By: Seyyed Ali Shahbaz
      
“Salutations to you O’ Messenger of Allah (SAWA) from me and from your daughter (Fatema az-Zahra – SA) who has come to stay with you. I have little strength to bear the loss of your cherished one, O’ Messenger of Allah!
“My endurance is broken though I bore the anguish of your separation and the calamity of your passing and shall strive to endure this too. It was I who placed you in the hollow of your grave. You breathed your last with your head resting between my neck and chest. 
«Truly, to God we belong and to him we shall return.» (Holy Qur’an 2:156) 
“Now the deposit (your daughter my wife) has returned and the loan repossessed, but my grief will remain forever, my nights will be wakeful evermore, until the time when God transports me to the home where you now reside. Your daughter will inform you, so ask her the details, and find out from her what has happened to us (the Ahl al-Bayt) so soon, when your memory was still fresh among the people!
“Salutations to you both from one who bids you farewell, but not because of aversion or fatigue. When I take my leave, it is not because I am wearied of grieving. When I stay, it is not from lack of faith in God’s promise to the patient.” (Nahj al-Balagha No. 200)
The above passages of a bereaved husband for his beloved wife speak volumes of the grief that struck the Commander of the Faithful, the Leader of the Pious, Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS), while laying to rest Hazrat Fatema Zahra (SA) in her grave in the dead of night.
As per will, he laid her in an unmarked (and still unidentified) grave, watched in silence by two little sons, Imam Hasan (AS) and Imam Husain (AS), with tears flowing down their cheeks.
We are on the eve of Jamadi al-Akher 3, the tragic martyrdom anniversary of the Only Daughter and Apple of the Eye of the Almighty’s Last and Greatest Messenger, Prophet Muhammad (SAWA).
Her martyrdom was the second grave tragedy that struck the Ahl al-Bayt 95 days after the passing away of the Prophet.
She had the suffered the tragedy of miscarriage and subsequent death in defence of the political right of leadership of her husband, as a consequence of the storming upon her of the door of her blessed house by a roguish group of her father’s companions. They had usurped the rule of the Islamic state in violation of God Almighty’s express commandment in declaring Imam Ali (AS) as the vicegerent of Prophet Muhammad (SAWA). 
Why; because they had no faith. If the conspirators had even an iota of belief in their hearts, about God, the Prophet, and the Holy Qur’an, they would not have dared to commit such a treason and mislead the Ummah.
These days while commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of the Noblest Lady of all time, we mortals cannot describe the peerless position of the Prophet’s Infallible Daughter – the “Baz’at ar-Rasoul” or Part of the Prophet. 
Hailed by her father as “Seyyedat-nisa al-‘alamin min al-awwalin wa’l-akherin” (Chief of women of the universe from the first till the last), she was often referred to as “Umm Abiha” (Mother of her own Father) for the care and concern she had for her widower father after the passing away of her mother, the Immaculate Hazrat Khadija (SA).
She was the last person that the Prophet would bid farewell before leaving Medina and the first one he would visit on returning from his trips.
Her status is evident from the following narration found in books of hadith and history including the Sihah as-Sitta o six canonical compilations of our Sunnid brethren: “Whenever Fatema would enter the presence of the Messenger of Allah he would rise to his feet in her honour and seat her in his own place.”  
Despite her lofty merits, as the supreme symbol of feminine virtues, the “The Muhaddessa”, as she is also known because of the fact that angels used to speak with her, Hazrat Fatema (SA) saw her inheritance seized and the political rights of her husband usurped after the passing away of the Prophet.
The “Siddiqat- al-Kubra” (Most Truthful Lady), who was unsullied from all worldly impurities (Batoul), and is the central figure in the revelation of the Verse of Purity (Holy Qur’an 33:33), was the victim of the ungodly for her defence of Islam, the defence of her father’s mission, and the defence of the “Wilaya” (divinely-decreed authority) of her husband.
Alas, the usurpers of the rights of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt even disregarded the Prophet’s famous saying: “Fatema is part of me; whoever displeases her has displeased me and whoever displeases me has [in fact] displeased Allah the Glorious.”
We thus salute Hazrat Fatema (SA), the central figure of the Verse of Purity (Holy Qur’an 33:33): 
“(O Allah), send blessings upon the Chaste, the Immaculate, the Veracious, the Infallible, the Pious, Pure, the Amiable, the Well-Pleased, the Virtuous, the Upright, the Oppressed, and Wronged Lady whose right was usurped, whose inheritance was usurped, whose rib was broken, whose husband was persecuted, and whose sons were slain.”