Document Type : Research Paper
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Understanding the nature of Fatemeh Zahra (PBUH), this perfect woman, is both easy and difficult. It is easy because she has innumerable virtues and excellences, and difficult due to the inaccessibility of the depth of her character. The present paper addresses this issue with ontological, epistemological and sociological approaches. Relying on the knowledge from the holy Book and the Prophet’s progeny as well as theQuranic, prophetic, Alavite and imamate teachings, this paper expounds on the individual excellences of Fatemeh Zahra (PBUH) including the following: representing the proof of God for people, being Imam Ali’s partner, being a manifestation of the holy Prophet, the truth of Kawthar, general guardianship, and her devotion to and sincerity before the Sublime Being. This paper also deals with her social excellences such as being the daughter of the holy Prophet, the wife of God’s guardian and the mother of the immaculate Imams, and attempts to explain her social qualities based on her individual virtues. In the final section of the paper, attempt has been made to arrive at a relative, formal understanding of this woman whose creation and existence haveboth been heavenly, so that she becomes a role model to all those who long for perfection, yearn to encounter God, desire to have happiness and prosperity and seek success in all scientific, practical, individual, social and family areas.
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