When she concluded her supplications, I asked her, “My dear mother!
When she concluded her supplications, I asked her, “My dear mother! How is it that you did not ask anything for yourself?” She replied, “Dear son! Neighbors first, then ourselves.” Once the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.s.) asked Zahra (a.s), “O my dear daughter!
What, in your opinion is the greatest virtue for a woman?” Zahra (a.s) replied, “No stranger man should see her and she must not see any stranger man.” On another occasion, Fatima (a.s) along with her husband Ali (a.s) had been at the Prophet’s house when a visually impaired man arrived, saluted and sat down there. Zahra (a.s) went into another room and did not return until that person had gone away. The Prophet (s.a.w.s.), by way of testing, asked her, “Why did you…
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