He looked at the pottery and said...

He looked at the pottery and said, ‘Blessed are the people of a house whose most vessels are of pottery.’ Allama al-Fartoosi described this house of Imam Ali and Fatimah in the following poem by saying, “And your house that is too simple with what its four corners contained.

In a corner a mat beside it a jar was put, and in another a bed of palm-tree branches there was, and clay vessels that were the cups which were made by their owners hands, and a quern was there that blistered the hand that milled barley, as if humbleness with what it contained was a sign that everything worshipped.”[^11] Lomnice concluded from the simplicity of Fatimah’s wedding that the Prophet (S) hated Fatimah because he married her to a poor man and that the furniture of her house was too simple.

The ignorance of Lomnice regarding Islam led him to this conclusion. His mind was built by the Western life that did not understand Islam. Islam hates excessive dowries so that to make marriage easy for all.

The Prophet (S) said, ‘The best women of my community are those of less dowries.’[^12] Imam as-Sadiq (a.s.) said, ‘A man, during the time of the messenger of Allah, got married to a woman for a sura from the Qur’an,[^13] a dirham, or some wheat.’[^14] Once, the Prophet (S) married some man from his companions who possessed nothing to a woman for a dowry of that he should teach his wife one sura from the Qur’an.[^15] That dowry was called “the dowry of the sura”.

The Islamic Sharia encourages marriage with little dowries and cancels superiority between spouses. It makes a Muslim man equal to a Muslim woman, but these values were ignored by Lomnice who looked at things only from the material angle. The Sermon of Marriage On concluding the agreement of marriage, the Prophet (S) made this speech before a crowd of his companions.

He said, “Praise be to Allah Who is praised for His blessing, worshipped by His power, obeyed by His sovereignty, Who it is feared from His torment and affliction, Whose command is executed in His heaven and in His earth, Who has created the creation (people) by His power, distinguished them with His commandments, glorified them by His religion, and honored them by His prophet Muhammad, Allah’s blessings be on him and on his progeny.

Allah, Whose name has been blessed and Whose greatness has been exalted, has made affinity (through marriage) as subsequent kinship and imposed matter that He interlaces relatives and binds people by it.