FATIMEH AL-ZAHRA (SA)

About the Book

By God! They raised objection against the cutting swords of Ali, his being indifference with respect to the death in the battlefield, his power of the combat in the warfare, and the scattering strokes. By God! If people have joined with each other and would have given the caliphate to some one about whom the Holy Prophet (SAW) has recommended, any time if the people had deviated from the path of the truth, he would guided them towards the righteous path with out any pain and disturbance that neither the mount had become incapacitated nor its rider would have tired and sad. Ultimately he would have lead them to the pure and pleasant fountainhead of water, the canal that on both sides was saturated with the water─that had never been polluted. And then after the complete quenching of their thirst had returned them, and as a result they would have found him their well-wisher in hidden and apparent.

 [Ali] would never had taken any benefit from the world and from it there had not been any advantage except the quenching of the thirsty and feedings of the hungry ones. And here the world-worshipper from the ascetic one, righteous one from the liar had been explicit for all of them. And in accordance of what God’s has said in the Holy Qur’an: ‘If the people of towns would have accepted faith and were pious, We would have opened the gates of heaven’s blessing upon them, but since they denied We punished them for their evil deeds.’ And: ‘Those who indulges in the tyranny and oppression their deeds would caught their skirt, and they would never be able to escape from the divine punishment.’

─The second Sermon of Fatimeh al-Zahra (SA), p-155.

About the Author

Sayyid Hussein Alamdar, P.E, holds a MSCE from the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, S.C. He worked for Duke Power Company, Charlotte N.C (1971-1982) and served as Project Manager, Hydroelectric Projects at the Water & Power Company, Tehran, and (1983-2003). During his 20 years stay in Tehran, besides attending to his professional duties, he availed of the opportunity to meet with the eminent Scholars and erudite Ulama. Among other things, he had the fortune of attending Islamic Seminary under the able tutorship of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad Taqi Hakim and Hajj Aghai Ali Solemani in Tehran. He also founded Ahl al-Bayt (AS) Islamic Cultural Services of USA to disseminate and impart the learning and knowledge of Ahl al-Bayt (AS). Imam Rida (AS) is reported to have said to one of his followers: “May Allah bless the servant who keeps our vicegerency alive through publication of our learning and knowledge.” 

Alamdar has translated following classical and famous books of the most eminent Iranian Islamic scholars from Persian into English namely: 1. Self-Building: Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 2. Truth and Falsehood: Martyr Allameh Murtaza Mutaheri (RA) 3. The Discourse on Patience: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenie 4. Profundities of the Prayer: Grand Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenie 5. Spiritual Journeys of the Mystics: Grand Ayatollah Javad Agha Malaki Tabrizi (RA) 6. Radiance of the Vicegerency: Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhanie 7. The Story of Karbala: Ayatollah Ali Nazari Munfarid 10. How to Bridge the Generation Gap? Grand Ayatollah Seyed Muhammad Taqi Hakim 11. Every Body Must Know: Ayatollah Ibrahim Amini 12. The Biography of Sayyid Sharif al-Radi (RA): Muhammad Ibrahim Nejad 13. The Life of Imam Zain al-A’abedin (AS): 14. The Life of Imam Baqir (AS) 15. The Life of Fatimeh Zehra (SA): 16. The Life of Imam Jafar Sadiq (AS): Sayyid Munthir Hakim. 17. The History of the Holy Mosque of Jamkaran, Qum, Iran. 18. Shi’i Replies to the Wahabi Questions, by Grand Ayatollah J’afar Sobhani.