Hosam Helal – Saviours of Islamic Spirit Episode 14 Zaynab bint Ali
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The legacy of Zeynep's death is discussed, including her loss of her mother, father, and sister. She talks about her desire to build a house for seniors and her desire to feed her family with beans and give shelter. The segment also touches on the history of Islamic culture, including the implementation of Islam and the struggles of women in the face of sexual abuse. The segment ends with a discussion of finding one's mind to be clear and not obstruct others, and the importance of learning from the Prophet Muhammad asylums city and people of Afghanistan.
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Welcome back to another episode of saviors of Islam. Tonight we look
at a female figure, a female figure that literally saved one of
the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam family members, and
through her through her act, she saved the lineage of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Tonight we look at Xena
she was known as the Big Zain of the you know, the senior zeyneb
Xena and some people call her zeyneb The second because she was
the you know, seconds ended when the Prophet Muhammad SAW so limbs
family, Xena was an incredible individual in terms of giving in
terms of selflessness in terms of standing up against injustice in
terms of commitment to knowledge, in terms of modesty, she combined
so many of the beautiful traits that Allah Subhana Allah
complements when it comes to our sisters and what comes to the
Muslim in general what's her story? Xena was considered to be
slow hibbett Assura she was given the title of the person that
should be consulted. She was and I want you to listen to this
carefully. She was the daughter of Ali a been a toilet and felt in
the Elian Hummer. So she was the granddaughter of the Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. When she was five or six
years of age she witnessed the Prophet Muhammad SAW Selim pass
away. And I want you to imagine this was a tough situation for her
family. But that was the first of many difficult challenges that she
would go through. Just six months later, her mother faulty man
passed away and just a little bit after that other members of the
family passed away. Hasson and Hussein were her brothers. So I
want you to imagine she witnessed the poison the poisoning of Al
Hasan. Her older brother she witnessed she was one of the
people who was there in Karbala. She was there in Karbala, and
witnessed the cruel murder of Al Hussein her other brother. And not
only that, she also witnessed in that day, 26 members of her own
family die, she witnessed 26 members of her own family die. Now
you can imagine someone went through so much suffering, many of
us would give in many of us would break many of us would give up
many of us would begin to question the justice. Is there really
justice? Is there really truth? Why is this happening to me, many
of us will go down that path. But Xena, she was from the Prophet
Muhammad Salam family, she remained resilient. And that's
something that she is known for resilience, continuous readiness
to give continuous readiness to sacrifice. So let's take a few
steps back and look at the legacy that Zeynep has left behind from a
very young age, I need to be told it was very, very committed to
making sure zeyneb is raised in the best of ways. You know, his
wife Fatima passed away, the mother of Xena. And that was
tough. That was tough on I didn't ever tell him how much he loved
father, mother, Lana, and it was tough on Hasson Hussein, and it
was tough specifically on Xena. But some of the narrations
actually say that one faltan had passed away about the low Anna.
And remember that interview Salam told her that you're going to be
one of the first people if not the first person to join me when I go
back to Allah subhanaw taala. So before she passed away, she told
Xena, her daughter,
I may be going back to Allah subhanaw taala soon. And I want
you to invest in your older brothers, and other older than you
has an ever seen. But I want you to be in my absence, like a mother
to them. And that's why she never let go of that connection with her
two brothers. She was there supportive every step of the way.
I want you to imagine, at 10 years of age, a 10 years of age, when I
didn't live, it's all it is given the responsibility of becoming the
philosopher, the leader of the believers, she goes to her father
and says that I have this desire to do something beautiful for my
community. Imagine she's carrying that weight caring for the
community. And she is one of the first people if not the first in
Islamic history to suggest this idea to actually execute it,
execute it. So what does she do? She says I would like to build a
house that is for the orphans. I would like to have a house or the
same house for the seniors for the people who are poor. For those who
are struggling, I want to be able to cook for them. And I want to be
able to get other people to cook for them. And I want to share that
food with them. So she wanted to get the pleasure of feeding the
hungry, giving shelter to those who don't have it and taking care
of any orphans in the city of Medina, to the point when
marijuana became himself when he was one of the leaders in Medina.
