40 Questions and Answers on the Virtues and Sufferings of Hazrate Zahra

No book no explanation nor any mind can ever explain or comprehend the luminous soul that was created from God's glory and splendour, that is Hazrateh Fatemah Zahra (sa). One can never compare the respectable mother of the infallible Imam's (as) or Hazrateh Fatemah Zahra (sa) to other women in history even if they are learned scholars and hold a high spiritual status, because even before her existance God ordered his holy messenger (sawa), who already beheld a high spiritual position, to spend forty days praying and gaining spiritual purification. Soon after, a beautiful heavenly fruit was sent to him for him to eat, so that the worldy body of Hazrateh Fatimah (sa) could be created. Even while developing in the womb she would talk to her mother and after her birth she grew vastly in spirituality such that the Prophet (sawa) would kiss her hand and call her the mother of her father. Some people asked the Prophet (sawa) "O' God's Prophet! Is not Fatemah's (sa) essence the same as other humans?" The Prophet replied "Fatemah (sa) is a heavenly being in the body of a human and God created her before the creation of Adam, the universe and other human souls from his luminous light."