A Concise Summary of the Sermon of Fadak

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

A Brief Summary of Fada

In the first stage, the noble Lady (peace be upon her) praised Allah, glorifying His greatness and supremacy. She declared that she is grateful to the Almighty who, through her father, made people recite the word of Divine Unity. It was He who transformed arrogant, ignorant, superstitious people—those who worshipped multiple gods, who buried their daughters alive, and whose hearts were harder than stone—into human beings by teaching them the lesson of true humanity.

After this, she expressed gratitude for the countless blessings granted by Allah, explaining how He showered us with the finest and greatest of His favors and distributed them with wisdom.

The sermon of the Lady also made it clear that if one wishes to recognize God, one must first recognize oneself, because God is known through His signs. Without signs, the One who creates the signs cannot be recognized.

However, the rank of the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) is entirely distinct from all other human beings. They recognized their Creator at a time when nothing existed except Allah. There were no signs through which they could know Him. Their greatest virtue is that even in recognizing God, they did not rely on anything other than God Himself.

When they were created, nothing else existed in the realm of creation. Indeed, nothing existed before God, and He is not created from anything. He has no partner. After Him, the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) are also without partners, because when Allah created them, He did not create them from anything else.