Hazrat Fatima:part 3

Chastity and veiling

Fatimah (A.S) was the highest example in chastity, honor, and veiling for all Muslim women.

Imam Ali (A.S) said, ‘Once, a blind man asked permission to visit Fatimah (A.S), but she asked him to stay behind a screen. The messenger of Allah (A.S) asked Fatimah (A.S), ‘Why did you screen him though he is blind and could not see you?’

She said, ‘He could not see me, but I could see him.’

The Prophet (A.S) said, ‘I witness that you are a part from me.’

Once, Imam Ali (A.S) asked Fatimah (A.S), ‘When is woman closer to her Lord?’

She said, ‘When she keeps to her house…’

Imam Ali (A.S) offered her answer to the Prophet (A.S) who said, ‘She is true. Fatimah is a part from me.’

Veil is beauty and honor for woman. Whenever woman adorns herself with chastity, she will be in a highest position and most honorable rank besides gaining admiration of the all. But if woman is unveiled and unchaste, she will be worthless in the society and no one will appreciate her. The veil and chastity of Fatimah (A.S) is a high example that every woman who wants to live regardable and honorable in the society.

Deep faith

Definitely, no one can suspect the unequaled faith and worship of Fatimah (A.S). She spent most of her days and nights in worshipping.

Imam Hassan (A.S) said, ‘some night, I saw my mother Fatimah (A.S) in her mihrab bow and prostrate (offer prayers) until the light of morning appeared. I heard her praying Allah for the believing men and the believing women and mentioning them by the name. She prayed Allah for them too much, but without praying for herself. I said to her, ‘Why do you not pray Allah for yourself mother?’

She said, ‘O my son, the neighbor (first) and then the house…’

Al-Hassan al-Basri said about Fatimah (A.S), ‘No one in the umma worshipped Allah more than Fatimah (A.S). She offered prayers in the night until her feet swelled.’

It was transmitted from Fatimah (A.S) her saying, ‘Whoever raises his true worship to Allah, Allah will send down to him the best of his benefit.’

Fatimah (A.S) assigned the last hours of the day of Fridays for Allah the Almighty. In the last ten days of Ramadhan, Fatimah (A.S) spent all the night in worshipping and supplicating, and she encouraged all those in her house to spend the night in worshipping and supplicating. Her feet swelled because of her long standing before Allah the Almighty.

Taken from the book called:  THE LIFE OF FATIMAH AL-ZAHRA'

Hazrat Fatima:part 1

Hazrat Fatimah (A.S) was different from all women in her high qualities and noble characteristics that took her to the highest rank of virtue and perfection. She was an example of her father’s morals and mentality. She resembled him in his deep faith in Allah the Almighty, asceticism, and refraining from pleasures of this life. Here, we talk about some of Fatimah’s characteristics:

Infallibility

Fatimah (A.S) was infallible, and this is an indisputable fact. Allah had purified her from every sin and every defect, and endowed her with all virtues to make her an example for all the women of the world. She was an ideal example in faith, worship, chastity, purity, charity, and kindness to the poor and the deprived.

Proofs on her infallibility

1. The verse of purification; Allah has said, (Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the House, and to purify you a (thorough) purifying. 33:33).

The People of the House (the Ahl-ul-Bayt) were Ali, Fatimah, Imam Hassan, and Imam Hussein (A.S).

The verse clearly proves the infallibility and purity of these persons from every sin and vices. Allah had chosen these people to be examples for His people and guides to His obedience and pleasances. It is impossible for Allah to give sinners or guilty people this gift.

Infallibility, in its concept, definitely would not be far from the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S) who were the centers of knowledge and wisdom in Islam. For forty years, I have researched and written books on them, but I could find a slip neither in their sayings nor in their doings. Even their enemies, who were full of grudge against them, did not mention any fault or any bit of deviation about them.

Imam Ali (A.S.) says, ‘By Allah, if I am given the seven districts with all that under their skies to disobey Allah in bran of a grain of barley that I deprive it of a mouth of a locust, I will never do.’

2. The Prophet (A.S) made his entire nation, through his repeated sayings, know that Fatimah (A.S) was a part from him, and that whatever pleased her would please him and whatever displeased her would displease him. That she was a part from the Prophet (A.S) means that she was infallible since the Prophet (A.S) was infallible. 

3. The true traditions that were transmitted from the Prophet (A.S.) confirmed that Allah would be pleased for the pleasure of Fatimah (A.S) and would be displeased for her displeasure. These traditions mean that Fatimah (A.S) had reached a degree of faith and piety that would take her to the same rank of the infallible prophets who sincerely obeyed Allah and knew Him as He was.

4. The Prophet (A.S.) compared his progeny to the Book of Allah as in the mutawatir (successive) tradition of “ath-Thaqalayn”, and since the Book of Allah is infallible from any falseness, so are the Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S); otherwise, the Prophet (A.S) would not compare them to the Book of Allah.

Fatimah (A.S) was at the head of the pure progeny of the Prophet (A.S) and was the mother of all the infallible imams (except Imam Ali) whom Allah had purified from all uncleanness.

imam of the time in the words of imam ali

As the successor of the Prophet (PBUH), Imam Ali informs people of an absent Imam from among his descendents who will make world full of justice and remove injustice.

How beautiful it is to combine the event of Ghadir with the words of Imam Ali on his grandson Mahdi.1. ForgivingHe is so forgiving2. ShelterHe is a strong shelter3. Ideal of the good-doersWhoever comprehends him will find him a glorious light which is an ideal for good-doer 4. Savior of the MankindHe breaks all chains and terminates the exploitation of man by man5. Justice ExpanderImam Ali (PBUH) told his son Hussein (PBUH): “O Hussein! The ninth of your children is a righteous revolutionary. He clarifies the religion and expands justice.”‌6. RejoicingThe crowds on earth and heaven are rejoiced by his coming7. Reward for Steadfast believers“There will be a long absence for our Imam and beware, those steadfast in their religion whose hearts never darkens by his long absence, they will be on my side in the heaven on the Judgment Day”‌8. Praying for Him“O God! Make his occultation and reappearance the end for all sadness and remove all difference and enmity by him”‌.Ghadir means swearing allegiance to Imamate for which Ali (PBUH) is the symbol and Mahdi is the last.There is a basic question here:Are we ready to accept the Imam of the Time or our benefits and lust makes us lose the way?!Are we among those preparing for the green and beautiful future through knowledge and self-education?Translated by: Sadroddin Musawi

human rights in islam: Fair Treatment of Enemy

 the Battle of Jamal, when the people of Basra were defeated and escaped away, the soldiers of Islam followed them. Amidst the fight and flee a pregnant woman from Basra was struggling hard to escape. She fell on the ground and died along with her instantly born child. When they reported this touching incident to Imam Ali (A.S), he became very upset. The Imam summoned his husband. In his presence, Imam Ali (A.S) asked the witnesses:

 ?Who died first, mother or the childchil-

. They said: New born child died earl.

:The Imam issued the following orde:

“Pay two-third of the blood money for the child and half of the blood money of the woman to her husband, and one-third of the blood money of the child and half of the blood money of the woman to her relatives.”1

Although the people of Basra set up an uprising and killed 500 companions of Imam Ali (A.S) before the breakout of war, they were defeated. Although the defeated armies and people in all wars are not given any rights and choice, Imam Ali (A.S) who is a perfect example of humanity, observed the rights of his enemies and became upset with such an incident as the death of a woman and her child at war.

The above incident indicates that Islam respects the rights of the defeated enemy and instructs Muslims to treat the enemy fairly.

