31. Martyr al-Sadr (d. 1400 A.H.)

The great Islamic thinker and the happy martyr, Sayyid Muhammed Baqir al-Sadr, may Allah shower him with His mercy, has written saying, “`Omer is the one who assaulted your house (O Fatima!) which the Prophet (A.S.) made as a center for his call. He (`Omer) assaulted the family of Muhammed (A.S.) in their own home and set it ablaze or almost.”^[1]

He also said, “Such was the conduct of the caliph and his friends towards Ali (A.S.) which reached the degree of cruelty that `Omer ordered to burn his house even though Fatima (A.S.) was still inside it. This means that Fatima (A.S.) or others from her offspring had no sanctity that would stop someone from treating them as someone would treat Sa`d ibn `Abadah when he ordered people to kill him.”^[2]