Name - Fatima
Title - Az-Zahra
Kunyat - Umm-ul-Aimma
Born - Friday 20th of Jamadi-ul-Akhar
in Mecca
Father's Name - Holy Prophet Muhammad
Ibn-e-Abdulla (PBUH)
Mother's Name - Khadija
bint-e-Khuwailid
Died - 14th Jamadi-ul-Awwal at Medina
at the age of 18 years (due to injury inflicted upon her through force
of a falling door by a hypocrite).
Buried - The cemetery of Jannatul Baqi
at Medina
Bibi Fatimah Zahra (A.S.)
was born to Bibi Khadija (A) and the Prophet (S). Before her birth, the
Prophet (S) had had two sons, Qasim and Tahir, but both boys had died
when they were babies.
The Prophet (S) had
started teaching the message of Islam and had made many enemies. As a
result, some of the unbelievers began to make fun of him at the death of
his sons, calling him "Abtar".
The word Abtar means an
animal who has no tail - and was meant to say that the Prophet (S) was
tail-less because he had no children to carry on his family.
Thus, when Bibi Fatimah
(A) was born, the following Sura of the Holy Qur'an was revealed:
"In the Name of Allah,
the most Kind, the most Merciful.
Verily (O Muhammad), We
have given you Kauthar.
So pray to your Lord
and give sacrifice.
Verily, your enemies
will be Abtar.
Surah al-Kauthar,
(108:1-3)
When the Holy Prophet (S)
was asked what Kauthar meant, he replied that it was a stream in heaven
and the man who would give water from that stream to the believers was
Imam Ali (A).
He then said that Kawthar
also meant abundance, and the birth of Bibi Fatimah (A) signified that,
through her, his descendants would be in abundance.
The promise of Allah was
certainly true because today, there are countless descendants of the
Prophet (S), (Sayyids) while there is nobody who claims to be a
descendant of the Quraish. Thus the enemies of the Holy Prophet (S) were
those who became truly "Abtar".
This Surah in the Holy
Qur'an is thus a reference to Bibi Fatimah (A).
Moral: You should never
think that you have more than someone else, because there might come a
time when that person has more than you. Remember it is through the
blessing of Allah that you have what you have.