People would come to him and say can you help us out we're
struggling financially and he would say go to the house of Xena
beans Ali ibn Abi Taalib you will find support there. So imagine a
10 years of age. That was her legacy from the very beginning
given back taking care of the community
Investing having a volunteerism, did she ask for money? No, she
didn't. She did it for the sake of Allah subhanho wa taala. Three
years later now she's you know, fully grown fully developed. And
back then the age of marriage was a much younger or Much, much the
age of marriage was was, was much lower than it is usually now. So
many people started to propose and ask for a hand. You know, some
nations say up to 30 people and among them was lash out in the
face and who he was basically the king of kindess. Imagine all these
kings, all these powerful people are coming to us for hand in
marriage. And I think maybe thought of Of course, he cared
about his daughter so much. He's not just going to, you know, give
her to somebody who is not really deserving of such a beautiful
gift. And when I say beautiful, I mean beautiful in every every
possible way. Beautiful in the flowers, beautiful in the
monastery, beautiful and the character, beautiful in the
lineage. sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is her grandfather. So even
if we thought he would consult her, and she refused to marry any
of the kings or any of those people, she wanted somebody who's
really religious, someone who's committed to Allah subhanaw taala,
someone that she could grow with, and someone from within the
immediate or the extended family that you could basically build
that relationship with. And Abdullah ethnographer, who was you
know, Jaffa ibn Abi Talib, the brother of Adaminaby Talib, he is
the one to propose and his proposal is accepted, and they
live a beautiful happy life together. And he doesn't get in
the way of allowing her to grow allowing her to gain knowledge
allowing her to teach, actually, she ends up having closed circles
for sisters for females to teach other females in Medina, she would
teach the hadith of Rasul Allah Stella, she will teach the
etiquette of Rasulullah salams treatment, the way he walked the
way he taught, she carried much of that and transmitted it, and she
would go and sit with the women of Rasulullah selama, Aisha Radi
Allahu anha, and the other wives of the Prophet Muhammad Salim and
the women of Medina and she focused on carrying and
transmitting that knowledge, all that knowledge that she could
collect, she focused on transmitting that to the females
of the tertiary and to the generation that would come after.
Now Subhanallah Hassan would be poisoned Al Hussein, eventually he
comes to the opinion that I have to go to Karbala to stand up
against this injustice. And he makes the decision to go even
though Abdullah, even Jaffa, the husband of Xena tells him not to
go and Abdullah
Jaffa and he was of the opinion that I'm not going to get involved
in any of the battles in any of the conflict, I'm just going to
stay and mind my own business. But I want you to imagine that she's
torn between a person who needs to act who feels like this is a
weight, this is a responsibility. And between the opinion of her
husband, which is you know, let's not get involved, not our
business. Did her husband force his opinion on her? No, he didn't.
So he asked her what do you think I cannot let my brother go by
himself, I will go with him and I want to support him. So the
husband decided to stay and he told her you can go ahead, and I
respect your opinion, but just know I disagree with it, I respect
it, but I disagree with it. But Zane of when to support her
brother. And here we see one of the beautiful examples from the
early on early on in our history of how the opinion and the choice
of our sister is respected, endorsed, even though the husband
sees otherwise and this is a very sensitive time. So she says can I
take my you know, can I take my son's with me, he tells her I
really feel uncomfortable with them going but if you wish you can
take one of them Subhanallah so she does take one of her children
with her and she goes and law however that quote Ella Bella what
happened in Karbala it happened and it's terrible and we don't
want to get into the you know, gruesome details but what Allah He
is one of the most difficult and one of the most horrific chapters
in our Islamic history. And she witnessed that with her own eyes,
she witnessed that, you know, disgusting, you know, oppression
and injustice towards the Prophet Muhammad Salah Salem's family, and
she was staying with it even. I don't even I don't even know if
you're saying Zayn and then Aberdeen and she because he was he
was a young child of this time. And he wasn't actually fighting in
the battle. He was sick. So she was nursing him. So imagine in the
battle, she was nursing, she was still giving. And finally they won
the battle when everything happened. It was yet himself comes
and he wants to kill
Zaid him than Aberdeen even though he's you know one of the last
members of the private consultant family love, he still wants to
kill him. So she's throws herself at him. And she's you're not going
to get to him unless that dagger goes through me or unless that
sword goes through me. So because she threw herself in protection of
that one or one of the last people from the Prophet Mohammed bin
Salman who was left behind after 24 or 25 or 26. And suddenly
Regency 27 seven members of the Prophet Muhammad sudden were
killed along with somebody was telling him about academ Hamad she
sacrifice her own life and that heroism, that confidence is
incredible, especially in that moment, especially in that moment.
