Kamil Ahmad – The Lives of the Sahabiyyat #13 Mariyyah al-Qibtiyyah RA

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The history of slavery in the United States is discussed, including the European Middle East's strict laws preventing slavery and the loss of victims. The segment also touches on the concept of being a slave and the importance of human rights, including the practice of being a slave. The transcript describes various stories of people being punished for their actions and the loss of loved ones. The segment also touches on the myths of death and death, including the myth of being allam and the shia alayhi being allam. The segment ends with a discussion of protecting against death through protecting against allied events.

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			بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين
		
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			حمدا كثيرا طيبا مباركا فيه كما يحب ربنا
		
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			ويرضى والصلاة والسلام الأتمان الأكملان على خير خلق
		
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			الله أجمعين وعلى آله وصحبه ومن اهتدى بهديه
		
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			واستنى بسنته إلى يوم الدين اللهم علمنا ما
		
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			ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا وزدنا علما وأرينا الحق
		
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			حقا وارزقنا اتباعه وأرينا الباطل باطلا وارزقنا اجتنابه
		
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			واجعلنا ممن يستمعون القول فيتبعون احسنه وبعد السلام
		
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			عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته last week we finished
		
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			going through the lives of the wives of
		
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			rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم the ummahatul
		
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			mu'mineen the mothers of the believers and so
		
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			our prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had a
		
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			total of 11 wives he had a total
		
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			of 11 wives and we covered pretty much
		
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			all of them now two of them passed
		
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			away before he did right as we mentioned
		
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			khadija رضي الله عنها and zaynab bint khuzaimah
		
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			so he left behind nine wives he left
		
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			behind when he passed away he left behind
		
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			nine of his wives but then there were
		
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			other women whom the prophet صلى الله عليه
		
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			وسلم also had intimate relations with but they
		
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			were not his wives and they did not
		
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			count as ummahatul mu'mineen the mothers of the
		
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			believers and so these were basically his concubines
		
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			or as allah refers to them as mulk
		
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			al yameen that which your right hand possesses
		
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			and you know allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala has
		
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			permitted men to only be intimate with to
		
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			only have like intimate relations with two kinds
		
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			of women either uh their wives or mulk
		
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			al yameen right as allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
		
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			says those who guard their private parts except
		
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			for their wives or those that their right
		
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			hands possess and they are basically their concubines
		
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			uh their uh slave women allah says for
		
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			indeed they will not be blamed whoever seeks
		
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			anything beyond that meaning whoever you know has
		
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			relations with women beyond these two categories then
		
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			they are the transgressors they are the transgressors
		
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			now some may wonder why allah subhanahu wa'ta
		
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			'ala would permit his prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			to take women as slaves and even have
		
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			intimate relations with them firstly regarding slavery in
		
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			islam we've already spoken at length about uh
		
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			about it when we covered the stories of
		
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			some of those women who fell into muslim
		
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			captivity and rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam took
		
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			them for himself we mentioned juwayriyya as well
		
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			as safiyyah but then the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam freed them and he married them and
		
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			we mentioned that the enemies of islam will
		
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			often criticize islam uh and claim that you
		
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			know uh islam promotes and encourages slavery and
		
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			so we responded to those allegations we responded
		
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			to all of that we said that you
		
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			know slavery was always prevalent in human societies
		
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			and civilizations and you know when islam came
		
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			there were many ways of becoming a slave
		
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			but islam basically limited it to one right
		
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			so the only way that one could become
		
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			a slave is through war through jihad and
		
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			so you know these prisoners of war uh
		
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			you know uh either before islam they would
		
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			either be killed or enslaved right but then
		
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			islam brought two more options to the table
		
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			and that was unconditional release or ransom right
		
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			islam did not abolish it altogether because we
		
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			mentioned that the kafir uh prisoner of war
		
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			they were opposed to the truth they were
		
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			opposed to islam and letting them go free
		
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			would give them the opportunity to spread their
		
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			kufr and their aggression against others and we
		
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			also mentioned that when islam came it changed
		
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			the way in which slavery was dealt with
		
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			so slaves were not considered to even be
		
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			human beings and they were treated worse than
		
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			animals and you know this continued in western
		
