This important mandate in history begins with Fatima and in...

This important mandate in history begins with Fatima and in carrying out this work, history needs an Ali. This is why the kind hand of poverty causes the child of Abu Talib, even though he had a father, to go to the house of his uncle's son so that his spirit does not become polluted by his own family's ignorance when the revelation arrives. He is present from the time of the first revelation. He is there from the moment that the mission begins.

He lives through the fire of difficulties, problems and thoughts so that he can play the difficult role he has to play in the migration, so that he can participate in the battles of Badr, Ohud, Khaybar, Fath and Hunayn and thereby guarantee the victory of the Islamic Revolution, so that he can grow up close to Fatima and finally, so that with Fa­tima, he can establish the `exemplary family' and in the continuation of the work of Abraham, begin a new his­tory.

Migration Thirteen years of difficulty, resistance, confinement and, torture in Mecca end. Fatima, from early childhood, patiently stood alongside her father, in the‑ city, in their home and in their imprisonment. With her weak constitu­tion, she withstood the angry blows of envy and the diffi­culties of resistance in the savage environment of ignoran­ce. With her little hands, she caressed her hero father like a mother. The migration begins. Moslems go to Medina.

The Prophet and Abu Bakr secretly leave Mecca. Fatima and her sister, Umm Khulthum also leave Mecca. Suddenly, one of the evil men of the Quraish who had a history of having caused the Prophet difficulties catches up with them and violently throws them down. Fatima who essentially had a weak constitution and who had suffered from the effects of three years in prison is greatly affected by this event. She suffers pain the entire way to Medina.

This uncalled for act of Huirath ibn Naqiz had such an effect upon Moslems and, in particular, the Prophet and Ali that even eight years later when conquering Mecca, they had not forgotten what he had done. His name is mentioned among those who should not be spared. They said that even if he is hanging on the cloth of the Kaaba, he should be killed. It was no accident that Ali carried out this order. In Medina Now they are in Medina.

The Prophet has built his mosque and next to it, the house which he built from mud and the leaves of palm trees. Then he announces the cere­mony of `the covenant of brotherhood'.