Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her).. A Unique Model and Exemplar for the Muslim Woman
At a time when enemies seek to distort the identity of women through festivals of various forms held in Arab and Islamic countries, including the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, under names such as “entertainment and Mid-Bayest,” and others, the greatness of the Muslim woman is manifested in Islam’s honor for her, granting her her rights, and elevating her status as a “mother, sister, wife, and daughter.”
The commemoration of the birth anniversary of Fatima Al-Zahra, peace be upon her – the International Day of the Muslim Woman – comes to highlight her message-driven role in worship, righteous deeds, and community development, preserving the dignity of the Muslim woman through the teachings of the religion, and to be a role model and exemplar in faith, ethics, giving, and effective participation in life, not merely a commodity bought and sold at decadent festivals and parties.
The Yemeni woman is a model of sacrifice, giving, patience, steadfastness, and emulation of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, her morals, and her attributes. Her role lies and her status is magnified by her standing in the face of challenges and harsh circumstances and her continued steadfastness for over ten years of aggression and the American-Saudi-Emirati-Zionist siege and her prominent roles at various junctures.
Eager to shoulder her responsibilities and enhance her role, emulating Lady Fatima Al-Zahra, the free women of Yemen in the capital Sana’a and various governorates celebrated last week the birth anniversary of Fatima Al-Zahra – the International Day of the Muslim Woman, affirming the faithful identity of the Yemeni woman.
The birth anniversary of Fatima Al-Zahra constitutes an important faithful occasion that revives the values of chastity, patience, and sacrifice, enhances the role of the Muslim woman as a role model in building society, and is celebrated with cultural events and intellectual seminars that highlight her virtues, principles, attributes, values, and lofty morals.
The memory of the International Day of the Muslim Woman is an occasion that reminds the Muslim woman of her status in society and enhances societal awareness of the woman’s role in life and recalling Al-Zahra’s role as a model for the Muslim woman as a role model in purity, chastity, patience, and leadership in building society.
The commemoration of the birth of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra lies in reviving the meanings of sacrifice, altruism, giving, and sacrifice, embodying her life and sacrifices in standing against oppressors and tyrants, and emulating her as a role model for the perfection of her faith and purity, and an example for the women of the worlds.
Yemeni women celebrate the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra so that she may be a torch of light that every Muslim woman, a maker of the future, may be guided by, just as Al-Zahra was a symbol of the victory of values and morals, and an expression of their love and connection to the Lady of the Women of the Worlds and walking in her path and emulating her values and principles.
In this regard, the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) surveyed the opinions of a number of Yemeni women who shed light on the importance of commemorating the birth anniversary of Fatima Al-Zahra due to its significance in consolidating the faithful identity and enhancing women’s steadfastness and firmness.
The President of the National Women’s Committee, Dr. Ghada Abu Talib, emphasized the importance of celebrating the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra, especially in light of the enemies’ efforts to obscure her biography and present models of women that are not in accordance with the Islamic religion and the sublime values and principles it brought.
She considered the anniversary an important educational station for drawing lessons from the life of Al-Zahra in facing the challenges confronting the Yemeni woman, most notably the soft war directed at her by the enemies within the framework of seeking to strip the woman of her faithful identity.
She congratulated the steadfast, striving women of Yemen on this great religious occasion and said, “When we talk about Al-Zahra, we find ourselves sailing in seas of purity, virtue, and chastity.”
She explained that Al-Zahra, in her human and faithful perfection, was the model and exemplar for believing women, pointing to the responsibility upon the nation to recognize the biographies of great women, especially in a period where the conflict with enemies has become comprehensive, including cultural and ethical conflict.
Dr. Abu Talib added, “We must realize that we are waging a great battle with the enemies and need cultural and psychological shelter, especially in light of the enemy’s direction to control thoughts and psychologies and seeking to corrupt society, foremost among them women and children.”
She indicated that the Yemeni woman’s role model was Lady Fatima Al-Zahra in her firmness and steadfastness, affirming that her pivotal role was represented in confronting the enemies, and she was a symbol of steadfastness, sacrifice, and jihad, and she defeated the enemies with her faith, steadfastness, and adherence to her identity and faithful culture.
For her part, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Akhlaq Al-Shami, spoke about the birth anniversary of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra and aspects of her life journey and the noble qualities she was characterized by, which require the Muslim woman to adhere to them.
She pointed out that the Yemeni woman, in the ambiance of the birth anniversary of Lady Fatima, draws inspiration from Islamic values and principles and embodies them in reality following the example of her mother, especially in light of the soft war waged by enemies against the Yemeni woman in particular and the Muslim woman in general.
For her part, the Director-General of Women at the Ministry of Information, Sumayya Al-Taifi, affirmed that Lady Fatima Al-Zahra is among the great personalities in Islamic history, as a paragon and symbol of purity, faith, and patience, and a supreme ideal for the Muslim woman and all humanity.
