Hussain Kamani – Stories of the Companions – Umm Ammarah
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In today's Daruss, we turn to
one of the great female companions of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Umar
Alaihiallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
Umar Alaihiallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Is considered to be
one of the
more senior female companions.
She
participated in many of the great battles
by the side of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And she lived even beyond the prophet of
Allah
during the khilafa
of Saydna Abu Bakr Siddiq radiallahu an where
he held her with great regard.
And also during the khilaf of Amr ibn
Khattab radiallahu an where he also held her
with great regard.
They would respect her. When they saw her,
they would
give extra attention to her,
show her her place, her status, her maqam.
Name is
Nasiba
Bintuqab.
Many students of knowledge make a mistake here
when
identifying who she was.
One of the more common
renditions of her name that you'll hear is.
Even Jazir
along with
even Makula and some of the other great
scholars of hadith point out,
who
was also bintuqab, she is commonly confused with
Because her name is Nusayba bintuqaab,
and Umar Umar radhiallahu anhas is Nasiba
bintuqaab.
They have a very similar name.
Many scholars of hadith
have mixed up these names, and therefore, Allah
is written differentiating the 2.
So
and
all 3 of them.
The name of these three individuals is pronounced
as
On the other hand,
been to
These three individuals, their names are actually pronounced
as
Nasiba.
So her name is
Nasiba
Bintuqab. Her brother was Abdulla Bintuqab
al Mazini,
one of the Badri Companions.
And her other brother
Abdul Rahman
is
listed among the
those who cried profusely,
known for their soft heart.
Umma Amar radhiallahu anha participated
in the pledge that was given to Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam on the night of
Aqaba,
before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam arrived in
Madinah Munawwara, a group of Sahaba from Madinah
Munawwara
came to visit him during the season of
Hajj.
Ibn Athir
he narrates from Ibn al's heart
and he says,
that from Banu Khazraj, there were 72 men,
1 and 2 women.
And the 2 women that gave Baya'atul Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam that were with that
earlier group of Muslims,
Nasiba
and her sister, both the daughters of Ka'b.
So these two sisters were in that special
group of people that were present
when the Sahaba, the earlier group of companions
gave their allegiance to Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
She comes from a family of great people.
That day when she was present giving her
allegiance to the prophet of Allah alaihi sallahu
salam,
her husband was there with her,
Zaid ibn Asim.
Her 2 sons were present,
Abdullah and Habib, both sons of Zaid ibn
Asim.
After she returns back to Madinah Munawwara,
she is present when the prophet of Allah
alaihi salaam arrives in Madinah.
And
fast forward
the 3rd year after migration,
the great battle of Uhud takes place.
She participates in the battle of Uhud alongside
her husband,
Ghazia bin Amr.
This was her second spouse,
Ghazia bin Amr.
And when she fights in that battle, she
is there, her husband is there, her 2
sons that I mentioned earlier on were both
with her too.
Umma Amara radiAllahu anha describes the battle that
she came to support the Muslims.
She walked around the battlefield providing water for
those that needed it.
She was there to
fix a splinter for anyone that needed that.
Anyone that had any wound, she went up
to them and help them with their wound.
She says herself,
The early part of the day I came
out, I was just providing light support for
them,
and then I saw the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam and his companions and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala had given them victory. Muslims were
victorious in the first part of the battle
of Uhud.
However,
the battle took a turn,
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
the Muslims
began to feel an extreme amount of pressure
from the Kuffar.
They caught the Muslims off guard
from behind
a small little hill.
1 of the kuffar announced out loud, qutila
Muhammad,
that Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam has been
killed.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam at that
moment in the battle was on an upper
part of the mountain
Similar
to in the battle of Badr, the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had an arish. He
has an area
allocated on the side where the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam strategizing from telling people what to
do. And the prophet alaihis salaam
himself did not like to participate in the
battle and kill anyone.
He would say that how
how wretched would a human being be if
they were killed at the sword of the
prophet of Allah.
Even in battle, Nabi salallahu alaihi wasalam had
compassion for his enemy.
So Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam was on this
upper part of the mountain of Uhud and
everyone at the bottom is terrified that the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has been killed. Some
companions just threw their swords down and said,
there's no longer any need to fight.
The Prophet is gone. Islam is done. This
is all over. Forget it.
Umma Amal
in that moment saw Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
And she noticed that the people around the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam at that given moment
were very few. In one narration, there were
only 10 of them or so.
And the were fighting down there in the
bottom of the, at the bottom of the
mountain in the field,
and then they noticed that someone was up
there in the top.
So a large group of them, 100 of
them begin to rush towards Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
She came with the intention of providing support,
but when the need rose, I
pulled the sword out and I knew that
it was my duty to stand by the
side of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Was safe and anyone that came in his
direction, I pushed them away using my sword.
And I was firing arrow 1 after the
other in defense of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
There was a man by the name of
Ibn
Qalmi'ah.
He was a wretched man.
He approached the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he was a juggernaut, massive dude.
And he came towards the prophet
A group of companions stood between him and
the Prophet
I was one of those people. Musa'ib Umar
radiallahu and a few others. I was standing
there in that wall
that he had to go through us before
he got anywhere near Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He hit me
and he hit her so hard
that he injured
her
shoulder area. The
the narrator of the, of the of the
hadith says,
that I
looked into her shoulder and there was this
big hole there. You can see the bottom
of her shoulder.
She was injured very bad.
Big
big
hole there in her shoulder.
But Umar, Umar was
not one to be hit
and not hit back.
So she says the guy hit me,
but I was knocking that guy. I was
hitting him again and again.
I would have taken that guy out. The
problem was he was wearing 2 armors.
She probably broke one armor, but then he
had a second one and even while she's
trying to hit him again and again, she
couldn't penetrate through because he had 2 on.
This narration is quoted by Ibn Hisham
However,
many scholars of hadith point out that in
the
in the sunnah of it, is Sarid Abu
Abi Zayd, and therefore there is a little
bit of in the narration.
But versions of this hadith can be found
in other narrations too.
If you look at other references, you'll find
a similar narration.
That she participated not only in but she
participated in many great battles.
She participated
in
Hudaybiyyah,
in the battle of Hunayn, in the battle
of Yamama.
That particular
injury that ibn Qami'ah gave her,
it was a very big,
hole in her shoulder
and weakened her.
Fadaawatfusanathan.
She spent a year
medicating that shoulder of hers
just to recover from that one injury.
Her son, Abdulla bin Zayed, narrates,
the Battle of Uhud was very intense.
I myself was injured,
and I started bleeding and the blood wouldn't
stop.
The prophet alaihi wasalam said to him, cover
up that wound of yours. Put something on
it. Put some kind of splinters and plaster
there. Cover up that wound. You're bleeding badly.
So my mother came to me and she
had all the splinters.
She tied up my wound. The prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam
was stand was watching us. And then as
soon as she tied up my wound, the
prophet of Allah said to me, young man,
get up and go fight.
So he said, I got up and I
began to rush. The prophet
then announced,
That who can do what you've done?
Look at this mother.
Her son was bleeding uncontrollably.
She came, patched him up, and sent him
back off into the battlefield.
A man then passed by and the prophet
said
to Muhammad Ali Allahu Anha, that's the dude
that hit your son.
That injury your son had? This guy right
here.
She said,
let me deal with this guy.
So I ran after him,
and I hit him in the shin.
He sat down.
He couldn't move forward anymore. She just took
one hit on him in the shin, and
the shin is a very tough part of
the of the human body. The bone is
very strong, but she hit him one time
hard. The guy's leg broke, he sat down.
When Nabi
saw her strike like this, he began to
smile
until
his, teeth at the back, his molars
were,
were visible.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said, Alhamdulillahi
ladiva farki that all praises to Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
who gave you victory.
Her son says, Abdullah bin Zayed, that in
that day and Uhud, when everyone was rushing
away and everyone was running in different directions,
my mother and I went next to the
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and we began to
defend him. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
asked, are you the son of Umu Amara?
He said, yes. The prophet of Allah said,
well, start firing your arrows.
