Ebook: Who is Zaynab?

There is no doubt that women have a unique
presence, unparalleled status, and remarkable
role in human history, despite often difficult
and unfavorable circumstances that left them obscured
and exposed to different kinds of trials and difficulties.
The Holy Quran has provided us with exquisite and
wonderful examples of great women who played pivotal
and extraordinary roles in the service of God’s religion,
His prophets, and His chosen ones. For example, the
Quran reminds us of the mother of Musa (p), who God
distinguished by speaking to her through a divine
revelation saying, “We inspired Musa’s mother saying,
‘Breast-feed your son. When you become afraid for his
life, throw him into the sea. Do not be afraid or grieved
for We shall return him to you and make him a
messenger’”.

One of the most important things that will help the
contemporary woman recover and affirm her identity
as someone who can carry the responsibility placed on
humankind as inheritors of Islamic legacy and exercise
her divinely apportioned role in educating others,
nurturing love and tenderness, as well as facing the
injustice, oppression, marginalization and persecution
humanity is subjected to, is for them to work hard, day
and night, to:
1. Shun ignorance and embrace awareness, knowledge,
culture, and everything that is a source of success.
2. Prioritize the goals and interests of life to be realistic
and truly valuable, not shallow and only based on
material gain.
3. Adhere to heavenly values of belief, behavior,
action, morals, knowledge, and purification of the
soul and mind.
4. Contemplate and reflect on the holy ladies who
changed history and accomplished successes that
brought humankind from lowliness to the heights
of glory and dignity, as we see in the character of
Zaynab (p).