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Tragedy of al-Zahra’: Doubts and Responses [The Tragedy of Fatima Daughter of Prophet Muhammad: Doubts cast and Rebuttals]

Author: Ja’far Murtadha al-Amili
Translator: Yasin T. al-Jibouri
Publisher: www.al-islam.org
Category:

• Introduction
• Author’s Introduction
• Choosing the Tragedy of al-Zahra’ as a Topic
• Notes
• To The Reader
• Preface
• Important Points to Notice
• Repeated Points
• Notes
• Part 1: Al-Zahra’ (sa) And Her Tragedy
• Status and Infallibility of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• When was al-Zahra’ (sa) Born?
• Who is Superior: Maryam or Fatima, peace with them both?
• Worthiness of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Head of the Women of Mankind
• The Social Activity of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Al-Zahra’ : Her Father’s Mother
• Does Infallibility Force One Not to Commit Sins?!
• Do Environment and Surroundings Affect Infallibility?
• The Ability to Revolt Against the Environment And the Surroundings
• Wives of Prophets Noah and Lot (as)
• Maryam (sa) Facing the Challenge
• Deductions from the Above
• Notes
• Part 2: Al-Zahra’ (sa) And The Unknown
• Ideological Connection is Insufficient
• Al-Zahra’ (sa) was above Menstruation and Postpartum
• Interpreting Texts
• Is al-Zahra’ (sa) the First Author in Islam?
• Are There in “Mushaf Fatima” Judicial Injunctions?
• There is No Contradiction in Traditions about Fatima’s Mushaf
• Portraying Contradiction Differently
• Notes
• Part 3- Digression: Khalid ibn al-Walid and his Father
• Khalid ibn al-Walid
• Story of al-Walid ibn al-Mughirah
• Notes
• Part 4: What Al-Mufid Says
• Relying on What Scholars Say
• Consensus Regarding Oppression
• What Shaikh al-Mufid Intended to Say in His Book Titled
• Al-Irshad
• The answer to the above is as follows
• Al-Mufid Did Not Mention What al-Tusi Mentioned
• What the Fadak Story?
• Fatima (sa) After The Prophet’s Demise
• Fadak
• Khutba of Fatima al-Zahra' (sa) Demanding Fadak
• (Fatima (sa) then turned towards the Ansar and said:)
• A Brief History of Fadak After Fatima's Death
• Back to the Ikhtisas Book
• Al-Ikhtisas Book by Shaikh al-Mufid
• Notes
• Part 5: Kashifal-Ghita’ And Sharafud-Din
• What Kashifal-Ghita’ Says
• 1. Kashifal-Ghita’ Does Not Deny What Took Place
• 2. People Accepting the Hitting of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• 3. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Arguing About What Took Place
• 4. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Arguing
• 5. Ali (as) Refers to this Matter
• 6. Protest’s Justifications non-Existent
• 7. Al-Zahra’ (sa) Did Not Remind Abu Bakr of What Took Place
• 8. What Sayyid Sharafud-Din Confirms
• 9. Other Evidences and Proofs
• Did We Miscalculate?!
• Reactions to the Book are in Two Directions
• Glimpses from Some Reactions
• Written Responses
• Scholarly Value of such Responses
• Nation’s Religious Authorities and Renown Theologians Make a Stance
• Our Hand is Stretched out for a Debate
• Objections and Reproaches
• Why Rebut?!
• Sanctifying the Legacy
• A Reference
• Arguments Regarding the Angels’ Species
• Why was the Response Late?
• Who is “Oppressed”? Is this “Scandalizing”?
• Quoting Sayyid Sharafud-Din
• Time Period Between Hijri and Christian Calendars
• All Islamic Ideology is Human Except Fundamental Facts
• What Implication did the Bi’r al-’Abd Attack
• Curses and Condemnations
• Why a Reply Method?
• Perhaps Speaker’s Objective is not the Impression he Gave
• Those Who Fish in Muddy Waters
• Now is Not the Time for Such Issues
• A Bad Method; There is no Objection to Using it!
• Exiting the Sect’s Fiqhi Circle
• Is This the Jawahiri Approach?
• Placing the Hands on One Another, Testimony for the Wilayat
• Permissibility of Looking at Nudity
• About the Social Activity of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Categorizing or Sorting Texts
• Specialization and Sulaym’s Book
• He set out without a Legislative Method
• Authentication of Texts
• No Need for any Change
• Notes
• Part 6: “Their Love And Respect Deter Them”
• This Part’s Research
• Their Dispute With Ali (as) and Respect for al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Status of al-Zahra’ (sa) with the Ansar and with Her Assailants
• Who Said to ‘’Umar, “But Fatima (sa) is Inside...”?!
