In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Throughout his life, this humble servant heard numerous moral stories from pious and righteous persons and realized that each was a testimony of divine grace, miracle and fulfillment of supplications and a consequence of seeking mediation of Qur’an and the Holy Imams ('a).
The Holy Qur’an reads:
لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ
"In their histories there is certainly a lesson for men of understanding." (Surah Yusuf, 12:111).
Imam Ja’far Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq ('a) has said that, “The tasbih of Fatimah Az-Zahra’ ('a) includes (in its’ meanings):
• Pure is the Possessor of Glory who is the Proud and Exalted;
• Pure is the Possessor of Nobility who has a lofty station and grand status;
• Pure is the Possessor of the Dominion who has Honour and Precedence;
Imam Ja’far Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq ('a) has said:
تَسْبِيحُ فَاطِمَةَ الزَّهْرَاءَ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ أَحَبُّ إِلَـيَّ مِنْ صَلاَةِ أَلْفِ رَكْعَةٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ.
It has been narrated in the famous book, Makarimul Akhlaq, that Fatimah Az-Zahra’ ('a) used to have a tasbih which was made of wool thread and had 100 knots tied in it and she used to perform the dhikr of Allah (SWT) with it. When Hamzah – the uncle of the Prophet (S) – was martyred in the battle of Uhud, the dirt from his grave was used to make the first beads that were used in the tasbih.
It has been narrated from Muhammad Ibn Ja’far as-Sadiq (the son of Imam Ja’far Ibn Muhammad as-Sadiq ('a)) that:
إِنَّهُ كَانَ يُسَبِّحُ تَسْبِيحَ فَاطِمَةَ صَلَّى اللٌّهُ عَلَيْهَا فَيَصِلُهُ وَ لاَ يَقْطَعُهُ.
قَالَ الإِمَامُ جَعْفَرُ ابْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ لصَّادِقُ يَا أَبَا هَارُونَ! إِنَّا نَأْمُرُ صِبْيَانَنَا بِتَسْبِيحِ فَاطِمَةَ سَلاَمُ للٌّهِ عَلَيْهَا كَمَا نَأْمُرُهُمْ بِالصَّلاَةِ فَأَلْزِمْهُ فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يُلْزِمْهُ عَبْدٌ فَشَقِيَ.
It has been narrated in the traditions that:
The Noble Qur’an tells us:
وَالذَّاكِرِينَ اللَّهَ كَثِيرًا وَالذَّاكِرَاتِ….
“…Those men who remember Allah much and those women who also remember Allah much…” (Surat al-Ahzab, 33:35).
The Tasbih1 of Fatimah Az-Zahra’ ('a) is:
