Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat – 10 – Safiyyah bint Huyayy – ra

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The conversation covers the history of the Bible and the history of the Jews, including the deaths of leaders and their children, the actions of the prophet compelling men to kill their relatives and their children, and the multiple marriages and relationships with different cultures. The segment discusses the importance of giving clarifications when misunderstandings arise and avoiding evil thoughts of assumptions, as well as the importance of giving clarifications when misunderstandings arise and how to avoid them. The importance of Hilda's education and her qualities in explaining one's behavior is also discussed, as well as the importance of Hilda's education and her influence on shaping one's behavior.

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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, and upon his family, his
		
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			companions, and those who are guided by his
		
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			guidance, and who wait by his Sunnah until
		
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			the Day of Judgment.
		
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			O Allah, teach us what benefits us, and
		
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			benefit us with what You have taught us,
		
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			and increase us in knowledge, and show us
		
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			the truth as it is, and grant us
		
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			to follow it, and show us the falsehood
		
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			as it is, and grant us to avoid
		
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			it, and make us of those who listen
		
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			to the word, and follow the best of
		
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			it.
		
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			And after this, peace and blessings of Allah
		
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			be upon you.
		
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			We continue on with the lives of the
		
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			Sahabiyat, and basically we have been going through
		
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			the Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the mothers of the believers,
		
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			the wives of Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And so, today we have with us another
		
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			of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, and
		
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			that is Safiyyah bint Huyay.
		
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			Safiyyah radiallahu anha.
		
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			And so, her name is Safiyyah bint Huyay
		
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			ibn Akhtab.
		
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			And her ancestry basically traces back to Harun
		
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			ibn Imran, the brother of Musa ﷺ.
		
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			And so, her father was the chief of
		
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			the tribe of Banu Nadhir.
		
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			He was the chief of the tribe of
		
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			Banu Nadhir, one of the three Jewish tribes
		
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			of Medina.
		
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			And her mother, Barra bint Samawal, she was
		
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			from the tribe of Banu Qurayza, another of
		
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			the three tribes of Medina.
		
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			And her maternal uncle became a prominent Sahabi,
		
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			and that was Rifa'ah ibn Samawal al
		
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			-Quradi.
		
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			Rifa'ah ibn Samawal al-Quradi, her uncle,
		
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			the uncle of Safiyyah.
		
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			So we see how Safiyyah radiallahu anha came
		
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			from a Jewish background.
		
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			And it's important to understand how the Jews
		
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			ended up in Medina.
		
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			And so, when the Romans sacked Jerusalem in
		
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			the year 70, after Isa ﷺ, they suppressed
		
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			the Jews, causing them to leave and disperse
		
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			all over the world.
		
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			So, some of them, they decided to come
		
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			to Arabia in search of the promised land
		
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			where an awaited prophet would be sent, and
		
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			he would migrate too.
		
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			So basically, they knew based on the knowledge
		
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			they had from their scriptures that a prophet
		
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			is going to come, and they had descriptions
		
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			of the place where he would settle.
		
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			So, some of them, they followed those signs
		
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			and descriptions, and it led them to Yathrib.
		
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			Yathrib, which was the name of Medina before
		
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			the prophet ﷺ made hijrah there.
		
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			And these Jews, they basically comprised of these
		
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			three tribes.
		
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			Banu Nadhir, Banu Qurayza, and the third, Banu
		
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			Qaynuqa.
		
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			And these are the three tribes who would
		
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			later interact with the prophet ﷺ when he
		
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			migrated to Medina.
		
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			Now, Safiyyah was born in Medina some three
		
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			years after the prophethood.
		
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			So, at the time, Rasulullah ﷺ started giving
		
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			da'wah publicly in Mecca, and he started
		
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			having followers.
		
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			Then, later on, Rasulullah ﷺ migrates to Medina,
		
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			so we're talking about some ten years later.
		
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			The prophet ﷺ migrates to Medina when Safiyyah
		
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			is about ten years old.
		
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			Now, the Jews were upset when the prophet
		
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			ﷺ arrived.
		
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			And this was sensed after a conversation between
		
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			two leaders of the Jews of Medina.
		
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			Huyay ibn Akhtab, the father of Safiyyah, and
		
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			his brother, Abu Yasir.
		
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			So, the father of Safiyyah and her uncle.
		
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			And so, Safiyyah narrates the incident.
		
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			She says that she was the favorite child
		
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			of her father and uncle.
		
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			And whenever they would see her, they would
		
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			play with her and give her special attention.
		
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			She says, none of the children of my
		
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			father or my uncle were more popular than
		
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			I was.
		
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			Any of their children who wanted attention, it
		
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			was always me who they would put first.
		
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			Then, when Rasulullah ﷺ came to Quba, my
		
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			father and my uncle went to him early
		
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			in the morning and only came back at
		
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			sunset.
		
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			So, she says that when the news came
		
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			that the prophet ﷺ had reached Medina, everyone
		
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			went out to meet him, including her father
		
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			and her uncle, and they were both Jews.
		
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			And she says they only came back once
		
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			the sun had set that day.
		
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			She said they were so tired they could
		
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			barely walk.
		
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			And I raced over to greet them, as
		
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			was my habit, but I swear neither of
		
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			them looked at me.
		
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			So, she wasn't used to that.
		
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			She was used to them coming to her
		
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			and hugging her and basically giving her attention.
		
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			But she says, neither of them looked at
		
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			me.
		
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			And then I heard my uncle Abu Yasir
		
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			ask my father, was that him?
		
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			So, basically, he was asking if the prophet
		
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			ﷺ who they just met, if he is
		
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			the one who is mentioned in their scriptures,
		
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			is he the promised prophet?
		
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			So, the father of Safiya, he says yes,
		
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			and I swear by Allah, it's him.
		
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			So, Abu Yasir, he says, do you recognize
		
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			him from his character and his description?
		
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			Huyay ibn Akhtab, the father of Safiya, he
		
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			says, I certainly do in the name of
		
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			Allah.
		
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			So, then Abu Yasir says, so what are
		
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			you going to do?
		
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			How are you going to be with him?
		
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			How are you going to treat him?
		
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			Look at the answer of Huyay, the father
		
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			of Safiya.
		
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			He says, by Allah, I will be his
		
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			enemy for as long as I live.
		
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			And so, first he recognizes that Muhammad ﷺ
		
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			is indeed the prophet of Allah, and he's
		
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			sure that it's him.
		
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			Rather than saying that he's going to follow
		
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			him, he says that he's going to be
		
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			his enemy for the rest of his life.
		
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			Why?
		
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			The reason is because of envy and jealousy,
		
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			as Allah ﷻ has mentioned to us in
		
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			the Qur'an.
		
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			And so, the prophet ﷺ ended up being
		
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			from the Arabs, rather than from Bani Israel,
		
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			as the Jews had wanted.
		
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			So this led to envy, and that envy
		
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			led to kufr.
		
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			And here we're dealing with the worst type
		
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			of kufr.
		
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			And that is disbelieving in the truth when
		
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			you know that it is a truth.
		
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			Some people, they disbelieve because they don't think
		
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			that Islam is true.
		
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			They think this is all made up.
		
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			Then you have some people who know that
		
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			Islam is the truth, nevertheless, they still reject
		
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			it.
		
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			And this was the case with Huyay ibn
		
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			Akhtab, the father of Safiya.
		
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			As Allah ﷻ mentions in the Qur'an
		
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			that once the prophet had come, they disbelieved.
		
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			The same Jews who were expecting him, who
		
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			recognized him, they disbelieved after recognizing him.
		
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			Now, Huyay, he ended up living to his
		
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			vow.
		
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			And he showed enmity to Rasul Allah ﷺ
		
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			all the way until the end.
		
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			And so, we mentioned he was the leader
		
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			of Banu Nadir, who were later on expelled
		
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			from Medina.
		
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			Basically, the prophet ﷺ had a treaty with
		
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			the three tribes of the Jews when he
		
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			arrived in Medina.
		
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			And he made a treaty with them, and
		
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			basically, they broke that treaty.
		
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			The first tribe to break that treaty, or
		
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			one of the tribes to break that treaty,
		
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			was Banu Nadir.
		
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			They broke the treaty, and so they were
		
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			expelled to Khaybar.
		
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			And their leader is Huyay.
		
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			And it was he who went to the
		
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			last tribe of the Jews who remained in
		
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			Medina, Banu Qurayza.
		
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			And he rallied them to betray the prophet
		
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			ﷺ and join the Ahzab.
		
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			So, the battle of Ahzab in the fifth
		
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			year of the Hijrah was when all the
		
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			Arabs and the tribes and everyone came and
		
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			laid siege to the prophet ﷺ in Medina.
		
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			And they were on the outside, and this
		
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			last remaining Jewish tribe, Banu Qurayza, they were
		
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			inside Medina.
		
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			And they still upheld their treaty.
		
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			But now, Huyay comes all the way from
		
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			Khaybar, and he rallies them to break the
		
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			treaty and to attack the prophet ﷺ, to
		
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			basically join the Ahzab.
		
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			So, although he was expelled from Medina, Huyay,
		
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			with his tribe Banu Nadir, he continues conspiring
		
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			against Rasulullah ﷺ.
		
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			And because of how Banu Qurayza betrayed the
		
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			prophet ﷺ and helped the Ahzab, as soon
		
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			as the war was over, the prophet ﷺ
		
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			ordered all of their men to be executed,
		
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			and with them at this time was Huyay.
		
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			Huyay ibn Akhtab happened to be with them,
		
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			and so he was executed.
		
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			And so this was the end of Huyay
		
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			ibn Akhtab, the father of Sufiyah.
		
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			So anyways, now Sufiyah ends up growing up
		
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			with her family in Khaybar.
		
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			First she was married off to Salam ibn
		
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			Mishkam, who later divorced her.
		
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			Then in the 7th year of the Hijrah,
		
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			Rasulullah ﷺ had set out with his companions
		
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			to put an end to the menace of
		
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			the Jews, who did not leave the Muslims
		
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			alone, but kept on conspiring against them all
		
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			the way from Khaybar.
		
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			And around this time, Sufiyah ended up marrying
		
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			one of her relatives, Kinana ibn Ar-Rabi
		
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			'a.
		
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			So the Muslims, they came to Khaybar, they
		
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			attacked Khaybar, the prophet ﷺ easily defeated the
		
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			Jews of Khaybar.
		
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			And now all that they had, all of
		
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			their possessions, came into the hands of the
		
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			Muslims, and their women and their children were
		
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			taken as captives.
		
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			And among these captives was Sufiyah.
		
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			And so when the prophet ﷺ distributed the
		
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			captives, the companion Dihya al-Kalbi, and he
		
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			was a very beautiful or handsome companion.
		
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			In fact, when Jibreel ﷺ would come down
		
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			in the form of a man, he would
		
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			resemble Dihya.
		
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			He would resemble this companion.
		
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			This shows how beautiful and handsome he was.
		
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			So he came asking the prophet ﷺ for
		
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			one of the slaves, one of the captives,
		
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			to take for himself, because he participated in
		
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			that battle.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ told him, go and
		
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			choose one.
		
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			So Dihya al-Kalbi went and he chose
		
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			Sufiyah.
		
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			He went and he chose Sufiyah.
		
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			Now, when some of the other companions noticed
		
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			this, they noticed that this is the daughter
		
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			of the leader of Banu Nadir.
		
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			So they came to the prophet ﷺ and
		
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			they told him that, look, a noble woman
		
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			from the Jews has ended up with Dihya,
		
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			and he is just another one of the
		
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			Muslims.
		
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			She is not suitable for anyone except you,
		
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			O Messenger of Allah.
		
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			So they were saying that, you know, Sufiyah
		
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			is the daughter.
		
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			She's from the elite.
		
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			She deserves better.
		
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			She deserves to be in your possession.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ agreed and he told
		
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			Dihya to choose someone else.
		
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			In some narrations, the prophet ﷺ gave him
		
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			seven slaves to choose in exchange.
		
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			So now, Sufiyah was with Rasool Allah ﷺ.
		
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			Now what did the prophet ﷺ do with
		
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			her?
		
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			This is the daughter of one of his
		
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			staunchest enemies.
		
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			And he has been executed.
		
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			He was executed right until the very end.
		
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			He did not give up in his war
		
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			against the prophet ﷺ.
		
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			So he said to her, O Sufiyah, if
		
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			you choose Islam, I will keep you for
		
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			myself, meaning, I will marry you.
		
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			By the way, the husband of Sufiyah, who
		
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			she had just recently married, was killed among
		
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			the men who were killed in the battle
		
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			of Khaybar.
		
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			So, you know, she doesn't have her husband.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ said, O Sufiyah, if
		
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			you choose Islam, I will keep you for
		
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			myself, meaning, I will marry you.
		
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			But if you prefer to remain a Jew,
		
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			then I can free you, and you can
		
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			go back to your family.
		
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			And so here the prophet ﷺ was giving
		
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			her a choice.
		
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			And this is very similar to the story
		
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			of Juwayriyah, who we mentioned last week, who
		
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			also fell as a captive, and the prophet
		
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			ﷺ also gave her a similar choice.
		
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			So what was the response of Sufiyah?
		
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			She said, O Messenger of Allah, I admire
		
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			Islam, and I believed in you before you
		
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			invited me to Islam.
		
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			I believed in you before you invited me
		
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			to Islam.
		
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			And when I came to your tent, I
		
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			had no desire for Judaism, nor did I
		
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			have any father or brother among them.
		
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			I have been given the choice now between
		
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			kufr and Islam, and Allah and His Messenger
		
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			are more beloved to me than freedom or
		
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			returning to my people.
		
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			And so here you have Sufiyah, her father,
		
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			her uncle, her husband, were all killed by
		
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			the prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And she saw the complete annihilation of her
		
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			people.
		
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			The remaining men from among the Jews, they
		
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			were told to leave Hijaz, and they basically
		
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			left and went to Asham, to Syria.
		
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			And all of these events unfolded in front
		
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			of her eyes, in her lifetime.
		
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			And she was young at the time.
		
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			So she must have had some hard feelings
		
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			because of that.
		
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			So look at what she says.
		
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			Sufiyah, she says, Rasulullah ﷺ was of the
		
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			most despised and hated of people to me.
		
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			He killed my husband and my father, but
		
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			he kept on apologizing to me.
		
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			Basically, Sufiyah told the prophet ﷺ that you
		
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			did this to my father.
		
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			She basically mentioned how she had these hard
		
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			feelings for him.
		
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			But then she says, he kept on apologizing
		
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			to me, telling me that your father was
		
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			the one who mobilized the Arabs against me,
		
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			and he is the one who did such
		
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			and such, and he did such and such,
		
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			he conspired in this way and in that
		
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			way.
		
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			She says, until all of the pain in
		
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			my heart went away.
		
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			All of that hatred for the prophet ﷺ
		
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			went away.
		
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			And so in this way, we see how
		
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			the prophet ﷺ gained the respect and the
		
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			love of Sufiyah.
		
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			And we can see it was all due
		
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			to how the prophet ﷺ dealt with her,
		
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			with compassion and dignity.
		
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			He did not go harsh on her.
		
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			Rather, as he was known, he was, as
		
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			Allah ﷻ describes him, وَمَا أَرُسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةٍ
		
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			لِّلْعَالَمِينَ We have not sent you except as
		
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			a mercy for mankind.
		
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			Anas ibn Malik, رضي الله عنه, he narrates
		
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			the story of the marriage.
		
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			And this is in Sahih al-Bukhari.
		
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			He says the prophet ﷺ came to Khaybar
		
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			and when Allah gave him victory and he
		
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			conquered the town by breaking the enemy's defense,
		
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			the beauty of Sufiyah bint Huyay ibn Akhtab
		
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			was mentioned to him.
		
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			And her husband had been killed while she
		
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			was a bride.
		
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			Allah's messenger ﷺ selected her for himself and
		
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			he set out in her company until he
		
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			reached Sad al-Rawha.
		
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			So basically, all of this transpired while they
		
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			were still at Khaybar where the prophet ﷺ
		
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			told her what he told her.
		
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			And then the entire army started making their
		
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			way back to Medina.
		
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			On the way, it's mentioned in other narrations
		
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			that Sufiyah happened to have been in her
		
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			menses.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ waited until she was
		
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			done.
		
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			And so on the way, she had completed
		
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			her menses.
		
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			So on the way, Anas, رضي الله عنه,
		
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			says, At this place, Sad al-Rawha, this
		
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			is where her menses were over and he
		
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			married her.
		
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			So basically, this is where the prophet ﷺ
		
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			had the Nikah.
		
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			And then, Anas says, the prophet ﷺ started
		
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			asking the companions to bring whatever they had
		
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			of food.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ wanted to now have
		
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			the Walima.
		
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			So everyone brought whatever they had and then
		
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			they made a kind of meal, which is
		
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			known as Hays, which is made of dates
		
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			and honey and other things.
		
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			Anas, رضي الله عنه, says, then Hays was
		
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			prepared and served on a small leather sheet.
		
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			The messenger of Allah ﷺ then said to
		
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			me, inform those who are around you about
		
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			this Walima.
		
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			And so everyone came and they had that
		
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			meal and that food.
		
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			Anas, رضي الله عنه, goes on to say,
		
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			so that was the Walima given by Rasulullah
		
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			ﷺ for Sufiyah.
		
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			After that, we proceeded to Medina and I
		
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			saw that the messenger of Allah ﷺ was
		
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			covering her with a cloak while she was
		
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			behind him.
		
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			Then he would sit beside his camel and
		
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			let Sufiyah put her knee on his knees
		
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			to get on to ride the camel.
		
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			So this again shows us the humility of
		
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			the prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Even though he was the leader of the
		
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			Muslims, he did not act like an arrogant
		
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			king.
		
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			Look at how he lowered himself for his
		
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			wife Sufiyah and he allowed her to put
		
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			her feet on his knees to get up
		
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			and to get on to the camel.
		
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			Now, the prophet ﷺ, as we can see,
		
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			did not leave Sufiyah as a slave, but
		
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			rather he freed her and then he married
		
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			her.
		
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			So this means that she is one of
		
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			the Ummahatul Mu'mineen, one of the wives of
		
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			the prophet ﷺ, one of the mothers of
		
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			the believers, and not a slave.
		
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			So she did not remain a slave of
		
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			his.
		
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			And this is similar, as I mentioned, to
		
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			the story of Juwayriyyah that we covered last
		
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			week.
		
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			Now, we've already mentioned previously the reasons for
		
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			the multiple marriages of the prophet ﷺ, refuting
		
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			the claim that he would marry for his
		
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			personal desires.
		
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			And so the same can be said about
		
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			his marriage to Sufiyah.
		
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			And so yes, although the prophet ﷺ did
		
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			take her from Dihya, it does not mean
		
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			he did that to satisfy some personal desires.
		
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			But rather, as other narrations mention, the companions
		
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			came, complaining to the prophet ﷺ that, you
		
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			know, here is a noble woman from the
		
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			Jews, and she has ended up with just
		
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			another man from the Muslims, and she is
		
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			not suitable except to be with you, O
		
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			Messenger of Allah.
		
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			And so in this way, the prophet ﷺ
		
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			actually honored Sufiyah by taking her for himself.
		
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			And we can also add to this, that
		
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			the prophet ﷺ may have married her as
		
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			he would marry women of different tribes, to
		
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			bring those tribes closer to Islam.
		
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			So perhaps he hoped that this marriage would
		
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			lessen the enmity and the hostility of the
		
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			Jews towards him.
		
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			And just like what happened in the case
		
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			of Juwayriyah, once they had learnt that the
		
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			prophet ﷺ married the daughter of their leader,
		
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			all of the companions who had them in
		
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			their hands, they released all those captives, freed
		
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			them, and in this way all of them
		
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			ended up becoming Muslim.
		
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			Anyways, now the prophet ﷺ is with Sufiyah,
		
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			and he notices some blue marks on her
		
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			face.
		
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			So he asks her about that.
		
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			And so she says to the prophet ﷺ,
		
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			One day, I was sleeping with my head
		
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			in the lap of my husband, and I
		
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			saw a dream.
		
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			I saw that the moon was falling from
		
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			the direction of Yathrib, of Medina, and it
		
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			was falling into my lap.
		
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			When I woke up, I told my husband
		
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			about this dream.
		
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			So we notice that this was a similar
		
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			dream that Juwayriyah had, where she
		
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			also saw something similar.
		
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			And so she says, When I woke up,
		
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			I told my husband about this dream.
		
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			And so he slapped me on the face,
		
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			and he said, You desire the king of
		
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			the Arabs?
		
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			So he interpreted this dream to mean that
		
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			she wanted to marry Muhammad ﷺ.
		
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			But it wasn't a desire, rather it was
		
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			something from Allah showing her what would happen
		
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			in the future.
		
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			And it ended up happening as it was
		
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			interpreted that she would marry the prophet ﷺ.
		
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			Now the next morning, when Rasulullah ﷺ woke
		
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			up after that night, he found Abu Ayyub
		
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			al-Ansari ﷺ having spent the night awake,
		
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			and he had his sword in his hand.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ asked him, What are
		
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			you doing up?
		
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			Why didn't you go to sleep?
		
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			So Abu Ayyub, he said, O Messenger of
		
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			Allah, she was a young woman who only
		
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			recently got married.
		
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			Meaning, she was a bride, she had just
		
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			recently gotten married, and basically at this time
		
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			she was 17 years old.
		
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			She was 17 years old.
		
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			He said, O Messenger of Allah, she was
		
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			a young woman who only recently married, and
		
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			you had killed her father, her brother, and
		
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			her husband.
		
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			So I did not feel safe leaving her
		
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			alone with you.
		
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			Meaning that Abu Ayyub was afraid for the
		
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			safety of Rasulullah ﷺ, that maybe somebody will
		
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			take revenge, maybe somebody from the Jews will
		
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			come and try to do something.
		
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			So then the prophet ﷺ laughed and he
		
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			said, O Allah, Abu Ayyub spent the night
		
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			protecting me, so protect him and his family.
		
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			Now as we have seen in many other
		
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			instances, the wives of the prophet ﷺ would
		
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			often show what is known as al-ghayrah,
		
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			or protective jealousy.
		
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			So how they would show jealousy for the
		
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			prophet ﷺ.
		
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			And so now that Safiyyah had joined them,
		
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			it was only expected that she experiences some
		
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			of their bitterness towards her.
		
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			And it didn't take long for that to
		
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			start.
		
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			As soon as Rasulullah ﷺ returned from Khaybar
		
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			with Safiyyah, the women of the Ansar, hearing
		
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			of her beauty, they came to see her.
		
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			And guess who comes with them?
		
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			Aisha.
		
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			And by now the hijab was legislated, so
		
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			Aisha came with a niqab covering her face.
		
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			And so she entered with these women, and
		
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			then she was leaving.
		
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			She came to see Safiyyah, she heard what
		
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			everyone was hearing about her being very beautiful.
		
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			And she got jealous, she wanted to see
		
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			what everyone was talking about, so she came.
		
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			But she didn't want the prophet ﷺ to
		
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			notice her, so she was wearing a niqab,
		
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			and then she left.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ already recognized her, he
		
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			knew it was her.
		
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			So when she left, he followed her, and
		
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			he asked her, O Aisha, what did you
		
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			think?
		
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			What did you think of her?
		
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			So look at the response of Aisha, she
		
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			says, رَأَيْتُ يَهُوْدِيَةً I saw a Jew.
		
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			What I saw is a Jewish woman.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ said, do not say
		
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			that, for she has embraced Islam.
		
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			Do not say that, for indeed she has
		
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			embraced Islam.
		
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			Now one day, the prophet ﷺ came home
		
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			to find Safiyyah crying.
		
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			He asked her what happened.
		
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			She said, Hafsa called me the daughter of
		
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			a Jew.
		
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			Hafsa called me the daughter of a Jew.
		
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			So you can see how all the different
		
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			wives are taking shots at Safiyyah.
		
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			And so the prophet ﷺ said, you can
		
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			go and say to her, my father is
		
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			a prophet, my uncle is a prophet, and
		
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			my husband is a prophet.
		
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			So what makes you think that you are
		
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			better than me?
		
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			So what was the prophet ﷺ talking about
		
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			when he said to Safiyyah, go and tell
		
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			Hafsa that my father is a prophet.
		
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			Basically what did we mention in the very
		
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			beginning?
		
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			That her ancestry goes back to Harun.
		
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			Her ancestry goes back to Harun.
		
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			So go and tell Hafsa that my father
		
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			is a prophet, meaning Harun, and my uncle
		
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			is a prophet, meaning Musa ﷺ.
		
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			And my husband is a prophet, meaning Muhammad
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			So if you do that, you have something
		
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			to be proud of over Hafsa.
		
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			And then the prophet ﷺ went to Hafsa
		
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			and told her to fear Allah.
		
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			And so we can see how, although the
		
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			wives of the prophet ﷺ were doing this,
		
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			the prophet ﷺ did not remain silent.
		
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			It's not permissible to take such shots at
		
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			our Muslim brothers and sisters, and this showed
		
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			their jealousy.
		
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			However, even though the prophet ﷺ understood where
		
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			it was coming from, he did not remain
		
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			silent.
		
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			In both cases, he condemned both Aisha and
		
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			Hafsa.
		
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			On another occasion, Aisha said to the prophet
		
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			ﷺ, it is enough for you and Safiyyah
		
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			that she is such and such.
		
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			Again, she's trying to take a shot at
		
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			Safiyyah.
		
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			She said, basically, in another version, she described
		
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			the height of Safiyyah as being short.
		
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			So she criticized Safiyyah for being short.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ condemning her, he said,
		
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			you have said a word which would pollute
		
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			the sea if it was mixed in it.
		
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			So again, we see how the prophet ﷺ
		
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			knew where this was coming from, but he
		
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			did not just remain silent.
		
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			Then we have the famous incident in which
		
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			the jealousy of Aisha led to her breaking
		
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			the dish of Safiyyah.
		
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			Aisha narrates a story.
		
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			She says, I never saw any woman who
		
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			made food like Safiyyah.
		
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			So basically, Safiyyah was known for making delicious
		
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			food.
		
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			She says, I never saw any woman who
		
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			would make food like Safiyyah.
		
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			So one day she sent a dish to
		
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			the prophet ﷺ in which there was some
		
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			food, and I could not keep myself.
		
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			I couldn't control myself.
		
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			Because this was the day of Aisha.
		
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			And here you have food coming from Safiyyah.
		
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			So she basically broke the dish.
		
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			And she made the food to just basically
		
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			fall on the ground.
		
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			So then, later on, she came back to
		
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			her calm, and she asked the prophet ﷺ,
		
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			what is the expiation for what I did?
		
00:35:14 --> 00:35:15
			What can I do?
		
00:35:16 --> 00:35:17
			What is the penalty for what I did?
		
00:35:17 --> 00:35:18
			What is the kaffarah?
		
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			And so the prophet ﷺ said, a dish
		
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			like that dish, and food like that food.
		
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			A dish like that dish, and food like
		
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			that food.
		
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			And so look at how the prophet ﷺ
		
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			just closed the curtains on this problem.
		
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			He just drew the curtains.
		
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			He just closed the door.
		
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			He understood that this is all coming from
		
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			the natural jealousy that women have.
		
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			And he didn't get upset.
		
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			He could have easily have done what other
		
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			men might do in such a situation, and
		
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			just lose his temper, but he didn't.
		
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			But at the same time, we see how
		
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			the prophet ﷺ did not allow Aisha to
		
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			do such a thing, and just get away
		
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			with it.
		
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			There are the rights of others.
		
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			So he didn't just let her off the
		
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			hook.
		
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			He said, that dish, you have to return
		
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			a dish that is similar to that, to
		
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			what you broke, to Safiyyah.
		
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			Now when the prophet ﷺ was in his
		
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			final days, and he was extremely ill and
		
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			in pain, this was his final sickness before
		
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			his death, all of his wives were gathered
		
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			around him.
		
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			And so Safiyyah, showing her profound love and
		
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			affection for the prophet ﷺ, she looked at
		
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			him, and she said, Imagine, imagine, all of
		
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			the wives are there, sitting around the prophet
		
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			ﷺ.
		
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			And Safiyyah looks at him and says, Oh
		
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			messenger of Allah, I wish that your suffering
		
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			and pain is given to me, and you
		
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			are free and healthy, and you're free of
		
00:37:23 --> 00:37:23
			any pain and suffering.
		
00:37:25 --> 00:37:28
			Basically, I want to be in your place,
		
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			so that you don't have to go through
		
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			what you're going through.
		
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			Now when she said this, all the other
		
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			wives started looking at each other, basically saying,
		
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			you know, who does she think she is?
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ, noticing their jealousy, he
		
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			said to them, By Allah, she is truthful
		
00:37:52 --> 00:37:53
			in what she is saying.
		
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			Meaning that, you know, Safiyyah is not just
		
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			saying this to put on a show, you
		
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			know, to have an advantage over the rest
		
00:38:04 --> 00:38:04
			of you.
		
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			She actually means it, right?
		
00:38:07 --> 00:38:08
			She actually means it.
		
00:38:09 --> 00:38:11
			She's not just trying to show her love
		
00:38:11 --> 00:38:15
			and affection for me, but she actually means
		
00:38:15 --> 00:38:15
			it.
		
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			Alright, we'll conclude with some of the virtues,
		
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			the fada'il of Safiyyah.
		
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			Like all of the other wives of the
		
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			prophet ﷺ, Safiyyah, she had the qualities of
		
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			a righteous, pious Muslimah.
		
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			And again, whenever we go over these qualities
		
00:38:46 --> 00:38:49
			of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen, the mothers of the
		
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			believers, and the other noble sahabiyyat, we should
		
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			take an example of it, and we should
		
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			try to follow in their footsteps.
		
00:39:01 --> 00:39:04
			And so Safiyyah was an avid worshipper.
		
00:39:05 --> 00:39:07
			She would worship Allah, she would make a
		
00:39:07 --> 00:39:08
			lot of dhikr.
		
00:39:08 --> 00:39:13
			She narrates that one day, and this narration,
		
00:39:14 --> 00:39:18
			it's weak, it's a weak narration, in terms
		
00:39:18 --> 00:39:22
			of the chain, it's considered da'if.
		
00:39:23 --> 00:39:28
			But nonetheless, she says, One day, the prophet
		
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			ﷺ entered upon me, and in front of
		
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			me were 4,000 date seeds.
		
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			And I was making tasbih with them.
		
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			I was making tasbih with them.
		
00:39:40 --> 00:39:43
			Basically, like how some people make tasbih with
		
00:39:43 --> 00:39:47
			dhikr beads, she was using these date seeds,
		
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			and she had 4,000 of them in
		
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			front of her.
		
00:39:50 --> 00:39:55
			So the prophet ﷺ said, You made tasbih
		
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			with all of these?
		
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			Shall I not teach you that which is
		
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			more than what you have made tasbih with?
		
00:40:03 --> 00:40:05
			I said, yes, teach me.
		
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			So the prophet ﷺ said, Say, subhanAllahi adada
		
00:40:10 --> 00:40:10
			khalqihi.
		
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			SubhanAllahi adada khalqihi.
		
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			Glory be to Allah according to the number
		
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			of His creation.
		
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			According to the number of His creation.
		
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			And obviously, the creation of Allah is far
		
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			more than 4,000.
		
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			We also see how generous Safiyyah was.
		
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			When she arrived in Medina, she had some
		
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			gold jewelry.
		
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			And so she divided it among some of
		
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			the wives of the prophet ﷺ and his
		
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			daughter Fatima.
		
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			And she was also very generous.
		
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			She happened to have a relative, a nephew
		
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			who remained a Jew.
		
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			And she was basically encouraging him to accept
		
00:41:03 --> 00:41:04
			Islam, but he didn't.
		
00:41:05 --> 00:41:10
			And in her wasiyyah, in her will, she
		
00:41:10 --> 00:41:13
			basically wrote that he should have a certain
		
00:41:13 --> 00:41:16
			amount of what she's leaving behind.
		
00:41:16 --> 00:41:19
			And Safiyyah left behind a lot of wealth,
		
00:41:20 --> 00:41:21
			a lot of inheritance.
		
00:41:23 --> 00:41:27
			And before she passed away, she basically wanted
		
00:41:27 --> 00:41:32
			this relative, this nephew, to have a part
		
00:41:32 --> 00:41:34
			of that, of the will.
		
00:41:34 --> 00:41:36
			And this was because she wanted him to
		
00:41:36 --> 00:41:37
			accept Islam.
		
00:41:37 --> 00:41:38
			She wanted him to accept Islam, and so
		
00:41:38 --> 00:41:40
			this shows us her generosity.
		
00:41:41 --> 00:41:46
			We also see how Safiyyah had the quality
		
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47
			of hilm.
		
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			Hilm is a term that describes someone who
		
00:41:52 --> 00:41:56
			is patient, tolerant, and forgiving and forbearing.
		
00:41:56 --> 00:41:59
			Someone who does not hold resentment in his
		
00:41:59 --> 00:42:02
			heart towards those who have hurt them.
		
00:42:05 --> 00:42:08
			And so one day, in the khilafah of
		
00:42:08 --> 00:42:12
			Umar ibn al-Khattab, a slave girl of
		
00:42:12 --> 00:42:16
			Safiyyah went to Umar, complaining about Safiyyah.
		
00:42:17 --> 00:42:22
			She told Umar ibn al-Khattab that Safiyyah
		
00:42:22 --> 00:42:29
			loves As-Sabt, Saturday, and she keeps relations
		
00:42:29 --> 00:42:29
			with the Jews.
		
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			So Umar ibn al-Khattab went to Safiyyah
		
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			and said, I've been informed that you love
		
00:42:44 --> 00:42:48
			Saturday, and you keep relations with the Jews.
		
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			So Safiyyah said, as for Saturday, I have
		
00:42:53 --> 00:42:57
			not loved it ever since Allah replaced it
		
00:42:57 --> 00:43:00
			for me with Friday, with Jumu'ah.
		
00:43:01 --> 00:43:03
			And we have a hadith in which the
		
00:43:03 --> 00:43:09
			Prophet ﷺ tells us that Allah gifted us
		
00:43:09 --> 00:43:11
			with Jumu'ah, with Friday.
		
00:43:12 --> 00:43:16
			And he guided us to it while Ahlul
		
00:43:16 --> 00:43:20
			Kitab, the Christians and the Jews, they missed
		
00:43:20 --> 00:43:20
			it.
		
00:43:21 --> 00:43:23
			Allah did not guide them to it.
		
00:43:23 --> 00:43:27
			And so in another narration, the Prophet ﷺ
		
00:43:27 --> 00:43:31
			says that the Jews do not envy us
		
00:43:31 --> 00:43:35
			over anything more than they envy us for
		
00:43:35 --> 00:43:37
			having taken Friday.
		
00:43:39 --> 00:43:43
			So anyway, she says, as for Saturday, As
		
00:43:43 --> 00:43:46
			-Sabt, I have not loved it ever since
		
00:43:46 --> 00:43:50
			Allah replaced it for me with Friday, with
		
00:43:50 --> 00:43:50
			Jumu'ah.
		
00:43:50 --> 00:43:51
			Why would I love it?
		
00:43:52 --> 00:43:54
			And then she said, as for the Jews,
		
00:43:55 --> 00:43:56
			I have blood ties with them.
		
00:43:57 --> 00:44:00
			So I maintain the ties of kinship, Surah
		
00:44:00 --> 00:44:01
			al-Rahim.
		
00:44:03 --> 00:44:07
			So she explained herself to Amir al-Mu'minin
		
00:44:07 --> 00:44:08
			Umar ibn al-Khattab.
		
00:44:10 --> 00:44:13
			Then she turned to the girl, and she
		
00:44:13 --> 00:44:15
			asked her, what made you do that?
		
00:44:16 --> 00:44:17
			Why did you do this?
		
00:44:19 --> 00:44:21
			So the girl, she said, Shaytan.
		
00:44:22 --> 00:44:24
			Shaytan made me do this.
		
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26
			So what did Sufiyah do?
		
00:44:28 --> 00:44:29
			She didn't discipline her.
		
00:44:31 --> 00:44:33
			Someone did something really bad to her.
		
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			She said, then in that case, I free
		
00:44:37 --> 00:44:38
			you for the sake of Allah.
		
00:44:39 --> 00:44:41
			I free you for the sake of Allah.
		
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			She freed this slave girl.
		
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			And freeing a slave is a huge good
		
00:44:47 --> 00:44:47
			deed in Islam.
		
00:44:50 --> 00:44:54
			Sufiyah also spared no effort in advising and
		
00:44:54 --> 00:44:58
			guiding people and reminding them of Allah subhanahu
		
00:44:58 --> 00:44:58
			wa ta'ala.
		
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			An example is when one day a group
		
00:45:03 --> 00:45:07
			of people gathered in her apartment.
		
00:45:08 --> 00:45:12
			And they were engaging in dhikr and reciting
		
00:45:12 --> 00:45:12
			the Qur'an.
		
00:45:14 --> 00:45:17
			And when they recited one of the verses
		
00:45:17 --> 00:45:20
			that has a sajda, they all went down
		
00:45:20 --> 00:45:20
			in sujood.
		
00:45:21 --> 00:45:23
			So she called out to them from behind
		
00:45:23 --> 00:45:24
			the curtain.
		
00:45:25 --> 00:45:28
			And she said, this is the prostration, this
		
00:45:28 --> 00:45:30
			is the sujood, and this is the recitation
		
00:45:30 --> 00:45:30
			of the Qur'an.
		
00:45:31 --> 00:45:33
			But where is the crying out of the
		
00:45:33 --> 00:45:34
			fear of Allah?
		
00:45:35 --> 00:45:36
			Where is the crying out of the fear
		
00:45:36 --> 00:45:37
			of Allah?
		
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			Now although Sufiyah did not go on to
		
00:45:43 --> 00:45:48
			narrate as many ahadith as some of the
		
00:45:48 --> 00:45:50
			other wives of the Prophet ﷺ.
		
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			We mentioned the example of Aisha and Umm
		
00:45:54 --> 00:45:54
			Salama.
		
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			Sufiyah, it's mentioned that she only narrated some
		
00:45:59 --> 00:46:01
			ten ahadith.
		
00:46:02 --> 00:46:06
			However, some of these ahadith are extremely important.
		
00:46:08 --> 00:46:12
			Because scholars have derived rulings from them that
		
00:46:12 --> 00:46:16
			couldn't have been known without her narrating them
		
00:46:16 --> 00:46:17
			to us.
		
00:46:18 --> 00:46:21
			An example is a hadith in Bukhari and
		
00:46:21 --> 00:46:21
			Muslim.
		
00:46:22 --> 00:46:24
			A hadith in Bukhari and Muslim.
		
00:46:24 --> 00:46:27
			Sufiyah narrates it.
		
00:46:28 --> 00:46:30
			She says, I came to visit the Prophet
		
00:46:30 --> 00:46:36
			ﷺ while he was in I'tikaf in Ramadan.
		
00:46:39 --> 00:46:43
			And her apartment was the furthest from the
		
00:46:43 --> 00:46:45
			Prophet ﷺ, from the masjid.
		
00:46:45 --> 00:46:46
			It was the furthest.
		
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			So she says, after I sat there, we
		
00:46:52 --> 00:46:56
			had our conversation, I got up to go
		
00:46:56 --> 00:46:56
			back home.
		
00:46:57 --> 00:47:00
			The Prophet ﷺ also got up with me
		
00:47:00 --> 00:47:03
			and accompanied me a part of the way.
		
00:47:06 --> 00:47:10
			So as they're walking and it's nighttime, she
		
00:47:10 --> 00:47:13
			says, two men from the Ansar pass by.
		
00:47:14 --> 00:47:17
			When they saw the Prophet ﷺ, they hurried
		
00:47:17 --> 00:47:18
			up.
		
00:47:18 --> 00:47:20
			So they quickly made their way.
		
00:47:21 --> 00:47:22
			They quickened their pace.
		
00:47:23 --> 00:47:27
			The Prophet ﷺ called out to them.
		
00:47:27 --> 00:47:29
			He said, do not hurry.
		
00:47:29 --> 00:47:33
			She is Sufiyah, the daughter of Huyay.
		
00:47:33 --> 00:47:34
			She is my wife.
		
00:47:36 --> 00:47:38
			So the two men, they turned to the
		
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			Prophet ﷺ and said, SubhanAllah, Ya Rasulullah, SubhanAllah.
		
00:47:43 --> 00:47:48
			What they meant is, SubhanAllah, are you thinking
		
00:47:48 --> 00:47:53
			that we are having some evil suspicions about
		
00:47:53 --> 00:47:53
			you?
		
00:47:54 --> 00:47:57
			That you're out there with some other woman?
		
00:47:58 --> 00:48:00
			So then the Prophet ﷺ said to them,
		
00:48:02 --> 00:48:06
			Shaytan circulates in a person like blood circulates
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:06
			in the veins.
		
00:48:06 --> 00:48:10
			And I feared that Shaytan may drop some
		
00:48:10 --> 00:48:12
			evil thoughts in your minds.
		
00:48:13 --> 00:48:15
			And so what we learn from this hadith
		
00:48:15 --> 00:48:23
			is the importance of giving clarifications whenever misunderstandings
		
00:48:23 --> 00:48:28
			may arise, in order to basically cut off
		
00:48:28 --> 00:48:30
			these evil thoughts of suspicion that Shaytan may
		
00:48:30 --> 00:48:32
			put in our hearts.
		
00:48:34 --> 00:48:38
			Another important hadith in which we actually learned
		
00:48:38 --> 00:48:39
			one of the rulings of Hajj.
		
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			And because of this, because of this narration
		
00:48:44 --> 00:48:48
			that Sufiyah narrated to us, all Muslim women
		
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			until Yawm al-Qiyamah, they owe it to
		
00:48:53 --> 00:48:53
			Sufiyah.
		
00:48:54 --> 00:48:55
			They owe it to Sufiyah.
		
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			Basically when you go for Hajj, at the
		
00:48:59 --> 00:49:02
			very end, after you've made your Hajj, before
		
00:49:02 --> 00:49:06
			leaving Mecca, you're supposed to make one last
		
00:49:06 --> 00:49:07
			tawaf.
		
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			And this is known as tawaf al-wida
		
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			'ah, the farewell tawaf.
		
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			So in the farewell Hajj of the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ, we know that, all of the wives
		
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			accompany the Prophet ﷺ on that journey.
		
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			So on the last day, after they were
		
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			done with their Hajj, and it was time
		
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			to leave and return to Medina, the Prophet
		
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			ﷺ was told that Sufiyah had not performed
		
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			her farewell tawaf.
		
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			And this was because she was in her
		
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			menses.
		
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			She was in her menses.
		
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			So the Prophet ﷺ said, if she is
		
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			menstruating, then the farewell tawaf is not obligatory
		
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			on her.
		
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			And we can leave.
		
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			And we can go.
		
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			So from that day onwards, we have a
		
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			ruling, a hukm in our shari'ah, for
		
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			all Muslim women, in a similar circumstance, if
		
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			they go for Hajj, they can leave Mecca
		
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			without performing the farewell tawaf.
		
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			And they don't have to offer any expiation
		
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			for that.
		
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			That farewell tawaf is mandatory.
		
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			But if a woman is in such a
		
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			situation, there's nothing upon her.
		
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			And this is because of this hadith.
		
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			And this is because of what Sufiyah went
		
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			through.
		
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			Now Sufiyah went on to live through the
		
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			Khilafah of Umar.
		
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			And then Sufiyah went on to live through
		
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			the Khilafah of Ali.
		
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			And then in the Khilafah of Muawiyah, she
		
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			ended up passing away.
		
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			And this was in Medina, at the age
		
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			of 60, in the year 50 or 52
		
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			of the Hijrah.
		
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			And she was buried in Al-Baqir.
		
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			And so this is the life of Sufiyah
		
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			bint Huyayy radiAllahu anha.
		
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			As we can see, the Prophet ﷺ has
		
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			now added another, one of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen
		
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			to his family.
		
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			And as we can see, she once again
		
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			is not from Quraysh.
		
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			We mentioned last week that Juwayriyah was the
		
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			first woman to not be from Quraysh.
		
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			And now we have the first woman who
		
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			is not from the Arabs.
		
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			She is from the Jews.
		
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			And that did not prevent the Prophet ﷺ
		
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			from marrying her.
		
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			He didn't keep her as a slave, even
		
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			though he could have.
		
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			But he freed her and he married her.
		
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			And she became one of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen.
		
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			May Allah be pleased with her and with
		
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			all of the Ummahatul Mu'mineen.
		
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			We'll conclude here.
		
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			We'll stop here.
		
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			And inshaAllah next week, we'll move on to
		
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			another one of the mothers of the believers.
		
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			Subhanak Allahumma wa bihamdik.
		
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			Ashahadu an la ilaha illa anta.
		
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			Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayka.
		
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			Wa sallillahumma wa sallimu ala nabiyyina Muhammad wa
		
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			ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
		
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			Wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.