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When Fatima Zahra reached nine years of age, she was a full-grown

woman who enjoyed intellectual maturity and integrity of conduct. Allah

gifted her with a brilliant mentality and cleverness, together with

beauty, grace and elegance. Her talents were many and her inherited

will come to know that she was the most knowledgeable and most

honorable woman in the world. In fact, history has not witnessed any

other woman who achieved such a high level of education, knowledge,

and social graces that Fatima reached; regardless of the fact that she

did not graduate from any educational establishment save the school

Prophet asked to marry her, but he (S) rejected them by saying: "Her

affair is left to her Lord; whenever He wills, she will marry."

Shu'aib Ibn Saab al-Misri said the following in Ar- Rawd al-Faeq:

"When the sun of her beauty shined in the heavens of Messengership

and became full on the horizon of exaltation of the moon of her

perfection, the dawns of thoughts reached towards her and the sights

of the chosen longed to observe her beauty; so the masters of the

Muhajirin and Ansar asked to many her, but the one who was

bestowed with Allah's satisfaction (the Prophet (S) rejected them and

said: `I am waiting for Allah's ordinance in her regard."'

Abu Bakr and Umar were among those who asked to marry Fatima,

but the Prophet (S) rejected them too, and said that she was still too

young for marriage. Abdur Rahman Ibn Awf also asked for her hand,