab
and the stubborns refractories of the people of the books (Jews
and Christians). Whenever his opponents would lit the fire of
war, Allah extinguished it to your benefit.
32.
Imam Hassan (AS) said, 'on the friday night I saw my mother
(Fatima (as)) standing in her arch of prayer. She was
continuously kneeling and performing prostration till the dawn
broke. I would hear her pray for the faithful men and women, but
she did not at all pray for herself. I said, 'Oh mother why did
you not pray for yourself like you prayed for others?' so she
replied, 'Oh my son, first thy neighbour and there after your
own house.'
33.
The Prophet (SAW) said to Fatima (AS) what is the thing which is
a blessing for woman?'
She said that, 'she must not see a man (stranger and not
intimate) and a man must not see her.'
34.
One day a lady came to Fatima (AS) said 'I have a weak old
mother who does not know a few problems about her service
(prayers). She has sent me towards you to question you (about
them). Thus Fatima answered her (questions). And the number of
her queries reached to ten and Fatima (AS) replied to all her
questions. Then she (the woman got a shamed because of the high
number of her questions. And said, 'Oh daughter of the Prophet
(SAW), 'I do not put you to more inconvinience than this.'
Fatima (AS) said, 'Ask me what you do not know. Have you ever
seen a person who is one day hired to carry a heavy thing to the
roof top from ground for an amount (equal to) a thousand dinnars
(nearly a hundred thousand miskal (unit of weight) of gold) and
he may feel himself tired.'
She said 'No'. Fatima (AS) said, 'I have been hired by Allah to
get a wages which if the space between the earth and sky is
filled up with pearls still (That wages) would he more than it
for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve
it that I must not feel tired exhausted.'
35.
Oh Allah! belittle me in my eyes and glorify and magnify Your
station to me. And inspire me (about) Your obedience and the
practice which may cause Your pleasure and the shunning and
evading from things (matters) which are the cause of Your wrath,
oh the most merciful of all! 36.
Oh Allah! content me with the sustenence you have granted me.
And till such time that you keep me alive, hide me and make me
sound and prosperous. And forgive me and take pity upon me when
I die. (During death process). Oh Allah! do not help me in
something that you have not predestined for me. And facilitate
the achievement of that thing which you have predestined for me.
37.
Oh Allah! bestow upon my parents and all those persons who have
rights of their blessings and beneficiences upon me, the best of
Your rewards. Oh my Allah, spare me the leisure and respite for
the object for which You have created me. And do not let me be
busy and involved (absolutely) in my commitments. And do not
torment me when I ask forgivensess. And do not deprive me of
what I yearn and question you for.
38.
Underlying are the rhymes which Hazrat Zahra (AS) recited upon
the mourning of Prophet's (SAW) demise.
The person who smells the sweet fragnance of the grave of the
Prophet (SAW) so what if he does not smell any other fragnance
for long times to come?
Agonies and anguishes and griefs poured upon me in such a way
that had they poured upon days those would have turned into
nights. (bleak, dark and bewildering).
39.
The dust of sorrow covered the space of sky and the sun has
faded and the bright day turned bleak. The earth has become dark
and gooomy after the death of the Prophet (SAW) Woe! Alas! what
the earth will have much of Jolting upon being seperated and
parted from him (SAW).
It is meritorious and befitting that the east and west of the
world may weep upon the parting of Prophet (SAW) and the persons
of Muzzir tribe and all of they rest of the Yemen tribes shed
tears.
And the great magnificient mountain of the existence and the
hidden and covered Kabaah (House of ALLAH) and its pillars
should shed tears.
Oh the terminator and finaliser of the (series of) prophets! the
light of whome is the source of blessing for the worlds
inhabitants, Be the salutation and blessings of Allah the
desender of Holy Quran upon you.
40.
Following you (Prophet (SAW)) inequities (intrigues and revolts)
took shape and varient voices were raised so that if you were
present and supervising (things) all these differences and
deviations would not have taken place.
You set off (on the journey of eternity) from among us and now
our condition is like the earth which becomes devoid of the
beneficial rains. And your nation upset the order and discipline
of matters. So be a witness and do not let their matter get out
of your sight.