28. Fatima Zahra (s.a.) Among the Living, Not the Dead – Surah Faatir (35:22)

وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَحْيَاءُ وَلَا الْأَمْوَاتُ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَنْ يَشَاءُ ۖ وَمَا أَنْتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ {22}

“Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear who are m the graves.”

As per traditions living refers to Ali (a.s.), Hamza (a.s.), Jafar (a.s.), Hasan (a.s.), Husain (a.s.), Janabe Fatima (s.a.) and Janabe Khadija (s.a.) and dead refers to the polytheists of Mecca. ¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 4, Page 544 ↩