The clear and frank answer to these questions is NO! In fact, it brought them a much more calamity than they had expected. People did not find it easy to accept to get al-Zahra’ (A.S.) out of her house and prohibit her from displaying her grief and from openly declaring her being oppressed. This indeed is a greater oppression, more effective and serious, and a clearer evidence about the extent of the oppression from which she (A.S.) had to suffer.

What makes this picture clearer is that people would see that what she went through took place immediately as soon as her father (A.S.) passed away. Instead of offering their condolences or consoling her, the only daughter of her father and the Head of all the Women of Mankind that she was, they exposed her to a greater and a more bitter calamity. All of this they did while regarding themselves as adherents of this religion, recognizing her father (A.S.) as their Prophet. They were supposed to respect and sanctify him. Yet those folks went in their oppression as far as persecuting the closest of all people to him, namely his daughter, a woman of feelings, forbidding her from grieving for a father whom she lost. All this they did so that she would not publicly expose how they oppressed her.