🌹(2)....The Stairway to Paradise Via Qom🌹
2024-05-09 / Thursday - 2024 09 May
🌹The Stairway to Paradise Via Qom🌹
By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz
He named her Fatema in honour of his Infallible Ancestress, the Noblest Lady of all times, Hazrat Fatema az-Zahra (SA) – the Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA).
As she grew up, the virtuous girl acquired the bezels of wisdom from her father. In the absence of the 7th Imam, because of intermittent periods of imprisonment by the tyrannical self-styled caliphs of the usurper Abbasid regime, she imbibed streams of knowledge from her beloved brother, Imam Reza (AS), who was 25 years her senior.
Once, when her father was on a journey and her brother was also not available, the God-given qualities of little Fatema (SA) came to the fore when a group of pilgrims from Iran happened to knock at the door of Imamate in Medina with a list of questions regarding various religious issues.
To their surprise, the queries they had were answered on paper from behind the curtain by a little girl. Feeling satisfied, they started their journey back home and chanced to meet Imam Kazem (AS) at one of the resting places. When they showed the answers provided to their questions by the Imam’s little daughter, he remarked “Fidaha Abuha” (her father be her ransom).
With such impeccable knowledge and wisdom beyond years it was but natural for the talents of the erudite daughter of the 7th Imam to flower one day. She was to shine in a different land and her radiance was destined to enlighten people from all over the world.
In childhood she suffered separation from her father when he was forcibly taken to Basra and thence to Baghdad by the tyrant Haroun ar-Rasheed. When she had reached the age of ten, this separation became permanent, as Imam Kazem (AS) was martyred in the dungeon of Baghdad through a fatal dose of poison in the year 183 AH (799 AD).
As she grew up, so did her proximity to God Almighty. So great was her piety that her brother Imam Reza (AS) conferred upon her the epithet “Ma’sumah”, which means Innocent, and which became synonymous with her name. Like the Virgin Mary (SA), the mother of Prophet Jesus (AS), she attained such lofty degrees of virtue that no person was considered worthy of her blessed hand.
In the year 201 (817 AD) AH, after Imam Reza (AS) was forced to leave Medina for the distant land of Khorasan by the crafty Abbasid tyrant Mamoun, the sister decided to journey to Iran in the company of several of her siblings to meet her eldest brother.
When the caravan neared Saveh (128 km west of modern Tehran), it was attacked by the enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt. As a result some of her brothers and kinfolk were martyred, while she sustained some injuries and decided to turn towards the nearby city of Qom, which was noted for its attachment to the cause of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt.
She was accorded a warm welcome by the people of Qom and the elders of the city came out to receive her.
🌹The Stairway to Paradise Via Qom🌹
By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz
He named her Fatema in honour of his Infallible Ancestress, the Noblest Lady of all times, Hazrat Fatema az-Zahra (SA) – the Daughter of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA).
As she grew up, the virtuous girl acquired the bezels of wisdom from her father. In the absence of the 7th Imam, because of intermittent periods of imprisonment by the tyrannical self-styled caliphs of the usurper Abbasid regime, she imbibed streams of knowledge from her beloved brother, Imam Reza (AS), who was 25 years her senior.
Once, when her father was on a journey and her brother was also not available, the God-given qualities of little Fatema (SA) came to the fore when a group of pilgrims from Iran happened to knock at the door of Imamate in Medina with a list of questions regarding various religious issues.
To their surprise, the queries they had were answered on paper from behind the curtain by a little girl. Feeling satisfied, they started their journey back home and chanced to meet Imam Kazem (AS) at one of the resting places. When they showed the answers provided to their questions by the Imam’s little daughter, he remarked “Fidaha Abuha” (her father be her ransom).
With such impeccable knowledge and wisdom beyond years it was but natural for the talents of the erudite daughter of the 7th Imam to flower one day. She was to shine in a different land and her radiance was destined to enlighten people from all over the world.
In childhood she suffered separation from her father when he was forcibly taken to Basra and thence to Baghdad by the tyrant Haroun ar-Rasheed. When she had reached the age of ten, this separation became permanent, as Imam Kazem (AS) was martyred in the dungeon of Baghdad through a fatal dose of poison in the year 183 AH (799 AD).
As she grew up, so did her proximity to God Almighty. So great was her piety that her brother Imam Reza (AS) conferred upon her the epithet “Ma’sumah”, which means Innocent, and which became synonymous with her name. Like the Virgin Mary (SA), the mother of Prophet Jesus (AS), she attained such lofty degrees of virtue that no person was considered worthy of her blessed hand.
In the year 201 (817 AD) AH, after Imam Reza (AS) was forced to leave Medina for the distant land of Khorasan by the crafty Abbasid tyrant Mamoun, the sister decided to journey to Iran in the company of several of her siblings to meet her eldest brother.
When the caravan neared Saveh (128 km west of modern Tehran), it was attacked by the enemies of the Ahl al-Bayt. As a result some of her brothers and kinfolk were martyred, while she sustained some injuries and decided to turn towards the nearby city of Qom, which was noted for its attachment to the cause of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt.
She was accorded a warm welcome by the people of Qom and the elders of the city came out to receive her.
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