• How Much Respect Did the Sahaba Have For al-Zahra’ (sa)?
• Asking For Fatima’s Forgiveness Denotes the Status of al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Was al-Zahra’ (sa) Pleased With Both Senior Sahabis?!
• Unsuccessful Devious Attempts
• Is the Grave of al-Zahra’ (sa) Known to Anyone?
• Courage of al-Jahiz الجاحظ
• An Embarrassing Conclusion
• Al-Zahra’ (sa) Meeting Men; the Veil Issue
• Notes
• Part 7: Why Did Al-Zahra’ Have To Open The Door?
• Where were Ali’s Zeal and Manliness?
• Where is Ali’s Courage?!
• A Lady Confined to Her Chamber Never Opens the Door
• Had Ali (as) Responded to Them
• What if Fidda Responded to Them?
• An Example and a Witness
• Would they be too Afraid to Open the Door though Armed?!
• Doesn’t Ali (as) Defend the Trust of the Messenger of Allah S?!
• Is Beating al-Zahra’ (sa) a “Personal Matter”?!
• The Fadak Factor
• Those Present Had to Help al-Zahra’ (sa)
• Notes
• Part 8: From Here And There
• Did Medina’s Houses have Doors?!
• They did not Enter the House, so How did they Beat al-Zahra’ (sa)?!
• 1. “Do Not Quote me Saying it!
• 2. “Ali (as), Not I, Says So!”
• 3. He Dropped the Incident of Fatima (sa) Being Beaten!
• 4. Finding Fault With the Ruling System
• 5. Distorting the Book Titled Al-Ma’arif
• Qunfath’s Version Contradicts the Shaikh’s “Consensus”
• No Need to Assault al-Zahra’ (sa) While Ali (as) is Present
• Confusion and Contradiction in the Narratives
• Negation Requires Evidence
• Miscarriage of al-Muhsin Due to a Natural Cause!
• Did al-Zahra’ (sa) Cry Because of Impatience?!
• The “House of Grief” and People Annoyed by Her Weeping
• Bayt al-Ahzan Harmed Rather than Benefitted them
• Prohibition of Grieving over Falsehood, not over Weeping
• Prohibition of Weeping Over the Dead
• The Torah and the Prohibition of Weeping over the Dead
• Politics! What do You Know About Politics?!
• Notes
• Part 9: “I Know Not About The Nail...”
• The Nail
• The Book in the Balance
• Method of Exposition
• Weak Expressions
• Grammatical Errors
• Correction
• Malik-Shah: The Knowledge-Loving Ignorant Man
• Recklessness and Indiscretion
• The King Assassinates his Vizier
• The King Trusted only his Vizier
• Who Were the Attendants?
• Other Unjustifiable Contradictions
• Caliphate or Imamate?
• Unjustifiable Contradictions
• Statement Lacking Historical Precision
• Sometimes, it is the Method of Deduction
• 1. Cursing and Condemning
• 2. The Prophet’s Doubt of His Own Prophetic Mission!
• 3. Sunnis and the “Distortion” of the Qur’an
• 4. “He frowned and turned his back away”
• 5. Convictions of the Three Caliphs
• 6. How do You Prove the Betrayal of Abu Bakr?
• 7.’Umar Doubting Prophetic Mission
• 8. “My Nation’s Consensus will never be Wrong” and ‘Othman’s Murder
• 9. Tradition of العشرة المبشرة the Ten Men Given the Glad Tiding of Going to Paradise
• 10. Mut’a for the Sake of Getting Money
• 11. “Let me Resign, for I am not Your Best!”
• Notes
• Texts And Legacies
• These Chapters
• OPPRESSING AL-ZAHRA’ (sa)
• 1. Sayyid al-Himyari (d. 173 A.H./789 A.D.)
• 2. Al-Barqi (d. 245 A.H./859 A.D.)
• 3. Al-Nu’man, the Judge (d. 363 A.H./974 A.D.)
• 4. Mihyar al-Daylani (d. 428 A.H./1037 A.D.)
• 5. Ali ibn al-Muqarrab (d. 629 A.H./1232 A.D.)
• 6. Al-Khali’i (d. 750 A.H./1349 A.D.)
• 7. ‘Ala' ad-Din al-Hilli (killed in 786 A.H./1384 A.D.)
• 8. Mughamis al-Hilli (d. in the late 900s A.H./15th Century A.D.)
• 9. Muflih al-Saymari (d. 900 A.H./1495 A.D.)
• 10. Al-Hurr al-’Amili (d. 1104 A.H./1693 A.D.)
• 12. Sayyid Hayder al-Hilli (d. 1304 A.H./1887 A.D.)
• 13. Sayyid Baqir al-Hindi (d. 1329 A.H./1911 A.D.)