I'm just firing away, firing away.
I hit the
I hit the, the eye of the horse.
The horse fell over, the man fell over.
I got on top of him and started
hitting him, and they were in the thick
of the battle. And he said, I looked
over and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
saw my courage,
and now he was fighting with his full
heart
when Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam And then
the prophet
looked over and saw my mother's wound in
her shoulder. And the Prophet shalallahu alaihi wasalam
said, Your mother, your mother.
Your mother, your mother.
Yeah. Asibjur
go and tie up her wound just like
she tied up yours.
And then Rasulullah
made the dua.
Oh Allah, make this family
my companion.
Make them with me in paradise.
The son says,
after I heard the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said that,
From that day onwards for the rest of
my life, I didn't care what happened in
my life.
I didn't care if I was behind on
my bills. I didn't care if I had
a cold or a fever, or if I
was struggling in one place or another because
those duas of the Prophet of Allah from
the battle of Uhud rang in my ears.
Oh Allah, make them my buddies. Make them
my companions in Jannah.
Umu Amar radiAllahu Anha
not only was she this
great soldier
that was respected by the companions,
who had the wounds of war on her,
quite physically they could be seen and people
would respect her. They knew that she was
someone.
Later on, in the battle of Yamama, I'll
cover this with you in more detail, she
lost her arm
against Musayla Al Khattab. Her arm
was severed from her body. And because of
that,
she wouldn't go out publicly.
She would feel that people would look at
her and her arm would be missing, her
dresses wouldn't fit her properly,
her shawl would wrap around her properly.
So she became shy and wouldn't attend the
dawats and the parties and wouldn't be seen.
So Sayyidina Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu asked
where is Umma Amara radiAllahu anhu? They said
that after her injury in Yamama, she prefers
to stay at home.
She doesn't like people to see her.
Umar radiAllahu an called her and said to
her that, does it not bring you pleasure
to know
that arm of yours that you are shy
over,
that you feel shameful of, is actually already
awaiting you in Jannah.
You already have a piece of you in
Jannah.
So the companions, they say after that day,
she would walk around boastfully then with joy
and happiness that, alhamdulillah,
a part of
me is
awaiting me in Jannah.
So in addition to that, she was actually
quite a
respected person even when it came to
her When it came to her knowledge,
she had a place with the Prophet of
Allah, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam would come
to visit her.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam in his
free time as he would go to meet
key companions that he had a relationship with,
Uma, Uma radiAllahu anha's home was one of
those places.
One of her most famous hadith
one of her most famous narrations that you
can find in the collections of hadith, and
probably the most common narration attributed to her
found in Kitaboo Som.
She says,
and then Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
The prophet alaihi wa sallam came to visit
her one day.
So she
ordered some food for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, you eat.
Faqalat ini saimatun.
O Messenger of Allah, I am fasting.
When a person is fasting
and people around them begin to eat, the
makes special dua
for the one that is fasting until they
complete their meal.
What a beautiful narration.
In particular for Muslims that live in the
west or even if you live at home
and you have family members that are not
fasting. You have children that are not fasting
at home and the mother needs to feed
them. It's a little hard on her. Know
that the
are making dua for you while you're feeding
your child.
Until they don't complete their meal.
In another narration
from Umma Amara radiAllahu an, it's the same
hadith but instead of her being the one
that didn't eat,
she writes. She says,
That there were some people in the gathering
when the food was presented to the Prophet
of Allah, they were fasting.
She misses herself.
That there were some people sitting there. When
Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam sat to eat,
they did not eat because they were fasting.
That when food is consumed in the presence
of a fasting person, the malaika make dua
for that person.
Similarly,
Umar Marra radiAllahu anha narrates
that it was during the day during Hajj
that I was with Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
I was looking at the Prophet of Allah
alaihi wa sallam.
And he had just completed shaving his head.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
saying,
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
mercy descend upon those that shave their head.
At the end of Hajj, you have a
choice to either shave your head for men
or trim your hair. For women, there's only
one option to trim your hair.
