Hosam Helal – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Episode 1 Aisha bint Abi Bakr
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The transcript discusses the history and characteristics of a woman named Aishaippedah Alayhi wa sallam who was the fourth most narrator of Hadith. She was a mother of two children with a history of drinking alcohol and anxiety and sadness, as well as a woman with a history of drinking alcohol. The conversation also touches on the shift in perception towards women and the importance of Heridic Law in shaping women to have value. The transcript provides insight into the perception of women in the Middle East and the shift in perception of women due to the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad's teachings in the Quran.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu
salam ala Muhammad Abdullah Al Amin, Salem Allah and Muhammad Ali
who are early he have little Salah to attend with the slim. May Allah
Subhana Allah bless you, your families, your loved ones keep you
safe keep you protected, keep you resilient in the best of ways.
Your Amin, amin amin, welcome back to another episode of Series of
Islam. Tonight we look at Aisha bint Abu Bakr, Radi Allahu Allah,
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam his wife and the
daughter of Abu Bakar his best and closest companion, sal Allahu
Allah wa salam. She is the fourth most narrator of Hadith. She
narrated 2210 to 2250, a hadith directly from the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she had more than 100 students who
learn directly from her, including Ursula imidazolium. She had some
of the greatest companions narrate directly from her alma Bob
narrated from her um, the live neuroma narrative from her IV
fluid Ira narrated from her side and then we'll say a narrative
from her and the teachers of Al hacer el bacillary learn directly
from her. She left a beautiful legacy behind and the beautiful
legacy can be summarized in one moment. One episode that is really
incredible. I blindness Zubair who was the son of a smart mint
Abubaker. So his aunt is a shot of the Alana is the nephew of Arusha.
He comes into the house and he used to come in and out, you know,
she was his Maha Schumacher Muharram. So she would be
comfortable teaching directly, and he will be spending a lot of time
in and out of the house. So he would see her given lessons. And
he's just amazed with his with her person. So we asked her, yeah, OMA
and used to call her my mother out of respect, because she's in the
same age and the same level of respect as his own mother. See,
oh, man, and she's the mother of the believers. Yeah. Oh, man, I
get why you're so good at poetry. Because your father is a
boubakeur. And he was good at that. I get why you're so good at
lineage knowing people's lineage and profiling and knowing which
families what and which tribe is what because Abu Bakr was good at
that. And he pass that knowledge on to you. I get why you're so
good at Quran and Hadith, because it also Los Alamos, your husband,
you're privileged in the area, I get all of that. But can you
explain to me, how did you come to know so much about medicine? How
did you come to know so much about the various ingredients in the
various healing herbs and the things you're always going around
and giving ingredients classifying, categorizing,
treating illnesses? Where did you pick up that from? So she turns to
me, he says, My son, look at that respect. When the Prophet Muhammad
SAW Selim was ill, at the end of his life, out of tribes used to
send their women to suggest try this and try that and try this and
try that. So I, I was interested in medicine and I was trying to
put all these things together to heal the Prophet Muhammad Salam,
of course, Allah subhanaw taala, as will always transcends anything
else. When the Prophet Muhammad Selim passed away, I picked it up
as a hobby as something that I enjoyed, and I carried it on and I
pursued it. So one thing that we don't usually mention about Ayesha
is she was involved not just as a teacher, not just as a Mahadeva
not just as somebody who carried the Sunnah and transmitted the
Sunnah, the tradition and the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad
Salah Salem, but she was also a healer, a doctor in her own sense.
