For Fatima (a.s)
By: Joseph 'Gowen
Lecture on Allegories from the
Madressa of Imam Mahdi (a.s)
existence, because it is a group of
dots.
Imam Ahmad Al Hassan (as) said,
"Allah said Alif lam meem, Alif lam
meem Ra, he (a.s) says the Alif is
Fatimah (a.s), and now listen to the
clarification of the truth, the Alif is
the origins of all letters and the
first, and it is the first of the letters
which was created after the dot. The
dot is the origin, but when we put
dot above dot... above dot, the Alif
is the first. And the scholars of
letters know that the Alif when it
was first made, it was compromised
with a group of dots. So the new
thing Imam Ahmad Al Hassan (a.s)
has clarified is that Alif is the first
of the letters, and from the Alif does
the rest of the letters come into
And it is the letter of Fatimah, Alif
is Fatimah (a.s), and the Prophet
Muhammad (s.a.w) said regarding
the rank of Fatimah (a.s) in
creation, Allah said, "O Ahmad, if
it was not for you I would not have
created creation, and if it was not
for Ali I would not have created
you, and if it was not for Fatimah, I
would not have created both of
you.”
So the Sayyid (a.s) is showing and
clarifying this case and issue in a
simple and great manner, and Imam
Ahmad (a.s) expands and says, This
is why the Alif appears before the
Lam and before the Meem, because
we said it meant Fatimah, Ali, and
Muhammad (a.s), but why put them
before Muhammad (s.a.w), and he
(a.s) says it is because of this hadith
where Allah (swt) says this to
Muhammad (s.a.w).
So bringing it forward in this stance
it is because Allah wants to clarify if
it was not for Fatimah (a.s) I would
not have created you. Meaning if it
was not for the hereafter and that
with the real knowledge, Allah
would not have created creation,
because we know Fatimah (a.s)
represents the hereafter and the Alif,
and this was answered in question 8
of the Allegories, so this is
interesting.
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