Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat – 05 – Zaynab bint Khuzaymah – ra

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The Prophet's birthbred marriages with the mother of Zaynab and the mother of Zaynab's half-sister, as well as the mother of Zaynab's cousin and his spouse. The story of marriages with the Prophet is discussed, including his desire to love and care for others, and the importance of good health and behavior in one's life. The segment emphasizes the need to be sincerely for the sake of others and avoid denying oneself good deeds.

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			In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
		
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			the Most Merciful.
		
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			All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
		
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			the worlds.
		
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			And peace and blessings be upon the best
		
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			of Allah's creation.
		
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			And upon his family, his companions, and those
		
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			who were guided by his guidance and waited
		
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			by his Sunnah until the Day of Judgment.
		
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			And after that, O Allah, teach us what
		
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			will benefit us, and benefit us with what
		
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			you have taught us, and increase us in
		
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			knowledge, and show us the truth as the
		
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			truth, and grant us to follow it, and
		
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			show us falsehood as falsehood, and grant us
		
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			to avoid it, and make us of those
		
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			who listen to the word and follow the
		
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			best of it.
		
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			And after that, peace and blessings be upon
		
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			you.
		
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			We continue on with the lives of Ummahatul
		
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			Mu'mineen, the mothers of the believers, the wives
		
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			of Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			And so far we've covered Khadijah, Aisha, Saudah,
		
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			and last week we spoke about Hafsa.
		
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			So these were the first four wives of
		
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			the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			The fifth of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the fifth
		
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			wife that came in the life of Rasool
		
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			Allah ﷺ, is someone who is not that
		
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			much known among many Muslims.
		
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			And in fact, even her biography, there's not
		
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			much that has been written and discussed about
		
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			her.
		
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			And that is because she died very early.
		
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			And when we go to the books of
		
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			the biographies of the companions, we don't find
		
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			too much information about her.
		
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			Even though, as I mentioned, she is one
		
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			of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen.
		
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			She is one of the wives of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And as we know, the wives of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, they have a status that none
		
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			of the other female companions have.
		
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			They are our mothers, as Allah ﷻ says,
		
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			وَأَزْوَاجُهُ أُمَّهَاتُهُمْ And his wives are their mothers.
		
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			So she is one of our mothers in
		
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			terms of the respect and the dignity and
		
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			the honor that she deserves from us.
		
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			And some actually confuse her for another wife
		
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			who shares the same name.
		
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			And so, today we're going to be talking
		
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			about Zaynab bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			Zaynab bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			And a lot of people confuse her with
		
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			the other Zaynab that the Prophet ﷺ married.
		
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			And that is Zaynab bint Jahsh.
		
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			Zaynab bint Jahsh, who we're going to be
		
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			talking about later on insha'Allah ta'ala.
		
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			So Zaynab bint Khuzaimah was the fifth wife
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			He married her shortly after marrying Hafsa bint
		
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			Umar ﷺ.
		
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			So since information about her is very little,
		
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			our discussion today is going to be shorter
		
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			than usual.
		
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			And so she is Zaynab bint Khuzaimah Ibn
		
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			al-Harith al-Hilaliyah al-Aamiriyah She
		
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			is Zaynab bint Khuzaimah Ibn al-Harith al
		
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			-Hilaliyah al-Aamiriyah So she comes from a
		
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			noble family of Quraysh.
		
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			She was born 13 years before the Prophethood.
		
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			13 years before Rasulullah ﷺ became a Prophet.
		
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			And we know that the Prophet ﷺ became
		
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			a Prophet at the age of 40.
		
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			So she was born when he was how
		
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			old?
		
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			She was born when the Prophet ﷺ was
		
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			how old?
		
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			20?
		
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			27, right?
		
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			And her mother was someone very special.
		
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			Her mother is Hind bint Awf al-Himyariyah
		
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			Hind bint Awf al-Himyariyah What was special
		
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			about her?
		
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			We're talking here about the mother of Zaynab
		
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			bint Khuzaimah The Arabs would say that there
		
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			was no woman who had more noble and
		
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			honorable son-in-laws than her.
		
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			There was no woman who had such noble
		
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			and honorable men to marry her daughters.
		
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			And so when we look at her daughters,
		
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			including Zaynab bint Khuzaimah, we see that pretty
		
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			much all of them married very, very noble
		
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			men of Quraysh.
		
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			We start with Muhammad ﷺ marrying Zaynab bint
		
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			Khuzaimah.
		
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			So what greater honor can there be than
		
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			Muhammad ﷺ marrying your daughter?
		
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			But it doesn't stop there.
		
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			It doesn't stop there.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ ended up marrying her half
		
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			-sister.
		
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			Her half-sister, the Prophet ﷺ ended up
		
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			marrying later on after the death of Zaynab
		
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			bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			And she was Maymunah bint al-Harith.
		
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			Maymunah bint al-Harith.
		
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			So here the Prophet ﷺ marries two of
		
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			the daughters of this woman, Hind bint Awth.
		
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			The third son-in-law is al-Abbas
		
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			ibn Abdul Muttalib, the uncle of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			Al-Abbas married Umm Fadl.
		
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			Umm Fadl was the sister of Zaynab bint
		
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			Khuzaimah.
		
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			And then you have another uncle of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ marrying another of her daughters, and
		
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			that is Hamza ibn Abdul Muttalib.
		
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			Hamza married Salma bint Umais.
		
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			Salma bint Umais.
		
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			So she was a half-sister of Zaynab
		
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			bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			Number five, we have al-Waleed ibn al
		
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			-Mughirah.
		
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			You know, one of the leaders of Quraysh.
		
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			Al-Waleed ibn al-Mughirah, who married Lubaba
		
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			bint al-Harith.
		
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			Lubaba bint al-Harith, another one of the
		
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			half-sisters of Zaynab bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			And she is the mother of Khalid ibn
		
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			al-Waleed.
		
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			She is the mother of Khalid ibn al
		
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			-Waleed.
		
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			Number six, the cousin of the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			Ja'far ibn Abi Talib, who married Asma
		
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			bint Umais.
		
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			Asma bint Umais, also the half-sister of
		
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			Zaynab bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			When he ended up passing away, when Ja
		
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			'far ﷺ ended up passing away, she married
		
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			Ali ibn Abi Talib.
		
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			And then, she ended up divorcing him, or
		
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			he ended up divorcing her.
		
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			And then Asma bint Umais ended up marrying
		
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			Abu Bakr ﷺ.
		
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			And she gave birth to all three of
		
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			her husbands, Ja'far, Ali, and Abu Bakr.
		
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			So as we can see, all of these
		
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			daughters of Hind bint Auf, married very respectable
		
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			and noble men of the Arabs.
		
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			And so this shows us how the mother
		
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			of Zaynab bint Khuzaimah was unique and special
		
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			due to this.
		
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			Now, Zaynab, she was initially married to a
		
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			man known as Tufayl ibn al-Harith, who
		
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			ended up divorcing her.
		
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			And then she married his brother, Ubaidah ibn
		
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			al-Harith.
		
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			And this Ubaidah ibn al-Harith, he went
		
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			on to be martyred in the Battle of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			However, there's another narration that it was not
		
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			Ubaidah ibn al-Harith, but rather, she initially
		
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			married Abdullah ibn Jahsh.
		
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			And this is perhaps the more correct narration,
		
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			that her first husband was Abdullah ibn Jahsh.
		
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			And he was martyred in the Battle of
		
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			Uhud.
		
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			He was martyred in the Battle of Uhud.
		
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			And the story of how he was martyred,
		
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			Abdullah ibn Jahsh was a very noble companion
		
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			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			His sister was also the wife of the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ, Zaynab ibn Jahsh.
		
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			So, before the battle, before the Battle of
		
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			Uhud, Abdullah ibn Jahsh and another very famous
		
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			companion, Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, they met
		
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			before the battle.
		
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			And Abdullah ibn Jahsh, he said, let's go
		
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			and let's make du'a.
		
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			So they went together.
		
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			And one of them was going to make
		
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			a du'a.
		
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			And the other one was going to say,
		
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			Ameen.
		
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			So, Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, he made
		
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			his du'a.
		
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			He said, O Allah!
		
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			If I meet the enemy, then enable me
		
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			to meet a strong fighter, who will fight
		
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			me and I will fight him.
		
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			And then give me victory over him, and
		
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			enable me to kill him and take his
		
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			armor.
		
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			So, Abdullah ibn Jahsh, he said, Ameen.
		
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			Fair enough, that was a good du'a.
		
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			So, Sa'ad told him, now it's your
		
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			turn.
		
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			So, Abdullah ibn Jahsh, he said, O Allah!
		
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			Enable me to meet a strong fighter, who
		
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			would fight me and I would fight him.
		
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			And then he would kill me, and cut
		
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			my nose and my ear.
		
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			So that when I meet you, you will
		
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			ask me, why was your ear and nose
		
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			cut, O Abdullah?
		
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			And I will say, for you and your
		
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			messenger.
		
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			And you will say, you are speaking the
		
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			truth.
		
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			Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, he said, Ameen.
		
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			Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas, later on, when
		
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			he was narrating the story to his son.
		
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			And he said, my son, the du'a
		
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			of Abdullah was better than mine.
		
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			By the end of the day, I saw
		
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			his nose and his ear tied to a
		
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			string.
		
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			Allah accepted the du'a of Abdullah ibn
		
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			Jahsh, and he did meet a very strong
		
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			man who fought him and killed him.
		
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			And his body was then mutilated, his nose
		
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			and his ear was cut, and they were
		
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			tied to a string.
		
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			And we know that in the battle of
		
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			Uhud, it was not only Abdullah ibn Jahsh
		
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			whose body was mutilated, but even Hamza ibn
		
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			Abdul Muttalib, the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ,
		
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			when the Prophet ﷺ saw how badly mutilated
		
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			his body was, he cried.
		
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			And he said that, I have never been
		
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			afflicted with sadness over the death of anyone
		
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			like your death.
		
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			So this was the husband of Zaynab ibn
		
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			Khuzaimah.
		
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			Now that her husband has passed away, in
		
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			the battle of Uhud, she was all alone.
		
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			And remember that she was from Mecca, so
		
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			she was from among the Muhajirun.
		
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			But she had left her entire family behind
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			So now she was all alone.
		
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			It wasn't like others who had their relatives
		
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			and whatnot.
		
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			All her relatives and family members were back
		
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			in Mecca.
		
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			So she is now a widow, all by
		
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			herself.
		
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			And this is where Rasool Allah ﷺ, when
		
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			he heard, he came forward and he proposed
		
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			to marry her.
		
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			And we notice a pattern with the marriages
		
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			of Rasool Allah ﷺ He would often marry
		
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			women who had become widowed.
		
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			And this was simply because he cared for
		
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			his companions.
		
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			Just like he would take care of the
		
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			needy, the hungry, and the helpless, he would
		
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			also take care of the wives of his
		
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			companions who passed away.
		
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			And none of them would ever object to
		
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			our Prophet ﷺ marrying their wives after him.
		
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			And so there's no one better for them
		
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			to go on to marry after they have
		
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			passed away than the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so we saw this with Saudah رضي
		
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			الله عنها We mentioned when we spoke about
		
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			her that her husband had passed away.
		
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			And so the Prophet ﷺ came forward and
		
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			married her.
		
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			And also Hafsa, when we spoke about her
		
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			story last week, the same thing.
		
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			Her husband passed away in the Battle of
		
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			Badr.
		
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			And so she was all alone.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ married her.
		
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			And we will see this pattern continuing with
		
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			some of the other women that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ would marry.
		
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			And this is basically one of the many
		
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			reasons that the Prophet ﷺ would marry many
		
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			women.
		
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			And marry the women that he did.
		
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			This is one of the many reasons.
		
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			We previously mentioned other reasons.
		
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			And this is also one of the reasons
		
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			that him being the leader of the believers
		
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			and him being who he was, he felt
		
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			like it was his responsibility.
		
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			And he would marry whoever he felt needed
		
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			someone like himself.
		
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			The Prophet ﷺ married Zaynab bint Khuzaimah towards
		
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			the end of the third year of the
		
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			Hijrah.
		
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			So the Battle of Uhud took place in
		
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			Shawwal of the third year.
		
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			And this was about a year after the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ married Hafsa.
		
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			So about a year afterwards, he marries Zaynab
		
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			bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			Now it is mentioned that it was her
		
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			uncle Qubaysa ibn Amr that he is the
		
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			one who came to the Prophet ﷺ and
		
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			married her off to him.
		
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			And it is also mentioned that the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ proposed to marry her.
		
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			So she left the decision to him.
		
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			Meaning, you know, when the Prophet ﷺ proposed
		
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			to her, she didn't accept or reject, but
		
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			rather she said, I'll leave it to you,
		
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			whatever you decide, I'm okay with.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ married her and gave
		
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			her 400 dirhams as the mahr.
		
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			And he held a feast, a walima.
		
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			And Zaynab bint Khuzaimah, she had a nickname
		
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			that she was known by.
		
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			And that is Umm al-Masakin.
		
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			Umm al-Masakin.
		
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			The mother of the poor.
		
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			And so she had this nickname from before
		
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			Islam.
		
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			And this was due to her generous nature.
		
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			And being generous and compassionate towards the poor.
		
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			And then when she accepted Islam, she increased
		
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			in her generosity and her compassion and helping
		
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			out the poor and the needy.
		
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			So she would go out of her way
		
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			to give money, food and clothing to the
		
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			poor.
		
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			And she was also known for taking care
		
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			of orphans.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So this is what she was known by.
		
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			And to the point where she had this
		
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			nickname of being Umm al-Masakin.
		
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			And she also played a huge role in
		
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			the battle of Badr.
		
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			She was among those women who took care
		
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			of the wounded and the injured companions.
		
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			So nursing their wounds and bringing food and
		
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			drink for them.
		
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			Again this goes to show how much she
		
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			cared for doing good and helping others.
		
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			And so she was not passive.
		
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			Rather she looked for opportunities to do good.
		
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			To do ihsan and to do birr.
		
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			And help whoever needed help.
		
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			Now Zaynab bint Khuzaimah she did not spend
		
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			a long time with Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			It was the plan of Allah to take
		
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			away her soul only a few months into
		
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			the marriage.
		
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			Some say 2 months, some say 3 months
		
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			and others put it at 8 months.
		
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			And so she only spent a few months
		
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			with the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so she passed away in the 4th
		
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			year of the Hijrah.
		
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			At the age of 30.
		
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			At this young age of 30.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ prayed her janazah and
		
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			buried her in the graveyard of al-Baqi'
		
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			And so the only wives of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ to pass away before him were 2.
		
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			Who were they?
		
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			Out of the 11.
		
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			Out of the 11 ummahatul mu'mineen.
		
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			Out of the 11 wives of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ who were his wives in the dunya
		
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			and in the akhirah.
		
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			2 of them passed away in his lifetime
		
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			while he was alive before he passed away.
		
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			All the rest of them passed away after
		
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			his death.
		
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			Who were they?
		
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			Again, I couldn't hear that.
		
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			Khadijah radiyaAllahu anha and Zaynab bint Khuzayma.
		
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			Zaynab bint Khuzayma.
		
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			All his other wives, they outlived him.
		
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			And some even by decades.
		
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			We mentioned Aisha and Hafsa.
		
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			They both went on to live for several
		
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			decades after the death of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, the famous commentator who
		
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			wrote a commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari.
		
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			He has a famous book of the biographies
		
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			of the companions.
		
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			Al-Iswabah.
		
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			So when he wrote about Zaynab bint Khuzayma,
		
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			he ended off by saying she passed away
		
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			in peace just as she had lived in
		
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			peace.
		
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			And the Prophet ﷺ prayed over her and
		
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			buried her in Al-Baqi' in the month
		
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			of Rabi' al-Akhir in the fourth year
		
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			of the Hijrah.
		
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			She was the first of the mothers of
		
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			the believers to be buried there.
		
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			May Allah be pleased with them all.
		
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			So this is what Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
		
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			says about her.
		
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			And this is pretty much all that we
		
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			have about Zaynab bint Khuzayma.
		
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			This is pretty much all we have in
		
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			the books of the biographies of the companions.
		
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			You won't find anything more than this.
		
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			And so what we'll do is we'll just
		
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			end with some lessons.
		
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			Some lessons that we can learn from this
		
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			noble companion of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Even with so little information, we can learn
		
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			certain things.
		
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			We can learn certain things.
		
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			Number one, our lifespans are in the hands
		
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			of Allah.
		
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			And none of us knows how long we
		
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			will live for.
		
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			Not even the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Even he did not know how long Zaynab
		
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			bint Khuzayma would live for.
		
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			He married her thinking that this will be
		
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			my wife for many years to come.
		
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			He had no idea that she would live
		
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			for only a few months.
		
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			And so the lesson here is that we
		
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			should not become deluded by our good health
		
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			or our young age thinking that, you know
		
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			what, I have a very long life ahead
		
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			of me.
		
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			And, you know, I could, you know, I
		
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			could focus on doing good and worshipping Allah.
		
