Fatimah

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Fātimah bint Muhammad az-Zahrā' (605 or 615 - 632 AD) (Arabic: فاطمة الزهراء بنت محمد ) was the daughter of Muhammad and Khadījah. Among her titles include: "az-Zahrā" (meaning, "the Shining One"), "Umm-ul-Abīhā" (meaning, "Mother of her Father"), and "Sayyidat-un-Nisā il-‘Ālamīn" (meaning, "Leader of the Women of the Universe").

Quotes

• First thy neighbour, and there after your own house.
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• God has required us (the Ahlul Bayt) to be obeyed for the sake of protection of the Ummah (community) and Imāmat (leadership); and our leadership is obligatory to protect against disunity.
  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.29, p. 233.

• And (Allah set) the subordination and obedience of us (the houshold of the Prophet (saww)) for the security of society's system, and our Imāmat as a safety from seggregation and disunity.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Oh Muslims! Is my inheritance usurped? Oh son of Abu Quhafa (Abu Bakr), is it in the Book of Allah that you inherit your father and I do not inherit my father? Surely you have done a strange thing! Did you intendedly desert the Book of Allah and turned your back on it? Allah said: "And Solomon was David's heir." (27:16); and said about John son of Zechariah: "Grant me from Thyself an heir, who should inherit me and inherit from the children of Jacob." (19:5-6) and said: "And the possessors of relationships are nearer to each other in the ordinance of Allah." (8:75), and He said: "Allah enjoins you concerning your children: The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females." (4:11), and He said: "Bequest is prescribed for you when death approaches one of you, if he leaves behind wealth for parents and near relatives." (2:180). You claimed that I have no position, and no inheritance from my father, and there is no kinship between us. So did Allah distinguish you with a verse, from which He excluded my father? Or do you say: people of two religions do not inherit each other? Am I and my father not of one religion? Or are you more aware of the Qur’an than my father and my cousin? So, here it is before you! Take it with its noseband and saddle! It shall dispute with you on the Day of Punishment; what a fair judge Allah is, the master (of the inheritance) is Muhammad, and the appointment is the Day of Resurrection. At the time of the Hour the wrongdoers shall lose, and it shall not benefit you to regret then! For every Message, there is a time limit, and ye shall know to whom a punishment that will confound him comes, and upon whom a lasting doom will fall.
  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.29, p. 216 ; al-Tabarsi, al-Ihtijāj, vol.1, p. 132-141.

• I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).
  • Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.2, p. 3.

Religious Wisdom

• Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Service (is) the cause of your getting distant from pride.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• (Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.

• Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
  • Ayan al-Shī‘ah, vol.1, p. 316.