So this
concept of shaving your head after Hajj al
Umrah is called and
the
the opposite is called Qasr,
trimming your hair. So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said,
The prophet of Allah alaihi salatu wa salam
made special dua for those that shave their
head, and then he made a dua again,
and then made dua again.
Nobody likes to shave their head. Everyone likes
to have, unless
it's out of your choice.
No offense to the brothers.
Everyone else likes to grow their hair out.
And when a person sacrifices that hair
and they cut it, they let go of
their dignity, their honor, their hair is a
sign of their beauty, it's a part of
their dignity and honor. When they shave that
hat, that hair of theirs
for the sake of Allah,
it's such a powerful symbol and sign of
humility and sacrifice.
And this is the advice that we give
to everyone that goes for Hajj al Umrah.
Yes. You're worried. What are people gonna say
when you get back? Well, that's your chance
to talk to them about the deen.
And I've never shaved my head before, that
maybe true. And that's okay. This is something
that you're doing possibly once in a lifetime
for the sake of
Allah.
You're not gonna get a chance like this.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was not
known
to have his head normally shaved.
The prophet alaihi salaam generally would grow out
his hair long. On average, his hair would
be somewhere in line with his earlobe, between
his earlobe and shoulders.
That's usually where the hair of Rasoolallahu alaihi
wa sallam would be. The only time the
prophet alaihi salam's hair was shaved was after
performing
one of the one of the pilgrimages, whether
the the the smaller one or the lighter
one, umrah, or the act of Hajj, the
pilgrimage of Hajj.
Now there were other companions of the prophet
who are known to regularly,
shave their head. The famous example here is,
Sayidina Ali bin Abi Talib radiAllahu an. Because
he heard the prophet of Allah saying, under
every hair lies a janaba.
That when a person enters into a major
state
of ritual impurity,
every hair of yours must be thoroughly washed.
So he just felt that it was easier
for him to go ahead and shave his
head.
Otherwise,
among the companions, the common practice was to
follow the sunnah of Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
even when it came to something that was,
a part of his human being, about a
part of him as an insan,
you know, his Sunan Al Adha.
Similarly, Muqaddal bin Sulaiman
while commenting
on the Ayah,
ayah,
You'll notice when I was reading this ayah
that there were two forms of every noun
presented.
Generally, in the Quran, that isn't the case.
When the Quran addresses
the audience,
it does so normally in the male gender
form.
And this is how the Arabs spoke.
This was the language they used, that it
was that if you are addressing a mixed
audience, you would use the male gender. You
wouldn't use both genders in every sentence. It
becomes long and stretched out.
So Muqaddal bin Suleyman, the famous
commentator
of the Quran, he says that and
Nasiba bintikab al Ansariyah
and a few others came to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And they said,
Why is it the Quran
speaks to men and makes no mention of
women?
All these verses are speaking to men, speaking
to men, it doesn't mention the women anywhere.
Maybe there is no good in women.
They sought they brought this to the attention
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Maybe Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't have concern
for women.
For he omitted their mention in the Quran.
Therefore, this ayah was revealed.
Breaking the habit, breaking the norm
that breaking the norm of how the Arabic
language is used. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opens
it up
and says, for every
attribute, praiseworthy attribute, the men and the
women. And at the end of it, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says, for all of them,
He has prepared paradise.
And
a forgiveness and a great reward. Allah has
prepared for all of them forgiveness and a
great reward.
And regarding
who mentioned this to the prophet
another verse of the
That male or female, no good deed will
ever be wasted.
In our deen, we don't have this issue
of genderism
where society is constantly broken by gender.
Society
in in shallow societies,
in particular, if those societies are not based
off of revelation,
human beings need to find a way to
establish their superiority.
And we do it through different things. Sometimes
we use strength, sometimes we use wealth, sometimes
we use race, sometimes we use gender
to establish that we're superior and better.
In Islam, all of these things
instantly
disappear.
Why?
Because
The pigmentation of your skin, your height,
your muscle mass,
your designation
as a male or female
doesn't change who you are in the side
of your rope.
In the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in such detail
mentions this, lead
prophets.
Alayhim
salatahu salam.