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			I could focus on that in my retirement.
		
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			Right?
		
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			A lot of people, they think this way.
		
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			But the reality is that this life is
		
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			short.
		
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			And, you know, even if you live a
		
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			long life, that is a very, very short
		
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			life, you know, in the grand scheme of
		
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			things.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Compared to the akhirah, it's a very short
		
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			life.
		
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			60, 70, 80 years is very, very short
		
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			in the grand scheme of things.
		
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			So now imagine if that life is cut
		
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			short and you die at the age of
		
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			30 like Zaynab bint Khuzayma radiAllahu anha.
		
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			So the point is take advantage of whatever
		
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			time you have now before it's gone.
		
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			You know, someone who lives a short life,
		
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			someone who lives till like 20 or 30,
		
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			but they spend it in what is pleasing
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			They spend that time in what is pleasing
		
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			to Allah.
		
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			If they were to die young, they are
		
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			far better in the sight of Allah than
		
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			someone who lives till an old age and
		
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			they wasted their entire life.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And so Zaynab bint Khuzayma radiAllahu anha, she's
		
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			an example of someone who, you know, Allah
		
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			put barakah in her life.
		
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			Right?
		
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			She spent that short life in doing good
		
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			to the point where she was given this
		
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			nickname because of how much she was known
		
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			for, you know, helping the poor and being
		
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			generous and whatnot.
		
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			And there are many other examples of this
		
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			as well.
		
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			In our Islamic history, you know, you had
		
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			scholars who lived very short lives but they
		
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			left a legacy and people are benefiting from
		
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			what they left behind.
		
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			You know, you have for example Imam al
		
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			-Nawawi, that famous scholar Imam al-Nawawi.
		
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			He passed away in his 30s or 40s
		
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			and yet, you know, we have the works
		
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			that we do of Imam al-Nawawi, his
		
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			40 hadith, also Riyad al-Saliheen authored by
		
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			him and many other books.
		
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			So the point is that let us take
		
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			advantage of whatever time we have because we
		
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			don't know how long we will live for.
		
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			The second lesson that we learn is being
		
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			generous, you know, having this trait and this
		
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			noble quality of being generous and helping others.
		
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			And so Zainab bint Khuzaimah was known as
		
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			Umm al-Masakin due to her generosity and
		
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			she became even more generous after Islam because
		
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			she knows what Islam teaches about being generous.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Some people they have a certain good quality
		
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			because it is a part of their nature.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Like Zainab radiAllahu anha even before Islam she
		
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			was like that and then when they become
		
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			Muslim or they start practicing Islam they learn
		
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			that this is something beloved to Allah and
		
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			so they increase in that.
		
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			They increase in that.
		
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			Others, you know, that quality is not a
		
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			part of their nature but it doesn't mean
		
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			that they cannot elevate themselves to become like
		
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			that.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It just requires a struggle.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It just requires a struggle.
		
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			And, you know, Zainab bint Khuzaimah radiAllahu anha
		
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			is an example for every Muslim out there
		
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			of the importance of living a life of
		
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			ihsan, doing good to others and bir, being
		
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			generous and being righteous and living a pious
		
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			and righteous life not just within yourself as,
		
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			you know, in terms of your personal ibadah
		
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			and worship of Allah but more than that
		
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			in terms of helping others.
		
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			And so you have the good deed that
		
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			is restricted to the individual like for example
		
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			fasting or praying.
		
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			You know, this is restricted to yourself.
		
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			No one else benefits from that besides you.
		
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			And then you have those good deeds where
		
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			you get reward and other people are benefiting
		
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			from that.
		
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			Right?
		
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			When you compare the two sometimes the second
		
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			kind is more beloved to Allah is more
		
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			pleasing to Allah than the first kind.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So we should always make an effort to
		
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			do good deeds which the benefit reaches others.
		
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			Whether it be giving in sadaqah whether it
		
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			be physically helping people volunteering your time to
		
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			the masjid for example or whether it be
		
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			teaching something beneficial knowledge that you teach to
		
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			others.
		
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			And in the end of the day these
		
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			are things that also benefit us after we
		
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			leave this dunya.
		
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			So those good deeds that we do that
		
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			only benefit us they end with our death.
		
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			Right?
		
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			As the Prophet ﷺ said the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			told us that there are three things that
		
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			continue after our death.
		
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			He said all good deeds they end with
		
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			our death except for three.
		
