Day 3

The lesson

1. Her worship: long prayers, night vigils, fasting, praying for others, such as her neighbours, and visiting the graves of the martyrs. Salman al-Farsi saw her hand mill turning by itself while she recited the Qur'an; the Prophet told him: God has sent Gabriel to grind for her (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub 3:116-117).
2. On her wedding night she gave her wedding dress to one in need. She, Imam Ali and their two sons gave away their food for three days to a poor man, an orphan and a captive, and the verses of al-It'am in Surat al-Insan were revealed in their honour (al-Tibyan of al-Tusi, and others).
3. She is among the Ahl al-Bayt of the Verse of Purification (33:33), on which the Shia ground her infallibility (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub; al-Shafi of al-Sharif al-Murtada); among those whose love is the reward of the Mission in the Verse of Love (42:23); and the only woman the Prophet took to the Mubahala against the Christians of Najran (3:61), with Imam Ali, al-Hasan and al-Husayn.

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