Why because she would go to the community to lumen in the
community, and she would for example, in one Hadith, she would
see the woman who are going through anxiety or stress or
experiencing bereavement after the death of somebody from their
family she would say I recommend that you try to eat tell Bina look
it up what is still being a look at the Hadith, t a l Vi n h so I
recommend that you eat tell Bina because the prophet Mohamed Salah
Salem taught that there is a healing property and it helps
somebody cope with anxiety or cope with sadness and sorrow. Can you
imagine and she would add on some of her own things that she also
picked up from the tribes and from what was available at her time. So
she was combining the Sunnah prophetic medicine with the
medicine that was available to her to suggest these various healing
entities to the people that were available to her to the people
that needed it. And that goes to show you Subhanallah the
incredible personality and the curiosity of eyeshadow Delana I
shared with Alana and maybe once heard her put someone else in
their place you know, someone was kind of you know, crossing the
boundaries a little bit and I showed up and I'm looking at the
Prophet Mohammed Salah should should I should I respond or will
you get a smile? Okay, you take it on. So she gives this verbal
incredible verbal conversation and if you
Selam just smiles. I think he's been to everybody. She's the
daughter of Abubaker. We expect you know, some really, like more
out here himself, he says elf so out of the most eloquent of the
Arabs, not just the women, the most eloquent of the Arab desert
Isha let that sink in some, some of the women themselves would say,
we would listen to the whole bus Abubaker and the whole bus of
Roma, and the whole bus of Earth man and the whole bus of many
philosophers, but we have never heard anyone more engaging, more
captivating, more eloquent than a shot of the Allahu anha
let this sink in some of the companions themselves, there is an
opinion attributed or a saying attributed to Ramadan support, in
which Jesus before Islam, we used to disregard we didn't really care
much about the feelings and the emotions of women, and we didn't
really think of women to be able to contribute and to have value to
the society. And that was the pre Islamic, you know, impression, the
pre Islamic perception towards women, it was disgusting, you
know, the burial of women, or burial of female daughters that as
mentioned in the Quran, although it wasn't as prevalent, it was
still socially accepted, it was still a norm.
That was before Islam. Now I'm gonna stop according to that sing
attributed to him, he says, but when the ayat of inheritance, the
verses of inheritance were revealed in the Quran, it caused a
paradigm shift that women can inherit. The women are not to be
inherited as property, which was the case before Islam, but they
can inherit, so that those ideas in the Quran the way the Quran
frames, women and the rights really changed the perception of
the Sahaba and find that it was I Isha, as a figure that change the
perception that we had towards women.
I shall not the law on her, had her own school of fic, she would
dispute some of the opinions of the scholars around the
companions. For for example, when she heard the hadith of how the
Prophet Muhammad Salam is supposed to have said that, you know, women
when a woman walks, interrupts your Salah, and the Hadith,
according to the Hadith, you know, the woman has put on the same
category as a, as a dog walking by, or, you know, so I should only
heard this is I completely disagree. How dare you. And she's
I used to be in the Prophet Muhammad salams room, and he would
pray while I'm right next to him. And sometimes when he would come
down in sujood, he would make you know, he would he would, as soon
as you would come down, I would have to move out of the way
because of the limited space. So you misunderstood the Hadith. Let
me explain to you what is meant when he said this outside to the
public. Well, let me actually, let me tell you also, other things
like, you know, when it comes to when it comes to a hadith about
inheritance, a hadith about the end of times, many things that the
companions had, in terms of an opinion I showed her the Alana
would be there to correct that opinion, because she had direct
access to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. And there are
books that are published on that subject opinions of the companions
that were corrected by Aisha, Radi Allahu Ana.
She was known for her determination and her confidence,
she was very confident from the very beginning. So she would ask
very curious questions, she will say, Oh, Sue Allah, what is meant
by this is what is really meant by this, what is meant by that? How
does this make sense in terms of this? So she would ask those
questions. And if for example, in question is your suit Allah, the
Hadith about how in the day of on the Day of Judgment, people are
going to come to Allah subhanaw taala unclothed? How is that going
to be? So many? She's imagining the ayat. She's imagining the
Hadith. And he says, Yeah, everybody's going to be on that
day minding their own business. This makes sense. So she was
curious who would ask those questions? There's one one
incident that very interesting in it when we look at the Prophet
Muhammad Salah has a relationship with with ash. It's incredible, so
many lessons that we can learn from there. You know, for example,
and maybe some of them would take the cup after he drank and he
would rotate it, and she will say, What are you doing out of solar?
I'm looking for the place where you lips touch so I can drink from
the same spot. To show that respect. She wants ask the metal
solo. Do you love me? Of course I love you, Asha. Tell me how much
do you love me? Beautiful composition between husband and
wife? Because yeah, Aisha I love you. My love for you. If you want
to look for a symbol of my love for you imagine a rope that is
tied onto itself like a loop.
So you know when people say a ring is round, it turns forever. And
that's how long we'll be together that kind of stuff. Right? So let
me so let me saying my love for you is infinite. It's looping. I
love you so much that you know, like it's like a knot together
held together strong enough. So she would once in a while See ya
rasool Allah How was the not doing so and maybe some made her secure
in that relationship?