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			And he mentioned the three, what are they?
		
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			What are the three things that continue after
		
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			our death?
		
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			So, giving any sadaqah?
		
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			No, it's a specific kind of sadaqah.
		
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			What is it called?
		
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			Sadaqah jariyah.
		
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			A continuous sadaqah.
		
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			Meaning, a sadaqah that the people continue to
		
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			benefit after your death.
		
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			For example, you help building a masjid.
		
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			Right?
		
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			People are still coming to that masjid after
		
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			you have passed away.
		
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			You build a well.
		
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			Right?
		
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			After your death people are drinking from that
		
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			well.
		
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			People are benefiting from it.
		
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			So this is number one.
		
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			Number two, the Prophet ﷺ said a beneficial
		
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			knowledge that you leave behind.
		
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			You taught something to someone that person carries
		
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			on implementing that thing after your death.
		
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			Or you wrote a book that people are
		
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			benefiting from after your death.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So a beneficial knowledge that you leave behind.
		
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			And number three, the Prophet ﷺ said a
		
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			righteous child that you leave behind who makes
		
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			dua for you.
		
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			A righteous child who you leave behind who
		
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			makes dua for you.
		
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			Why specifically did the Prophet ﷺ say a
		
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			righteous child?
		
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			Why did he not just say a child
		
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			who prays for you after you?
		
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			What's the secret in that?
		
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			Because of their righteousness.
		
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			So a son or a daughter who does
		
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			not live a righteous life, all they care
		
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			about is the dunya.
		
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			And this is the kind of child you
		
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			have basically brought up who only cares about
		
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			themselves and their dunya.
		
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			When you pass away, maybe they'll come for
		
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			your janazah, they'll make dua for you.
		
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			But after that, you will fade away from
		
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			their memory and they won't care about you
		
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			anymore.
		
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			They won't care about you anymore.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because all they care about is their own
		
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			dunya.
		
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			Why?
		
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			Because they're not righteous.
		
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			Whereas a righteous child, a righteous child is
		
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			someone who knows your right over him and
		
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			her.
		
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			They know your right that Allah has placed,
		
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			that even your bir, that dutifulness to the
		
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			parents does not end with their death.
		
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			They understand that.
		
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			And they continue afterwards making dua for you,
		
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			doing righteous good deeds on your behalf, and
		
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			so on and so forth.
		
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			So the point here is that we need
		
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			to focus on nurturing righteous children.
		
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			So that they benefit us after our death.
		
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			Lesson number three.
		
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			We learn from the life of Zaynab bint
		
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			Khuzaimah that many good deeds, noble, great good
		
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			deeds are not restricted to men.
		
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			And so men do not have a monopoly
		
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			over doing good deeds.
		
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			Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has
		
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			given an opportunity to both men and women.
		
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			Yes, there are certain good deeds that only
		
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			men can do, like fighting in jihad.
		
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			But there are many other good deeds where
		
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			they share.
		
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			And that is why there have been many
		
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			women that have surpassed the men of their
		
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			time.
		
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			And many other men until the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			There are some women in our history who
		
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			have surpassed many men, not only of their
		
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			time, but all men until the Day of
		
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			Judgment.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And one of those is Zaynab bint Khuzaimah.
		
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			رضي الله عنها Right?
		
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			So this shows us that women should not
		
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			think that you know, men are going away
		
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			with all the rewards and we have nothing
		
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			left for ourselves.
		
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			There's a lot that we can do.
		
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			And you know, follow in the footsteps of
		
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			these noble companions.
		
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			Follow in the footsteps of these noble companions.
		
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			And we find that Zaynab bint Khuzaimah رضي
		
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			الله عنها was not the only one who
		
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			was known for her generosity.
		
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			But we also mentioned this in the stories
		
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			of Aisha رضي الله عنها and Hafsa رضي
		
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			الله عنها.
		
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			You know, all of them were known for
		
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			their generosity because they were who they were.
		
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			They were the wives of the most generous.
		
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			They were the wives of the most generous
		
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			of us.
		
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			Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم So obviously,
		
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			you know, living with him they learnt about
		
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			the importance of generosity.
		
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			The fourth and last lesson that we'll mention
		
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			is that we should not belittle any good
		
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			deed.
		
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			We should not belittle any good deed.
		
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			A good deed that you persist in doing,
		
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			you continue in doing and you don't give
		
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			up is far better than a big, huge
		
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			good deed that you do once and you
		
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			never do it again.
		
