{"id":1611,"date":"2021-12-02T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-12-02T08:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T08:15:27","slug":"martyrdom-of-hadrat-fatima-zahra-s-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/1611\/martyrdom-of-hadrat-fatima-zahra-s-a-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Fatima Zahra’s (SA) Will to Imam Ali (AS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Fatima Zahra’s (SA) Will to Imam Ali (AS)<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. O Ali, you will personally perform my funeral rites.
\n2. Those who have displeased me should not be allowed to attend my funeral.
\n3. My corpse should be carried to the graveyard at night.
\nThus, Imam Ali (\u0639), in compliance with her will, performed all the funeral rites and accompanied exclusively by her relatives and sons carried her at night to Jannatu\\’l-Baqi `, where she was laid to rest and her wishes fulfilled.
\nHaving buried her, in the darkness of the night, her husband, the Commander of the Faithful Ali (\u0639) composed these verses of poetry:
\nWhy did I stand at the graves to greet,
\nThe tomb of the loved one, but it did not respond?
\nO loved one! Why do you not answer us?
\nHave you forgotten the friendship among loved ones?
\nThe loved one said: How can I answer you
\nWhile I am held hostage by soil and stones?
\nEarth has eaten my beauties, so I forgot about you,
\nAnd I now am kept away from family and peers;
\nSo, peace from me to you, the ties are now cut off
\nAnd so are the ties with loved ones.
\nOn p. 136 of Dalaa\u2019il al-Imama \u062f\u0644\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0645\u0627\u0645\u0629, we are told that those who attended Fatima\u2019s burial in the darkness of the night were, besides her husband Ali (\u0639), none other than both her sons al-Hassan and al-Hussain (\u0639), her daughters Zainab and Umm Kulthum, her maid Fidda and Asmaa daughter of Umays. The author, as quoted on p. 92, Vol. 10 of the newly published edition of Bihar al-Anwar, adds the following: In the morning of the eve in which she (Fatima) was buried, al-Baqi\u2019 was found to have forty new graves. When the Muslims came to know about her death, they went to al-Baqi\u2019 where they found forty freshly built graves, so they were confused and could not identify her grave from among all of them. People fussed and blamed each other. They said, \u201cYour Prophet left only one daughter among you. She dies and is buried while you do not attend her demise or perform the prayers for her or even know where her grave is.\u201d
\nThose in authority among them said, \u201cBring from among the Muslims\u2019 women those who would inter these graves till we find her, perform the prayers for her and visit her grave.\u201d The report reached the Commander of the Faithful, Allah\u2019s blessings with him, so he came out furious, his eyes reddened, his veins swollen and wearing his yellow outer garment which he always put on whenever there was trouble, leaning on his sword, Thul-Fiqar, till he reached al-Baqi\u2019. A warner rushed to people to warn them saying, \u201cHere is Ali ibn Abu Talib has come as you can see, swearing by Allah that if anyone moves a brick of these graves, he will kill each and every one of them.\u201d
\nHe was met by \u2018Umar [ibn al-Khattab] and some of his companions and said, \u201cWhat is wrong with you, O father of al-Hassan?! By Allah, we shall inter her grave, and we shall perform the [funeral] prayers for her.\u201d Ali (\u0639) took hold of \u2018Umar\u2019s garment, shook him and threw him on the ground and said, \u201cO son of the black woman! As regarding my right [to succeed the Prophet as the caliph], I have abandoned it for fear people might revert from their religion. As for Fatima\u2019s grave, I swear by the One Who holds Ali\u2019s soul in His hands that if you and your fellows want to do any such thing, I shall let the earth drink of your blood, all of you; so, if you want, stay away from it, O \u2018Umar.\u201d
\nAbu Bakr met him and said, \u201cO father of al-Hassan! By the right of the Messenger of Allah (\u0635) and by the right of the One on the Arsh, leave him, for we shall not do anything which you dislike.\u201d Ali (\u0639) left \u2018Umar alone. People dispersed and did not make any further attempt. This incident shows the reader how Abu Bakr was blessed with a higher degree of wisdom than \u2018Umar.
\nFollowing are verses of poetry in honor of Fatima, Head of the Women of Mankind, composed by the late Shaikh Muhsin Abu al-Hubb Senior presented to all ladies who descended from Fatima:
\nWhen they mention Eve, I say that Fatima is her pride,
\nOr if Mary is mentioned, I say that Fatima is superior.
\nCan anyone underestimate a father such as Muhammad?
\nOr does Mary have a lion cub more brave than Fatima\u2019s?
\nEach had a status at her birth that puzzles sages\u2019 minds:
\nThis to her date tree resorted, so of fresh ripe dates she ate,
\nGiving birth to Jesus without fright, how so when the guard
\nIs the most brave night sojourner?
\nAnd to the wall and the door\u2019s slab did this resort,
\nProphet\u2019s daughter, so she aborted what she was bearing.
\nShe fell, and her fetus [Muhsin] fell with her, surrounded by
\nEvery one of a mean descent and lowly birth:
\nThis rogue rebukes her, that one reprimands her,
\nThis one dismisses her, that one even kicks her\u2026
\nThough before her was the lion of lions being led
\nBy the rope\u2026, so, is there a greater calamity?
\nFatima will come on the Judgment Day to complain
\nTo the Lord of the Heavens, and she will wail,
\nAnd you will know who her fetus was, why she wails
\nWhy she presents a complaint from which the heavens shake:
\n\u201cLord! My inheritance and my husband\u2019s right did they confiscate
\n\u201cAnd, moreover, all my sons did they kill, O Lord!\u201d
\nHere is a poem composed by the Christian poet Abdul-Maseeh al-Antaki (of Antioch city) in praise of Fatima al-Zahra (\u0639), for those who agree with our [religious] views and those who do not have all testified to Fatima\u2019s distinction: She is the Mistress of all Women of Mankind from the early generations to the very last:
\nAmong women, hers is a unique birth:
\nNo other daughter of Eve comes to her distinctions close.
\nOne from whose forehead the sun\u2019s rays shine,
\nFrom her standing places glitter glows.
\nShe is the peer of the honored one and only who
\nIn his feats and supreme honors is her only match.
\nArabs seek competent peers for daughters to marry
\nA tradition which they refuse to forgo.
\nAny marriage without a competent peer they regard
\nAs a shame on them that debases them among peers.
\nWho can match in lineage the daughter of the Chosen one?
\nWho among the Arabs in honors matches her?
\nWho suits Taha (\u0635) to be his son-in-law,
\nA marriage tie that brings happiness to one who wins it
\nOther than Ali, the one loved by the Chosen One?
\nHe accepted Guidance since the Messenger called for it.
\nNext to the Chosen One, he is the best of Quraish
\nSince the Almighty created its souls.
\nAnd he is the hero of Islam well known
\nBy those wars that raised his status.\n<\/p>\n

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