And then alongside the mention of the prophets,
you find Allah
mentioning
the people in their family that played a
role
to help them come forward.
You find the mention of the wives of
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam in the Quran.
You go to Risa alaihi salam, and his
mother is mentioned in such
detail. You go to Sayidara
Musa alaihis salam, and not only is his
mother mentioned, not only is his wife mentioned,
not only is his sister mentioned.
You find so many of them. They're all
there.
And all of them with great detail of
what kind of people they were. Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala describes
Musa alaihi salaam's
mother in the Quran with so much detail.
Each of these people played a role.
And these prophets of Allah as well played
their role.
We know the story of Firaoun and his
wife Asiya,
whose mention also exist in the Quran
with great detail.
So these female companions came to the Prophet
and they made this request. The amazing thing
here is when you look at it,
the
Prophet wasn't phased by their question at all.
He wasn't rattled. There was no, you know,
bursting into emotion or getting angry, because what
they were saying was something they perceived but
had no reality to it.
The prophet
didn't go defensive.
He kept it the way it was.
Nabi
you know, the ayat of the Quran were
revealed.
Rasulullah
he shared them. He didn't scold them, didn't
rebuke them, didn't shout at them that how
dare you say such a thing.
And it's healthy because the Prophet
had, and it shows you the healthy environment
that existed around the Prophet
that the women in the community could openly
come and speak to the Prophet of Allah
when needed,
and even feel
child came and said to you and said,
mama, you always mentioned my brother's name but
you don't mention my name. The mother would
go on, you know,
defensive mode of them and start going offensive
and attacking.
And most people wouldn't have the guts to
even say that.
That I feel that I'm left out of
the conversation.
Most people in the workplace don't have the
guts to say that. Most people in the
family don't even have the guts to say
that because that environment doesn't exist.
But for the prophet
the women of Madinah Munawwara felt comfortable. And
not only that, but the prophet
encouraged it. He said, how beautiful are the
women of Madinah that their modesty does not
hold them back from asking their questions.
Now this very same the
same ayah, sorry. Some scholars they say it
was revealed regarding Muqaddal bin Hayyan says it
was real revealed regarding
Asma'bintu Amaysa radhiallahu anha that when she returned
from Havishah, she said to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. She Actually, when she returned
from Havishah, she was sitting with some women
and she asked that was anything revealed in
the Quran regarding the women?
So they said nothing specific.
So she came to the prophet
said that that women are in loss.
The Quran is addressing the men all the
time. So then, the Prophet
Umair Umar al Nasiba Bintaqab
is from,
ibn Abbas radiAllahu an from Rekhaema
who
I believe attributes to to say it's not
a bull of ibn Abbas radiAllahu
alam saw.
She had a son,
Umar radiAllahu anha
had a son
by the name of Habib bin Zayed.
She had a son by the name of
Habib bin
Zayd.
If you recall, I mentioned
that she had
2 spouses. Her first husband's name was Zayd
and the second one, his name was Ghaziya.
So
Habib bin Zayed was her son from her
first husband.
He was by the side of his mother
on many great occasions
and was known for his courage and strength.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sent
him as a messenger
to Musailema Al Khazza.
This was a man who claimed
prophethood
while the Prophet of Allah was still alive.
The Prophet
sent a message to him.
And in the message, he openly denied him
any claim that he was trying to make
over land, and he also called him
Musaidamah was so
angry when he read that letter
that he imprisoned Habib.
Now,
even among the Arabs like today,
you never hold
an ambassador or a messenger captive.
You release them. They come with a message,
you let them go.
Musalama was so mad that he tied him
up.
And then he asked him,
Do you testify that Muhammad is a Messenger
of Allah?
Habib said nam, yes.
He then asked him,
Do you testify that I am the messenger
of Allah?
So Habib bin Zayed in that moment said,
I can't even hear what you're saying.
He severed one of his limbs, he was
so angry.
And then he asked him again, do you
testify Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah?
He said, yes.
And
do you testify, I'm the Messenger of Allah?
Laasma ummatakul.
I can't hear what you're saying.
And he severed another limb of his and
severed another limb of his until finally
he departed this dunya.