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			society until only a few decades ago right
		
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			uh islam you know gave them a lot
		
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			of rights that they did that they didn't
		
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			have before nor after right also uh slavery
		
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			among muslims had nothing to do with race
		
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			or ethnicity ethnicity you know like in the
		
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			west where slaves were limited to the black
		
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			race and the owners were white right in
		
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			islam it was not it had nothing to
		
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			do with race or ethnicity and you know
		
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			uh as we said there were many ways
		
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			of becoming a slave whereas there were virtually
		
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			no ways of leaving slavery and islam created
		
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			many new ways of uh having slaves to
		
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			be liberated and freed you know islam also
		
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			encouraged muslims to free slaves for the sake
		
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			of allah and mentioned huge rewards for those
		
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			who do so so the point here is
		
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			that when it comes to slavery in islam
		
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			it's completely different than uh the western concept
		
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			of slavery right that was pure loom and
		
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			oppression and you know subjugation whereas it was
		
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			not the same with islam you know this
		
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			is the first thing we need to understand
		
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			now how about taking concubines these female slaves
		
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			when they end up in the hands of
		
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			the muslims why is it that you know
		
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			uh the muslim men are allowed to have
		
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			intimate relations with them without marriage so to
		
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			answer this we say first of all first
		
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			of all whenever allah legislate something and allow
		
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			something it is part of our iman to
		
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			submit to it and not to object to
		
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			it even if we can't make sense of
		
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			it right because who are we talking about
		
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			we're talking about allah we're talking about allah
		
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			who are we to object to what allah
		
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			has legislated right allah is the one who
		
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			created us and he's the one who decides
		
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			you know uh he's the one who decides
		
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			the laws for us so we should never
		
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			object as allah says allah is never to
		
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			be questioned about what he does but they
		
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			will be questioned meaning we will be questioned
		
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			by allah number two it is also part
		
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			of our iman that when allah legislate something
		
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			to believe that allah legislated it for our
		
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			own good in our best interests there is
		
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			nothing that allah legislates except that there is
		
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			good in it for us even if we
		
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			may not see the good in it right
		
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			this is part of our iman to believe
		
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			in right this is because allah is the
		
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			just and as he says in the quran
		
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			he does not do injustice to anyone he
		
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			does not oppress anyone so if allah has
		
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			legislated something like this we should submit and
		
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			we should look for the the the benefits
		
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			of it right so this is what we
		
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			say first of all secondly we say that
		
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			this concubine or slave woman who is legitimately
		
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			possessed by by a muslim she ends up
		
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			in his possession right and so he owns
		
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			her no one else has the right to
		
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			have any relations with her unless he marries
		
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			her off to someone else and then in
		
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			that case even he is not allowed to
		
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			be intimate with her right this is something
		
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			very important to understand you know she's not
		
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			like uh you know a prostitute who anyone
		
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			can have relations with her no she only
		
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			belongs to to the master only he is
		
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			allowed to have relations with her however if
		
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			he marries her off to someone else even
		
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			he even though he's a master he's not
		
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			allowed to you know come near her so
		
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			we see from this that the right of
		
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			the master to be intimate with her is
		
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			actually something in the best interest of the
		
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			slave woman as it would keep her chaste
		
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			and you know not resort to zina or
		
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			prostitution as was common in the past you
		
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			know uh before uh slave women that's what
		
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			they would resort to and sometimes the masters
		
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			would push them towards prostitution and allah forbade
		
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			that in the quran you know uh in
		
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			in surat an-nisa uh or in surat
		
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			an-nur allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
		
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			وَلَا تُكْرِهُ فَتَيَاتِكُمْ عَلَى الْبِغَاءِ إِنْ أَرَدْنَا تَحَصُنًا
		
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			do not force your slave girls into prostitution
		
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			when they want to be chaste they want
		
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			to keep themselves chaste finally thirdly when islam
		
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			allows such intimate relations this does not equate
		
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			to you know what the kuffar refer to
		
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			as * in fact as mentioned earlier islam
		
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			you know took great consideration of the human
		
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			rights of these slaves and taught us how
		
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			to take care of them and not to
		
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			mistreat them so how can a muslim possibly
		
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			imagine that rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam whom
		
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			allah described as being a mercy for mankind
		
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			how could a muslim possibly imagine that he
		
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			would mistreat or do injustice to anyone even
		
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			if it was a slave right this is
		
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			rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam who we're talking
		
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			about allah sent him as a mercy for
		
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			mankind he was the most merciful and compassionate
		
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			among us right he would never mistreat anyone
		
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			and never do injustice or oppression to anyone
		
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			so basically you know in conclusion when islam
		
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			allows this it is just it is not
		
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			injustice it is not oppression it is not
		
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			subjugation and our prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was
		
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			the best of mankind and he is our
		
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			role model not only did allah not only
		
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			did allah allow muslim men to do this
		
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			but he allowed even his prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam to do it and he is our
		
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			role model now coming to the women that
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam had in his
		
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			possession the scholars mention that he sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam had a total of four there was
		
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			rayhana and then there was maria and then
		
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			there was a woman whom his wife zainab
		
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			bint jahj gifted to him and then there
		
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			was a fourth uh whom he acquired through
		
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			one of the battles so as you can
		
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			see uh we only have the identities of
		
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			two of them and they are rayhana and
		
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			maria now the scholars have actually differed whether
		
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			these two were freed and then married and
		
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			thus count as ummahatul mu'mineen or not so
		
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			some scholars said that rayhana and maria the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam freed them and then
		
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			married them however however the correct view the
		
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			correct view that you know is based on
		
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			the various evidences is that they remained as
		
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			concubines they remained as slaves both rayhana and
		
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			maria the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam did not
		
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			free them he passed away and they passed
		
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			away as slaves of his now we'll quickly
		
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			mention rayhana since she actually passed away in
		
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			the life of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			before he passed and so there's not much
		
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			information about her for us to dedicate an
		
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			entire session for so we'll quickly mention uh
		
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			rayhana and then we'll move on to maria
		
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			inshallah so uh rayhana her name was rayhana
		
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			bint zaid ibn amr and she belonged to
		
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			the jewish tribe of in medina uh
		
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			but she was married to a man from
		
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			banu qurayza now after the battle of al
		
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			ahzab in which the remaining jewish tribe that
		
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			was left in medina banu qurayza they backstabbed
		
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			the muslims in the battle of al ahzab
		
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			and so they broke their covenant with rasool
		
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			allahi sallallahu alayhi by aiding the enemy so
		
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			rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam after the battle
		
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			of al ahzab he immediately sent to round
		
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			up this tribe of banu qurayza because you
		
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			know they they committed treason you know in
		
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			a state of war they're helping the enemy
		
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			right so uh basically the final uh decision
		
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			was that uh their men are to be
		
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			executed and all of their women and children
		
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			would be taken as captives so among the
		
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			captives that was taken was rayhana now her
		
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			husband was among those who were executed and
		
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			then she was taken by rasool allahi sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam as a slave now the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam invited her to islam gave
		
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			her dawah in the beginning she refused but
		
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			eventually she ended up accepting islam then rasool
		
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			allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam gave her the option
		
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			he said do you want to remain as
		
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			a slave or do you want me to
		
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			free you and then i will marry you
		
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			remember that this was similar to what he
		
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			did with juwayriyya radiyallahu anha however unlike juwayriyya
		
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			you know rayhana preferred to remain as a
		
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			slave she said oh messenger of allah rather
		
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			leave me as your slave for it is
		
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			easier for me and you it is easier
		
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			for me and you so the reason she
		
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			preferred to remain as a slave was that
		
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			the burdens and the responsibilities of being a
		
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			slave for her were easier or more suitable
		
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			for her you know uh it's a huge
		
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			responsibility to be a wife uh right so
		
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			anyways this is what she felt and this
		
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			was her decision so rayhana she remained as
		
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			a concubine of rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			until her death she ended up passing away
		
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			upon returning from hajj the farewell hajj with
		
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			rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam and this was
		
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			in the 10th year of the hijra so
		
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			you know before the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			passed away rayhana passed away and she ended
		
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			up being buried in albaqeeq she ended up
		
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			being buried in albaqeeq we now move on
		
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			to maria her name was maria bint shamaun
		
