It had never been mentioned that she had ever asked or...

It had never been mentioned that she had ever asked or insisted on her husband to bring her any of the pleasures of life. She was satisfied with the simplest living that the poorest people lived. It was a lesson for Muslim woman not to burden her husband with heavy requests that he cannot carry out. It is nonsense and confusion, and in fact, it is out of the enmity to Islam that which Lamans said in his book “Fatimah and the daughters of Muhammad”.

He said that the Prophet (S) hated Fatimah (s.a.) because he had married her to Imam Ali (a.s.) who was poor, and that the furniture of her house was too simple. Lamans did forget that Islam had established the marital relation on the basis of love and kindness between spouses paying no attention to the means of luxury.

The Prophet (S) said, ‘The best women of my nation are those whose dowries are the least.’ Do furniture and means of luxury have any value if the marital life is full of troubles, hatred and spite? Allah the Almighty gave a prevailing victory to His slave and messenger, Muhammad (S). Islam prevailed and defeated all enemies. Mecca, which was the strong fort for the enemies of Islam, was conquered and people entered the religion of Allah a troop after another.

This short period was the happiest period in the life of Fatimah (s.a.), for Islam triumphed and its enemies were defeated. In this period, the principal of the women of the worlds undertook the leadership of the women of Muslims. She taught them the Holy Qur'an and gave lectures on the principles and values of Islam. She took the women towards the nobilities of character and high ideals, and taught them the rulings of Islam and woman’s duties towards her husband, children and family.

Fatimah (s.a.) lived during that period in veneration and glorification under the care and mercy of her father (S), besides the great respect and regard she got from the Muslim women and the Prophet’s companions. When the Prophet (S) left to the better world, Fatimah (s.a.) suffered severe distresses and misfortunes. She received aversion and cruelty from some of her father’s companions. They denied her high position and importance to her father.

She said in some poetry, or some poet said describing her, “Disasters were poured on me that if they were poured on days, they would turn into nights.” What were those disasters that changed the happy days of Fatimah (s.a.) into dark nights?!