29. Fatima Zahra (s.a.) Among the Exalted Ones (al-Aaleen) – Surah Saad (38:75)

قَالَ يَا إِبْلِيسُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ ۖ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ أَمْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعَالِينَ {75}

“He said: O Iblis! what prevented you that you should do obeisance to him whom I created with My two hands? Are you proud or are you of the exalted ones?”

A man asked Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.): O Messenger of Allah! Tell me about the saying of Allah are you of the exalted ones? Who are these? O Messenger of Allah who are more exalted than the proximate angels.

Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) replied: I (s.a.w.a.), Ali (a.s.), Fatima (s.a.), Hasan (a.s.) and Husain (a.s.), we were near the Arsh of Allah, glorifying Him. And the angels used to glorify us one thousand years before the creation of Adam (a.s.)…. ¹

Footnotes

1. Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an, Vol. 4, Page 684 ↩