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The Death of the Prophet:
During the Prophet's last illness, Lady Fatima visited her father as often as she could.
One day Ali entered the Prophet's room and found her crying as she sat beside her
father. Just then, her father raised his tired eyes to look up her and asked: "O Fatima,
what makes you cry?" She replied: "I fear the loss after you." With gentleness of voice
he said: "Don’t you know that Allah, the Mighty the Gloried, looked to the earth once and
chose your father and sent him with His Message? Then, He looked to the earth and
chose your husband and made known to me that I should let you marry him? O Fatima,
we are the Dwellers of a House, and Allah has given us seven merits which He has
never given to anyone else before, and they will not be given to anyone after us." Then,
referring to the descendants of his grandsons, Hasan and Hussain, he said: "By He who
sends me with the Truth, amongst both of them is Al Mahdi of this nation. When life is
full of murder and strife, trials increase, roads are blocked, and people start to attack
one another, and the elderly are not merciful to the young, nor the young merciful to the
elderly, Allah the Mighty, the Glorified, will send from them (Hassan and Hussain) at the
end of time one who will open the fortress of error, and open hearts that have been
During the Prophet's last illness, Lady Fatima visited her father as often as she could.
One day Ali entered the Prophet's room and found her crying as she sat beside her
father. Just then, her father raised his tired eyes to look up her and asked: "O Fatima,
what makes you cry?" She replied: "I fear the loss after you." With gentleness of voice
he said: "Don’t you know that Allah, the Mighty the Gloried, looked to the earth once and
chose your father and sent him with His Message? Then, He looked to the earth and
chose your husband and made known to me that I should let you marry him? O Fatima,
we are the Dwellers of a House, and Allah has given us seven merits which He has
never given to anyone else before, and they will not be given to anyone after us." Then,
referring to the descendants of his grandsons, Hasan and Hussain, he said: "By He who
sends me with the Truth, amongst both of them is Al Mahdi of this nation. When life is
full of murder and strife, trials increase, roads are blocked, and people start to attack
one another, and the elderly are not merciful to the young, nor the young merciful to the
elderly, Allah the Mighty, the Glorified, will send from them (Hassan and Hussain) at the
end of time one who will open the fortress of error, and open hearts that have been