And he says he describes her, you know, they did not believe in
himself. He says I saw her
I saw her and in that moment, despite all of the pain that
night, she she tried to stay in front of Allah subhanaw taala and
crispy up and she couldn't from the exhaustion. So she sat down,
she sat down and pray to Allah Subhana Allah and the whole time
that I've known her, I didn't notice her one single like
skipping plan, visual night prayer asking Allah subhanaw taala for
support.
what a what a challenge. I want you to imagine going through that
and find it nice yet confronts her and says are you are DC DC how,
you know we'll finally put your family in place and it means your
thought what he was doing was right. So whenever the biller and
you know he thought that he was, you know, when fitna happens when
fitna happens, it's difficult to see right from wrong Schatten
closes your ability obstructs your ability to see takes away that
clarity. And that's what we have to be careful and we have to be
calculated. And we have to be you know, very, very cautious not to
let the fitna infuse the Muslim community and get into our hearts
and distract us from seeing our brothers and sisters and investing
and collaborating and cooperating and uniting and working together.
If this happens to the Prophet Mohammed Salim is feminine or Kim
and the companions. What about us? Are we not prone to the fitna?
There are so many lessons we can learn from that. But coming back
to zeyneb herself, Xena, what does she do? She stands up to even his
yard. And she says, when he looks at he says, See we've managed to
overpower your family, she tells him straight up Subhanallah you
have not defeated us. You've only given us an opportunity to go back
to Allah Subhana Allah sooner you may have you may have given
yourself the illusion of victory in the dunya. But Allah Subhana
Allah is our Victor in the dunya and in the Ashura and she
mentioned is from the Quran and a hadith. And she confronted in his
yard, and eventually in his yard has no choice because now the
sentiment of the community. And by the way, much of this image is
reconstructed later, because we don't really have historical
sources that really go back to this moment and document it with
full authenticity. So we have a lot of sources that we're working
with and reconstructing together. And there's so many versions of
what exactly Zeynep says to him in his yard. But what we know for
certain is she must have been so determined and so resilient for
Ignizio to actually accept and let her and leave her alone. And the
sentiment of the community must have been with her after all
that's happened, that she was able to leave. So he sends her back to
your seat. And when she goes back to you as he is he says I'm so
sorry, I had no idea this would come, this would happen. I'm so
sorry. No apologies can ever be accepted. In this case. What would
you like me to do? She says, let me go back to Medina. And so she
goes back to Medina. And when she goes back to Medina after having
lived this episode of horror, what does she do? She still gives back
she still builds she's still gifts to the poor and the orphans of the
community. And she still sits in this in the circles and she still
teaches and she's still educates the community and educates the
women of the tambourine. Finally,
the news reaches Izzy than others, that she's gaining a lot of
support and momentum in Medina.
And they're worried that when she gives her a cut, she remembers
what happened and tears come down her eyes. So they're worried that
the sentiments of the people of Medina would be so strongly
associated Natasha, Xena, that it would cause a little bit of havoc
later on. So the send a message to her you can no longer stay in
Medina choose pick your place where you have to go next. So
imagine being forced out of the Prophet Muhammad asylums city
being forced out of her own city. What does she do? Two opinions.
One says she lived in Damascus. One said she went on to Egypt, and
she resided in Egypt. And of course, because I'm Egyptian, we
Egyptians like to accept the fact that she of course, settled in
Egypt. That's a joke, the historical. The historical texts,
you know, show that the strong opinion is that she did settle in
Egypt. And when she came to Egypt, she was greeted and respected. And
she was treated well by the Egyptians not saying that because
I'm Egyptian, and she was welcomed into the city. She was welcomed
into Egypt. And one of the first things that she did, when she was
given a property, she took a piece of that land and she dedicated
that land, to the poor, to the orphans, to the people that were
in need, continuing that legacy of sacrifice and continuing that
legacy of giving. She was known for her modesty. She was known for
not liking to appear in public too much. Even when she was in Medina
when she went to visit the Prophet Muhammad wa salam, the narration
say that she would prefer to visit at night. She didn't like the
attention she didn't like the eyes of people. She prefer to be, you
know, working behind the scenes you prefer to be, you know, not in
the spotlight and although that can change across time and space,
what matters is the she didn't do things for the sake of attaining
anybody's pleasure. She did it to attain the pleasure of Allah
subhanho wa Taala May Allah subhanaw taala allow
are sisters to learn from these beautiful examples? May Allah
Subhana Allah allow us all to love and respect the Prophet Muhammad
Salam is family and may Allah Subhana Allah send His peace and
blessings upon our beloved sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
that Kamala Heron for joining in another episode of saviors of
Islam every night at 830. We continue looking forward to see
you next time was Saddam Alikum warahmatu Allahi wa barakato