When the news of her son passing away
reached her,
she said,
It was for a moment like this that
I raised my son.
This is why I fed him. This is
why I clothed
him. It was for him to do this.
This is why we fought together in the
battle. This is why we gave bay'at
alaihi wasalam.
This is why I was injured in the
battle of Uhud.
Like mother, like son,
She was injured in her shoulder
like no one else in the battle of
Uhud.
And Habib bin Zaid
gave up his life with honor. He refused
to even give one word to that person,
to even engage with that person.
And then she said,
And I seek my reward with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for my,
for my son.
So it was during the khilaf of Abu
Bakr Siddiq radiAllahu an,
in Madinah Munawwara, an announcement was made
that the army is heading out to march
against Musaylum Al Kadda.
Umair Umair
had lined up that if this army is
going to that guy and he killed my
son, I'm not letting him go.
She joined the army
and her son, Abdulla bin Zayed.
When the armies met,
things became very heated.
Uma Umar
really wanted to,
she really wanted to hurt Musaylama
and bring him down.
However,
she was injured,
And she was injured in a way that
she couldn't move forward.
So as we mentioned in our previous class,
Musa Lima was killed by a combination of
a few people.
On one side, we have the famous narration
that it was
Wahib bin Harb radiAllahu anhu threw the spear.
And then in another narration,
we see
that Abu Dhujara radiAllahu anha was also
present in the taking down of Musailemmah.
And lastly,
we also see a mention of
either Umu Amarra, which is the weaker position
or the stronger position is
that it was her son, Abdullah bin Zayed.
Abdullah bin Zayed
who who was involved in in in in
taking down
Musa
el Kaddab, and with that, he was killed.
On that day,
in the battle of Yamama,
her arm was severed.
And outside of that one
wound of hers, she had another
11 cuts on her body, 11 injuries. And
by the way, in the battle of battle
of where she had that one big injury
on her shoulder, the scholars of hadith write
that she had 13 injuries in addition to
that
one. Thirteen injuries in addition to the one
on the shoulder, and in the battle of
Yamama,
When she came back to Madinah Munawwara,
once the Muslims gained their victory,
it was a khalaqah radiAllahu an, and he
saw what she went through.
People would see that Abu Bakr would
come by to her home every so often
to check up on her. How are you
doing, Umayyawmara?
Everything okay?
Anything we can do for you? Any assistance
we can provide? Can we get anything for
you? They would come and sit with her.
This is the Khalifa.
Abu Bakr Siddiquiallahuhan
would come to sit with her and to,
and and spend time with her.
Umar ibn Saba radiAllahu An was one day
given.
Ibn Saad narrates this in his that
Umar ibn Sattab radiAllahu An was once given
a beautiful
sheet.
It was nice and broad and good material.
So some people said to him, man, this
is an expensive piece of garment here.
That why don't you send this to your
daughter-in-law,
Abdullah bin Umar, your son recently got married
to Safia. They had recently been married. So
send it to your daughter-in-law. She's gonna love
this sheet. It's so fabulous.
No.
I will send the sheet to one that
is more deserving of it than my daughter-in-law.
For I heard the prophet of
Allah saying,
during the battle of
The prophet of Allah Alaihi Wasallam said, I
did not turn to my left or to
my right, but I found that wherever I
looked, Umayyammar radhiallahu anha was standing there defending
me.
She was defending the life of Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Her example is beautiful
because it shows us the role
that some of these companions played in the
life of the prophet,
and what it meant for them. For her,
jihad wasn't making a point. She wasn't trying
to get brownie points, she wasn't trying to
do it for the show, she wasn't making
a point to anyone other than Allah and
his Rasool.
What she did was for the sake of
Allah
And for them to raise children like this,
who go on to become shahid,
who go on to fight in every battle
with the Prophet
Their story traces back to the sacrifice of
their mother.
You wish to see great men and women
who are willing to pull it, put it
all on the line for the sake of
the deen,
you need people that are strong in their
deen.
That have no shame.
Earlier today,
one young man, he,
he was he showed me his phone. He
said, Sheikh, I'm very active on Reddit.
