In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Sura 21: AL-ANBIYA (THE PROPHETS) - Juz' 17 - Translation Qarib
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Imam Khamenei:
Lady Zainab is a prominent lady in the history of humanity, not just in the history of Islam.
This great lady is a role model for nurses.
Some jobs deal with the beauties in life, but your job deals with sufferings and pain. Honouring nurses equals appreciation of religious values and rare human virtues, from compassion and sympathy to patience in the face of pain and irritability. Our society today needs empathy, commitment, patience and endurance ...
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"I saw nothing but beauty": Zeinab al-Kubra (sa)
On the day of Ashura Zeinab al-Kubra watched many of her dear ones go to the battlefield to get martyred. She watched Hussein ibn Ali (a.s.), Abbas, Ali Akbar, Qasem, her children, and other dear ones go to the battlefield. After they were martyred, she went through all those pains: The invasion of the enemy, disrespect, and the responsibility to take care of the surviving children and women. Is it possible to compare the enormity of this tragedy with physical pain? But when she was faced with these difficulties, Zeinab al-Kubra did not tell God to save her. She did not say, "O my Lord, save me." ...While the shredded body of her brother lay in front of her eyes, tells God, "O God, accept this sacrifice from us." When she was asked to describe what she had seen, she replied, "I did not see anything but beauty." All those tragedies were beautiful to Zeinab al-Kubra because they were from and for God - because they were supposed to promote the word of God.
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Imam Khamenei:
Lady Zeinab (as) is a perfect example of a Muslim woman: a role model for women's education, which Islam presents before the eyes of the world.
Lady Zeinab represents a multi-dimensional personality: she is wise and well-educated with great knowledge; a distinguished person; anyone who meets her, feels humble before the greatness of her wise soul and her insight …
Lady Zeinab has interwoven a woman’s enthusiastic affection with a believer’s greatness, stability, and sedateness of heart; and the clear, articulate language of a fighter, (Mujahed) on the path of God, and limpid insight that pours out of her mouth and heart, astonishes listeners and spectators …
Those who have not known the slightest degree of religion or spirituality can never comprehend such greatness in a woman.
Those who identify women as ornaments with makeup, as ignorant, and as toys for men's play, can by no means comprehend the basis of a woman's identity within the logic and viewpoint of Islam …
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Imam Khamenei:
Zeinab al-Kubra (s.a.) presented a deep analysis of her society's pathologies. She spoke firmly and eloquently in that difficult situation. It was not the case that she had an audience sitting in front of her and listening in silence. She was not speaking the way an orator would speak to his audience. She was surrounded by the enemies, holding spears in their hands. There were also some ordinary people there - the same people who gave up Moslem to Ibn Ziad, the same people who wrote letters to Imam Hussein and then broke their allegiance to him, the same people who hid in their homes exactly when they were supposed to stand up to Ibn Ziad. Among the people there were also some individuals who were not courageous enough to do what they should have done, and they were watching Imam Ali's daughter in tears on that day. Zeinab al-Kubra (s.a.) was faced with this motley and unreliable crowd, yet she spoke in a firm manner. She was an exemplary woman in history. Such women cannot be considered weak. This faithful feminine nature may reveal itself in difficult conditions. She is a role model for all great men and women in the world. She presented a deep analysis of the problems facing the revolution started by the Holy Prophet (s.w.a.) and Imam Ali (a.s.). She said, "You could not distinguish between right and wrong in the fitna. You were unable to fulfill your duty. As a result, they severed the head of the Holy Prophet's (s.w.a.) grandson and put it on a spear." We can understand the greatness of her character when we consider such things.
This is a warning to our women to identify their role. They should understand the greatness of being a woman by combining feminine modesty and morality with pious dignity. That is how faithful Muslim women are…
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Zainab bint Ali (as): The woman who saved Islam
A part of the sermon Hadrat Zainab (as) gave with utmost bravery in the gathering of Yazid son of Muawiya in Syria shook his majlis (gathering) and still echoes through time and space:
“By Allah (SWT), you cannot remove us from the minds (of people), and you cannot fade our message. You will never reach our glory and can never wash the stain of this crime from your hands. Your decisions will not be stable, your period of ruling will be short, and your population will scatter. In that day, a voice will shout: "Indeed may the curse of Allah (SWT) be upon the oppressors..."
Righteous people should not at all be affected by the harsh circumstances they undergo, that is exactly what Hadrat Zeinab (as) stressed in her speeches. She reiterated they (AhlulBayt) are the people of strong presence, strength, confidence and faith despite the drastic and harsh calamity that fell upon her and her family. The prophet's household turned this threat into an opportunity and made use of the entire situation and the circumstances they went through lead by the courageous Hadrat Zainab (as).
A model of defiance against oppression and injustice. A woman of patience and endurance. There was no act of worship greater than continuing the rising of her brother, delivering fiery sermons in the path of Kufa and Syria, and awakening ignorant people who were deceived by poisonous propaganda of Yazid son of Muawiya and martyred Imam Hussain (as) as a man who was out of Islam. Her sermons created a movement in Kufa and Damascus which shook the bases of Yazid's kingdom and even Yazid's son refused to replace his father as the king, and after a while, quitted the government while disgracing the oppressing dynasty of Umayyads …
In her lifetime, Hadrat Zainab (as) had endured immense pain from witnessing her loved ones martyred before her eyes, but she never objected to the destiny decreed upon her by Allah. The completeness of her submission is monumental. The grief she expressed was an outpouring of her incredible humanity.
