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Whatever hurts her is certainly hurting me and whatever pleases her is certainly pleasing me.” Ali (a.s.) reported the Prophet’s addressing to Fatimah (a.s.): “Fatimah most surely Allah is pleased when you are pleased and enraged when you are enraged.” Finally reference books of Islamic history and narration are full of reports relating the elevated standing of Fatemah al-Zahra the Veracious (a.s.).

[^39] See Yanabi ul-Mawaddah; [^196]: [^40] See Zaynab al-Kubra, [^60]: [^41] See Kanzal-Ummal; 7/110, al-Bukhari’s al-Sahih; Chapter: Kitab al-Adab, Majma al-Zawa’id; 9/181, and Ibn Asakir’s at-Tareekh; 13/[^39]: [^42] Though some historians say that the first she-baby of Lady Fatemah al-Zahra (a.s.) was Ruqayyah, nicknamed Umm-e-Kulsum, most of historians have proved Lady Zaynab’s (a.s.) having been Lady Fatima’s (a.s.) first she-baby.

As evidence, in the reign of the Umayyad State when the (a.s.) and their partisans were persecuted, anyone who wanted to relate something to Imam Ali (a.s.), would say, “Father of Zaynab (a.s.) said so-and-so.” This is because Zaynab (a.s.) was the elder daughter, and the enemies did not realize this nickname. See Ibn Abu al-Hadeed, Sharh Nahj al-Balaghah. [^43] Azan is the call to prayer. [^44] Iqamah is the prefatory statements of the ritual prayer.

[^45] See At-Tiraz al-Muzahhab; 38 [^46] See Batalatu Karbala; [^21]: [^47] In Arabic, the word ‘Zaynab’ is a name called on a handsome, odorous tree, (see Ibn Manzhur’s Lisan al-Arab, vol. 6 p. 88) [^48] See Zaynab al-Kubra; 16-7 [^49] See Zaynab al-Kubra; [^17]: [^50] Excerpted from the Oxford Talking Dictionary Copyright © 1998 The Learning…