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                 Hazrat Fatima Zahra's Will to Imam Ali (A.S.)
 
                             Imam Ali (A.S.) was surprised to find that
                             his dear wife had left her bed and had
                             started doing the housework; he asked her
                             about it and she replied:
                             "This is the last day of my life. I want to
                             wash my children's hair and clothes
                             because they [(Imam Hassan (A.S.) and
                             Imam Hussain (A.S.)] will soon be
                             orphans, without a mother!!"
                             Imam Ali (A.S.) then asked her about the
                             source of knowledge of this news (the day
                             of her departure). She (A.S.) told him that
                             she had seen the Messenger of ALLAH
                             (P.B.U.H.) in her dream and he had told
                             her that she was going to join him that
                             night. She then asked Imam Ali (A.S.) to
                             execute her will.
                             He said:
                             "Instruct me to do anything you wish,
                             daughter of ALLAH'S Messenger." Ali
                             (A.S.) then asked everyone to leave the
                             house and sat next to her.
                             Fatima (A.S.) started:
                             "Cousin, you are not accustomed to me
                             being a false-teller, undevoted, or have I
                             disobeyed you since I have become your
                             companion?"
                             Ali (A.S.) said:
                             "ALLAH forbid!! You are more knowing of
                             ALLAH, more devoted, more pious, and
                             more honorable and more fearing of
                             ALLAH than (to give me a reason) to
                             reprimand you for disobeying me. Surely it

                             is very painful for me to be separated from
                             you and to lose you; but it is an inevitable
                             destination. By ALLAH, you have renewed
                             the sorrow I have just encountered with the
                             death of ALLAH'S Messenger; surely your
                             death and departure will be a great
                             calamity, but 'to ALLAH do we belong and
                             to HIM shall we return.'
                             What a painful, bitter and sad calamity.
                             Surely this is a calamity for which there is
                             not consolement, and a disaster for which
                             there is no compensation."
                             Then they both cried and Imam Ali (A.S.)
                             embraced her head and said:
                             "Instruct me to do anything you wish; you
                             certainly will find me devoted and I will
                             execute everything that you command me
                             to do. I shall also put your matters over
                             mine."
                             Fatima (A.S.) said:
                             "May ALLAH reward you with the best of
                             goodness. Cousin, firstly I ask you to
                             marry after my death, my niece Umamah;
                             surely she will be to my children as I was.
                             Besides, men cannot do without women."
                             Fatima (A.S.) then added:
                             "I ask you not to let anyone who did
                             injustice to me to witness my funeral, for
                             they certainly are enemies of mine, and
                             the enemy of ALLAH'S Messenger
                             (P.B.U.H.). Also don't give then the chance
                             to pray over me, nor to any of their
                             followers. Burry me at night when eyes are
                             rested and sight is put to sleep."
                             Fatima Bint Muhammad was ready to meet
                             her Lord. She bathed, then lay down in her
                             garment... She then instructed AsmaBint
                             Umais to wait awhile and then to call her
                             name; if there was no answer, this would
                             mean that she (A.S.) had departed towards
                             her Lord.
                             Asma waited awhile, then called Fatima's
                             name... but there was no answer;
                             Asma repeated the call:
                             "O daughter of the chosen Muhammad!
                             O daughter of the most honorable of them
                             whom women bore!
                             O daughter of the best of those who have
                             walked on gravel!
                             O daughter of him who was at 'A distance
                             of but two bow-lenghts or (even) nearer'"
                             (A QURANIC verse)
                             ...There is no answer... silence
                             overwhelms the house
                             ... Asma then proceeds towards Fatima
                             and finds her dead.
                             At that point, Hassan and Hussain (A.S.)
                             entered and asked:
                             "Where is our mother?"
                             Yet Asma uttered not a word!
                             Hassan and Hussain (A.S.) proceeded
                             towards their mother and found her dead.
                             At this point, Hussain turned towards
                             Hassan (A.S.) and said:
                             "May ALLAH console you for our mother!"