Something really significant that people don't often consider with Muhammad, is that; given how the Arab pagans used to bury their female infants alive because they viewed daughters as curses. How significant is it that Muhammad's only progeny surviving past childhood was Lady Fatimah. And how through Fatimah (who married Imam Ali obvs) that Muhammad's successorship was advanced.
Also, though you may know (I think I've mentioned it before) but Surah Kawthar is a promise God gave to Muhammad before the birth of Fatimah. The word Kawthar means "abundance" but it also, in Hadith, is metaphysically referred to as "the fountain in Paradise". From there it is obvious where Cup/Chalice symbolism in Qur'anic verses about Paradise factor into this.
The layers of symbols associated with Fatimah is profound. The whole "holy grail" myth in the middle ages comes out of Shi'ite tradition, relating to Fatimah and Ali, but as it was appropriated into the Parzival story (which Crowley and other occultists of his day very much loved) where Christianized to be about Jesus rather than Muhammad.
However of course the "holy grail" is also connected to Alchemy/Hermeticism as well, with the concept of Magnum Opus or "the Great Work".
One further interesting connection there is between Fatimah's Sophic aspect and the Babalon of Thelema, to which Crowley attributes the Grail symbology in texts like Liber Cheth and Liber 418.
This is all part of a grand mystery nonetheless. It is really upsetting that so many western esotericists/occultists want to exclude and bastardize Islam from this conversation when it undoubtedly contains all the missing pieces. The answers of western occultism are to be found where the biggoted minds of so many westerns don’t want to look: Islam, but not just that but Shia Islam (the seed where Sufism sprouted too).
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