◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Fatemeh_is_Fatemeh (Persian: فاطمه، فاطمه است‌‎) is a book written by Ali Shariati. In the book, Fatima Zahra the daughter of the Islamic #prophet_Muhammad pbuh&hp is described as a role #model for #Muslims_women around the #world.
It was written in the pre-revolutionary era of Iran's history where there were no specific sources by which one might interpret who she was, and he assures the readers that he is giving them more than an analytical description of her personality and that it needs the criticism of the enlightened thinker.
By writing this book he was to complete the work of French scholar #Professor_Louis_Massignon.
He describes Fatima as a manifestation and a #symbol of the way and an essential direction of '#Islamic_thought'. He states that even in the ever changing world in which people's views towards life constantly change, as a role model Fatima can #still be looked up to by women around the #world.

Source: Wikipedia

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_1

To begin with, I had wanted to comment upon the research of #Professor_Louis_Massignon about the #personality and complicated life of #Fatima (s.a). I had wished to refer to the deep and revolutionary #influence her memory evokes in Moslem societies, and the role she has played in the breadth of Islamic transformations. I agreed to answer the pertinent question of #womanhood which is extremely important today for our society.
Women who have remained in the #traditional_mould do not face the problem of identity and
women who have accepted the #new_imported_mould have solved the problem for themselves.
But in the midst of these two types of #molded_women, there are those who can neither accept their hereditary, traditional form nor surrender to this imposed new form. #What_should_they_do?
They want to #decide for themselves.They want to #develop themselves. They need a #model, an #ideal_example.For them, the problem of #Who_am_I? #How_do_I_become? is urgent.
#Fatima, through her own #being, answers their questions.

✨Ali Shariati; June, 1971

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_2

🔰Our people continue to speak about #Fatima.Every year, hundreds of thousands of Moslems cry for her.There are hundreds of thousands of gatherings, prayer meetings, festivals and mourning ceremonies in her memory. They hold rituals of lamentation where they recreate her sorrows. In spite of all of this, #her_real_personality is not known.
The only things, unfortunately, that our people know of this great, sacred person are these few items as follows:
'Fatima was the beloved daughter of the #Prophet. After the death of the Prophet, her grazing land in #Fadak was taken... They attacked her home with a group of his men and struck her in her side and she, six months pregnant, aborted her son, #Mohsin. From then on her days passed with the taking of her children's hands and walking outside of the city to a place called 'House of Sorrows'. There she would sit and cry. She would speak ill of the usurpers of Ali's rights. She would cry and lament for hours. She spent her short life crying until she died. She requested in her will that she be buried at #night so that those who thought ill of her would not follow her funeral and they would not know where she was buried.'
This is the extent of the information about this great person that exists in the memories of our people.
✅Yet, in spite of the little they know about her, the people accept her majesty and power with their whole hearts. They offer her their hearts with all the spiritual strength, faith and will that a people could have or a human community could build.

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#part_3

🔰#Shiism is nothing other than #Islam ‑ not that which they tell us: `Islam in addition, to other things'. #No! Shi'ism means #pure_Islam, Islam minus the Caliphate, pseudo Arabness and those who live in luxury. Shi'ism does not take the two principles of #justice and #imamate (religious leadership) and add them to Islam ‑ Islam without justice and Imamate is the same as the religion of #Islam_minus_Islam. The same is true for Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Vedantism, Buddhism and Taoism.
#Ali a.s has not been added to #Muhammad(‘s). We have taken Ali in order not to lose Muhammad.
The descendants of the historical Caesars, Kings, Pharaohs all spoke from Muhammad, yet there is a difference in what they stood for.
We do not replace the Traditions (#sunnah) of the Prophet with the #family_of_Ali, nor do we add to them. Very simply and straight forwardly, this is his family. We seek to know, through the Traditions, what he said, what he did and what he wanted but with the help and guidance of his
family.
✨Contrary to what both enemies and lovers today think, #Shiism is the most traditional sect of Islam.
The major difference stems principally from whether or not Ali and the #real_Shiites tried consciously and correctly, from the beginning, in opposition to innovations and heresy, to remain traditional and retain the traditions.

