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Lady Fatima Zahra (A) opened her eyes to the world to enjoy prophetic
fatherly love and to suckle Khadijah’s milk, which was mixed with
excellent morals and perfection. Growing in the house of revelation, gave her the chance to achieve the
highest degree of perfection and excellence. The Prophet (S) taught
her divine knowledge and endowed her with special intelligence, so
that she realized the true meaning of faith, piety, and the reality of
The virtuous upbringing of Fatima by Allah's Messenger as
accompanied by her capability to perceive divine facts and her spiritual
brilliance and preparedness to ascend to the highest levels of
Parallel to this, was Allah's will that Fatima Zahra should face many
sorrows and live in anguish from the very beginning of her life. She
opened her eyes to see her father being fought by his relatives and
strangers and treated with hostility by the infidels and polytheists. For
instance, Fatima might have entered the Sacred Mosque and seen her
father reading Quran in the private chamber of Ishmael (around
Kaaba), while polytheists were harming him and waging a
psychological war against him. One day, Fatima saw the infidels pour
camel placenta on her father while he was prostrating to Allah; so she
cleaned his back and while bitterly crying, cursed he unbelievers and
supplicated to Allah to punish them. But the infidels were sarcastic, in
the same respect as any lowly people and rubble would be. Ibn Abbas reported that the Quraishians once held a meeting in the
Sacred Mosque and vowed by their Idols that as soon as they saw
Muhammad, they would all participate in killing him; upon hearing this,
Fatima (A) went crying to her father and informed him of their
The crisis became more intense when the Messenger of Allah was
forcefully confined to Abu Talib's trail (valley) along with his family and
all the members of Abu Talib's family. They lived in an atmosphere
overtaken by fear and anxiety of the constantly expected attack by the
infidels at night. The situation grew even worse when the polytheists
drew up a treaty to besiege Bani Hashim and impose economic
sanctions against them; this treaty allowed no one to sell or buy
anything from them, including food supplies. Therefore, the cries of starving children reached the ears of all Makkan
inhabitants. The people of Mecca were divided into two groups: One
who was enjoying the misfortunes of the Bani Hashim and the other
was deeply affected with their misery.
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