Hadrat Zainab’s role was exemplary. It showed how bold Muslim women were and how they played a key role in consolidating Islamic teachings. Today, despite so much progress and the spread of education, so many Muslim women are suppressed. In some alleged Muslim societies, a woman’s voice is banned from even being heard in public; and here was Zainab (as) from the Imam’s family who became a public speaker to save Islamic values. The leadership of the family fell to Hadrat Zainab after Karbala, and she proved to be more than what was expected of her.
Today, women have to learn much from her example and leadership qualities. Her public role in the battle of Karbala has much to teach us both Muslim men and women. The only way for women in general and Muslim woman in particular could pay respects to her sacrifice is by being inspired by her life to be courageous in the face of tyranny, patient in times of trouble, and submissive to the will of God. Hadrat Zainab bint Ali (as) the role model for the righteous will forever teach us all that when we undergo countless trials in our lives, we should see nothing but beauty in them.
by Marwa Osman
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Imam Khamenei:
The great lady of Karbala (Hazrat Zeinab Kobra (peace be upon her)) has proved to all humanity and history that the "woman", despite all the short-sighted efforts of the past and present, including the authoritarian Westerners in the humiliation of woman, can be a vast ocean of patience, and a zenith of wisdom and prudence …
Imam Khamenei:
Lady Zeinab: Epitome of greatness and wisdom
Lady Zeinab (pbuh) demonstrated to the entire history the massive spiritual and logical capacity of woman. Firstly, she showed a woman can be an ocean of patience and tolerance. Secondly, that a woman can be a peak of wisdom and prudence.
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Lady Zeinab (pbuh): Peak of patience and power_6j62.png)
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As long as the light of Hazrat Khadijah al-Kubra (s.a.) and Hazrat Fatima Zahra (s.a.) and Hazrat Zainab (s.a.) continues to shine, the old and new anti-woman plots will not bear any results. Not only did thousands of Iranian women with Karbala-like spirit stand up against the apparent cruelties against women but they also revealed the true nature of modern cruelties to women …
The lionesses of the Islamic Revolution of Iran proved that there is a third paradigm which is neither eastern nor western. Muslim Iranian women opened to the women of the world, a new chapter in history that proved one can be a woman, maintain her chastity, modestly dressed and noble, and yet actively be at the center of the events …
According to Islamic ideals, there is a paradigm for Muslim women to follow. This model is complete: an Islamic woman is a woman who possesses faith; she embraces "ifaff" [chastity, virtue]; she manages the most important elements of human education; she is influential in society; she can grow, scientifically and spiritually; she is the doyenne of the very important foundation of family and a great source of comfort for man: all of these qualities exist, as well as other female qualities such as delicacy, softness of heart, and preparedness for receiving the divine light. These qualities make up the paradigm for the Muslim woman. These are the very characteristics that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) applied to various statements while praising Fatima Zahra, Khadija al-Kubra (God's greeting be upon them), and women in general ...
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During the calamities of Karbala, Zeinab (as) didn't say O' God save me! She said: Accept from us!
Imam Khamenei:
The permanence of Islam, the divine path and continuation of this path by God's servants are based upon Hussain ibn Ali's (as) and Zeinab al-Kubra's (pbuh) actions. That is to say, as a result of the great patience, resistance, and endurance of hardships, you see that religious values have gained a lot of ground in the modern world. All these human values, which are consistent with human nature, in different schools of thought, are rooted in religious values. These values have been promoted by religion. That is the nature of efforts for a divine cause … Feb 8, 2010
Lady Zeinab: The epitome of dignity ...
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The real empowered woman, Lady Zeinab (pbuh) ...
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Lady Zeinab, a role model for all great women and men around the globe ...
Sources:
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https://english.khamenei.ir/news/5180/I-saw-nothing-but-beauty-Zeinab-al-Kubra-sa
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/5419/Hazrat-Zeinab-as-proved-a-woman-can-play-a-role-in-society
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/4376/Zainab-bint-Ali-as-The-woman-who-saved-Islam
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/8784/Lady-Zeinab-Epitome-of-greatness-and-wisdom
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/9968/Lady-Zeinab-pbuh-Peak-of-patience-and-power
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/5794/Why-is-Islam-s-outlook-on-women-preferred-over-the-Capitalist
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/6539/Lady-Zeinab-The-epitome-of-dignity
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/11233/The-real-empowered-woman-Lady-Zeinab-pbuh
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/3677/Lady-Zeinab-a-role-model-for-all-great-women-and-men-around
Links:
https://english.khamenei.ir/Opinions/Imam_mahdi
Imam Hussain’s Revolution for Humanity
https://english.khamenei.ir/Opinions/AshuraUprising
Who is Imam Hussain? Why did he launch an uprising?
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Martyr Majid Ghorban Khani was born in 1990 in Yaft Abad (name of a region in Tehran). He went to Syria in order to defend from Hazrat Zainab(SA) holy shrine. Finally he and his friends such as; Martyr Mostafa Chegini, Martyr Morteza Karimi and Martyr Mohammad Azhand were martyred in the defense of Hazrat Zainab(SA) holy shrine in Khan Tuman (Syria) in 2016.
https://navideshahed.com/en/news/385719/martyr-majid-ghorbankhanis-pure-body-entered-mashhad
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