Translated by: Sadroddin Musawi

Note:

1. Sheikh Tousi, Tahzib al-Ahkam, Vol. 8; Koleini, Forou’ Kafi, P. 354

Who is zahra

In the name of god

Who is Zahra shall dawn on Doomsday

Enemies of her enemies in divine pardon sway,

Friends of her enemies shall contrite in dismay;

.Today’s tears shed in her love tomorrow pay

What is Zahra? First let us know

 To acquire a letter angle to peep into her woe,

If the prophets placed in one pan and she in another

.Imam Sadiq says the pan of Zahra weighs heavier

From a higher station to a lower station

If a thing given from his own possession

It is called ‘ATA’ in Arabic decorum

.So Says God in Qur'an in the shortest sum

How dear is Zahra to God, shows this chapter,

.And remarks her worth to her Father -- the Messenger

Her Father had not yet been buried,

.They to avenge their broken idols to Saqifa hurried

!What Monsters in the lane appear

!Ah fear! Ah frantic fear

Dangerous! Even for those of giant limbs mold

Can a lady with tender heart tolerate to behold

!He round after round in his hideous form

Howling, shouting, making wilder the wild storm

Stood like a loose hanging rock

Remitting to the sight a paralyzing shock,

Sea the rattling terrors of the vengeful make

!!!And know how his belief false, his faith fake

He never seems tired of his tyrannical sway

.And seems to him it is a festive day

Ruffians and rowdies gathered more and more

.Like a loud torrent and a whirlwind’s roar

But the ringleader wants a larger pile,

.Exults, and says fire alone could make him smile

He ordered: “Bring fuel, wood and set fire”‌;

.The rascals obeyed fanned by strong desire

Their hearts like torpid rocks (in pagan) array

.The winters of their souls chilled their belief astray

,No zephyr of faith sued their rocky breast

A glare, a balm which their hatred awaited to invest

,In the wilderness lost, they built their shed

In the ruin where their souls were dead

Pleased the rowdies their diabolical power

Made them to dance forgetful of the noontide hour

Whose House it was the vulgar didn’t care,

The Cries of Zahra fell low

As the flames from the house grow,

The ringleader in sprightly spirit, in mirth, ease

.Pleased with himself and the deed dazzled to please

Each ball of sight seemed bursting from his head

.And shook with dread at the sound himself had made

The tyrant cheerful at his deed in a proud pose

Breasts the smoke, waves the sword and goes

And carries the den of curses along the way

Ashes drag the struggling savage day

She betwixt door and the wall fell bleeding

.As Fizzah the maid came running

Ah! What sorrows bloom to gloom the day

.Life from its native walk shrinks away

Shudder the near ones because to them a distant deep

The remote ones on pilgrimage wept, return again to weeps.

Miscarried Mohsen -- unborn died

What the mother felt? Falling at his side,

!O, you! The Babe of early doom

Aerial hands shall build your tomb.

With the pearls of tears crowned

And all Infant Martyrs round,

You aren’t dead in any age

Pilgrims shall recite in Qur'an your page,

Honour beheld in tears shall save

To sigh your name thro’ every grave,

Wherever you are laid

.There bows heroes’ shade

Though fallen she turns her joyless eyes

To search where her Mohsen lies,

Since then Zahra felt as if on thorn

.And haying lost nightly rest wept till morn

Even the beasts wept on their way as they pursue

.Shrill roared the wind, made melancholy the view

Ah! Lady! I leave your tale with words so few

.Upsets me the tyranny committed against you

?Who is Imam hussein

AL-Hussein Ibn Ali’s Biography

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 In the house of the Holy Prophet, which presented the best image of both the worlds - the heavenand the earth - a child who benefited humanity as if he was Divine Impression reflecting the earth,was born on one of the nights of the month of Shaban. His father was Imam Ali, the best model ofkindness towards his friends and the bravest against the enemies of Islam, and his mother wasHazrat Fatimah, the only daughter and child of the Holy prophet who had as universally