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Fatima, the Mother of her Father 2 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Fatima, the Mother of her Father 2 2023-03-20 582 Views Lady Fatima Zahra , , Ummu Abiha In continuation of the discussions on the greatest position of Lady Fatimah (a.s), we shall focus on other aspects of the topic in this article. Contents Fatima; the Axis 1. The Axis of Creation 2. The Axis of Imamat 3. The Axis of Ahlul-Bayt 4. The Axis of Infallibility 5.

The Axis of Al Mubahilah In the year 5 AH, after the Battle of al-Ahzab a new rule with regard to the wives of the Prophet was revealed. “The Prophet is closer to the believers than their own selves and his wives are their mothers.” (1) This revelation taught Muslims to respect the wives of the Prophet like their own mothers and that they were forbidden to ever marry them. Thus, none of the wives of the Prophet was ever able to remarry after the demise of the Messenger of God.

To this end, every wife of the Prophet was referred to as ‘the mother of the believers’ which means as the believers could not ever marry their mother they could not possibly ever marry any of the wives of the Prophet. After the revelation of the above law, the Messenger of God said to his beloved daughter, “O Fatima.

If my wives are the (spiritual) mother of the believers, then you are my (spiritual) mother.” Etymology of the term ‘al-Umm’ The term mother is referred to in Arabic as ‘Umm` whether a direct biological mother or indirect and hence, Eve is also referred to as our ‘mother`. Linguistically, the term ‘mother` is quite similar in all different languages. Umm in Arabic, mum or mother in English, mahdar in Farsi, ma in Urdu and mama in Italian.

The term al-umm in Arabic is defined by the renowned Arabic linguist al-Raghib as “Everything and everyone who is the source of the existence of something or its rearing or reforming.” Therefore, anything that is the origin of the source of something or has a fundamental role in its existence is called al-Umm in Arabic.

For instance, in Surah 43 Ayah 4 the Holy Quran is introduced to be in the Mother of the Book: “And verily, it (this Quran) is in the Mother of the Book with Us, indeed exalted, full of wisdom.” (2) The term ‘the mother of the book` in the above Ayah is meant for al-Lauh al-Mahfuz which is the source of all the divine knowledge and its producer.