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			alqibtiya coming from the coptic christians of egypt
		
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			who follow the orthodox church of alexandria her
		
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			father was a copt uh an egyptian copt
		
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			but her mother was a roman her mother
		
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			was uh you know a roman so she
		
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			was from egypt so how did she end
		
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			up in the possession of rasool allahi sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam you know all the way from
		
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			egypt when our prophet sallallahu never ever sent
		
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			an army there the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			never you know himself ever went to egypt
		
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			nor did he ever send an army in
		
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			that direction so the story is that sometime
		
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			in the seventh or eighth years of the
		
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			hijra upon returning from al hudaibiyah the treaty
		
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			of hudaibiyah when the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			entered into a peace treaty with you know
		
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			uh his enemy the quraish of mecca upon
		
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			returning the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam started reaching
		
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			out to the kings of the world and
		
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			uh you know to expand the reach of
		
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			the dawah and he did this by sending
		
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			letters with uh messengers so he sent letters
		
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			to all of the notable world leaders of
		
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			his time the roman emperor the persian emperor
		
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			the najashi of abyssinia and many others and
		
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			among the leaders that he sent a letter
		
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			to was uh the leader of the coptic
		
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			christians in egypt the leader of the coptic
		
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			christians in egypt and his name was al
		
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			muqawqis his name was al muqawqis now each
		
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			one of these kings and leaders reacted to
		
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			the letter of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			in a different way so some of them
		
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			honored the letter of the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam and the messenger right that the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam sent while others you know
		
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			uh disrespected uh the letter uh as was
		
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			the example of the persian emperor uh when
		
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			he read the letter he tore it apart
		
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			he tore it apart so what did allah
		
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			do allah tore up his kingdom allah tore
		
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			up his kingdom uh so al muqawqis he
		
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			was the governor of the coptic christians of
		
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			alexandria in egypt and he was an educated
		
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			and learned man he was very educated and
		
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			so the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam sent the
		
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			letter with the companion haatib ibn abi balta
		
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			'a who was one of the uh companions
		
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			who participated in the battle of badr so
		
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			haatib presented the letter to al muqawqis and
		
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			it read in the name of allah the
		
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			most gracious the most merciful from muhammad ibn
		
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			abdullah to al muqawqis the ruler of the
		
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			copts peace be upon those who follow right
		
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			guidance i wish to convey to you the
		
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			message of islam accept islam and you will
		
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			be safe accept it and allah will double
		
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			your reward should you turn your back on
		
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			it you will shoulder the sins of all
		
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			of the copts and then uh the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned the ayah from surah
		
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			ali imran say
		
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			oh people of the scripture let us come
		
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			to common terms a common word that we
		
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			will worship none but allah associate no partners
		
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			with him nor take one another as lords
		
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			besides allah but if they turn away then
		
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			say bear witness that we have submitted to
		
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			allah so when al muqawqis read this letter
		
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			he asked haatib some questions right he he
		
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			asked him i have some questions for you
		
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			and i want you to help me understand
		
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			so haatib he said please go ahead ask
		
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			and haatib was very intelligent right he was
		
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			very intelligent he was very knowledgeable he knew
		
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			how to answer questions and so al muqawqis
		
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			said tell me about your master is he
		
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			not a prophet so haatib he said yes
		
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			he sure is so al muqawqis said if
		
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			that's the case then why did he not
		
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			pray to have his people destroyed since they
		
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			drove him out of his city out of
		
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			his land so haatib you know look at
		
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			his answer he said take the example of
		
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			isa ibn mariam do you not bear witness
		
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			that he is the messenger of allah he
		
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			said yes he said well what about him
		
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			when his people took him and wanted to
		
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			crucify him could he not have prayed for
		
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			the destruction of his people when allah raised
		
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			him up to the heaven al muqawqis said
		
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			you are a very wise man who has
		
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			come from a very wise man and then
		
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			uh he said these are gifts i am
		
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			sending with you for muhammad and i'm going
		
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			to send with you a guard who will
		
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			accompany you to safety so as we can
		
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			see al muqawqis his reaction to the letter
		
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			of the prophet was polite however he did
		
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			not become muslim and then he sent with
		
