The Ansârs, after the death of our
Prophet, decided to organize a meeting in a place called " Saghifeh Bani
Sâêdeh " to choose and name their calife. But the immigrants [ Abubakr,
Omar and Abu Obeydeh Jarrâh were their leaders ] soon knew of this meeting, and
they came to talk and negiotiate with the Ansârs.
The immigrants wanted desperately to rob
the Leadership from the Ansârs, and to come to power themselves, So, to
persuade the other party, they talked of many things with them.
Finally, they decided to choose Abubakr,
as the rightful calife. In the midst of it all, there came an old man who,
seeing that he had no choice but to reunite with Abubakr, told. him:" It's
like the day of Adam..." [That is: as Satan was forced to adore Adam, he
suddenly refused to do so; and the same was being repeated there and then, and
by doing this, all the human race was surely to be forced out of Heaven...]
Now, outside Saghifeh, Ali was busy with the Prophet's funeral. Suddenly
Salmânê Fârsi came and told him about the reunion of some of the immigrants
with the Ansârs, and the leadership of Abubakr.
Ali, after having finished all the
preparations that was needed for that holy funeral, stopped to perform his
prayer in front of the sanctified body of our Prophet. Many people came to show
their dutiful respect to the Messenger of God for the last time’ and to perform
the prayer of the dead before his sanctified body and to bid him farewell...
Afterwards, Ali did not linger with the
mourners who had gathered there to show their loyalty to him. But
unfortunately, the majority of Muslims had given their oath to Abubakr.
Afterwards, when they saw Fâtêmeh, they
used to say most peevishly: " We would rather have given our oath to your
dignified husband than to Aboubakr...
But Abubakr was the first to ask for our
allegiance to him..."
And Fâtemeh replied:" What you mean
is that my husband should have left the sanctified body of my respectful and
beloved father as it was lain on the floor, untouched, and that he should have
come rapidly to you, to ask for your allegiance...?! You mean to tell me that
he should have left my beloved father, without the benefice of preparing him a
dignified funeral?! You mean to tell me that he should have. Thought about his
leadership, and begin a dispute for this earthly matter, instead of mourning my
father?! All right... May God remember your actions, and take measure for your
deeds! "
After a while, the responsible of that
conspiracy decided to make Ali swear allegiance to them, so as to empower their
fragile yet strong new position.
But Ali, by pretending that he was
collecting all the sourates of the Holy Ou'rân replied:" I have sworn
solemnly that until I have not collected all the sourates of the Holy Ou’rân,
and until I have not set them right, not to go out of my home and not to put my
cloak [ Abâ ] on my shoulders... “so he refused firmly to swear allegiance to
them. Unfortunately, the enemies had made a plan in case Ali would refuse to
join them.
Someone by the name of Ghanfaz and his
gang came in front of Ali’s house to take him by force to the mosque, so that
he swear allegiance to the new calife. But they were faced with Fâtemeh's
refusal to open the door. With a sign from Omar Ibn'l Khatâb, the hateful
servants of these men, with the leadership of Ghanfaz, made a fire and burnt
the entrance door. Then they y kicked the burnt out door aside... But what of
it?
The door opened all right, but by having
been shut open, the peg of the door encountered with Fâtemeh's fragile blossom
and hurt deeply the beautiful flower of the household of Mohammad...
Suddenly the enemy entered the house. One
hand on the sword, the other hand on the whip...
Fâtemeh on seeing this, cried out loud:
" 0 Father! 0 Messenger of God! " The enemy took out his sword, and
with the width of his weapon, pushed her hard towards the wall, so much so that
the ribs of this sweet, beloved lady, broke, and it resulted in a miscarriage...
The stillborn would have been a boy named Mohssen, even though it wasn't born
yet...
Fâtemeyeh Zahrâ hurt so much that she
fell on the floor, and began sobbing and crying out to her maid:
" O Fezzeh! Help me… I swear to God
that I have a miscarriage... " They then put a cord on Hazratê Ali’s neck,
to take him by force to the Mosque. Fâtemeh pushed herself up, so that she
could take the hem of Ali’s clothes, and make him stay. But the hateful
Ghanfaz, on seeing this, slashed Fâtemeh's arm with his whip so violently that
her arm swelled at once...
On the way to the mosque, a jewish man,
upon seeing Hazratê Ali, greeted him most respectfu1ly, and suddenly began to
say the proper sentences [ The Shahadateyn ] so as to become a Muslim.
Somebody asked him:" What made you
believe the truth about Islam? " He answered promptly:" It was the
innocence I perceived in Hazratê Ali’Being… "
They took Hazratê Ali to the mosque and
told him: " If you don't swear your allegiance to the new calife, we will
behead you surely! "
Hazratê Ali replied to them:" If you
do this, not only have you undoubtedly murdered a servant of God, but also the
brother of our Prophet... "
Fâtemeh, after receiving such a terrible
blow from her enemy, had fallen on the floor and lost conscience ness for a
while. But after some time, she opened her eyes and said: " Fezzeh! Where
is my lord, Ali? "
Her servant answered her sadly:" O
milady! They took him to the mosque! " Fâtemeh took the hrfnds of her two
little sons Hassan and Hosseyn, and there she entered the mosque and began
making a little speech, there and then.
She said:" Leave my cousin and
husband alone! Otherwise I will discover my
hair to show my utter desperation and
grief in this very place... I have put the
very cloth that the Prophet used to wear,
on my head, and then will go to the
grave of my father and will complain
against you all! "
The fiery words of Fâtemeh, with the
refusal of Hazratê Ali to swear his allegiance, and the arrival of the faithful
friends of the Messenger of God in that moment, made the enemies to retreat,
and they were forced to let Hazratê Ali go his way... By what is written
officially, this event took place exactly six days after the death of the
Prophet…