PART I
 

AL-ZAHRA’ (A.S.) AND HER TRAGEDY

Status and Infallibility of AL-ZAHRA’ (A.S.)
 

We shall start our discourse in this Part by narrating the biography of al-Zahra (A.S.) since some people try to avoid, or even refuse to uphold or be bound by what the glorious Prophet (A.S.) has stated, or by what the Purified Imams (A.S.) have said, that is, that she (A.S.) was born from the fruit of Paradise following the isra’ and mi`raj, and that she (A.S.) married Ali (A.S.) at an early age. Such person senses a degree of embarrassment, so he avoids being convinced, preferring not to expose himself to such issues. It may neither be this possibility nor that. It may be something else which prompts him to make such a stand, and surely Allah knows the facts of all issues and Who knows what the hearts conceal.

Then we discuss issues closely connected to the issue of the infallibility of the purified one, peace of Allah be upon her and His blessings.

This discussion of infallibility is an acceptable introduction to the stations of eminence and the degrees of nearness to the Head of all the Women of the World, peace and blessings be upon her, under the divine care and upbringing, without neglecting to point out to the subject of her connection with the unknown on account of what Allah, Glory and Exaltation are His, has bestowed upon her of attributes, merits and divine boons which distinguished her from all other women of mankind. She was the woman on the occasion of whose marriage with Ali (A.S.) the heavens celebrated before the earth, the woman who was pure and purified from all irreverence, uncleanness or shortcoming, so much so that Allah exempted her from whatever afflicts women of particular things relevant only to them without letting any of that have a negative effect on her personality in as far as pregnancy and childbirth are concerned.