--- title: "The Journey That Founded a City" event: "The Lantern of the Path" session_number: 37 published_at: "2025-10-01" canonical_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-journey-that-founded-a-city" event_url: "https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-lantern-of-the-path" type: "event-session" scripture_reference: "Mafatih al-Jinan, Supplications (Duas), Common Ta'qibat (Post-Prayer Supplications), Line 12" --- # The Journey That Founded a City *Session 37 of [The Lantern of the Path](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-lantern-of-the-path) — 1 October 2025* Imamah, Part 17 · Sayyedah Fatimah al-Ma'soumeh, Part 1 of 2 A caravan set out from Madinah to reach an exiled Imam, and never arrived — yet out of what happened on that road, a city was born. Sayyedah Fatimah al-Ma'soumeh, peace be upon her, was daughter of the seventh Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, and sister of the eighth, Ali al-Rida. When the caliph forced Imam al-Rida from Madinah to distant Khurasan in 200 AH, she answered the next year with a hijrah of her own — a deliberate migration in loyalty — leading a caravan out of Madinah to stand with the Imam of her time. She never reached him. Near the town of Saveh the caravan was ambushed; several relatives were killed, and she herself was poisoned. Weakened and grieving, she asked not to be carried home but to be taken to Qom, a city loyal to her family. There, that same year, her journey ended. Her burial did not close her story; it opened one. A shrine grew around her grave, and a humble town grew into one of the great centres of Shia scholarship. What does it take for a grave to become the seed of a civilisation? What the evening covers A house built for guidance. Why being daughter and sister of Imams placed her at the centre of the Imamate's meaning. The hijrah of 201 AH. Why her departure from Madinah was read as a political act against the ruling power, not a family visit. The ambush at Saveh. What her caravan lost on the road, and how it echoes the ordeal of Sayyedah Zaynab after Karbala. From burial to beacon. Her standing as Karimat Ahl al-Bayt, alongside Sayyedah Fatimah al-Zahra and Sayyedah Zaynab. ## Scripture > يا رَبَّ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ الِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ عَجِّلْ > فَرَجَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ > > O Lord of Muhammad and the family of Muhammad! Send blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and hasten the relief of the family of Muhammad. — *Mafatih al-Jinan, Supplications (Duas), Common Ta'qibat (Post-Prayer Supplications), Line 12* ## Programme - [Watch the full session](https://youtu.be/1ROZ9NGkds4) - [Sermon: The Journey That Founded a City](https://youtu.be/1ROZ9NGkds4) - [Nohe: Farsi Anthem/Song About Imam Ali](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fLB5XAteKU) - [Ziyarah: Ziyarah of Sayyed Fatimah al-Ma'soumeh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4G1U6kYvA4) ## Other sessions in this event - [Session 69 — Shaykh al-Ta'ifa](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/shaykh-al-taifa) — 12 August 2026 - [Session 26 — Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba: A Life of Strategic Sacrifice](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/imam-hasan-al-mujtaba-a-life-of-strategic-sacrifice) — 20 May 2026 - [Session 3 — Keeping God's Limits](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/keeping-gods-limits) — 10 December 2025 - [Session 44 — Guardian of the Final Proof](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/guardian-of-the-final-proof) — 19 November 2025 - [Session 43 — The Imam of Preparation](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-imam-of-preparation) — 12 November 2025 - [Session 42 — Networks of Guidance Under Siege](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/networks-of-guidance-under-siege) — 5 November 2025 - [Session 41 — The Charter of Wilayah and The Light in the Garrison](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-charter-of-wilayah-and-the-light-in-the-garrison) — 29 October 2025 - [Session 40 — Generous Protection and The Fortress of Faith](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/generous-protection-and-the-fortress-of-faith) — 22 October 2025 - [Session 39 — Youthful Authority and Eternal Clarity](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/youthful-authority-and-eternal-clarity) — 15 October 2025 - [Session 38 — The Theology of Her Ziyarah](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-theology-of-her-ziyarah) — 8 October 2025 - [Session 36 — Imamate Beyond Thrones](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/imamate-beyond-thrones) — 24 September 2025 - [Session 35 — A Victory in Refusal](https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/a-victory-in-refusal) — 17 September 2025 --- _Read this session on the web: https://www.truthpromoters.com/events/the-journey-that-founded-a-city_