Fatimah: the cards as text

Stories. Draft written with AI help: awaiting scholar review.

1. Card 1

   Her father said: "Fatimah is a part of me."

2. Card 2

   "A part of me"

   Fatimah grew up through the persecution in Makkah, caring for her father. The Prophet said: Fatimah is a part of me; whoever angers her angers me. She was said to walk and speak just like him.

3. Card 3

   Lesson: The Prophet said whoever angers Fatimah angers him.

4. Card 4

   'Ali, Hasan and Husayn

   Fatimah married 'Ali and they lived in poverty. When she asked her father for a servant, he taught them instead to say Subhan Allah, al-hamdu lillah and Allahu akbar before sleep. Her sons Hasan and Husayn were his beloved grandsons.

5. Card 5

   Lesson: Instead of a servant, Fatimah was given words of remembrance before sleep, which the Prophet called better.

6. Card 6

   After her father

   When the Prophet was dying, he whispered to Fatimah. She wept, then smiled: she would be the first of his family to follow him. She died months later. Sunni and Shi'a Muslims read a dispute over her inheritance differently.

7. Card 7

   Lesson: Sunni and Shi'a read the Fadak dispute over Fatimah's inheritance differently.

8. Card 8

   Reflect: What did the Prophet teach Fatimah instead of giving her a servant?

   Answer: Words of remembrance before sleep. Subhan Allah and al-hamdu lillah thirty-three times each, and Allahu akbar thirty-four times, before sleep.

9. Card 9

   The end of Fatimah.

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