The Prophet (a.

The Prophet (a.s.) established a new society that acknowledged the right and the high position of woman, and acknowledged her importance in the religion of Allah. *** The certain thing that has no bit of doubt is that the Prophet (a.s.) did not follow any emotional or material tendency, for the importance of prophethood was above that. He preferred the satisfaction of Allah to everything else.

He was sincere in all his conducts, for he was the greatest propagandist of Allah who did not speak out of desire but a revelation that was revealed to him.

And the certain thing that has no bit of doubt is that the veneration and high respect the Prophet (a.s.) showed to his daughter besides his preferring her to all the women of the worlds, as mentioned in the traditions that were transmitted from him in the books of Hadith and other books of history, were not out of the sentiment of fatherhood, but it came out of the real infallibility, abstinence, and the deep faith in Allah that Fatima (a.s.) had, besides her full perceiving of her father’s heavenly mission.

She was a treasure from the treasures of Islam, a high example from the spirituality of prophethood, and a light that guided the nation from ignorance to the truth.

*** The principal of the women of the worlds (a.s.), since the beginning of the Islamic mission, helped and assisted her father who met bitter cruelty and persecution from the tyrants of Quraysh, [1] at the head of whom was the Umayyad gang under the leadership of Abu Sufyan who spared no effort in trying to put out the light of Islam and to revive the characteristics of the pre-Islamic era with all its sins and vices. Fatima (a.s.) was a young girl then.

She comforted her father, treated his wounds, and washed his clothes from the filths that the rude men of Quraysh threw on him. Her soul melted for him, and she cried bitterly for his sufferings in the way of the mission. She occupied the feelings and sentiments of her father, and therefore, he had special love in the deep of his heart towards her. He preferred her to the rest of his children.

*** Asceticism and turning away from the desires and pleasures of the worldly life was the prominent feature in the life of Fatima (a.s). She was satisfied with a very simple living. Historians say that her food was not more than water and bread, and the furniture in her house was a bed made of palm-tree branches, a sheep skin, some pillows stuffed with palm-tree fibers, and some pottery.