Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic introduced Hazrat Fatima Zahra (‘a) as an exemplar for all generations throughout the history.
In Imam Khomeini's viewpoint, all divine dimensions and sublime virtues that one can imagine for a woman and a human being were personified in divine personality of Hadrat Fatima Zahra (peace be upon her).
The holy prophet of Islam himself on several occasions praised the spiritual grades and position of her daughter, which has been recommended as a divine model for the whole humanity through all the history.
Quranic chapter of Kawthar was reveled on the occasion of the birthday of the divine lady Fatima. She was blessed with great amount of divine wisdom, spirituality and divine virtues.
Imam Khomeini in a series of historic messages in this regard said as following:
We must take this family as our role model, our women should try to emulate their women, and our men their men. All of us should learn from all of them. They dedicated their lives to the support of the oppressed and to the revival of the divine traditions. We should follow their example and dedicate our lives to them. He who knows the history of Islam, knows that each member of this family was a perfect human being, even more than that, a divine being, a spiritual person who rose up for the people and for the oppressed against those who sought to destroy them.
11 April 1979 (22 Farvardin 1358 AHS)
The exemplar is Hazrat Fatima Zahra, upon whom be peace. The exemplar is the Prophet of Islam. We can say that our country is Islamic, that we have an Islamic Republic when all these ideals that are contained in Islam are realised.
29 May 1979 (8 Khurdad 1358 AHS)
This small house of Fatima’s, upon whom be peace, and these people reared there, who numbered four or five, in reality manifested all the power of God the Exalted. They rendered services at which all of us, all of mankind, marvel.
9 March 1982 (18 Isfand 1360 AHS)
A woman in a small room of a humble home nurtured human beings whose light shone from the vast expanse of the earth to the highest heavens, from this world to the next. May the blessings and peace of God the Exalted be upon this small room, which was the place where the light of divine majesty was made manifest and was the nursery of the elite children of mankind.
14 April 1982 (25 Farvardin 1361 AHS)