Ship. Wish you could ask any question where she felt
comfortable to ask any question. And she contributed to the
confidence of the tambourine and the Sahaba women that were around,
and that would cover students as well that would come after that.
She was also amazing at reading people and reading situations in
and she knew the Prophet Mohammed Salim so well, on his deathbed.
She looked at the Prophet Muhammad cinemas, and she She always tried
to say without him saying anything. So she quickly grabbed
the miswak all the other women like how did you know? It's like I
know my husband. I know my husband. So she gives him his work
and he smiles, he appreciates it. Of course, he is sick, he can say
much. And she tries to use them as well. They doesn't have the
strength. So she uses her own hand.
And he said, How did you know I know my husband? Subhanallah you
know, there's one one incident and the Prophet Muhammad salams that
there's actually in our books of our books of narrations where I
share with Alana it's a long story but she's she's she's saying the
story of 11 women talking about all the qualities in men and
things that happen, things like that. So I shall run is narrating
this of the Prophet Muhammad salam to get his input.
So what do you imagine? I shall run is talking for half an hour an
hour, maybe even two hours continuously about this long
story. And the Prophet Muhammad Salim is listening to her and
interrupting, listening completely. And then finally he
comments and how she should you know she should proceed. And then
many times we just listened to her for a long time just venting,
talking, making himself available, giving her that security, giving
her that security. One incident that really really highlights her
strength, her tenacity. Her confidence is what happened in the
if when people miss, you know how the Lakota level attributed
terrible things accused her of terrible things. Whether it
whether they verbalize that or they didn't assume that or not,
you know, people accused her of infidelity, how does it lift
mentioned in sort of a norm? Now, of course, the rumors got so so
toxic, that it affected the relationship with an abuse of our
salon. And when he walked into the house, Mother evaluation of a
worker told her you know, say something to said, What do you
want me to say? I have nothing to say whatever I say at this moment,
it's going to mean nothing to anybody. All that I can say is
what Abu Yusuf the father of us have said to his his children.
Right well Lahoma stand for saloon Jammie wala Hindustan metal. So
all that I can say is May Allah give me beautiful patience. And
Allah's help is what I seek regarding the things that you
attribute to me, and the things that you say and the things that
you describe. So we'll get that confidence strength. Finally, when
the ayat of the Quran will reveal proving her innocence. What does
she say? She says, I never thought of myself worthy enough to have a
ton of Quran revealed about me. Abu Bakr his wife says she should
thank your husband. I don't think anybody on this day except ALLAH,
immeasurable Salah Salem is theirs and I'm not gonna thank you. I'm
thanking Allah subhanho wa Taala because he is the one who set the
record straight. And there is no justice beyond the justice of
ALLAH SubhanA tab. So look, despite the love that she had with
Rasul Solomon, and there was a lot of love you know, that, that that
beautiful story of love. And the most beautiful story of love that
we have in our tradition, is a story of a new Salam with Felicia
and there's only so Salam, Salam Salam with ASHA with Alana to the
point where one of them had defeated would narrate from
Russia, they would say, I heard from heavy but Rasulullah Sawsan,
that beloved of Rasulullah, Salah, Salah, that was what she was known
as.
And that's how she would transmit this hadith and her teachings to
the community. As we mentioned, she founded a school of fish.
She disputed the Sahabas opinions when she had evidence and despite
the fact that she was number four in terms of the quantity of the
Hadith, there are many a hadith was she was the only one narrating
because she was paying attention to Rasulullah Salah and she was
the only one to notice. And in many times she corrected the
perceptions of the companions towards women, and more
importantly even towards some main principles within and peripheral
issues within the Sharia. So when it comes to the codification of
the Sharia and when it comes to the foundations and the text and
how to deal with it, I shouted Allahu anha plays a central role
in all of that. May Allah Subhana Allah bless us all Europe Amelie
Allah keep you steadfast keep a sincere. Here's a small glimpse
from the life of Aisha to encourage us to learn more, to
connect more and of course, to challenge the way that we look at
our sisters and to give them options
didn't invest and to allow for that potential that teaching
potential that inspiring potential that confidence in our sisters and
our daughters and our mothers to grow because that woman will fail
and we'll set them on a coma rahmatullahi wa barakato