She said, “With the development of modern media means, the role of those means has become important in disseminating her fragrant biography and enhancing awareness of her status and principles, for there have been deliberate attempts to distort the image of the Lady of the Women of the Worlds, Fatima Al-Zahra, and conceal her fragrant biography from generations.”
Al-Taifi mentioned that the biography of the Chosen One’s sweet basil (a term of endearment for Fatima), prayers and peace be upon him, is a path that illuminates the way for the Muslim woman as she is among the righteous role models, and a journey of saving humanity from the state of confusion, loss, and perplexity prevailing at the present time.
She touched upon the amount of misguided cultures, deviations, and soft war that target women in particular and society and the Islamic nation in general, which necessitates all media means to highlight the biography of the Lady of the Women of the Worlds to enhance the faithful identity.
From her side, the Director-General of Women at the Ministry of Electricity, Energy, and Water, Haifa Al-Dhaifi, spoke about the main reasons for obscuring the life of Al-Zahra, and the extent of the enemies’ contribution to replacing good models with bad ones instead of Quranic models, within the framework of seeking to target women and turning them into a means of corrupting society.
She called for adherence to the Quranic approach, faithful identity, and religious values and principles, and emulation of Fatima Al-Zahra in word, deed, and methodology, considering the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra a faithful station for drawing fragrant lessons in various aspects of her life and adhering to her behaviors and great values and morals.
The Director-General of Women at the Ministry of Oil and Minerals, Balqees Al-Jarmozi, considered commemorating the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra an important message at the present time, to remind of her fragrant biography and introduce generations to the Lady of the Women of the Worlds as a role model and global Islamic exemplar.
She said, “It is necessary for the Yemeni woman to emulate Lady Al-Zahra, that pure, believing woman who reached the peak of faithful and human perfection,” pointing to the responsibility that falls upon the woman as a “mother, wife, sister, and daughter,” and her prominent role in upbringing, education, and shaping generations.
For her part, the Cultural Official in the Water Sector at the Ministry of Electricity, Iman Al-Sharafi, pointed out that the birth anniversary of the Virgin Al-Zahra is a station to remind of an important issue concerning the relationship of the Muslim woman with the Lady of the Women of the Worlds whom God chose and selected to be the good example for women.
She said: “Fatima Al-Zahra was not an ordinary woman, but one of the most prominent great women throughout history; her role in jihad in the cause of God, patience, and mercy stood out, along with what she was known for in terms of worship, piety, faith, chastity, and purity.”
Al-Sharafi reported that the enemies, within the framework of their satanic schemes, seek to target women through soft war to strip women of their values, principles, and morals and replace them with values and morals that are different and contrary to Islam, to make it easier for them to lead, contain, and change the solid components within societies.
She called for making the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra an international day for the Muslim woman, as she is a complete model of the woman, the righteous wife, the nurturing mother, the dutiful daughter, and the beneficial sister.
The Cultural Activist at the Water Resources Authority, Fawziya Al-Sanbani, considered the birth anniversary of Al-Zahra, the daughter of the Messenger of God, prayers and peace be upon him and his family, an opportunity to learn about her life biography, personality, attributes, morals, values, and courage.
She explained that the day of her birth is the International Day of the Muslim Woman, where one must learn about the life of Fatima Al-Zahra and emulate her worship, jihad, patience, chastity, and all aspects of her life. She said: “The enemies seek to influence generations by making celebrities of art and films as role models, and promoting a culture of dissolution and blind subservience to Western societies.”
Al-Sanbani touched upon the methods of soft war pursued by the aggression to corrupt the Muslim woman and society in general, which requires holding fast to the Quran and adhering to its teachings and emulating pioneering models in Islam, foremost among them Fatima Al-Zahra.
She added: “Let Fatima Al-Zahra be an example and role model for the Muslim woman in her patience, jihad, and endurance of all life’s hardships,” pointing to the responsibility placed upon the Muslim woman in building a cohesive family and interconnected society, considering the woman a mother, wife, sister, and daughter.
She was joined by the cultural activist, Tasneem Al-Hanash, who pointed out the importance of commemorating the birth anniversary of Fatima Al-Zahra, to draw lessons from the spring of her morals and the source of her virtues, considering her the highest model of the Muslim woman, in whom values, morals, and refinement in the ladder of faithful perfection were embodied.
She said: “God Almighty honored women with Islam and opened for them the field of faithful and ethical elevation,” pointing to the war waged by enemies against the Islamic nation and the Muslim woman in particular to deviate her, influence her, and target her culturally, intellectually, and morally.
Activist Al-Hanash touched upon the status of women in the pre-Islamic era of ignorance, until Islam came to honor her and elevate her status, affirming that Al-Zahra was and will remain a role model for all women throughout time with her attributes, morals, and fragrant biography that she devoted to the obedience of God and His Messenger, prayers and peace be upon him and his family.
The commemoration of the birth anniversary of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra is embodied in reviving the model of the complete woman and the good example, enhancing her luminous values and morals, emulating her biography, and renewing allegiance to the Lady of the Women of the Worlds as the best role model for the Muslim woman.