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			haatib a bunch of gifts uh you know
		
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			an animal a mule and uh garments and
		
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			whatnot and among the gifts that he sent
		
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			were two very valuable slave girls from among
		
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			the copts and these two girls were actually
		
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			sisters they were maria bint shamoon and her
		
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			sister sirin or shireen bint shamoon so on
		
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			the way to medina haatib he tried his
		
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			best to give both of them da'wah
		
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			and have them accept islam and so his
		
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			efforts paid off and as a result allah
		
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			guided their hearts and they ended up accepting
		
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			islam on the way before arriving in medina
		
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			so once they arrived the prophet took maria
		
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			for himself but he did not free her
		
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			as for her sister sirin or shireen he
		
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			gifted her to his poet his uh his
		
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			poet was hassan ibn thabit now rasul allah
		
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			not only loved maria for her beauty she
		
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			was very beautiful but also he loved her
		
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			for her relation to him what was her
		
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			relation to him you know she's all the
		
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			way from egypt basically through his mother hajar
		
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			right the mother of ismail she was the
		
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			slave woman of sarah the wife of ibrahim
		
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			who would later give birth to ismail right
		
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			hajar was the slave woman of sarah and
		
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			ibrahim had with hajar he had ismail and
		
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			perhaps this may be the secret behind why
		
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			rasul allah did not free her and marry
		
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			her like the others to follow in the
		
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			footsteps of his father ibrahim which the prophet
		
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			used to do you know he always liked
		
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			to follow in the footsteps of ibrahim and
		
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			allah also commanded him to do so so
		
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			follow oh muhammad follow the way of ibrahim
		
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			and the religion of ibrahim so you know
		
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			imagine the prophet you know a gift comes
		
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			to him a slave woman from egypt and
		
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			immediately it reminds him of his father ibrahim
		
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			who had his slave woman hajar right and
		
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			so he also decided to keep maria as
		
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			his slave now abu dhar radiallahu anhu narrates
		
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			and this is in sahih muslim abu dhar
		
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			narrates that rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
		
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			you will soon conquer egypt which is a
		
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			land in which the qiraat is mentioned when
		
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			you conquer it treat its people well because
		
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			protection and blood relationship apply to them what
		
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			did he what did he mean that you
		
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			know we have blood relations with them what
		
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			he meant was hajar and also now maria
		
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			right and that's exactly how the sahaba radiallahu
		
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			anhum treated the people of egypt when they
		
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			later conquered it when they later conquered egypt
		
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			they treated the people very well as we'll
		
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			mention later on now after many years after
		
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			many many years allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala granted
		
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			rasul allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam a child a
		
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			baby boy and so in dhul hijjah of
		
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			the eighth year of the hijrah a son
		
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			was born to maria the last time that
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam ever had a
		
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			child was way back in mecca with his
		
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			wife khadija you know all of his children
		
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			were through her and so now after years
		
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			of having been married to many women allah
		
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			blesses the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam with a
		
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			baby boy so this would obviously lead to
		
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			the wives of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			becoming extremely jealous you know since maria was
		
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			blessed with a boy while they were not
		
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			blessed with any children aisha radiallahu anha says
		
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			there is no one that i had more
		
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			jealousy for than my jealousy for maria and
		
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			so perhaps because of this when maria was
		
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			pregnant the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam sent her
		
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			off to the outskirts of medina an area
		
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			known as al aliyah or al awali for
		
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			her to spend you know the rest of
		
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			her pregnancy there and even to deliver there
		
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			uh in order to be far away from
		
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			his wives who may uh you know harm
		
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			her because of their jealousy for her and
		
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			allah knows best now rasul allah sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam had a total of seven children three
		
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			boys al qasim abdullah and ibrahim and four
		
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			daughters zainab ruqayya and fatima all of them
		
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			were from khadija except for ibrahim and so
		
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			it was the will and the plan of
		
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			allah that only his daughters would live on
		
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			while all three of his sons would pass
		
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			away while they were young now some scholars
		
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			said that the wisdom behind this is that
		
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			if any of his sons had lived he
		
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			would have become a prophet or a messenger
		
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			as was the case with uh prophet ibrahim
		
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			you know he had ishaq and then ishaq
		
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			had yaqub right and then yaqub had yusuf
		
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			and also we have the example of davud
		
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			he had sulayman right and that's why ibn
		
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			abbas he says if ibrahim the son of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam if he was
		
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			to live he would have become a prophet
		
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			now others they said that the wisdom behind
		
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			why allah decreed for all the sons of
		
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			the prophet to pass away was that it
		
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			was feared that the people would fall into
		
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			fitna because of them right uh they would
		
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			end up revering and respecting the sons uh
		
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			beyond what is permissible right and this opinion
		
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			is probably stronger because this actually happened in
		
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			history with excessive reverence and love for who
		
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			the grandsons of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			al-hassan and al-hussain right so imagine
		
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			if he actually left behind a son you
		
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			know if this is what they did to
		
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			al-hassan and al-hussain right the shia
		
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			then and and they were grand grandchildren then
		
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			imagine what would have happened if the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam had left behind uh a
		
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			son now although only his daughter survived and
		
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			they all grew up and they got married
		
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			all of his daughters the four that we
		
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			mentioned towards the end of his life the
		
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			only daughter who remained with the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam was one and that was fatima
		
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			all of his other daughters passed away before
		
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			him so rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam you
		
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			could imagine he went through the pain of
		
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			losing all of his children except for fatima
		
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			and now after years allah blesses him with
		
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			a son so you could imagine the great
		
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			joy when the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam got
		
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			the news that you know uh maria delivered
		
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			a baby boy as soon as the news
		
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			reached him he rushed to see his newborn
		
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			son and he held him and he kissed
		
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			him and he told his companions tonight i
		
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			have been blessed with a son and i
		
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			have named him by my father's name ibrahim
		
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			i have named him by my father's name
		
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			ibrahim again we can see that perhaps um
		
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			you know uh the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			was reminded of ibrahim and hajar uh through
		
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			maria right and so uh look at how
		
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			he named the son ibrahim rasool allah sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam loved ibrahim greatly he loved him
		
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			dearly he would always go and visit him
		
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			and hold him in his arms and kiss
		
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			him and as he would grow he would
		
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			play with him and you have to imagine
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam at this age
		
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			he is around 60 years old the prophet
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam is around 60 years old
		
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			anas radiallahu anna narrates i have never seen
		
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			anyone more merciful towards children than the messenger
		
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			of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam ibrahim was being
		
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			nursed in the outskirts of medina there were
		
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			various women who were uh basically breastfeeding him
		
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			he says the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam would
		
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			go there with us he would go out
		
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			there with us and then he would enter
		
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			the house where uh ibrahim was being nursed
		
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			and he would hold ibrahim in his heart
		
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			in his arms he would kiss him he
		
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			would spend time with him and then he
		
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			would return with us to medina however allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala had willed and decreed
		
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			that this joy would soon come to an
		
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			end and rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam would
		
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			have to once again go through the pain
		
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			of losing a child once again the wisdom
		
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			behind this was that perhaps allah did not
		
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			want rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam to leave
		
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			behind a son who would become a source
		
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			of fitna for the ummah after him so
		
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			you know we have to understand that allah's
		
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			plan is the best plan even if it
		
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			will involve suffering for us right that suffering
		
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			is temporary and there's a greater good involved
		
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			ibrahim fell ill towards the end of the
		
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			10th year of the hijrah barely reaching the
		
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			age of two when rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam heard that ibrahim was unlikely to survive
		
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			because of his illness he went to visit
		
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			him in the home where he was being
		
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			cared for anas radiallahu anna narrates and this
		
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			is in sahih al-bukhari anas says we
		
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			entered the house of abu saif basically uh
		
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			abu saif uh his wife um saif was
		
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			uh basically breastfeeding uh ibrahim he says we
		
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			entered the house of abu saif along with
		
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			the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam he
		
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			took hold of ibrahim he kissed him and
		
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			he smelled him then we entered after that
		
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			as ibrahim was breathing his last breaths this
		
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			made the eyes of the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		
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			wasallam to shed tears when abdur-rahman ibn
		
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			awf saw that he said even you oh
		
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			messenger of allah you know even you are
		
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			crying so the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said
		
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			oh ibn awf this is mercy this is
		
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			the mercy that allah has put in the
		
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			hearts of human beings then the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam cried some more and then he
		
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			said you know his famous uh statement the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said indeed the ear
		
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			the the eyes shed tears and the heart
		
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			is grieved and saddened but we will not
		
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			say anything except what is pleasing to our
		
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			lord we are indeed saddened by your departure
		
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			oh ibrahim losing a child is not easy
		
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			and it's a tragedy that only those who
		
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			go through it can understand but that's why
		
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			we have the best role model in the
		
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			prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam you know we all
		
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			face tests and trials in our lives but
		
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			the most severely tested of all was without
		
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			a doubt the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam he
		
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			went through the loss of all of his
		
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			children except one and then when some joy
		
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			comes to his house after such a long
		
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			time he was then tested with with his
		
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			loss as well you know anyone who loses
		
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			a child should remember that if allah took
		
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			away the children of the one who is
		
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			the most beloved to allah from all of
		
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			creation muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam if allah took
		
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			away his children then who are we you
		
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			know uh when we are going through that
		
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			or any other you know trial or test
		
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			or calamity we should always remember our messenger
		
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			sallallahu alayhi wasallam and what he went through
		
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			and this will really allow us to cope
		
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			with such tragedies the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			then had the body of ibrahim washed and
		
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			prepared for the janazah then after praying his
		
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			janazah they buried him in al-baqi' now
		
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			it so happened that on that same day
		
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			right after his death a solar eclipse occurred
		
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			in medina so rumors started spreading in medina
		
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			that this solar eclipse was due to the
		
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			death of ibrahim in the sense that allah
		
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			was showing his condolences to his prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam by eclipsing the sun a kasoof
		
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			now when the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam heard
		
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			what the people were saying he immediately came
		
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			out and he gathered them for salah so
		
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			they prayed what is known as salatul kasoof
		
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			the eclipse prayer and after they were done
		
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			and the eclipse was over the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam wanted to dispel these myths and
		
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			these superstitions so he said to them the
		
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			sun and the moon do not eclipse because
		
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			of the death or the life of anyone
		
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			but rather they are two signs among the
		
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			signs of allah when you see them immediately
		
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			rush to salah now maria she continued
		
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			to live in the outskirts of medina after
		
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			the death of her son obviously you know
		
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			imagine if this is how the prophet sallallahu
		
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			alayhi wasallam felt then you could imagine how
		
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			the mother felt for losing her son but
		
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			she continued to live uh in the outskirts
		
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			of medina and even after the death of
		
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			the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam she maintained a
		
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			private life and to you know ibadah and
		
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			worship and devotion uh but she eventually passed
		
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			away in the khilafah of umar ibn al
		
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			-khattab it was in muharram of the 16th
		
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			year of the hijra in year 16 of
		
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			the hijra and so umar he gathered everyone
		
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			for her janaza and he led it and
		
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			then she was buried in al-baqi' next
		
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			to her son ibrahim now maria passed away
		
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			before the muslims completed their conquest of her
		
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			homeland egypt it was a few years after
		
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			her death that egypt fell in the hands
		
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			of the muslims and they held on to
		
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			the advice of rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			to treat the people of that land well
		
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			so among those who were sent by umar
		
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			to conquer egypt was ubada ibn samit after
		
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			the conquest he went to the town that
		
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			maria was from and it is mentioned that
		
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			he built a masjid at the place where
		
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			she was born and later on in the
		
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			time of muawiyah radiallahu anh al-hassan ibn
		
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			ali made a special request to muawiyah to
		
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			waive the jizyah you know the tax uh
		
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			from the coptic christians of that particular town
		
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			where maria was born and where she was
		
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			from and all of this was to honor
		
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			maria and to hold on to you know
		
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			the advice of rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam
		
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			to treat the people of this land well
		
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			and so with that we come to the
		
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			end of the story of uh maria al
		
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			-qibtiya radiallahu anha and next week inshallah we'll
		
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			start to go through the lives of the
		
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			daughters of rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi wasallam and
		
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			so with that we will conclude for today
		
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			subhanakallahumma bihamdik wa ala
		
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			alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi
		
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			wabarakatuh