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_4

🔰#Wisdom and #Love

Each religion, school of thought, movement or revolution is made up of two elements: #wisdom and
#love.One is #light and the other is #motion. One gives common sense and understanding, the other,
strength, enthusiasm and motion. In the words of .Alexis Carrel, 'Wisdom is like the lights of a car
which show the way. Love is like the motor which makes it move.' Each is nothing without the
other. A motor, without lights, is blind love, dangerous, tragic and infers death.
In a society, a movement of thought or a revolutionary school of thought, men of letters who are clear thinkers, aware and responsible, show, through their works, that there is a way to come to know a school of thought or a religion. They show that there is a way to give awareness to the people. The responsibility of the people, on the other hand, is to give their spirits and their strength to a movement. They are responsible for giving the starting push.
A movement is like a living body. It thinks with the brain of scholars and gives love through the hearts of its people. If faith, sincerity, love and sacrifice are at a minimum in a society, #people are #responsible. But where correct understanding of a school of thought is at a minimum, where vision, awareness, logical consciousness, deep familiarity with the goals of a school of thought are lacking, where the meaning, purpose and truths of a school of thought are missing, the #scholars are #responsible. Religion, in particular, needs both since religion is a type of lover’s consciousness or #love_of_consciousness.
In #religion,#knowledge and #feelings are not treated as separate entities because they are transformed into understanding and faith by means of common sense and the coming to know something.

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_5

🔰The Family of Ali a.s

🔹#Ali is the most manifest of truths and represents the most progressive school of thought which has ever taken human form. It is not a myth. It is a human reality or should be from that which it could be and isn't.
🔸And his wife, #Fatima, is a perfect example of an #ideal_woman; of what a woman could be and no one has become. #Husayn and #Zaynab, the sister and the brother, who brought such a deep revolution in the history of mankind, give a sense of honor to freedom and disgrace to despotism and oppression.
The #house_of_Ali is like the #Kaaba in which children and the inheritors of #Abraham reside.
🔺The Kaaba is a sign, a symbol and it is real. It is made of stone whereas they are human beings. The Kaaba is the place of circumambulation for Moslems only whereas the house of Ali is the #destination of every heart which understands beauty, knows the majesty of humanity, freedom, justice, love, sincerity, strength, encourages jihad and sacrifices to preserve the lives and freedom of the people.
From another point of view, in the difficult and confused space of #history, among the palaces, with
the Caesars, as history always breathes from them; culture, civilization, religion, thought, discipline and art are turned around.

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_6

🔰I do not know what to say about her or how to say it?

♦️I wanted to imitate the French writer who was speaking one day in a conference about the Virgin #Mary. He said, "For 1700 years all of the speakers have spoken of Mary. For 1700 years, all philosophers and thinkers of various nations of the East and West have spoken of the value of Mary. For 1700 years, the poets of the world have spent all of their creative efforts and power in their praise of Mary. For 1700 years, all of the painters and artists have created wonderful works of art showing the face and form of Mary.
🔻But the totality of all that has been said and the efforts of all the artists and thinkers throughout these many centuries have not been able to better describe the greatness of Mary than the simple words, 'Mary was the mother of Jesus Christ.'
And I wanted to begin in this manner with #Fatima. I got stuck. I wished to say, 'Fatima was the #daughter_of_the_great_Khadija,' but I sensed this would not fully describe Fatima.
I wished to say, 'Fatima was the #daughter_of_Muhammad,' but I sensed this would not fully describe Fatima.
I wished to say,'Fatima was the #wife_of_Ali,' but I sensed this would not fully describe Fatima.
I wished to say,'Fatima was the #mother_of_Hassan_and_Husayn,' but I sensed this would not fully describe Fatima.
I wished to say, 'Fatima is the #mother_of_Zaynab,' but I still sensed this would not fully describe Fatima.
🔺No, these are all true, and none of them is Fatima, #Fatima_is_Fatima.

