12. Fatima Zahra (s.a.) Among the Five Who Wept – Surah Yusuf (12:85)

تَفْتَأُ تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتَّىٰ تَكُونَ حَرَضًا أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ الْهَالِكِينَ {85}

“They said: By Allah! you will not cease to remember Yusuf until you are a prey to constant disease or (until) you are of those who perish.”

Imam Sadiq (a.s.) said: The crying ones are five: Adam (a.s.), Yaqoob (a.s.), Yusuf (a.s.), Janabe Fatima binte Mohammad (s.a.) and Hazrat Ali ibn Husain (a.s.). And Yaqoob (a.s.) cried for Yusuf (a.s.) till he lost his eye sight. And then Imam (a.s.) recited the above verse.¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 3, Page 194 ↩