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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Fatimah Az- Zahra', The Principal of all Women: Study and Analysis To the Garden of Abode The sorrow for the loss of her father affected Fatimah (s.a.) terribly and paved the way for diseases to attack and make her weak and feeble until she kept to her bed. Death walked toward her quickly while she was in the prime of youth yet. It was time for her to meet with her father who had left her and taken with him the warm love and kindness.

She impatiently was waiting for that moment where she would join her lovely, kind father to complain to him about what she suffered from his people. When the signs of departure appeared, Fatimah (s.a.) said her will to her cousin Imam Ali (a.s.). She asked him to bury her under the darkness of night and not to let anyone from those who had wronged her to attend her funeral because they were her and her father’s enemies as she said.

She asked him to level her tomb and leave it unknown as a symbol of her anger against those people. She asked him to get married to her sister’s daughter Umama who would bring up her children al-Hasan, al-Husayn and Zaynab in the best way. Imam Ali (a.s.) assured her that he would fulfill her will. Fatimah (s.a.) asked Asma’ bint Umays, who was preferred and loved by her and was her nurse, to make her a special coffin that would hide all her body.

At that time, a dead one was carried on a board that his\her body appeared. Fatimah (s.a.) did not want her body to be distinguished before people; therefore, Asma’ made her a coffin like one she had seen in Abyssinia during her immigration. When Fatimah (s.a.) saw the coffin, she admired it and smiled. It was the first smile of Fatimah (s.a.) since her father had left to the better world.[^1] On the last day of her life, Fatimah (s.a.) restored some of her health and she was delighted.

She knew that it was her last day in this world and soon she would join her father. She bathed her two sons and made them enough food for that day. She asked them to go to visit their grandfather’s tomb. She looked at them with a look of farewell while her heart was about to melt with sorrow and grief. Al-Hasan and al-Husayn went out while feeling that there was something unusual. They worried too much about their mother.

Fatimah (s.a.) said to Asma’ bint Umays, ‘O mother!’ Asma’ replied, ‘O yes, darling of the messenger of Allah!’ Fatimah (s.a.) asked Asma’ to pour her some water for bathing and Asma’ did.