Fatimah bint Muhammad, born in 615 AD, was the youngest daughter of Muhammad (PBUH) and his first wife, Khadijah (May Allah be pleased with her). Fatimah was born about 5 years before the first revelations of the Quran and was one of the early converts of the monotheistic religion her father revealed. She spent much of her later life watching her father be persecuted by the pagan Qurasyh of Mecca. She followed her father from Mecca to Medina as they fled the hardship in their hometown and persecution from these same pagan tribes who had issued a boycott of Muslims in Mecca. During the battles the first Muslims fought to defend their right to practice their faith, she would attend to the wounded and the dead after each battle. Later on, she would marry Ali, her fathers cousin, a humble man who, unlike the husbands of her sisters, did not have a great fortune. In the early years of their marriage, Fatimah went to her father to ask for servants for their household, he replied that he had something much more valuable to offer her, as she was one of the most devout followers of Islam. He told her at the end of every prayer to recite Allahu Akbar 34 times, Alhamdulillah 33 times, and Subhan-Allah 33 times and thus the Tasbih of Fatimah was born and is still repeated to this day. Like her mother, Fatimah is held up as a leader of all women on earth and in jannah (paradise). Her motto in life was ‘service to islam’. This earned her true nicknames Fatimah al Zahra (the shining one) and Fatimah al Balūl (the chaste), as she spent most of her life in prayer.