Life story

in #esteem7 years ago

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One of the rare instances in history about the exemplary example of a wife who so concerns the unlimited state of her husband even though it means sacrificing her own benefit is what is narrated by the Thabaqat books on Fatimah az-Zahra` when she and her husband Ali bin Abu Talib had difficulties in living that made him spend the night for three nights in hunger, when Ali saw him pale, he asked, "What is with you O Fatimah?" He replied, "We have not had anything at home in three nights. "Ali said," Why are you silent? "Fatimah replied," On the night of marriage my father said to me, 'Hi Fatimah, if Ali came home with something then eat it, otherwise do not ask him