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Fatemeh_is_Fatemeh (Persian: فاطمه، فاطمه است‌‎) is a book written by Ali Shariati. In the book, Fatima Zahra the daughter of the Islamic #prophet_Muhammad pbuh&hp is described as a role #model for #Muslims_women around the #world.
It was written in the pre-revolutionary era of Iran's history where there were no specific sources by which one might interpret who she was, and he assures the readers that he is giving them more than an analytical description of her personality and that it needs the criticism of the enlightened thinker.
By writing this book he was to complete the work of French scholar #Professor_Louis_Massignon.
He describes Fatima as a manifestation and a #symbol of the way and an essential direction of '#Islamic_thought'. He states that even in the ever changing world in which people's views towards life constantly change, as a role model Fatima can #still be looked up to by women around the #world.

Source: Wikipedia

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@rahyafte_en

◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_1

To begin with, I had wanted to comment upon the research of #Professor_Louis_Massignon about the #personality and complicated life of #Fatima (s.a). I had wished to refer to the deep and revolutionary #influence her memory evokes in Moslem societies, and the role she has played in the breadth of Islamic transformations. I agreed to answer the pertinent question of #womanhood which is extremely important today for our society.
Women who have remained in the #traditional_mould do not face the problem of identity and
women who have accepted the #new_imported_mould have solved the problem for themselves.
But in the midst of these two types of #molded_women, there are those who can neither accept their hereditary, traditional form nor surrender to this imposed new form. #What_should_they_do?
They want to #decide for themselves.They want to #develop themselves. They need a #model, an #ideal_example.For them, the problem of #Who_am_I? #How_do_I_become? is urgent.
#Fatima, through her own #being, answers their questions.

✨Ali Shariati; June, 1971

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◼️Fatima is Fatima

▪️Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

#Part_2

🔰Our people continue to speak about #Fatima. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Moslems cry for her.There are hundreds of thousands of gatherings, prayer meetings, festivals and mourning ceremonies in her memory. They hold rituals of lamentation where they recreate her sorrows. In spite of all of this, #her_real_personality is not known.
The only things, unfortunately, that our people know of this great, sacred person are these few items as follows:
'Fatima was the beloved daughter of the #Prophet. After the death of the Prophet, her grazing land in #Fadak was taken... They attacked her home with a group of his men and struck her in her side and she, six months pregnant, aborted her son, #Mohsin. From then on her days passed with the taking of her children's hands and walking outside of the city to a place called 'House of Sorrows'. There she would sit and cry. She would speak ill of the usurpers of Ali's rights. She would cry and lament for hours. She spent her short life crying until she died. She requested in her will that she be buried at #night so that those who thought ill of her would not follow her funeral and they would not know where she was buried.'
This is the extent of the information about this great person that exists in the memories of our people.
✅Yet, in spite of the little they know about her, the people accept her majesty and power with their whole hearts. They offer her their hearts with all the spiritual strength, faith and will that a people could have or a human community could build.

🔘🔜

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🔸Fatima is Fatima; Author: #Dr_Ali_Shariati

🔰The Family of Ali a.s

🔹#Ali is the most manifest of truths and represents the most progressive school of thought which has ever taken human form. It is not a myth. It is a human reality or should be from that which it could be and isn't.
🔸And his wife, #Fatima, is a perfect example of an #ideal_woman; of what a woman could be and no one has become. #Husayn and #Zaynab, the sister and the brother, who brought such a deep revolution in the history of mankind, give a sense of honor to freedom and disgrace to despotism and oppression.
The #house_of_Ali is like the #Kaaba in which children and the inheritors of #Abraham reside.
🔺The Kaaba is a sign, a symbol and it is real. It is made of stone whereas they are human beings. The Kaaba is the place of circumambulation for Moslems only whereas the house of Ali is the #destination of every heart which understands beauty, knows the majesty of humanity, freedom, justice, love, sincerity, strength, encourages jihad and sacrifices to preserve the lives and freedom of the people.
From another point of view, in the difficult and confused space of #history, among the palaces, with
the Caesars, as history always breathes from them; culture, civilization, religion, thought, discipline and art are turned around.

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