Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic through his historic speeches and messages highlighted divine and heavenly perspectives of the daughter of the holy prophet of Islam.
According to Imam Khomeini, all dimensions that one can imagine exist for a woman and a human being were personified in Fatima Zahra, upon whom be peace.
She was not an ordinary woman; she was a spiritual woman, a heavenly woman, a human being in the true sense of the word. She was the incarnation of human goodness; she personified the true nature of woman and the true nature of the human being.
She was not an ordinary woman, she was a heavenly being who appeared in this world in the form of a human being, she was a divine, celestial being who appeared in the form of a woman. She personified all the very best human and female traits that one can imagine. Tomorrow then is Women’s Day, tomorrow is the day on which such a woman was born.
She was a woman who embodied all the virtues of the prophets, a woman who, had she been a man, would have been a prophet, a woman who, had she been a man, would have been the Messenger of God. Spiritual qualities, heavenly qualities, divine qualities, celestial qualities, human and angelic qualities all came together in this being.
She was a human being in the full sense of the word, a woman in the full sense of the word. Tomorrow then is Women’s Day. Tomorrow is the day when woman’s dignity and woman’s character came into being.
Various dimensions exist for the woman just as they do for a man, for human beings in general.
This external, physical side is the lowest stage of a human being’s development, be it man or woman, but it is from this inferior stage that the human being moves towards perfection.
Man is a moving being, moving from the physical towards the metaphysical stage, towards annihilation in God. In Fatima Zahra’s case these stages have been attained.
She began from the physical stage and moved on. She proceeded through the stages of a spiritual movement assisted by divine power, by the invisible hand, by the teachings of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his descendants) until she reached the stage that all others could not reach.
Tomorrow then is the day on which all aspects of woman were materialized, and woman in all her dimensions was incarnated. Tomorrow is Women’s Day.
16 May 1979 (26 Urdibihisht 1358 AHS)
Imam Khomeini also introduced Hadrat Fatima (PBUH) as a role-model for all women and advised societies to follow footsteps of the footsteps of infallible members of the holy prophet's household if they want to get rid of moral and social decline.