The Fury of a Woman Scorned - But is it justified or was it real?
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 Published On Feb 23, 2024

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"He was never interested in leaving a material legacy for his daughter and their family but a spiritual legacy free of accumulation. He had always prepared her for her position as Purified Zahraa, the Queen of Heaven. This now finally leads me to the final part of this season: I used the title ‘Woman Scorned’ because “hell has no fury as a woman scorned” and according to a fraction of scholars - she was a woman scorned, the denied woman, the jilted woman, the woman dealt with unfairly and unjustly. So, she “sulked and was angry until her death bed where she was bitter and resentful after her land was seized, her home either invaded or harrassed and her family’s rights denied and dishonoured during the trauma of her father’s funeral”…

It is for this reason that the ‘sad, tragic ghost of poor’ Fatimah has been haunting me with the description of sunken eyes, protruding rib cage, rough clothes who was denied property “Ordained” to her and was left with nothing…

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Did the best of women who was taught that instead of getting a maid say thikr, never said “innaa lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajjuwn” or have an attitude like that? Did the best role model of submission, surrender, and obedience not have patience? Did the most dutiful and traditional conservative woman who unfailingly honoured the authority of her Lord, her father, her husband, and her stepmothers all of sudden decide to challenge in rebellion the Head of State and the father of her stepmother whose rank she respected?"

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