Fatimah, Mohammed’s Daughter
For Monday 7 September, Ramadan 2009. “Loving Muslims Through Prayer”
Born in Mecca in AD 605, died in Medina in AD 632.
Fatimah (Fatima) was the name of the favourite daughter of Mohammed. Her name means “she who weans.” She was considered one of four perfect women by Mohammed. The others were Mohammed’s own first wife, Khadijah, the mother of Fatimah; Mary, the mother of Jesus; and Asiya the wife of an ancient Pharaoh.
Fatimah is known as a loving and devoted daughter, mother and wife, as well as a sincere Muslim. At the age of 19 Fatimah married Ali. Their life together was simple, frugal, and not without hardship and deprivation. Because of his piety, apparently Ali was not greatly interested in material wealth. Fatimah’s acts of kindness toward the poor and destitute earned her praise from many. She gave birth to two sons and two daughters. In AD 632 after the death of her father she also passed away, either by an accident or by natural causes.
Hand of Fatima
Fatimah was apparently a good influence, but her name is also associated with an occult object that has fairly negative influence in the Muslim world. This so-called “Hand of Fatimah” is used by Muslims in amulets, charms and jewelry to ward off evil spiritual influences.
Prayer Starters:
- Pray according to Acts 19:18-20 concerning occult influences.
- Pray for the millions of Muslim women named Fatimah to find new life in Jesus.
Testimony of a women in a difficult situation
Malika’s husband who was involved in criminal activites was killed. Malika remained alone with her four children for some time. Then she met several believers and came to Christ herself. Since her entire family were Muslims, Malika and her children were forced out of their home when her family learned about her choice for Jesus. She lost everything she had. She no longer had a place to live nor a means to earn money. Two of her children were sick, one who was 12 even needed regular heart medicine. Malika kept her faith and her new family helped her work things out.
Just a point.. most Muslims who are not full of folk lore practices would see this as shirk .. that is the greatest unforgivable sin to put hope or trust in such an amulet.
A Muslim who knows their religion would say that even medicines only can heal someone by the will of Allah SWT.
Use of Charms and amulets is haram (forbidden) in Islam.
It would be more correct not to say that Muslims use it.. but that some Muslims who are un educated in their deen (faith/religion) use it.
Muhammad SAW stated: “May Allâh not fulfill the hopes of the one who wears a charm; may Allâh not protect the one who hangs seashells (used as a charm in those days)”. (Ahmed)
Another narration stated; “Whoever wears a charm will be left to rely on it”. (Tirmidhi)
Abdullah bin Masûd radhiallahu anhu once saw his wife wearing a knotted thread around her neck. He pulled at it and broke it saying, “The family of Abdullah is free from associating anything with Allâh for which He has sent no authority”. He then said: “I heard the Messenger of Allâh sallallahu alayhi wasallam say ” Incantations, amulets and spells are shirk”.
Whatever…about the charm. I must say this is another most confusing religion and that is why Christianity is not a religion but a personal relationship with the Lord God Jehovah. I am happy to be praying for this particular group at this time. God is merciful and wishes that none should be confused or perish.
I find it very interesting that Roman Catholics have Our Lady of Fatima. May God grant us all His favor and open our eyes to revealed truth. He loved the world so much that He gave His Son to pay our penalty for sin. Bless God.
Thank you for insightful prayer requests.
The only connection between Muhammad’s daughter Fatima and the Roman Catholicism’s Our Lady of Fatima is a similarity in the name. In 1917 three small children in the Portuguese village of Fatima (possibly named due to Moslem influence during Islamic occupation of the Iberian peninsula) saw visions of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady). Subsequent images fashioned after what the children saw are referred to as Our Lady of Fatima. As far as I can discover there is no connection between the children’s visions and Islam.
Darrell is correct. We Catholics do not call Mary in these visions “Our Lady of Fatima” because we share any folk beliefs with Islam. These visions took place at the town of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. It is said that the village was named after a young Muslim woman named Fatima who was baptized and married the Catholic duke of Ourem. Her husband loved her so much that after her death he gave the town her pre-Christian name. In any case, the name of the town is certainly Muslim, but there’s absolutely nothing Muslim about Our Lady of Fatima.
It’s not so much a connection between muslim and catholic, but the Hand of Fatima and Our Lady of Fatima both come from mixing folk beliefs and superstition with a larger religion.
It’s your opinion that Our Lady of Fatima is just folk belief. The 70,000 people, many of them anti-Catholic atheists, who saw the Miracle of the Sun beg to differ. There may be devotion to Our Lady of Fatima that borders on superstition, but I’ve never heard of it.
They can beg all they like. First of all, if it were only seen in one place, then it wasn’t anything to do with the sun, but rather in their minds. Secondly, there is no instance in the Bible that I can think of, where a mass of people that large all had the same divine vision. (the largest I can think of would be the hand writing on the wall in Daniel, and that may even have been a physical hand that was actually there)
It’s likely just mass delusion/hypnosis
It wasn’t seen only in one place – people several miles away who weren’t expecting it saw as well. And like I said, there were many atheists there who had shown up for the express purpose of laughing at the others when it *didn’t* happen. So for them, it could not possibly have been a mass delusion or hypnosis. The Bible does indeed talk about miracles that were performed in front of large groups of people – the feeding of the 5000, for instance. And I’m pretty sure that the Ascension counts as a miracle. However, I don’t wish to derail this topic, so I would invite you to pop over to my blog, where I’d be happy to discuss the matter more freely. I’m very interested in Our Lady of Fatima as an evangelization tool, since learning about her saved me from converting to Islam and brought me back to faith in her Son. And Fulton Sheen mentions that North African Muslims who saw statues of Our Lady of Fatima soon came to belief in Jesus and were baptized.
I didn’t say there were no miracles performed in front of large groups. I said no mass visions. The feeding of 5000 and the ascension were actual physical events. And to say that Mary convinced you to believe in Jesus…well..I guess as long as you believe in HIm you’re alright. The Bible is quite clear, however, that spirits of the dead cannot cross over into our world nor affect things in it. There is only one single verse in the Bible which talks about the dead doing anything like that and it’s the one that says the dead saints are continually praying for us. To pray to anyone but God, in any other name but that of Jesus is blasphemous.
I’m afraid that you completely misunderstand Catholic beliefs concerning apparitions and prayers to the saints. They are not unbiblical. However, since you are obviously determined not to understand, there is no point in continuing to discuss it, at least here. If you want to engage in an extended discussion about the topic, I would definitely recommend the Catholic Answers forums. The people there have biblical answers to the challenges you’ve put forth, and they have more time to answer them than I do. God bless.
There is nothing confusing about Islam Lee. .. basically it says simply.. worship God as one God. and don’t associate anything.. even a son with Him. He is Almighty God. This is why muslims who are not culturally affected by folk lore say that to use charms like the hand of fatima is to commit shirk.. since the power of protection and healing is put in the hand, rather than to God Himself.
Muslims genuinely believe that God is in control of everything, .. and that even healing done through the help of medicine is allowed by God. To think anything less is idolatry and to worship something else other than God.
All those Christians who read their horoscope each day need to look at their own selves ..
FATIMAH
May the Hand of the Lord be upon every woman named Fatimah, but not only upon them, but also upon every Muslim? There are many precious people believing in a lie. As we all, they need the Hand of the Lord upon them. Only through prayers we help Muslims, as the lost son, to come back home. May we keep remaining faithful in our task not rejecting them when they come home, amen? Luke 15.
Hm.. and the next few days discussion is on splits within Islam.. when Christianity has it’s own major issue between Catholic and Protestant.