Pause and reflect on the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures.
A new challenge: Who am I?
I am one of the daughters of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
I was the person most beloved to him.
In my speech and my gait, I was the person who most resembled my father, the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.
Whenever I entered upon him,
he would stand up for me, welcome me, and kiss me between my eyes.
I would do the same for him whenever he came to me.
I am the mistress of the women of Paradise.
I was given the title al-Zahra.
My husband is Ali Ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him.
The Rightly-Guided Caliph.
Our sons are al-Hasan and al-Husayn, may Allah be pleased with them both.
The masters of the youth of Paradise.
When my husband intended to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl,
the Prophet, peace be upon him, became angry on my behalf.
He said,
"By Allah, the daughter of the Prophet of Allah and the daughter of the enemy of Allah shall not be joined together."
"For my daughter is a part of me."
"What troubles her troubles me."
"And what harms her harms me."
So my husband abandoned the proposal out of consideration for me.
And Ali did not marry anyone else until I had passed away.
When my father’s death approached, I came to him.
He seated me beside him.
Then he whispered to me.
So I wept.
Then he whispered to me a second time.
So I laughed.
Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, said to me,
"The Messenger of Allah singled you out with a secret, and you wept."
"Then he whispered to you, and you laughed."
"I adjure you by the right I have over you,"
"to tell me why you laughed and why you wept."
I said to her,
"I would not disclose the secret of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him."
When he passed away,
she said to me,
"I adjure you by the right I have over you,"
"to tell me."
I said,
"As for now, yes."
"When he whispered to me the first time,"
"he told me that he would die in this illness of his."
"So I wept."
"Then he whispered to me the second time and said,"
"That I am the mistress of the women of this Ummah."
"And that I would be the first of his family to join him."
"So I laughed."
I remained after the death of my father, peace be upon him, for six months.
I was wasting away with grief for him.
Then, when death approached me,
I said,
"I find it unsightly what is done to women at funerals."
"A cloth is thrown over the woman,"
"which reveals her shape."
A woman said to me,
"O daughter of the Messenger of Allah,"
"shall I show you something I saw in Abyssinia?"
She called for some fresh palm fronds.
She bent them.
She placed them over the bier.
Then she threw a cloth over them.
I liked that, and I requested it in my will.
So I was the first person in Islam whose bier was covered in that manner.
So, who am I?
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