In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful

 

TO THE READER

 

All praise belongs to Allah; peace and blessings upon Muhammed, the Messenger of Allah, and upon his pure Progeny.

The events al-Zahra’ (A.S.) had to undergo, and the tribula-tions, were not directed against just her own self, or against her personality as an individual, as much as they targeted to transgress firm Islamic principles in order to reach what those who carried them out could not otherwise reach or achieve what they had no right to achieve. Al-Zahra’ (A.S.) in fact, was a mighty bulwark that stood in the way of the achievement of such unjustified and illegitimate ambitions. It emphasized and firmed their illegitimacy and illegality according to the nation’s level of awareness, in her conscience, and in the Islamic and human consciousness as well.

One may find, as he tries to comprehend the historic flow of events, that one may pretend that he lives a state of hesitation in accepting any reasonable justification for them, or at least subjective opportunities, for such events to take place at all. This stirs many questions in his mind about how accurate, or how precise, those who transmitted such events were. For this reason, he is not too embarrassed to cast doubts about all of this even if he cannot reject it or openly and publicly declare it as unacceptable.

Yet the stand of such sort of people instils within them something which they take for granted and in which they do not doubt. It says that the answer to such inquiries, then verifying the authenticity of those events with seriousness and precision, will by necessity mean a straightforward indictment and an open rejection of the “legitimacy” of all the events that took place in the aftermath. He will openly and bitterly find those who coined those events and who caused all those catastrophes that surrounded the truthful al-Zahra’ (A.S.) as wrong, and this is something which they wish to avoid having to fall in.