5. Leader of all the Women - Surah Aale Imran (3): Verse 42

(Referring to Janabe Maryam (s.a.)) Holy Quran says, -

وَاصْطَفَاكِ عَلَىٰ نِسَاءِ الْعَالَمِينَ

“chosen you above the women of the world”

Mufazzal bin Umar narrates, I asked Imam Sadiq (a.s.) – Tell me about the saying of Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) concerning Janabe Fatima Zahra (s.a.) that “she is the leader of women of Paradise”. Is she the leader of the women her time?

Imam (a.s.) replied: It is for Janabe Maryam (s.a.), she was the leader of women of her time and as for Janabe Fatima Zahra (s.a.), she is leader of women of the worlds from the first to the last.¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 1, Page 618 ↩