Having to choose between living a single life...
Having to choose between living a
single life, deprived of marriage, and falling victim to one of the
above mentioned predicaments; or to marry an already married man and
enjoy the happiness of a marital life under the reign of Islamic
justice, while keeping her honour, and chastity, thus living with an
untarnished name and reputation, and establishing a family with children
and participating in building a virtuous society!! There is no third to the above-mentioned choices. The population of
women in the world exceeds that of men, so if every man were to limit
himself to one wife, then millions of women would remain unmarried;
keeping in mind the fact that some men cannot, for many reasons, limit
themselves to one wife. As such, some women cannot live in harmony with
their husbands, due to their different experiences, and motives in life. Also, women are subject to sterility, sickness, trouble, and a lot more,
which would need special effort to speak of and would divert us from our
Returning to our subject, Fatima Zahra (sa), I say: be informed that
despite the greatness, honor and moral excellence which Fatima enjoyed,
still she has been the target of harsh statements made by some evil
Muslim, and non-Muslim writers. This becomes apparent when one refers to hadith books and studies, which
besides the many excellent characteristics mentioned in her regard, a
group of forged stories have been fabricated, and added to these books
by agents of past oppressive regimes. Those agents who spread poisonous flowers of speech and false hadith,
which were revealed to them by their evil masters, have actually sold
their souls to some creatures, and achieved nothing save the wrath of
They used their pens of enmity, and daggers of hypocrisy in obedience to
those who bought from them their faith and dead conscience, all the
while heedless of the Prophet's calibre, and contradicting the
narrations recorded in their own books and publications, which praise
It seems as if they are pleased to encroach upon Fatima's honor in
response to the call of their evil consciousnesses; while it is clear
that they realize she is the Prophet's daughter and the most beloved,
and a dear person to him.
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