• 14. ‘Allama al-Qazwini (d. 1335 A.H./1917 A.D.)
• 15. Hafiz Ibrahim (d. 1351 A.H./1932)
• 16. Al-Isfahani, the Critic (d. 1361 A.H./1942 A.D.)
• Notes
• Texts And Legacies From The Fourteen Infallible Ones
• Traditions Regarding How al-Zahra’ (sa) was Persecuted
• Two Narratives Before the Reader
• What Sacred Texts Narrate
• What is Narrated From the Messenger of Allah (S)
• What is Narrated from Imam Ali (as)
• Books, like the sun, whose light
• What Imam al-Hassan al-Mujtaba (as) Narrates
• What is Narrated by al-Sajjad (as)
• What Either al-Baqir or al-Sadiq (as) has Narrated
• What is Narrated from Imam al-Baqir (as)
• What Imam al-Sadiq (as) is Quoted Narrating
• What is Narrated from Imam al-Kazim (as)
• What is Narrated From Imam al-Rida (as)
• What is Narrated from Imam al-Jawad (as)
• What is Narrated from Imam al-’Askari (as)
• Notes
• Oppressing Al-Zahra’: Centuries-Old Sectarian Arguments
• Testimonials
• 1. ‘Abd al-Jabbar, the Judge (d. 415 A.H.)
• 2. Sayyid al-Murtada, the Flag of Guidance (d. 436 A.H./1014 A.D.)
• 3. Shaikh al-Tusi (d. 460 A.H./1068 A.D.)
• 4. Abul-Salah al-Halabi (d. 474 A.H.)
• 5. ‘Abd al-Jalal al-Qazwini (d. cir. 560 A.H./1165 A.D.)
• 6. Yahya ibn Muhammed al-’Alawi al-Basri
• 7. Sayyid Ibn Tawus (d. 664 A.H./1266 A.D.)
• 8. Nasir ad-Din al-Tusi (d. 672 A.H./1273 A.D.)
• 9. ‘Allama al-Hilli (d. 726 A.H./1326 A.D.)
• 10. Shams ad-Din al-Isfarayani (d. 826 A.H./1423 A.D.)
• 11. Al-Qawshaji (d. 879 A.H./1474 A.D.)
• 12. The Virtuous al-Miqdad (d. 826 A.H./1423 A.D.)
• 13. Al-Bayadi al-’Amili
• 14. al-Gharawi and al-Harawi
• 15. The Researcher al-Karki (d. 940 A.H./1533 A.D.)
• 16. Ibn Makhdam (d. 976 A.H./1568 A.D.)
• 17. The Martyred Judge al-Tasatturi (d. 1019 A.H.)
• 18. Ibn Sa’d al-Jaza’iri (d. 1021 A.H./1612 A.D.)
• 19. Al-Hurr al-’Amili (d. 1104 A.H./1693 A.D.)
• 20. ‘Allama al-Majlisi (d. 1110 A.H./1698 A.D.)
• 21. Abul-Hassan al-Fattani
• 22. Al-Khawajoo’i al-Mazandarani (d. 1173 A.H./1759 A.D.)
• 23. Shaikh Yousuf al-Bahrani (d. 1186 A.H.)
• 24. Shaikh Ja’far Kashifal-Ghita’ (d. 1228 A.H./1813 A.D.)
• 25. Sayyid ‘Abdullah Shubbar (d. 1243 A.H./1827 A.D.)
• 26. Sayyid Muhammed Qulli al-Naishapuri al-Hindi (1189 – 1260 A.H./1775 – 1844 A.D.)
• 27. Sayyid Muhammed al-Mahdi al-Husayni al-Qazwini (d. 1300 A.H./1883 A.D.)
• 28. Sayyid al-Khunsari (d. 1313 A.H./1895 A.D.)
• 29. Ayatollah al-Muzaffar (d. 1375 A.H./1955 A.D.)
• 30. Sayyid Sharafud-Din (d. 1377 A.H./1952 A.D.)
• 31. Martyr [Muhammed-Baqir] al-Sadr (d. 1400 A.H./1980 A.D.)
• Notes
• Al-Muhsin In Texts And Legacies
• Did al-Muhsin Die Young?!
• What the Foremost Tabi’in Have Said
• Mentioning al-Muhsin Without Mentioning the Reason for His Death
• Deleting Muhsin’s Name without Saying Why
• Referring to the Miscarriage and why
• Muhsin was miscarried because of Grief for the Demise of the Prophet (S)
• Is This Historical “Confusion”?
• Notes
• Incident In The Wording Of Traditionists And Historians
• Ziyarat of al-Zahra’ (sa), the Truthful Lady
• What al-Mufid Records in Al-Amali
• Important Note
• Notes
• Conclusion