“O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction! Come back thou to thy Lord,- well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him! Enter thou, then, among My devotees. Yea, enter thou My Heaven!” Surah Al-Fajr (27-30)
Why Fatima
Her stances were stances for the
right, and her sorrow was the sorrow
for the cause of Islam, and her joy was
the joy of the message; the depth of
Islam was manifested in the depth of
her personality and she amassed within
herself all the Islamic human virtues.
Being the Doyenne of the Women of
the World, she should be at the highest
level, spiritually and morally.
Our intense interest in Fatima (a.s)
springs from our deep interest in both
her message and her role as well as in
the dynamic issues in which she was
a central figure; hence, we feel that
she is with us sharing all our concerns
and worldly worries. There are people
in history who come to an end when
they die because their existence is
encapsulated in the span of their lives;
there are others who remain alive as
long as life exists and who continue as
long as their message continues and
as long as there are people who are
open to their message.
Fatima (a.s) is
the ideal example of such people since
you cannot mention the Messenger of
Allah (P.) without mentioning her; she
was his lot and the spirit inside his
body. And you cannot mention Ali (a.s)
without mentioning her as she was his
companion in his suffering and in his
life as well; and you cannot mention al-
Hasan, al-Hussein, and Zaynab (a.s)
without mentioning her as she was the
secret of formulating their purity and
their personality in their childhood and
adulthood stages; she was the inspiring
power of all their life.
This is the inspiring
secret of Fatima (a.s); it imposes itself
on us to keep her in our minds and our
hearts as a message and thought, not
only as just a cause of tears. Although
we cannot but shed tears upon the
suffering she went through, we have at
the same time to thoroughly understand
her message because she lived all her
tears and all her life for the Message
and never did she live one moment
for herself. This is the secret of all the
members of the House (a.s): they lived
for the whole of Islam and gave their
lives for Islam and for the Message
Hussein Revivalism Magazine Issue 6
