Imam Ali(a.

Imam Ali(a.s.)’sposition in relation to the leadership of the Islamic Ummah is as same as the position of the axis in relation to the hand-mill. The floodwater flows down from him and the bird cannot fly up to him.[^117] However Abu Bakr and his party agreed upon coercing Imam Ali (a.s.) to pay homage by any means. They therefore sent their forces to arrest him at home and bring him out forcibly.

The Imam’s (a.s.) claims against them were so strong and effective that they could not say anything logic to him,[^118] He then came back home without paying homage to Abu Bakr. At home, many waves of grief and sorrow surrounded the Imam whose right was usurped before his eyes.

The same waves covered his family members among whom was the little Zaynab who saw her father resist grief and opt for patience, and saw her mother weep for her father’s departure and her husband’s grievance, Strict Procedures Against the (a.s.) As he failed to coerce Imam Ali (a.s.) to pay homage to him, Abu Bakr resorted to a number of shameful means, hoping they would oblige the Imam (a.s.) to renounce his right.

They first canceled the Khums (one-fifth) tax that Almighty Allah gave exclusively to and his family (a.s.) Abu Bakr then imposed an economic blockade on the Prophet’s Household (a.s.) by confiscating their properties and counting them on the public treasury so that they would not be able to revolt against his illegal government.

He also confiscated the land of Fadak, which the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) gifted to his daughter, Lady Fatemah al-Zahra (a.s.), in particular before the very eyes of all Muslims, including Abu Bakr himself.[^119] Lady Fatemah al-Zahra (a.s.) was very angry with the behaviors of Abu Bakr who locked in her face all spaces of life. Accompanied by a number of pious women, she entered the session of Abu Bakr in her father’s Masjid where many men from the Mohaajerun and the Ansar were present.

When a screen was put between her and the attendants, Lady Fatemah al-Zahra (a.s.), first, moaned so pathetically that everybody could not resist weeping. She then delivered an astounding speech; she first referred to the Islamic knowledge, philosophy of the Islamic laws, and then took up some important issues. She mentioned her father’s great favors on those peoples who, before him, had lived in dimness of ignorance, incivility, and humiliation.