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			Right?
		
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			And we see this from Zaynab bint Khuzaimah
		
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			رضي الله عنها You know, her generosity was
		
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			not one time or two times or three
		
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			times.
		
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			But it was until she became known as
		
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			the mother of the poor.
		
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			Right?
		
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			It became a quality of hers.
		
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			It became something she was known for until
		
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			her very last, you know, day on earth.
		
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			And our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم tells
		
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			us in the hadith of Aisha رضي الله
		
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			عنها Aisha asked the Prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم which good deed is best.
		
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			And so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
		
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			said ادومها وانقل The deed that is continuous
		
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			you continue to do it even if it
		
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			is a little.
		
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			Even if it is very little.
		
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			Right?
		
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			As long as you persist in it.
		
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			You don't give up doing it.
		
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			So for example, you know, giving a dollar
		
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			a day and, you know, continuing that forever
		
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			is far better than coming on, for example,
		
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			you know, in Ramadan and giving one time
		
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			a thousand dollars or two thousand dollars and
		
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			then never giving anything after that until next
		
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			Ramadan.
		
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			Right?
		
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			The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says the
		
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			best of deeds in the sight of Allah
		
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			are those that are persistent, continuous, even if
		
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			they are small.
		
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			So the point is let us not belittle
		
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			any good deed and also let us focus
		
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			on doing good deeds privately.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Without being seen by anyone.
		
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			Without anyone knowing that you did it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			These are the ones that have a higher
		
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			chance of being accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
		
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			Right?
		
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			I mean, we do many good deeds but
		
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			we don't care, many of us don't care,
		
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			you know, has it been accepted or not.
		
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			Right?
		
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			We think, we think, for some reason we
		
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			think that every good deed we do is
		
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			being accepted by Allah.
		
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			But that may not necessarily be the case.
		
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			Right?
		
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			Our Salaf, they would say that the deed
		
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			itself does not concern me.
		
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			Meaning the effort I put into it and
		
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			doing it, that is not what concerns me.
		
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			What concerns me is after I have done
		
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			it, has it been accepted by Allah or
		
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			not?
		
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			That's what used to worry them the most.
		
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			You know, after I put all that effort
		
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			into it, did Allah accept it or not?
		
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			So, this is where we need to be
		
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			very careful of our intention that it needs
		
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			to be sincerely for the sake of Allah.
		
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			And what helps in that, what helps in
		
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			making the intention sincere is that you don't
		
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			do it in front of the people.
		
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			Right?
		
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			You don't do it in front of the
		
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			people.
		
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			You try to hide it as much as
		
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			you can.
		
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			Obviously, there are exceptions to this rule.
		
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			The scholars mention that, for example, sometimes it
		
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			could be better to do it in front
		
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			of people.
		
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			Like, for example, if you want to encourage
		
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			others to do it.
		
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			Right?
		
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			So, for example, when we have fundraising events
		
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			and, you know, they ask, you know, who
		
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			wants to give this much, who wants to
		
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			give that much, for you to put up
		
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			your hand and show the people to encourage
		
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			them so that someone else also gets up
		
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			and so that there is this competition among
		
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			the believers, then, you know, this is an
		
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			exception to that rule.
		
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			But the general rule is that we should
		
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			try to do our good deeds as privately
		
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			and secretly as possible in order for them
		
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			to be accepted by Allah ﷻ.
		
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			And so these are some of the lessons
		
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			that we learn from the life of our
		
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			mother, Zaynab bint Khuzaimah ﷺ.
		
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			You know, she lived a very short life
		
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			and an even shorter time with the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			But subhanAllah, look at her, look at the
		
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			privilege that she got.
		
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			You know, only a few months with the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ and she ends up having the
		
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			title of being a mother of the believers
		
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			and being the wife of Rasul Allah ﷺ
		
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			in this dunya and in the next.
		
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			InshaAllah next week, we'll move on to the
		
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			next wife of the Prophet ﷺ and that
		
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			will be Umm Salamah.
		
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			Umm Salamah ﷺ.
		
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			Alright, so we'll stop here inshaAllah.
		
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			SubhanakAllahumma wa bihamdik ashhadu an la ilaha illa
		
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			ant astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk wa sallillahumma wa
		
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			sallim ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa
		
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			sahbihi ajma'een wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh