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The Lady Fatimah (‘a) delivered a fiery sermon in defense of Imam ‘Ali (‘a) even while she was bedridden with her illness.
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The Lady Fatimah (‘a) delivered a fiery sermon in defense of Imam ‘Ali (‘a) even while she was bedridden with her illness. This was the same illness from which she would never recover. What must be mentioned is Fatimah (‘a) suffered much oppression just a short time after her father’s death; she suffered so much in fact that she eventually passed away from this oppression. Yet when the women of Medina visited her and asked her who she was doing, she didn’t speak about her own condition, even though this was what was expected. The entire content of her words was in regards to the usurpation of the caliphate from Imam ‘Ali (‘a) and the dangers which were to soon confront the Muslim community (due to this usurpation).
She didn’t say one word in regards to her own pain, and she only spoke about her husband, Imam ‘Ali (‘a), and the problems that the Muslim community faced. This shows the greatness of her spirit that overlooked her own pain and difficulties and only focused on those things which the community faced as a whole and this was in spite of the communitys own shortcomings which had led to such a state of affairs. She said the following in defense of Imam ‘Ali (‘a) and the caliphate which had been usurped from him: Indeed I swear by God (that if the caliphate had been his), he would have gently guided the people whenever they deviated from the truth and refrained from accepting the clear proofs; this would have been a guidance which would not have bothered the people…
In the end, the people would have been guided to a pure and wholesome spring, a river which was brimming with water from both ends… He would have never taken anything from this world… only the thirsty would have been satiated and the hungry would have been fed. It would have been at this point that the seeker of worldly things would have been distinguished from the ascetic and the truthful one would have been shown in contrast to the liar. It is as God has said in his Book: “If the people of the towns had been faithful and God wary, We would have opened to them blessings from the heaven and the earth. But they denied; so We seized them because of what they used to earn.”[1] And the verse which says: “So the evils of what they had earned visited them, and as for the wrongdoers among these, the evils of what they earn shall be visited on them and they will not thwart [Allah’s might].”[2][3]
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