فصل [ أشعارها عند قبر أبيها ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) ] روي أنه لما قبض رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله ونال فاطمة عليها السلام من القوم ما نالها لزمت الفراش ونحل جسمها وذاب لحمها وجف جلدها على عظمها وصارت كالخيال 1 .

Section [her verses at her father's grave (may God bless him and his Family)]. It is related that when the Messenger of God, may God bless him and his Family, was taken, and there befell Fatima, peace be upon her, from the people what befell her, she kept to her bed, and her body wasted and her flesh melted away and her skin dried upon her bone, and she became like a phantom. [1]

وروي أيضا إنها صلى الله عليها ما زالت بعد أبيها معصبة الرأس ، ناحلة الجسم ، منهدة الركن ، باكية العين ، محترقة القلب ، يغشى عليها ساعة بعد ساعة وتقول لولديها : أين أبوكما الذي كان يكرمكما ويحملكما مرة بعد مرة أين أبوكما الذي كان أشد الناس شفقة عليكما ؟

And it is also related that she, the blessings of God be upon her, never ceased after her father to be bound about the head, wasted of body, broken in her pillar, weeping of eye, burning of heart, swooning hour after hour and saying to her two sons: Where is your father, who used to honour you and carry you time after time? Where is your father, who was of all people the most tender towards you?

فلا يدعكما تمشيان على الأرض ولا أراه يفتح هذا الباب أبدا ولا يحملكما على عاتقه كما لم يزل يفعل بكما 2 .

He does not let you walk upon the ground; and I do not think he will ever open this door again, nor carry you upon his shoulder as he never ceased to do with you. [2]

فكانت سلام الله عليها كما أخبر أبوها عن يومها ذلك محزونة مكروبة باكية ، تتذكر انقطاع الوحي عن بيتها مرة وتتذكر فراق والدها أخرى ، وتستوحش إذا جنها الليل لفقد صوته الذي كانت تسمع إليه إذا تهجد بالقرآن ثم ترى نفسها ذليلة بعد أن كانت في أيام أبيها عزيزة .

So she was, the peace of God be upon her, as her father had foretold of that day of hers: sorrowful, distressed, weeping; remembering at one time the cutting off of the revelation from her house, and remembering at another the parting from her father; and growing desolate when the night covered her, for the loss of his voice which she used to listen to when he kept vigil with the Qur'an; and then seeing herself abased after she had been, in the days of her father, honoured.