وكانت ترثي أباها وتقول : ماذا على من شم تربة أحمد أن لا يشم مدى الزمان غواليا صبت علي مصائب لو أنها صبت على الأيام صرن لياليا 3 وتقول أيضا : إذا مات يوما ميت قل ذكره * وذكر أبي مذ مات والله أزيد تذكرت لما فرق الموت بيننا * فعزيت نفسي بالنبي محمد فقلت لها أن المماة سبيلنا * ومن لم يمت في يومه مات في غد وتقول أيضا : إذا اشتد شوقي زرت قبرك باكيا * أنوح وأشكو لا أراك مجاوبي فيا ساكن الصحراء ( الغبراء - خ ل ) علمتني البكاء وذكرك أنساني جميع المصائب فإن كنت عني في التراب مغيبا فما كنت عن قلبي الحزين بغائب وكان أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام اغتسل النبي صلى الله عليه وآله في قميصه فكانت فاطمة عليها السلام تقول : أرني القميص ، فإذا شمته غشي عليها ، فلما رأى

And she would elegize her father and say: — What is it to him who has smelt the earth of Ahmad — that he should never smell a perfume through all time? — Calamities were poured upon me which, had they — been poured upon the days, would have become nights. [3] And she also said: — When one dies on a day, the mention of him grows little; — but the mention of my father, since he died, by God, increases. — I remembered, when death parted us, — and I consoled myself for the Prophet Muhammad, — and I said to my soul: death is our road, — and whoever does not die on his day dies on the morrow. And she also said: — When my longing grows strong I visit your grave weeping, — I lament and I complain, and I do not see you answering me. — O dweller of the wilderness (a variant: of the dust), you have taught me weeping, — and the mention of you has made me forget all calamities. — And if you are hidden from me in the earth, — you were never absent from my sorrowing heart. And the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, had washed the Prophet, may God bless him and his Family, in his shirt; and Fatima, peace be upon her, would say: Show me the shirt. And when she smelt it she would faint. So when