Moosavi in Aza-i-Fatimiyah message elaborates woman’s lofty status

By: TNFJ Information Wing

Brethren in Iman & Islam!

Human being is better and higher in status than all other creatures

Human beings include all women, men, strong, vulnerable, old and young on which Quran stands witness:

“By the Asr, human being is at a loss but those who are faithful and who perform good deeds and preach for righteousness, patience and forbearance within each other”

Strength, power, beauty and richness are not declared as standard of superiority and gentlemanliness but piety, good deeds and faith are declared as the criterion of charisma and honour on the basis of which Prophets, Messengers, Aulia and Righteous Persons have been considered superior but only four women from amongst the womenfolk the world over have this charisma and honour to their credit and they are Aasiya binte Mazahim (A.S.), Maryam binte Imran (A.S.), Khadija binte Khaweled (A.S.), and Fatima binte Muhammad (A.S.). Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) is the superior most amongst the all human beings of the universe after Nabi (Prophet (SAW)) and Ali (A.S.).

Every human being recognises the reality and status of the other human being from his personal guess - his perception and comprehension cannot work more than this. But one could not do anything except his inability to reach the status of those who are placed at the highest pedestal of status and charisma. Therefore, on this basis it could be said that no one could understand the status of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) other than the Holy Prophet (SAW), Ahle Bait Athaar (A.S.) and pious Sahaba Kubaar.

What we know about the status of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) is because of Quran and Hadees in which it has been stated that she was symbol of Ismat and Taharat (chastity and purity)on which the Ayah-e-Tat-heer

stands witness. Love with Fatima (S.A.) and her Khanwada is obligatory

She was that great a scholar that her Kaneez-e-Khas was declared Mutakilma-bil-Quran (one who speaks through Quran). Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) enjoyed that greatest a status that Rematul-lil-Alimeen (Mercy for the Worlds (SAW)) used to stand up in her respect; she had full faith in the oneness of God, Apostleship of the Messenger (SAW) and Imamat and Wilayat of her husband. She was inclined towards none but love and worship of Allah and she was desirous of Meeting to Allah to the extent that could be judged from a saying of Ummul Momineen Hazrat Aisha that goes that Rasool-e-Khuda (SAW) sent for his daughter Fatima Zahra (S.A.) on the death bed and said something in a very low voice on which she started weeping, then he said another thing in a very low voice on which she started smiling. When Ummul Momineen asked Fatima (S.A.) the reason of weeping and then smiling, she said I wept because my father gave me the news of his death and smiled when he said that the first one from amongst my Ahle Bait (A.S.) to meet me would be you.

Her love for her father, husband and progeny was only for the sake of Allah. Hazrat Zahra (S.A.) wiped out her own self and desires through her character, deeds, and sayings; She neither played games nor created hue and cry, neither tortured Rasool-e-Khuda (SAW) nor put her husband at odds. She always gave priority to subservience to Allah that is why the Holy Prophet (SAW) had said:

“Had Ali not been there, there would have been no match to Fatima on earth”

She was Wali-e-Khuda, and proof of her love and friendship with Allah is her desire to die for the supremacy of His religion because death is the only source of removing veils to meet Allah and on which Quran stands witness:

"O, Rasool! Tell them that the people who are Jews, if you have put up a claim that only you are friends of Allah other than people, if you are true then desire for death"

But, this whole Khanwada loved death for meeting to Allah like a child loves mother’s milk. There is a saying of Hazrat Zahra (S.A.)’s son Hazat Imam Hussain (A.S.) that goes:

"Death is such a guluband (neck ornament) for sons of Adam like an ornament in the neck of a pretty woman. I, Hussain have desire for death like Yaqoob was desirous of meeting his son Yousuf”

In every phase of human life, Hazrat Fatima is seen superior whether she is a daughter, wife or mother; she lost her own desire in the desires of her husband.

A wife should learn the way of obedience to husband from the beloved daughter of the Chief of the Two Worlds (SAW), a daughter should recognize course of love from Mother of Hasnain (A.S.). Every human being, either he be from stratum of men or women, has all this respect, honor and dignity, and it is Din-e-Mobin which grants this respect and honor, and gives right of achieving one’s rights and benefiting from freedom, independence and individual and collective rights to all rather advises a human being to remain linked with a personality to attain the final stage of excellence and acme – Sidratul Muntaha -. That personality is mother in the form of a woman

The colonial powers used woman as a shield, destructed her in the name of freedom, promoted obscenity in the name of promoting culture but Islam and Quran gave zenith to woman’s dignity and honour in the form of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.). Her seerat and character is the fountainhead of guidance, piousness and beacon of light for the whole womenfolk the world over.

We, while presenting condolence and consolement to the Chief of the holy family of Ahlul Bait, Holy Prophet (SAW) on the occasion of Ayyam-i-Aza-i-Fatimiyah, reiterate our resolve to continue our practical struggle for the welfare of humanity, solidarity of the motherland, and success and supremacy of the oppressed world following in the footsteps of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.).

Foot dust of Ghulaman-e-Zahra (S.A.),
AGHA SYED HAMID ALI SHAH MOOSAVI
(Chief of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya Pakistan, TNFJ)
1-5 Jamadi-us-Sani, 1425 A.H.
(19-23 July, 2004)

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