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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 are guided by his guidance.
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And we await his Sunnah until the Day
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of Recompense.
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O Allah, teach us what will benefit us.
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And benefit us with what You have taught
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us.
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And increase us in knowledge.
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And show us the truth, and grant us
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to follow it.
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And show us the falsehood as falsehood.
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And grant us to avoid it.
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And make us of those who listen to
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the word, and follow the best of it.
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And peace and blessings be upon you.
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We continue on with our series on the
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lives of the Suhabiyat.
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And in particular, the lives of Ummahatul Mu'mineen.
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The mothers of the believers.
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The wives of Rasulullah ﷺ.
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Tonight we have Juwayriya bint al-Harith.
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Juwayriya bint al-Harith.
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RadhiAllahu anha.
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And so her name is Juwayriya bint al
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-Harith.
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Ibn Abi Durar.
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Juwayriya bint al-Harith, Ibn Abi Durar.
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And she was the daughter of the chief
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of her people.
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She was the daughter of the head of
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Banu al-Mustaliq.
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Which is a sub-tribe of the tribe
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of Khuza'ah.
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And so she belongs to the tribe of
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Khuza'ah.
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And so she is the 8th wife of
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the Prophet ﷺ.
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And the first wife that he married from
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outside of Makkah and outside of Quraysh.
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And so you've noticed that until now all
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of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ have
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been from Makkah and from Quraysh in particular.
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And so this is the first time he's
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marrying from outside of his own tribe.
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And the other wives that we're going to
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be speaking about that come after her, also
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they were not from Makkah and they were
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not from Quraysh.
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Most of them as we're going to see.
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So what is her story and how did
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the Prophet ﷺ end up marrying her?
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Banu al-Mustaliq lived in an area by
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a well known as al-Muraysi'a.
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And this was close to the coast of
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the Red Sea on the way to Makkah.
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So between Makkah and Medina but closer to
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Makkah.
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And these people had allied themselves with Quraysh
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in its war against the Muslims.
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And they lived in a very strategic location
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between Makkah and Medina.
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So in the fifth year of the Hijrah,
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their leader al-Harith ibn Abi al-Dhirar,
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the father of Juwayriyya, he starts mobilizing his
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people along with other tribes to proceed to
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Makkah and attack the Muslims.
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The Prophet ﷺ has spies all over the
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place.
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And so he gets word about their plans.
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And he sets out with 700 men and
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30 horsemen to go and attack them before
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they can come and attack the Muslims.
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Now this time a large number of the
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munafiqun, the hypocrites, had decided to join along
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from Medina.
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And never did that many of them settle
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in a battle before.
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And due to that we have the story
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of the ifk related to Aisha that we
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covered previously.
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The slander.
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That story that we spoke about was initiated,
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it started from this particular battle when they
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were coming back from this battle.
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So anyways, as was the strategy of the
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Prophet ﷺ in war, he would ambush the
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enemy by surprise.
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So he left Medina quietly and reached Banu
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al-Mustaliq without them being aware.
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So these people were caught completely by surprise
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by the Muslims.
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The Muslims attacked them, they tried to fight,
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but because they weren't prepared, they were overwhelmed
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and they were easily defeated.
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So now the Muslims took the entire tribe
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as prisoners, as captives, with their families, their
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women, their children.
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And they took their herds and their flock,
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their animals, and so 200 families were taken
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as captives.
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And 200 camels, 5000 sheep and goats, as
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well as a huge quantity of household items
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were all captured as booty, as spoils of
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war.
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Abdullah ibn Umar ﷺ says the Prophet ﷺ
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attacked them while they were unaware, while their
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animals were drinking water.
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So he killed some of their combatants and
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he took their families as captives.
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And basically they became slaves.
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Now, I'd like to just pause here for
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a moment to address an important issue.
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And that is the concept of slavery in
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Islam.
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What do we see here?
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That the Prophet ﷺ took all of these
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people, their men, their women, their children as
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captives and they became slaves.
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And the enemies of Islam will often criticize
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Islam and claim that Islam promotes and encourages
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slavery.
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So we need to address this issue.
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And so we can say first and foremost
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that slavery was always prevalent in human societies
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and civilizations.
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When Islam came, there were many different ways
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of becoming a slave.
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Like through war, through debt, through kidnapping and
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raids.
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And when we look at how slavery spread
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throughout the world in later centuries, we find
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that it did not spread in this appalling
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manner except by means of kidnapping.
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If we look at the last couple of
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centuries, the main source of slaves in Europe,
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in the Americas, was through kidnapping.
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These Europeans just went into Africa and would
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just indiscriminately attack and kidnap these people who
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were completely free.
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They were free men and women and they
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would just kidnap them and make them slaves.
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Number two, when Islam came, it limited the
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ways of becoming a slave to one and
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only one.
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There is no other way that a person
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can become a slave in Islam.
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And that is through war.
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So the prisoners that are taken by the
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Muslims, they become slaves.
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And this was very common in those days.
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And the prevalent custom in those days was
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that prisoners had no protection or rights.
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They would either be killed or enslaved.
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But then Islam brought two more options to
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the table.
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So basically, once you enslave them, there are
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two more options.
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You can unconditionally release them or ransom them.
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So the two options are you can unconditionally
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release them or ransom them, basically for money.
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This was unknown before.
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This was unknown before.
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And so Islam did not abolish it altogether.
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Why?
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Because these people who fight the Muslims, they
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willingly fought the Muslims.
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Because when Muslims go to any people, they
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offer them Islam.
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And if these people refuse, then they tell
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them, we're going to fight you.
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And so these people, this is their punishment.
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This is their punishment in the dunya.
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That they are subjugated.
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They are enslaved.
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And also because if we let them go,
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these people are against Islam.
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And so they're going to continue to spread
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wrongdoing and aggression against the Muslims.
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And they're going to prevent Islam from reaching
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the people.
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Number three, when Islam came, it changed the
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ways in which slavery was dealt with.
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So slaves were not considered human beings.
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And they were treated worse than animals.
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And this continued in Western society until only
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a few decades ago.
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And so the respect Islam gave to slaves
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was so much that they were free to
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learn and work.
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If we look at our Islamic history, some
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slaves even became scholars.
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And some even became kings.
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You have an entire dynasty known as the
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Mamalik.
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Or the Mamluk dynasty.
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What does Mamluk mean?
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It means slaves.
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So it was the dynasty of the slaves.
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Because they were slaves who became kings.
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Something unimaginable in the Western institution of slavery.
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Plus, slavery among Muslims had nothing to do
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with race or ethnicity or the color of
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your skin.
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Unlike in the West, where slaves were limited
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to the black race.
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And the owners or the masters were always
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white.
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Whereas in Islam, a slave could be white,
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he could be black, he could be Arab,
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he could be non-Arab.
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So it had nothing to do with race
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or ethnicity.
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Unlike the Western idea of slavery, which is
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nothing more than racism.
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And finally, number four.
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As we've already explained, there were many sources
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of slavery before Islam came.
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Whereas the means of freeing them were virtually
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nil.
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Once you became a slave, that's it.
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You stay a slave for the rest of
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your life.
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So Islam created many new ways of liberating
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slaves.
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In addition to that, Islam also encouraged Muslims
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to free slaves for the sake of Allah.
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And promised huge rewards for those who do
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so.
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Freeing a slave is a huge good deed
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that a person can do.
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And also, we have certain penalties in Islam
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for doing certain things.
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The penalty of which is to free a
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slave.
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So Islam did not come to promote or
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encourage it, but rather to encourage freeing slaves.
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Anyways, the point here is that when people
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think of slavery, and when it's mentioned that
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the Prophet ﷺ would take slaves and he
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would make people slaves, they have this conception
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of slavery because of how the West practiced
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slavery in the last couple of hundred years.
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So they immediately have this image in their
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minds of injustice and subjugation and oppression and
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stripping a person of their rights and so
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on and so forth.
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And so we have to show the people
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that slavery in Islam is something completely different.
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It is something completely different.
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Anyways, so now you had a large number
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of slaves in the hands of the Muslims
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after this battle.
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And when the Prophet ﷺ returned with them
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to Medina, he started dividing them among those
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who had gone out to fight.
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And so whatever spoils of war land in
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the hands of the Muslims, it's divided and
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distributed among them.
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And so Aisha she says, when the Messenger
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of Allah ﷺ distributed the captives taken from
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Bani Al-Mustaliq, the daughter of Al-Harith
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Ibn Al-Mustaliq was awarded to Thabit Ibn
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Qais Ibn Shammas.
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So here we have a woman who was
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taken as a captive, and she was the
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daughter of the head of the tribe.
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And this was Juwayriyah رضي الله عنها.
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Now at the time she was married, but
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her husband was among those who were killed
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in the battle.
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Her husband was among those who were killed
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in the battle.
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So now Juwayriyah was in the possession of
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this companion Thabit Ibn Qais رضي الله عنه.
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But now since she was the daughter of
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the leader of her people, she told Thabit
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that it's not possible for her to serve
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him as a slave.
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She wasn't brought up to serve people as
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a slave.
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Rather she was someone who was brought up
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being served as a princess.
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Her father was like a king.
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So after living a life of luxury and
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privilege, she now faces the potential of living
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a slave for the rest of her life.
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And she couldn't accept that.
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So she asked Thabit رضي الله عنه if
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she could enter into a contract with him,
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known as a mukataba.
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A mukataba is a contract where the master
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and the slave agree that the slave can
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buy his freedom.
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So basically the slave will work and pay
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a certain amount of money in installments.
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And Allah سبحانه وتعالى has mentioned this in
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Surah An-Nur.
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وَالَّذِينَ يَبْتَغُونَ الْكِتَابَ مِمَّا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُكُمْ فَكَاتِبُوهُمْ
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إِنْ عَلِمْتُمْ فِيهِمْ خَيْرًا If any of those
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slaves in your possession desires a contract to
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buy their own freedom, mukataba, then make it
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possible for them if you find goodness in
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them.
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If you find that these slaves are good
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and they're not evil, in the sense that
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if we free them they're going to be
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a problem for us, then free them through
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this process.
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So Thabit رضي الله عنه agreed, and the
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deal was that Juwayriya would pay him 9
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uqiya of gold, which is basically 9 ounces
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of gold.
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So now she had to figure out a
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way to pay for her freedom.
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Where is she going to get this money
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from?
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Everything has been taken from them.
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So who does she go to for help?
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She goes to the same one who fought
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her father only the day before, Muhammad صلى
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الله عليه وسلم.
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Why does she go to him?
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Because although it was as a result of
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the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم attacking her
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people that she fell into this state of
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humiliation, she knew that he was the most
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compassionate and the most merciful.
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Aisha رضي الله عنها says, So she made
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mukataba with Thabit ibn Qais, and she was
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a very sweet and attractive woman.
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These are the words of Aisha رضي الله
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عنها.
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She says she was very beautiful and attractive.
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Aisha says, Any man who saw her, he
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would fall for her.
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So she came to the Messenger of Allah
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صلى الله عليه وسلم to ask him help
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for the mukataba, and I swear, as soon
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as I saw her at the door of
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my apartment, immediately I disliked her, and recognized
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that he صلى الله عليه وسلم would see
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in her what I did.
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And so Aisha رضي الله عنها was saying
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that she felt jealous, and she was worried
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that if the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
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sees her, he might want to marry her.
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Juwayriya رضي الله عنها, she walks in, and
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she says, O Messenger of Allah, I testify
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that there is none worthy of worship except
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Allah, and that you are the Messenger of
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Allah.
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So she has accepted Islam.
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Then she says, I am Juwayriya, the daughter
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of Al-Harith, the leader of his people.
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You can see what my plight is now.
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I have fallen to the lot of Thabit
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ibn Qais, and I have prepared a contract
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to free myself, and I have come to
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you to ask you for your help in
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it.
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Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم, what did
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he say?
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He asked her, would you prefer something better?
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She said, what could that be, O Messenger
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of Allah?
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He said, that I pay the price of
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your freedom on your behalf.
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You don't have to go through the trouble
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of finding this money to pay for your
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freedom.
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I'll do it on your behalf, and then
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I will marry you.
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And then I will marry you.
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So what was her reply?
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She said, yes, O Messenger of Allah, I
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agree.
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And so Juwayriya رضي الله عنها was 20
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years old at the time.
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And she was young, and she was beautiful
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as Aisha mentioned.
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In fact, exactly what Aisha feared ended up
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happening by the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
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marrying her when he saw her.
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But here the question is, does this prove
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what the enemies of Islam claim?
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That the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was
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just after satisfying his lustful desires by marrying
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these women.
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Because they do cite this story.
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They do mention this story when they want
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to prove that.
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So we say, not at all.
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And we repeat what we've mentioned time and
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time again.
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The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, the women
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he married, he married for noble reasons.
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As we have seen, like taking care of
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his companions, by marrying widows, and also adding
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to his wives those who were smart and
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intelligent, who would learn the deen and then
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spread it afterwards.
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As we mentioned with regards to Aisha رضي
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الله عنها.
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And we can add here another reason.
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And that is that he married women from
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tribes that were hostile to him.
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Thereby attracting those tribes and their leaders to
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Islam.
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And that was the case with Juwayriya رضي
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الله عنها.
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As we will see.
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But having said that, it doesn't mean that
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the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was not
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allowed to marry whom he liked if he
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happened to be attracted to them.
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In the end, he was a human being
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with human qualities.
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In fact, he was the most complete of
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men.
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He had the most perfect and complete of
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qualities and characteristics.
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And part of the completeness and the perfectness
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of a man is to be attracted to
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a beautiful woman.
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So if he صلى الله عليه وسلم marries
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someone he likes, it doesn't contradict him being
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a messenger from Allah.
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Nor is it something that our minds or
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our fitrah should reject.
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It's only a problem for those whose fitrah
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is derailed.
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Those who have sick minds.
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Those who indulge in every kind of fahisha,
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like zina and nowadays homosexuality and all these
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things.
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And they promote such behaviors.
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And then they label anyone who opposes them
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as being ignorant and backward.
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Then after all of these filth-filled practices,
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they have the audacity of criticizing the marriages
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of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, which
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were pure in every sense.
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We can say on top of that, if
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the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was just
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after the beauty of Juwayriya, he could have
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taken her for himself right from the very
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beginning.
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Why didn't he put her in his share
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of the spoils of war?
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He didn't because he was just randomly distributing
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the captives among his companions.
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And he only married her when she came
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to him.
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She approached him with her predicament, and he
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saw that she has accepted Islam.
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And it's also said about Juwayriya that she
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was intelligent as well, and that she would
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speak very eloquently.
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So these are traits that could benefit Islam
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and the Muslims.
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And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم would
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not have married her if she had remained
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a kafirah.
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On top of that, he gave her the
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choice.
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He didn't force her to marry him.
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He offered her to release her and then
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marry her.
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And she could have rejected it.
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She could have said, No, just free me
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and that's it.
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But she agreed.
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And her agreeing was expected.
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Why?
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Because she came from the nobility of her
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people.
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She was the daughter of their leader.
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So why would she settle for less than
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the leader of the Muslims?
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Why would she settle for someone who is
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less than the leader of the Muslims?
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In this case, the Prophet صلى الله عليه
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وسلم.
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So by marrying the Prophet صلى الله عليه
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وسلم, Allah replaced for Juwayriya the humiliation of
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slavery with the honor of marrying the best
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of mankind.
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Just like Allah replaced for Yusuf عليه السلام
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the humiliation of being a slave and a
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prisoner to rising and becoming a minister in
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the state.
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And it's mentioned that just like Yusuf عليه
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السلام had a dream that came true, Juwayriya
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also had a dream.
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And this was some three days before the
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battle, before the Muslims came and attacked them.
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She says that she saw the moon coming
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from the direction of Medina and falling into
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her lap.
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And she didn't want to tell anyone of
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this dream from her people.
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Then when the battle took place and she
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was taken as captive, and then the Prophet
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صلى الله عليه وسلم married her, she understood
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the meaning of the dream.
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She then understood the meaning of the dream
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that she was to marry the Prophet صلى
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الله عليه وسلم.
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But here we can say that even if
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she remained with Thabit ibn Qais, it would
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have still been an honor for her.
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Who was Thabit?
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Thabit ibn Qais was a very noble companion.
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He was the khateeb of the Prophet صلى
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الله عليه وسلم due to his speaking skills.
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And he had a very loud voice.
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Anas رضي الله عنه says that Thabit used
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to walk in Medina while we knew that
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he was from the people of Jannah.
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What's his story?
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It's mentioned that when Allah revealed in Surah
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Al-Hujurat, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَرْفَعُوا
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أَصْوَاتَكُمْ فَوْقَ صَوْتِ النَّبِيِّ وَلَا تَجْهَرُوا لَهُ بِالْقَوْلِ
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كَجَهْرِ بَعْضِكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ أَن تَحْبَطَ أَعْمَالُكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ لَا
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تَشْعُرُونَ O you who believe, do not raise
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your voices above the voice of the Prophet
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nor speak loudly to him as you do
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to one another.
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Otherwise your deeds will become cancelled while you
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are unaware.
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So Thabit radiallahu anhu, when this ayah was
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revealed, he went into hiding in Medina.
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When the Prophet ﷺ noticed him missing, he
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asked about him.
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So they went to look for him and
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they found him locked up at home.
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So he told them, I used to raise
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my voice over the voice of Rasulallah ﷺ.
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So now all my deeds have gone to
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waste and I am from the people of
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the Hellfire.
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The reality was that he had a natural
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loud voice.
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And the Prophet ﷺ would use him as
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his khatib.
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So now the companions went back to the
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Prophet ﷺ and told him of what Thabit
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had said.
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So he said to them, rather he is
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from the people of Jannah.
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He's not from the people of the Hellfire,
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he is from the people of Jannah.
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And so this makes Thabit ibn Qais among
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those whom the Prophet ﷺ gave the glad
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tidings of Jannah.
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There's many companions besides the ten who were
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promised with Jannah.
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And among them was Thabit ibn Qais.
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So anyways, what happened after the Prophet ﷺ
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married Juwayriya?
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Aisha continues, she says, the people then heard
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that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had married
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Juwayriya.
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So they released the captives that were in
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their possession and they set them all free.
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And they said, they are now the in
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-laws of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
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So out of respect for the Prophet ﷺ,
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all of the companions who ended up having
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these captives given to them, immediately they just
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released them all.
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They set them all free because these are
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now the in-laws of the Prophet ﷺ.
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It's not suitable for his in-laws to
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be slaves.
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And this shows us, what does it show
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us?
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00:32:03
It shows us how the whole idea of
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00:32:06
slavery in Islam is not to take people
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into captivity and to make them slaves and
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00:32:12
to subjugate them for the rest of their
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00:32:13
lives, no.
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Even though these companions, they could have kept
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them as slaves, it was optional.
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They didn't have to free them, but they
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did it out of their own goodwill.
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Aisha radiallahu anha, she says, due to her
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marriage, a hundred members of Banu al-Mustaliq
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were freed.
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We did not see any woman who brought
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00:32:39
greater blessings to her people than Juwayriya.
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And Juwayriya herself says about this, that she
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had no idea that her people who had
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become slaves were now all freed.
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She says that when the Prophet ﷺ freed
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her and married her, she did not plead
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on behalf of her family.
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She didn't take advantage of her marriage and
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ask the Prophet ﷺ that, look, can you
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00:33:08
free all of my relatives, my people?
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She says she did not plead on behalf
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00:33:15
of her family until the Muslims themselves freed
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them.
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And she didn't even know until one of
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00:33:22
her relatives, a girl, came to her and
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informed her and told her that we've all
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been freed.
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And so she praised Allah subhanahu wa ta
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'ala for that.
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Now it's mentioned that her father, al-Harith
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ibn Abi Durar, he was not killed in
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that battle.
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He managed to escape.
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It says that later on he ended up
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coming to Medina to try to free Juwayriya.
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He had no idea what's happened.
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He thinks his entire tribe are now slaves
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in Medina.
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00:34:00
So he brought with him some camels that
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00:34:02
he was going to use to ransom his
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00:34:02
daughter.
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00:34:05
When he came to the outskirts of Medina,
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00:34:09
he was looking at his camels and two
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00:34:12
particular camels really impressed him.
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00:34:13
He didn't want to let them go.
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He didn't want to give them to the
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Prophet ﷺ.
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So he took those two and he hid
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them somewhere.
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00:34:25
And then he came into Medina and he
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met the Prophet ﷺ.
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00:34:30
The Prophet ﷺ tried to give him some
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00:34:30
da'wah.
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00:34:35
And then the Prophet ﷺ asked him, when
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00:34:37
he said, you know, I've come to ransom
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00:34:37
my daughter.
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00:34:42
The Prophet ﷺ asked him, what about those
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00:34:44
two camels that you took and you hid
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00:34:46
in such and such a place?
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00:34:52
So here al-Harith, he said, I bear
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00:34:54
witness that there is no one worthy of
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00:34:56
worship except Allah and that you are the
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messenger of Allah.
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00:35:01
By Allah, no one knew about them besides
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00:35:01
Allah.
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00:35:06
And so, you know, because of this, he
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00:35:10
embraces Islam and he left as a Muslim.
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00:35:13
And he was happy that, you know, his
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00:35:17
daughter was now the wife of Rasulullah ﷺ.
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00:35:24
And so we can see how the Prophet's
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00:35:28
marriage to Juwayriya was strategic and how he
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00:35:29
was thinking long term.
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00:35:31
Right.
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00:35:36
Here we have a hostile people to the
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00:35:36
Muslims.
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00:35:42
By marrying Juwayriya, her entire tribe were freed
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00:35:46
and embraced Islam, including their head, including their
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00:35:47
leader.
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00:35:49
Right.
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00:35:53
And so even if the Prophet ﷺ married
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00:35:56
her because of her beauty, we explain that
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00:35:57
there's nothing wrong with that.
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00:36:00
He deserves that.
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00:36:02
But at the same time, we can see
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00:36:06
here that the Prophet ﷺ, he had other
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00:36:07
things in mind.
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00:36:09
He had other things in mind.
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00:36:11
And we're going to see, we're going to
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00:36:16
see how the same thing happens with another
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00:36:18
one of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ
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00:36:22
who we're going to be covering soon, Inshallah.
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00:36:29
Now, one of the first things that the
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00:36:33
Prophet ﷺ did with Juwayriya was to change
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00:36:33
her name.
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00:36:39
Juwayriya was not her original name.
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00:36:44
In Sahih Muslim, this hadith is in Sahih
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00:36:50
Muslim, Abdullah ibn Abbas, he narrates, he says
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00:36:54
that the name of Juwayriya was originally Barrah,
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00:36:59
which means pious or righteous.
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00:37:04
He says, and the Messenger of Allah changed
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00:37:08
her name to Juwayriya, as he used to
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00:37:11
dislike it being said that he has come
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00:37:14
out from the house of Barrah, that he
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00:37:18
has come out from Barrah, right?
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00:37:22
He didn't like the way that sounded, that
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00:37:25
here I'm leaving Barrah, someone who is righteous,
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00:37:26
someone who is pious.
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00:37:31
As if I'm leaving piety and going to
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00:37:32
evil.
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00:37:34
So he didn't like the way that sounded.
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00:37:37
And there are many other such examples of
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00:37:42
how the Prophet ﷺ would change the names
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00:37:45
of people because the meanings were not appropriate.
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00:37:48
Because the meanings were not appropriate.
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00:37:51
We can also say that the name Barrah
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00:37:54
is like self-praise.
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00:37:58
It's like self-praise, like saying I'm a
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00:37:58
righteous person.
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00:38:02
And so we're not supposed to have such
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00:38:06
names and the Prophet ﷺ, he would always
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00:38:09
change the name of someone if it was
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00:38:12
inappropriate and went against the teachings of Islam.
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00:38:25
Now, as is natural in polygamous marriages, the
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00:38:27
wives have jealousy towards one another.
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00:38:31
And some of them try to make themselves
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00:38:34
seem better and more beloved to their husband
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00:38:34
than the others.
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00:38:40
And we have already seen examples of this,
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00:38:41
right?
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00:38:44
We've already seen examples of this.
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00:38:47
And it also happened with Juwayriya.
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00:38:52
One day, Juwayriya she came complaining to the
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00:38:56
Prophet ﷺ about his other wives.
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00:39:01
She said, O Messenger of Allah, your wives
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00:39:04
are telling me that you married them but
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00:39:05
you didn't marry me.
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00:39:08
I am nothing but a slave of yours.
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00:39:14
So the Prophet ﷺ said, did I not
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00:39:15
give you a huge dowry?
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00:39:18
Did I not free 40 slaves from your
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00:39:19
people?
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00:39:22
Which other wife did I give more than
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00:39:22
that?
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00:39:31
In another narration, it says that Juwayriya was
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00:39:31
complaining.
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00:39:36
She said, O Messenger of Allah, your wives
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00:39:41
are telling me that you gave them a
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00:39:43
much higher dowry than me.
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00:39:45
You didn't give me anything.
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00:39:47
You didn't give me anything.
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00:39:52
So the Prophet ﷺ said, did I not
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00:39:56
marry you by freeing you and your entire
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00:39:58
people were freed as a result?
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00:40:01
So the dowry, the mahr that the Prophet
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00:40:04
ﷺ gave her was extremely expensive.
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00:40:08
Freeing a slave is not a joke.
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00:40:09
It's not something cheap.
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00:40:11
It's something very, very expensive.
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00:40:17
And that was the mahr, the dowry that
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00:40:19
the Prophet ﷺ made for Juwayriya.
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00:40:21
And so he said, which other wife did
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00:40:22
I give more than that?
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00:40:27
And so the Prophet ﷺ comforted her and
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00:40:30
made her feel better after that.
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00:40:37
Now, like we have seen from the lives
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00:40:41
of the other Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the mothers of
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00:40:48
the believers, Juwayriya was an example for every
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00:40:53
Muslimah to follow in her good and righteous
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00:40:54
qualities.
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00:40:58
And so just like the other wives, Juwayriya
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00:41:00
was known to be generous.
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00:41:04
One day the Prophet ﷺ came to her
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00:41:07
and asked her if she had any food
00:41:07 -->
00:41:08
for him.
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00:41:14
So she said, I had this sheep, but
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00:41:18
I gave it in sadaqah and nothing remained
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00:41:20
behind except for a piece of bone.
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00:41:25
And so this shows us how generous she
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00:41:27
was and how much she would give in
00:41:27 -->
00:41:27
sadaqah.
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00:41:32
And she was also known to free slaves.
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00:41:37
And perhaps this is because she experienced it
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00:41:37
firsthand.
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00:41:42
Even though she wasn't a slave for a
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00:41:46
very long time, but still she learned through
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00:41:51
firsthand experience how difficult and tragic it is
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00:41:53
to live in slavery.
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00:41:56
So she would strive to free slaves.
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00:41:59
One day the Prophet ﷺ came to her
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00:42:01
and she said, O Messenger of Allah, I
00:42:01 -->
00:42:02
want to free this boy.
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00:42:07
So the Prophet ﷺ said, rather you should
00:42:07 -->
00:42:08
give it to your brother who lives in
00:42:08 -->
00:42:09
the countryside.
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00:42:15
It would be greater for you in reward.
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00:42:19
Because her brother perhaps was in need of
00:42:19 -->
00:42:21
a helping hand, of a slave to help
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00:42:23
him in his work.
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00:42:28
Juwayriyah was also known for her ibadah.
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00:42:36
She was known as an abidah, worshipping Allah,
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00:42:39
praying, making a lot of dhikr.
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00:42:46
One day, and this is in Sahih Muslim
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00:42:48
or Sahih al-Bukhari.
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00:42:53
One day, Juwayriyah was praying fajr.
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00:42:58
She prayed fajr and she remained sitting doing
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00:42:58
her dhikr.
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00:43:03
The Prophet ﷺ left and he came back
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00:43:06
later in the morning, much later, many hours
00:43:06 -->
00:43:10
later, to find her in the exact same
00:43:10 -->
00:43:13
spot in which she was when he left.
00:43:14 -->
00:43:15
What was she doing?
00:43:15 -->
00:43:16
She was still doing dhikr.
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00:43:21
So he asked her, have you been in
00:43:21 -->
00:43:23
the same spot since I left you?
00:43:24 -->
00:43:25
She said yes.
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00:43:31
So he said, after I left you, I
00:43:31 -->
00:43:36
said four phrases three times.
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00:43:40
I said four phrases three times.
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00:43:44
If they were to be weighed against all
00:43:44 -->
00:43:46
of your words, all of your dhikr that
00:43:46 -->
00:43:49
you have been doing, they would outweigh them.
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00:43:50
They would outweigh them.
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00:44:12
And they are, Glory
00:44:12 -->
00:44:15
and praise be to Allah in number as
00:44:15 -->
00:44:16
great as His creation.
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00:44:20
And in accordance with His pleasure.
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00:44:23
And by the weight of His throne.
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00:44:29
And to the extent of His words, the
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00:44:29
words of Allah.
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00:44:37
Meaning, you're saying subhanAllahi wa bihamdihi according to
00:44:37 -->
00:44:40
an infinite number, a very huge number.
00:44:41 -->
00:44:46
So, if you say this three times, it
00:44:46 -->
00:44:48
weighs more in the scale of your good
00:44:48 -->
00:44:53
deeds than saying SubhanAllah, walhamdulillah, you know, hundreds
00:44:53 -->
00:44:56
of times, as Juwayriya radiallahu anha was doing.
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00:45:01
And so, you know, look at this hadith
00:45:01 -->
00:45:05
and how Juwayriya radiallahu anha was the source
00:45:05 -->
00:45:06
of us learning this.
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00:45:09
And as such, we are now blessed for
00:45:09 -->
00:45:11
learning such a great dhikr.
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00:45:15
And this particular dhikr is among the adhkar
00:45:15 -->
00:45:17
of the morning and the evening.
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00:45:20
To say this, every morning and every evening
00:45:20 -->
00:45:21
is from the sunnah.
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00:45:26
You know, just like Aisha radiallahu anha, we
00:45:26 -->
00:45:31
mentioned many, many countless examples of how she
00:45:31 -->
00:45:36
narrated certain things that have benefited us today.
00:45:36 -->
00:45:38
You know, we've learned so much of our
00:45:38 -->
00:45:40
deen because of Aisha radiallahu anha.
00:45:40 -->
00:45:44
Likewise, here is an example of Juwayriya.
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00:45:50
She also benefited us by influencing one of
00:45:50 -->
00:45:52
the rulings concerning fasting.
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00:45:59
And so, Juwayriya would also fast a lot.
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00:46:00
She would fast a lot.
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00:46:03
And so one day, the Prophet ﷺ came
00:46:03 -->
00:46:07
to her to find her fasting, and that
00:46:07 -->
00:46:08
day happened to be a Friday.
00:46:09 -->
00:46:13
So the Prophet ﷺ asked her if she
00:46:13 -->
00:46:17
fasted the day before, meaning Thursday, along with
00:46:17 -->
00:46:18
today.
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00:46:20
So she said no.
00:46:21 -->
00:46:23
Then the Prophet ﷺ asked her if she
00:46:23 -->
00:46:26
was planning on fasting the next day, Saturday.
00:46:27 -->
00:46:28
You know, you're fasting today, are you planning
00:46:28 -->
00:46:29
on fasting tomorrow?
00:46:29 -->
00:46:30
She said no.
00:46:31 -->
00:46:33
So then the Prophet ﷺ said, in that
00:46:33 -->
00:46:35
case, break your fast.
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00:46:37
In that case, break your fast.
00:46:38 -->
00:46:39
And this is in Sahih al-Bukhari.
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00:46:43
So we learn from this that we're not
00:46:43 -->
00:46:47
supposed to single out Friday for fasting.
00:46:48 -->
00:46:53
This is because Friday is our weekly day
00:46:53 -->
00:46:56
of Eid, in which we're not supposed to
00:46:56 -->
00:46:58
be eating or drinking.
00:47:00 -->
00:47:05
This is obviously talking about voluntary fast, otherwise,
00:47:05 -->
00:47:08
if there's a reason to be fasting, then
00:47:08 -->
00:47:10
the case is different.
00:47:12 -->
00:47:17
So again, we see how we have a
00:47:17 -->
00:47:20
hukm, we have a ruling in our deen,
00:47:20 -->
00:47:24
based on this interaction that the Prophet ﷺ
00:47:24 -->
00:47:27
had with Juwayriyya, and Juwayriyya then narrating it
00:47:27 -->
00:47:28
to us.
00:47:28 -->
00:47:31
Her then narrating this to us.
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00:47:35
Again it shows us that if the Prophet
00:47:35 -->
00:47:38
ﷺ did not marry these women, how would
00:47:38 -->
00:47:40
this knowledge have reached us?
00:47:41 -->
00:47:47
Things which are from within the confines of
00:47:47 -->
00:47:53
the house of Rasulullah ﷺ, private matters, things
00:47:53 -->
00:47:56
which happened within the walls of his home.
00:47:59 -->
00:48:01
There can't just be one wife, there has
00:48:01 -->
00:48:03
to be several, who are going to narrate
00:48:03 -->
00:48:06
to us all of these different bits and
00:48:06 -->
00:48:07
pieces of knowledge.
00:48:09 -->
00:48:14
Now Juwayriyya, although she did narrate these two
00:48:14 -->
00:48:18
very important ahadith to us, she did not
00:48:18 -->
00:48:23
narrate that many ahadith as Aisha and Umm
00:48:23 -->
00:48:23
Salama.
00:48:24 -->
00:48:27
It's mentioned that she only narrated some seven
00:48:27 -->
00:48:33
ahadith, and she went on to live a
00:48:33 -->
00:48:33
very long life.
00:48:34 -->
00:48:38
She passed away at about 70 years old,
00:48:40 -->
00:48:42
and so she passed away in the year
00:48:42 -->
00:48:46
56 of the Hijrah, and this was in
00:48:46 -->
00:48:48
the Khilafah of Mu'awiyah.
00:48:49 -->
00:48:53
So after the four Khulafah in the time
00:48:53 -->
00:48:54
of Mu'awiyah.
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00:48:58
And her janazah was led by the governor
00:48:58 -->
00:49:01
of Medina at the time, Marwan ibn al
00:49:01 -->
00:49:06
-Hakam, and she was buried in Al-Baqi'
00:49:06 -->
00:49:12
with the other Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the other mothers
00:49:12 -->
00:49:13
of the believers.
00:49:15 -->
00:49:18
And so may Allah be pleased with Juwayriyya.
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00:49:26
And so we'll stop here, insha'Allah, and
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00:49:28
we'll continue next week.
