One day a lady came to Fatima (as) and said ‘I have a weak old mother who does not know a few problems about her prayers. She has sent me towards you to question you about them.’ Fatima answered her (questions) and the number of her questions reached to ten and Fatima (as) replied to all her questions.

Then she (the woman) got a shamed because of the high number of her questions and said, ‘Oh daughter of the Prophet (as) ‘I do not want to put you to more inconvenience than this.’ Fatima (as) said, ‘Ask me what you do not know. Have you ever seen a person who is one day hired to carry a heavy thing to the roof top from the ground for an amount (equal to) a thousand dinars (nearly a hundred thousand miskal (unit of weight) of gold) and he may feel tired?’ She said ‘No.’ Fatima (as) said ‘I have been hired by Allah to get a wage which if the space between the earth and the sky were filled up with pearls still it would be more than that for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired and exhausted.’

BIHAR UL ANWAR. VOL 2

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Published by Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau

Sheikh Mateen Charbonneau is of French-Canadian descent. He was born in the United States to a Christian family, and later chose to convert to Shi’a Islam in 1999 at the age of 17, having studied both faiths. He started studying Islamic Seminary classes (Howza) in March 2013 at Imam Ali Center in Springfield, Virginia and studied abroad in Najaf al-Ashraf and Karbala and received his ‘amama (turban) from the esteemed marja’ Ayatollah Sayed Muhammad Taqi al-Modaressi in 2018. He earned a certificate from Harvard University in Islamic Studies, has filmed many documentaries about his journey to Islam, authored several books, taught in the Islamic Seminary (Howza), and is the founder of the nonprofit organization 2nd Chance Books (2014). He has lectured throughout the United States and various other countries spreading the message of Ahl ul Bayt (as). Since 2022 he has been residing in Antalya, Türkiye where he is the resident scholar of the local community and continuing his work with 2nd Chance Books.

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