Any of you guys Reddit people?
No? He said, I'm very active on Reddit.
He was showing me the
slash Islam Reddit.
And there was a question
someone asked.
And the question was
that
I'm a new Muslim
and my parents and no one in my
family knows I pray salah.
My mother is not the type that she
takes Islam,
in good light.
So when I pray my salah, I barricade
the door.
My mother came while I was praying my
salah a little while ago, possibly today's dhor.
I was praying my salah a little while
ago, and my mother came and started knocking
on the door when I wasn't opening, she
became
very violent.
So I left my salah,
quickly changed my garments,
put the Musamba away and remove the barricade.
But she saw me.
Me. She noticed.
And it became very intense after that. And
we went at it, and she said a
lot of things. It got really rough.
And as I was reading that question,
I kid you not, I had tears in
my eyes. I was thinking, wow, man.
This person didn't know that today was going
to be such a difficult day in their
life.
But at the end of the question,
I thought the question was gonna be about
Dua to his mother, or maybe how to
deal with the pain of the mother
coming down like thunder.
At the end of the question,
he wrote or she wrote
that
I'm not so concerned about what happened with
my mother. I'm wondering if my salah is
complete or if I need to repeat it
again.
I'll figure that out.
That'll happen. That's not what I'm here to
ask. That's not my concern.
I kid you not. The words were
what worries me at this point.
What's occupying my heart at this moment is
I'm not sure
if my salah is complete or incomplete.
Wow.
And I sat there for a moment. I've
never given any time to write it by
the way.
I always thought Reddit was for like
for you never write up people. This is
a good time for you to look down.
It was for like really nerdy people.
That's what I always thought.
I can use more adjectives, but I'm gonna
stop right there.
Trust me. There are a lot more.
There's a lot more where that came from.
That was the best word that I can
think of.
So I took the phone from the guy's
hand and I was like, let me see
this. And I started scrolling and I realized
there's no dawah happening there.
And the questions, the conversations
were so organic.
I was absolutely
shocked, and I thought to myself,
today that we should have some
that keep an eye here.
All this Instagram, Instagram, all this stuff is
all you have too many you have so
many senior and scholars doing everything there.
You don't need to know You can do
that what they're post and repost, but if
you actually wanna make some change,
you can go there. I started reading some
of the questions, they were just so original.
I have a friend that wants to become
Muslim, not sure what to do. There were
like 10 questions like that lined up.
What's something that I can read in a
moment of difficulty? It's very simple.
Like questions that you would expect when you
sit in a q and a with a
real live audience
after an event.
These are real questions from real human beings,
not some random social media nonsense. But
when I read this question of this person,
I thought to myself, subhanAllah, this is resolved.
Alright. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give that
individual istikhama and their deen and reward them
for their sacrifice
because,
we have examples in our Sahaba like this.
Not ashamed at all. Strong, solid, confident.
Confident. Al Mutalami,
he says, and I'm gonna conclude with this
poem of his.
But if we were to have a type
of women that we don't see anymore, those
are the past present in front of us,
they would take precedence even over the men
and the women. Men would follow them.
If we had women today
like those of the past,
both of those words exist in this in
this poem.
The word for son in the Arabic language
is shams.
Shams is feminine in its Arabic form.
It's
Right?
The sun
doesn't appear with any
defect because it is female in its
grammatical origin or its
in its etymology,
because there's some feminine element to it, doesn't
bring any defect in the word used for
the sun, shams.
The word for crescent in the Arabic language
is
and is in its Arabic form, male
Masculine or feminine?
It's masculine.
So
And the fact that the word
is masculine,
doesn't make that word any better. It's not
like someone says, Oh, shams is inferior as
a word, and is superior as a word
because one is masculine, one is feminine. Going
back to this point, that people obsess over
the issue of gender more than they need
to.
Are there differences between the gender? 100%.
But that doesn't
innately make one
better than the other.
Each person has an opportunity
to live their life by
and good deeds. And to that, we pray
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us to
live by the example of
these great,
sahaba and companions of Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from
us all.