1.Sayings of Fatema Zahra
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.
2.
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.
3.
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 people
(creations) aware about His obedience and submisslon and invited them
to his servitude and worship and make His Invitation grand and
ostentatlous.
4..
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.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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
religion. And called (invited) them to the straight way.
8.
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.
9.
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.
31.
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 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.
40.
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.