About the Social Activity of al-Zahra’ (A.S.)
 

One of the issues raised is their claim that I have discussed the social activity of al-Zahra’ (A.S.) as I have discussed someone’s statement wherein he says that he does not “... find in history what refers to any social activity of al-Zahra’ (A.S.) in the Islamic society except in one or two narratives.”

I discussed the fact that she did not establish philanthropic foundations, nor did she participate in humane organizations or the like. So he considered such statements derogatory to his activities in this field, as if he wants to find an evidence demonstrating that this book assaulted personal characteristics unrelated to the scholarly aspect upon which the book is based. They also apologized for this person saying that he simply was criticizing and indicting the oppressive history. Let me say the following:

 

FIRST: Someone’s care about philanthropic or humane establishments is not considered as indicting him/her, nor is it a point of weakness in his/her practical life so it could be assaulted.

 

SECOND: Making a stand to oppose issues of this sort, paying them such an attention, is not an issue relevant to this party or to that. Rather, this is considered a framework undertaken by those who deal with social issues. We never objected to such sort of activity, nor do we have any problems in this direction.

 

THIRD: Anyone who reads, with awareness and fairness, what we wrote and understands our objective and who still needs some explanation, we would like to say to him: We discussed the possibilities within the cycle of what social life demanded during that generation.

 

FOURTH: We believe that history has been unfair to al-Zahra’ (A.S.) just as it has been to many righteous and sincere people and those who worked for the sake of Allah. But to deny the existence of any except one or two such traditions needs a complete supervision and a perfect tracing of historical texts in various books and biographies to prove it. We have cited in this book samples proving that anyone who makes a statement like this has not conducted a thorough research so that he would be accurate in such a way.

 

FIFTH: This same person who makes such a statement gives credit to this Lady, al-Zahra’ (A.S.), in various and numerous lectures of his which fall in the same category, as stated by some of those who took to defending him; so, what is the meaning of such minute restriction of the subject to one or two narratives?! We have found such matters cited in a lot more than that as is quite obvious.