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But your minds have made up a tale (that may pass) with you, but (for
me) patience is most fitting against that which ye assert; it is Allah
(alone) whose help can be sought."
It is apparent that Abu Bakr chanced the mode with which he
addressed Lady Fatima (A) after delivering her speech. Listen to his
following speech; which is his reply to Fatima's just reported speech. Abu Bakr said: "Surely Allah and His Apostle are truthful, and so has
his (the Prophet's) daughter told the truth. Surely you are the source of
wisdom, the element of faith, and the sole authority. May Allah not
refute your righteous argument, nor invalidate your decisive speech. But these are the Muslims between us-who have entrusted me with
leadership, and it was according to their satisfaction that I received
what I have. I am not being arrogant, autocratic, or selfish, and they
Upon hearing Abu Bakr speak of the people's support for him, Lady
Fatima Zahra (A) turned towards them and said: "O people, who rush
towards uttering falsehood and are indifferent to disgraceful and losing
Do you not earnestly seek to reflect upon the Quran, or are your hearts
isolated with locks? But on your hearts is the stain of the evil, which
you committed; it has seized your hearing and your sight, evil is that
which you justified cursed is that which you reckoned, and wicked is
what you have taken for an exchange! You shall, by Allah, find bearing
it (to be a great) burden, and its consequence disastrous. (That is) on
the day when the cover is removed and appears to you what is behind
it of wrath. When you will be confronted by Allah with that which you
could never have expected, there will perish, there and then, those
who stood on falsehoods." (the end). Although parts of Abu Bakr's speeches cannot be verified with
authentic evidence, and despite the fact that we have already
mentioned part of the actual speech, which Abu Bakr delivered after
Lady Fatima's arguments, it appears certain that Abu Bakr was finally
persuaded to submit Fadak to her. Nevertheless, when Fatima was leaving Abu Bakr's house, Umar
suddenly appeared and exclaimed: "What is it that you hold in your
Abu Bakr replied: 'A decree I have written for Fatima in which I
assigned Fadak and her father's inheritance to her."
Umar then said: "With what will you spend on the Muslims if the Arabs
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