Woe be to the community that kills them and has animosity towards them.

Imam al-Baqir (‘a) said that when Fatimah (‘a) wanted to express her last wishes, she said to Amir al-Mu’minin: “O Aba al-Hasan, the Holy Prophet had promised me and informed me that I would be the first from his family to join him, and that which is decreed will happen, So, be patient with the command of Allah and accept His will.”

It has been narrated from Imam al-Sadiq (‘a) that when al-Sayyida Fatimah was on her deathbed, she began to cry. Amir al-Mu’minin (‘a) said to her, “What is making you cry, my lady?” She said, “I am crying about what you will undergo after my death.” He said, “Do not cry, for Indeed, I consider that to be something small in the way of Allah.”

In another narration, it is reported that she said to Amir al-Mu’minin (‘a), “I have something to ask of you, O Aba al-Hasan.” He said, “Anything, O daughter of the Prophet of Allah.” She said, “I implore you, by Allah, and by Muhammad the Messenger of Allah, not to allow Abu Bakr and ‘Umar to pray over me.”

And in yet another narration from Ali (‘a), it is reported that he said, “Fatimah (‘a) expressed her last wishes to me and said: ‘If the two of them pray over me I will complain to my father against you the way I complain to him against them.’”

These were some of the narrations about the final wishes of al-Sayyida Fatimah al-Zahra, which she expressed due to the pain that she had to endure from that community and the hardship she had to go through at the hands of those hard-hearted oppressors. She chose to record her name among the foremost of those who were oppressed and deprived of their rights, So, that her name would become a symbol against oppression and persecution. Al-Sayyida al-Zahra wanted her funeral to be a demonstration of her anger against the government and all those who helped and aided it or even accepted its legitimacy. It was a proclamation of her displeasure with all those who had taken a negative stance against her.