SAYINGS OF FATIMA ZEHRA

SAYINGS OF FATIMA ZEHRA(A.S)

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.

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.

.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 eople

(creations) aware about His obedience and submisslon and invited them to his servitude and worship and make His Invitation grand andostentatlous.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 myOh 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.

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.