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This week, our AZIA family remembered Lady Fatima al-Zahra (as), the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), on the anniversary of her martyrdom. From Tuesday, November 10 to Friday, November 13, our students from Kindergarten to Grade 7 followed one small part of her example: praying for others first.
On the night before Friday, Lady Fatima (as) prayed until dawn for the believers around her, by name, and asked nothing for herself. When her son, Imam Hasan (as), asked her why, she said: “My son, first the neighbour, then the home.” On Tuesday, her story went up on our stairs in five sheets, so every student climbed past it on the way to class.
On Thursday, every child received a card with the name of a child in another class. Kindergarten prayed for Grade 1, Grade 1 for Grade 2, and so on all the way to Grade 7, who prayed for Kindergarten. Each student wrote a dua for that child, by name, and the cards went up around the poster on that class’s door. Our teachers prayed for one another too. At the end of the day, each child received a second card, to pray for someone else that night, the night before Friday, just as she did.
On Friday morning, we gathered in the gym for her. Our Grade 7 students recited Surah al-Jumu’ah, we listened to a madahi in Persian, and the whole school answered the latmiyya together: Salla Allahu alayki ya Fatima.
Thank you to our teachers and students, who filled our doors with duas. Families, you might ask your child: whose name was on your card, and what did you ask Allah for them?
May Allah (SWT) accept every dua our children made for one another, and keep us all on her way, insha’Allah.
Watch our Fatimiyya week, from her story on our stairs to Friday’s gathering:
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