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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

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